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 sail boats 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 were swallowed in the lights as cars rumbled by in the night

Screaming run for your life.

With cool and silvery eyes

And a heart was fit for desire,

Drowned in a river of tears

Oh a river? she cried left her with a 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 sail boats they all sailed by

And a river she cried.

With cool and silvery eyes

And a? heart that was fit for desire,

Drowned in a river of tears

Oh a river she cried left her with a heart

Made of ashes and fire

Ashes and fire

Ashes and fire

Ashes and fire