Fire Broke The Windows - Daniel Striped Tiger

Your piled clothes were left in the basement

You’re holding breath — I can’t see where your face went

These cities grew up like vines on a tree-

With water, and lights, and history

Lost both hands in a turret-gun fight

Saw the ghosts for years every night

(These days, you must be careful-

This one time I looked up

And saw glass raining down

From a fire that broke the windows out

Another time, it was fire being born out of glass.)

And at the same speed, you nearly lost yourself

And at the same peak, you really lost yourself

Our bad vibes drowned in a washdown

Our anger left us deaf and begging at a doorstep