Burn The Light - Clem Snide

We melted down the gold

The gold that we found buried in her teeth

For wigs her hair was sold

To drunken soldiers, stumbling down the street

Let us burn the light

And all that’s good and right

Inside our hearts

The chemicals that caught

The rainbow colored shapes to fill our eyes

Made powder from her bones

Dissolving it with sugar as prescribed

Let us burn the light

And all that’s good and right

Inside our hearts

With victory declared

Gently spread her feathers on the wall

Then dosing in the sleigh

We woke to see the stadium at dawn

Let us burn the light

And all that’s good and right

Inside our hearts

We melted down the gold

The gold she wore when she had been a wife

Her secrets then were told

By drunken poets, tired of their lives