Fires in the Wake (Version 2)

Verse

Old engine coughing out of sleep

Salt and diesel, morning deep

Barefoot on the rusted rail

Watching embers curl and fail

Grandfather's jacket wrapped around my waist

Heard the radio through static haze

Smoke like a ghost off the deck

Waterline where the fire went to bed

I'm the only one still standing tall

Every cabin burned down to nothing at all

Pre-Chorus

Tell me what it means to lose the ground beneath your feet

Tell me how a man keeps breathing when there's nothing left to keep

Chorus

Fires in the wake, they never really end

Burning out what I can't carry again

I'm walking off this wreckage into the sun

Every scar is just another door begun

So let it all go down, so let it fall away

I was built for burning, I don't need a place to stay

Verse

Porch light flickering through the screen

Mother's voice on a record worn thin and clean

She's dancing in her nightgown by the windowpane

Spinning like she never knew my name

I keep every spark I can find

Every ember that refuses to go blind

Pre-Chorus

Tell me what it means to lose the ground beneath your feet

Tell me how a man keeps breathing when there's nothing left to keep

Chorus

Fires in the wake, they never really end

Burning out what I can't carry again

I'm walking off this wreckage into the sun

Every scar is just another door begun

So let it all go down, so let it fall away

I was built for burning, I don't need a place to stay

Bridge

Maybe the falling's not losing ground at all

It's just learning how to rise again

I'm trading ashes for a sky that's wide open now

Every ghost in me is singing loud and out of town

Chorus

Fires in the wake, they never really end

Burning out what I can't carry again

I'm walking off this wreckage into the sun

Every scar is just another door begun

So let it all go down, so let it fall away

I was built for burning, I don't need a place to stay

Outro

No ashes left to bury

Just smoke and open sky

I'm walking off this wreckage into the sun