After The Fire

And then the war was done

All the dead were one

I found my eyes and

They were useless in the sun

And with a blade I found

I cut a mountain down

I built a house where all

The flames had touched the ground.

Then all the stars fell from the sky

All lost at sea, the shipmen cry

Without the help of constellations in the night

We're forced to fly by our own light

And when the sons have killed their fathers

And when the census of the dead is given up

And when the fire starts returning to the sun

I take my place among the one

I've lost the world now

My heart is blind somehow

Every night I hear a crying in the wind

The ghost of soldiers dead

The ghost inside my head

Even ghosts of enemies begin to sound like friends

Then all the stars fell from the sky

All lost at sea, the shipmen cry

Without the help of constellations in the night

We're forced to fly by our own light

And when the sons have killed their fathers' fathers

And when the census of the dead is given up

And when the fire starts returning to the sun

I take my place among the one

After the fire

After the flight

It's time to forget everything that you're thinking is right

The fire burned alive

It's ashes filled my eyes

It's cinders left a hopeless hunger in my bones

And some I've never known

Their bodies paving stone

And I am left to walk an earth I call my own

Then all the stars fell from the sky

All lost at sea, the shipmen cry

Without the help of constellations in the night

We're forced to fly by our own light

And when the sons have killed themselves

And when the census of the dead is given up

And when the fire starts returning to the sun

I take my place among the one