Dark Fire

[bnewman]

A musical setting of a poem written for me by a dear friend during my year of mental crisis.

by Merav Hoffman

arranged and set to music by Benjamin Newman

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/ Am - G - / - - Am - /

 

The fire knows your name

The fire knows this game

The fire tells you in your heart

That you are both the same

 

And I am sitting here waiting for you.

Birth-twin, brother, fire-fallen

You build a ladder to the sun

And now the sun is inside you.

 

/: F G Am - / G - Am - :/

 

And all I can do is sink my fingers in

Waiting for the phoenix changes to begin

You are infected with the language of the sun

We pull the burning thorns from underneath your skin

 

And you change. You've always changed,

The sun is just a part of who you are

And you change, for life is change

And the pain is just a part of who you are.

 

And you made a hundred patterns but those patterns burnt you down

You bled a thousand comet trails before you hit the ground

And those comets are in all of us, inside our eyes like sand

The heat of your blaze melting them, so we could understand

 

Looking through the lens you gave us, at the blazon on your brow

There are just a thousand questions, start with "what do we do now?"

Do we try to look inside you for the fire that is gone

When any bit of ember might be waiting to go on?

 

And I am sitting here waiting for you.

Birth-twin, brother, fire-fallen

You build a ladder to the sun

And now the sun is inside you.

 

And you change. You've always changed,

The sun is just a part of who you are

And you change, for life is change

And the pain is just a part of who you are.

 

The fire knows your name

The fire knows this game

The fire tells you in your heart

That you are both the same