Ashes & Fire

As he stared past the fire

His hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive

Her skin smelled like black cherry blossom perfume

The sailboats they all sailed by

And a river she cried



And the wind was suddenly sweeter than Roosevelt Pine

The windows broke out and the cigarette smoke drifted by

The bums on the bowery, they were swallowed in the lights

As cars rolled on by in the night, screamin' "run for your life."



With cool and silvery eyes

And her heart it was fit for desires

Drown in a river of tears, oh a river she cried

Left her with her heart, made of ashes and fire



One day there was a silence and it washed through the town

There was no reason to speak and no one made a sound

Her eyes were indigo and the cats were all calico

And the sailboat's they all sailed by

And a river she cried



With cool and silvery eyes

And her heart it was fit for desires

Drown in a river of tears, oh a river she cried

Left her with her heart, made of ashes and fire



Ashes and fire

Ashes and fire

Ashes and fire