Ashes Of Summer

There lies a river
Somewhere along the line
Its water’s flowing
Dividing city and sky

It sang a love song
The way the sirens sing
Out on the sea
What did I hear?

Another promise
A star to give some light
And I was aching
To hear a redemptive word

If there is a fire
Please don’t let it go out

Don’t let me go
Don’t let it go
Don’t let it slip away

You were a body
Just like a sea aflame
A surge of wet salt
The drops I drank from your skin

There ran the river
Dividing everything

What do we know
What have we found
What do we own

Along the line

All out of luck
Walking the ruins of my yesterdays
I’m chasing down a road to nowhere
I’m going nowhere

All out of love
There is this poverty inside of me
A stranger in the light of morning

All out of life
There is this empty place beside me
And roads and rivers winding in a circle

All out of luck
All out of everything worth fighting for
Now my heart is drying in the sun

My voice is sore now
From swallowing a dream
My body’s weak now
From feasting on our fears

This is the river
Still running so deep

Carrying you
Carrying me
Carrying us downstream

Along the line

All out of luck
Walking the ruins of my yesterdays
I’m chasing down a road to nowhere

All out of love
There is this poverty inside of me
A stranger in the light of morning

All out of life
There is this empty place beside me
And roads and rivers winding in a circle

All out of luck
All out of everything worth fighting for
Now our hearts are drying in the sun

In the shelter of a heartbeat
In the sultry heat of august, stars fell down