Ashes & Fire

Ashes & Fire

As he stared past the fire

His hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive

Her skin smelled like black cherry blossom perfume

The sail boats they all sailed by and a river she cried

And the wind was suddenly sweeter than Roosevelt pine

The windows broke out and the cigarette smoke was drifting by

The bums on the bowery were swallowed in the lights

As cars rumbled by in the night

Screaming run for your life

With cool and silvery eyes and a heart that was fit for desire

Drowned in a river of tears oh a river

She cried left her with a heart made of ashes and fire

One day there was a silence and it washed through the town

And there was no reason to speak so no one made a sound

Her eyes were indigo and the cats were all

Calico and the sail boats they all sailed by and a river she cried

With cool and silvery eyes and a heart that was fit for desire

Drowned in a river of tears oh a river she cried left her with a heart

Made of ashes and fire

Ashes and fire Ashes and fire Ashes and fire