After the Fire

[Verse 1]

Why dream?

We’re breaking out of this machine

We'll bathe the walls in gasoline

And watch the fires grow

We’ll burn this house

They'll raise the fence that keeps us in

The cabinets and the medicine

Beds like box cars in a row

[Chorus]

And when the wave comes sweeping

The cold blood sleeping in your veins, your veins

After the fire

The sun comes crashing

Through a cloud so black and full of rain, of rain

After the fire

I swear one day

We'll forget them locking us away, away

After the fire

[Verse 2]

Locked in

The days will end as they begin

With yellow moonlight on your skin

This madhouse, it’s no home

Let’s go home

Get the matches

Cut the phone

[Chorus]

And when the wave comes sweeping

The cold blood sleeping in your veins, your veins

After the fire

The sun comes crashing

Through a cloud so black and full of rain, of rain

After the fire

I swear one day

We'll forget them locking us away, away

After the fire

[Bridge]

We were dancing with the ashes falling

We were singing by the open flame

Let it burn

Tomorrow is another day

We were dancing with the ashes falling

We were singing by the open flame

Let it burn, let it burn

Tomorrow is another day

[Chorus]

And when the wave comes sweeping

The cold blood sleeping in your veins, your veins

After the fire

The sun came crashing

Through a cloud so black and full of rain, of rain

After the fire

I swear one day

We'll forget them locking us away, away

After the fire

I swear one day

We'll forget them locking us away, away

After the fire