trees on fire

Iris child
Don’t get lost in the limelight
Of needle-points and clever lines

Your body’s weak
And fragile when you speak
Who is this savior you seek?

Is he a man with a purpose?
Does he long to touch you?
Does he stay up late if only just to dream of you?

…Does he love you?

But in quiet nights
I watch you drift to sleep
Wondering if you ever dream of me

But you take your time
Putting on all your make-up tonight
The mask of a woman; the eyes of a child

Steal a glance
Take a chance
On a girl with another man

I am a fool
Passionate and cruel
Like the burning trees I saw one afternoon

The neighbors all watched
From inside their house
As a near-by building caught fire and burned down

But my mind is a child
And my soul is a ghost
And all my sins are now yours

We try to keep warm
In a hollow corridor
The only sounds we hear are our own

And there were twenty lies I always told you
Three words we never spoke
Seven lovers that came before me
But only one heart that broke

This virgin snow
Falls gently in this empty cold
Until it lands upon the gravel road

It’s inevitable end
Consumed by the darkness, it melts
Absorbing the dirt and shedding its innocence

Now this windshield is clear
And my mind is a mess
If only this alcohol could make me forget

All the women I’ve met
And the sins I bled
I wish it were me that died that night in bed

Wrap me up in sheets and curtains
Trap my memory in the ground
I nearly forgot the crowd and this song
But if you love me…you might just sing along

There were twenty lies I told myself
Three words I longed to speak
Seven lovers that always haunt me
And in the end, there is only one who bleeds