I have seen the
fire watcher's
daughter
Watching fires burn
from smoke to black
There's nothing
she won't burn
From Styrofoam to
urns to someone
else's ashes in a sack
You can scorch the
metal you can
even melt the glass
You can pass the time
here fire lives
into the past
An all consuming
flame that refines
and new begins
It'll take your family
heirlooms but it can
take your darkest sins
It's a good old
bedtime story give you
nightmares til you die
And the ones that
love to tell it hide the
mischief in their eyes
Condemn their
sons to Hades and
Gehenna is full of
guys alive and well
But there ain't no
hell for a fire
watcher's daughter
We exercise the
demons of the things
we used to know
The gnashing of the
teeth become the
remnants of our homes
We think we're
moving on from
materials we long
to forget we ever
sold our souls to own
There's a chilling
absolution that we're
given at our birth
A powerful
delusion and a
plague upon the earth
But nothing scares
me more than the
stranger at my door
who I fail to give
shelter time and worth
Yeah the good
old bedtime story's
give you nightmares
til you die
And the ones
that love to tell it
hide the mischief
in their eyes
Condemn their
sons to Hades and
Gehenna is full of
guys alive and well
But there ain't no
hell for a fire
watcher's daughter