Before the Fire Is Gone - EP

 

Before the Fire's Gone 

Love is not 
What we thought 
Before we fell this far 
We were both 
Too young to see 
If love would trap or set us free 

So please don't make me wait too long 
Because without you I'm not that strong 
And please don't make me believe 
That love has passed us on 
Oh, touch the flame to my lips, please 
Before the fire's gone 
Before the fire's gone 

The stillness in 
The air we breath 
Solidifies, won't let us leave 
And the silence that 
We've learned to need 
Holds us here, won't set us free 

So please don't make me wait too long 
Because without you I'm not that strong 
And please don't make me believe 
That love has passed us on 
Oh, touch the flame to my lips, please 
Before the fire's gone 
Before the fire's gone 

And I love how your words taste sweet 
As you whisper them into my mouth 
And write a book where our sheets form 
The pages of our love 
I love how we fall asleep 
Kept warm in each other's arms 
And I read your words in my dreams 
Until we have to face the break of dawn 

So please don't make me wait too long 
Because without you I'm not that strong 
And please don't make me believe 
That love has passed us on 
Oh, touch the flame to my lips, please 
Before the fire's gone 
Before the fire's gone

 

Ghost 


I don't pray 
These days 
Because I'm scared 
That God will hear 
And I don't say 
These days 
That I've not faith 
To disbelieve 

Your love 
Is the shackles that 
Keep me moving through 
Your walls 
'Cause I'm 
Just the ghost in your attic, Love 
Waiting just to hear you call 

So shut the windows and the blinds 
Because there's nothing left I want to see 
Just let me know that you are mine 
And I don't want to leave 

I wait for the come 'cause 
I want to know if I was ever free 
'Cause these bones, they feel like a prison where 
I'm not sure I'm supposed to be 

So shut the windows and the blinds 
Because there's nothing left I want to see 
Just let me know that you are mine 
And I don't want to leave 

So Love let me sleep tonight 
Captive in your arms 
And Love let me haunt your dreams tonight 
Prisoner to your charm 
Because I'm just a ghost 
Hungry for your love 
And I move inside of you 
Wanting just to know your touch 
So Love let me sleep tonight 
Captive in your arms 
And Love let me haunt your dreams tonight 
Prisoner to your charm

 

Mother 

Wake up oh sleeper, what have you done? 
Mother behold your firstborn son 
Rise arise, The Kingdom has come 
But the battle is lost before day is done 

Maybe I'm the chains that shackled you down 
To Mary your mother and her blessed crown 
So you hide it in your heart, you don't make a sound 
It's cold not wearing shoes on holy ground 

And if there's salvation in this 
It comes after days in the ground 
And if there's peace in life 
It's not in the love that I've found 
So I no longer believe 
We're heaven-bound 

He told you you were lovely, he said you were light 
And he wed you in a church in dresses of white 
Now you're praying evening's over, dear God it's alright 
Lonely sweating blood in the garden at night 

And why have you forsaken me Lord? 
Set my children against their mother, set devils at my door? 
There's incense on the alter there's tears on the floor 
I asked you for less but you gave me more 

And if there's salvation in this 
It comes after days in the ground 
And if there's peace in life 
It's not in the love that I've found 
So I no longer believe 
We're heaven-bound 
So I no longer believe 
We're heaven bound

 

Lovers At Dawn 


We were both baptized by dawn 
As the sun it crept down Christopher 
And washed us of each others hands 
As I watched you walk away 
Evening hides our shadows as 
The candles burn in cheap cafes 
Drawing all our senses close 
As our silence falls away 

But honey I’m pretty sure this is as good as it gets 
Because I don’t think that we’d still be 
Lovers at dawn 
But listen I don’t feel that we should regret 
All the things that we could have been had 
But didn’t need 
From each other Dear 

We were both here for a moment 
And we’ll return from time to time 
Because it’s not the end that we crave 
But the spark 
And the first time that you crossed my mind 

But honey I’m pretty sure this is as good as it gets 
Because I don’t think that we’d still be 
Lovers at dawn 
But listen I don’t feel that we should regret 
All the things that we could have been had 
But didn’t need 
From each other Dear 

If your words were a sacrament 
Well Honey I’d be blessed 
Even as we leave 
For our separate beds 
And if your touch was a prayer 
I’d fast for days 
Even as we go 
Our separate ways 

But honey I’m pretty sure this is as good as it gets 
Because I don’t think that we’d still be 
Lovers at dawn 
But listen I don’t feel that we should regret 
All the things that we could have been had 
But didn’t need 
From each other Dear

 

Fingertips 


Morning light steals through my window, 
Crawls up into my bed 
And fills up the space 
Where you should have been 

Slept too late to see you go 
The door’s slam was my alarm 
My ears are ringing I taste cigarettes 
In the darkness of our room 

But last night the world was a word 
Spoken softly from your lips 
And when it stopped the world, it didn’t burn 
Or freeze, but fell 
Slowly from your fingertips 

I’ve never woken in another’s bed 
But that’s not to say I don’t know want 
I’m just glad you can’t see my heart 
Or the lovers in my head 

But last night the world was a word 
Spoken softly from your lips 
And when it stopped the world, it didn’t burn 
Or freeze, but fell 
Slowly from your fingertips

 
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