Through This Fire

My faith ran out with the flames one night Shrinking in the embers of the firelight You were rambling about your friends How you were never going to see them again There wasn't any fire and brimstone left Just a hollow rattle inside your chest Deep in the dark of our forty-fifth day It wasn't ever going to go away I began to understand the things that heat requires Looking at you through this fire The last days come and the last days go Carried away in the undertow But on our trust we rise and fall Human after all I calculated one week to go maybe less You were slipping in and out of consciousness What are seven days worth Seven days on this earth More than kings in their castles might desire Looking at you through this fire Through this fire where we were witnesses when You were reborn One of the seven at Jericho Sounding his horn Bear me on the breath of dawn Very soon we'll both be gone It's getting harder to hear you, friend Waiting for the world to end But let me isolate the relevant voice in the choir Somewhere out there on the wire I'll run all night but my legs won't tire The ocean is faithful and the devil's a liar Looking at you through this fire