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