You birth me a fire, long comin’ A world-eater between our lips It throbs to the forest floor, hummin' As heat singes off eyelashes Fire shivering up through our catkins As critters call out warning cries, you say You didn’t mean for this to happen Your nose crinkles up when you lie Fire melts honeysuckle petals Nectar sizzles out writhing mouths Mosquitos come rising in embers Why in this light do you, boy, look proud? Gone will be our stick huts, our footprints Our hand-dammed up streams Gone will be any hint of you or of me (Gone, gone, gone) (Gone, gone, gone) Fire stripping bark from the poplars Groundweller’s homes collapse to graves Like how I cling to you, ‘cause it’s familiar Despite your breath’s heavy stench of doomsday Gone will be our stick huts, our footprints Our hand-dammed up streams Gone will be any hint of you or of me (Gone, gone, gone) (Gone, gone, gone) Fire ragin’ on past our treetops Little bodies collapsing from smoke And cedars, they blacken to cinders Don’t recognize your face in this glow (Oh) don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone (Oh) don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone (Oh) don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone (Oh) don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize Don’t recognize, don’t recognize Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize, don’t recognize Don’t recognize, don’t recognize, gone, gone, gone Gone Once set in motion, it cannot be stopped Our death in a fanfare, hold my hand and watch A lifetime we built, curled-to-ash in an instant You cut my wound deep, how-dare-you try to kiss it It’s an oil drum of a daughter, with a hot coal of a son Skins blisterin’ together ‘til our rib bones touch Blood thicker than pine-sap, love formed before souls One little choke and we knew this love would swallow us whole (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)