Ashes Of Summer

There lies a river
Somewhere along the line
Its water's flowing
Dividing city and sky
It sang a love song
The way the sirens sing
Out on the sea
What did I hear?
Another promise
A star to give some light
And I was aching
To hear a redemptive word
If there's a fire
Please don't let it go out
Don't let me go
Don't let it go
Don't let it slip away.

You were a body
Just like a sea aflame
A surge of wet salt
The drops I drank from your skin
There ran the river
Dividing everything
What do we know?
What have we found?
What do we own?

Along the line…

All out of luck
Walking the ruins of my yesterdays
I was chasing down a road to nowhere
I'm going nowhere
All out of love
There is this poverty inside of me
A stranger in the light of morning
All out of life
There is this empty place beside me
And roads and rivers winding in a circle
All out of luck
All out of everything worth fighting for
Now my heart is drying in the sun.

My voice is sore now
From swallowing a dream
My body's weak now
From feasting on our fears
This is the river
Still running so deep
Carrying you
Carrying me
Carrying us downstream.

Along the line…

All out of luck
Walking the ruins of my yesterdays
I was chasing down a road to nowhere
All out of love
There is this poverty inside of me
A stranger in the light of morning
All out of life
There is this empty place beside me
And roads and rivers winding in a circle
All out of luck
All out of everything worth fighting for
Now my heart is drying in the sun.

In the shelter of a heartbeat
In the sultry heat of August, stars fell down.

(x2) All out of luck
Walking the ruins of my yesterdays
I was chasing down a road to nowhere
All out of love
There is this poverty inside of me
A stranger in the light of morning.

All out of luck
All out of everything worth fighting for
Now my hearts are drying in the sun.