Controlled Burn

Burn

Left me out a hound ungroomed

With one nigh moon I was consumed

I howled to it, oh, I was loud

In drinking rooms and dim saloons

When I found you I found you wounded

But you wore your heart like a lady

And I lit your smokes like a man

Burn

Gathered 'round

When eyes adjusted in fire we trusted

Tending to a bed of kindle I stoked it on and on

When dry wind roused

Our hearts unready

It painted red with orange hands

And a brush more hot than what we want

All around we just danced

So drunk upon the lawn

And you danced the steps of a lady

And I tried to lead like a man

The bells only ring in emergency

There's hazard in heat to discern

In a controlled burn

When we were found

Our molars made

The sorry case

"Where goes our boy?"

"Where goes our girl?"

Our fathers cried

I never heard

And the bells only ring in emergency

There's hazard in heat to discern

It warms and it dances

It speaks out of turn and it runs

Controlled burn