The Flicker and the Flame - Banquets

Slow, stale, breaths of air

Pace the floor from the couch to the stairs

I felt the world ripped from limb and it all went grey

Oh, I hear the sound from the sprawl

Another loss after spending all, we were numb, in pieces, missing more each day

We scrub the deepest stains

We scrub the saddest stains

You will radiate

The open field, to the city block

A final breath, a final thought

Became the sounder of thunder

I heard the sound of thunder

Give the weather a sign that you’re still here

Cloud the sky, put a chill in the air

Say you’re starting over

Strike the ground again, to show you’re still here

Strike the ground again, they were your years

The strike the ground again, with the flicker and the flame

You lived, you lived like lightning

Gave the kids with the best of something

There’s a piece of you in my head

I know you lived, you lived like lightning

The flicker and the flame

Some smoke, but the burn remains

It’s tragic ways we leave this tragic place

I write your name up on my wall and tried the words that never came

It’s tragic ways

You lived, you lived like lightning

Gave the kids with the best of something

There’s a piece of you in my head

I know you lived, you lived like lightning

The flicker and the flame

Some smoke, but the burn remains