Close To The Fire

There's a voice, the distant roar of thunder

A silent trembling of the earth

It talks of mystifying powers

But few can hear the words

There's a hand that holds a child's illusions

Where a million dreams, still kept within

All speak of love and hate and passion

Of joy and pain and sin

When the sky's ablaze and the lands deserted

All the waters deeply frozen

When hunger reigns and the wolves are howling

You can find the thieves and liars

Close to the fire

In the age that man will reach the planets

While rivalling tribes are marching up for war

Every single beat of life's enchanting rhythm

Is louder than before

But no word seems to be remembered

No truth eternal, once it is revealed

All promises and vows lost or broken

Like wounds that never healed

When the sky's ablaze and the lands deserted

All the waters deeply frozen

When hunger reigns and the wolves are howling

You can find the thieves and liars

Close to the fire

There is no answer to the question

We stand accused but never learn

To see we've only come full circle

Carry the torch that makes us burn

Now the sky's ablaze and the lands deserted

All the waters deeply frozen

Where hunger reigns and the wolves are howling

We become the thieves and liars

Close to the fire