The Avett Brothers - The Fire (Official Lyric Video)

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Lyrics:

A young child sits quiet, the forest is dark…possibilities overflow his unbroken heart

I ask him well after the brush takes the spark: what do you see in the fire?

I see light within color and color in light, trophies I’ll take home, and battles I’ll fight

A bright blue horizon with no pain in sight

I’ll be there and so will my parents and you’re invited too

A life-sentence inmate in orange prisoner clothes

Who’s been told his whole life ‘that’s just how it goes’

Who came out swinging from poverty row, sits a bit close to the dangerous glow

What do ya see in the fire?

I see rich people laughin’ with food on their plates,

And neighborhood bullies imprinted with hate

Moms and dads screaming at each other insane, and hard grey redemption a little too late

And I see myself as I might’ve been, I’m handsome and capable and funny

A young woman in college entranced by the flames is pondering silent how perfectly strange

A girl could be called by so many names and not one be the one she was given

What do you see in the fire?

I see myself in the mirror, not pretty enough, and digital images reducing love

my roommate enslaved by expectations above, and then I see the face of my mother

A first year preacher stands on his feet

His love for man kind is true and complete

While the frigid wind blows through the trees I ask, as he leans away from the heat

What do you see in the fire?

I see swirling confusion, question, and loss…and I know all about Christ and the cross

But I cannot explain the holocaust…I stuttered when a young man asked me to

I just couldn’t find the words…

A woman of ninety with wisdom in spades, her mind still as sharp as her kitchen blades…

I ask as her memory nonetheless fades:

What do you see in the fire?

I see the touch of my husband who recently passed

Our hometown before the roads got so fast

And I see it now in an impatient blur

And I see how in love we were…

I see the good Lord offering mercy,

I see the good Lord offering mercy

I see the good Lord

Someone I care for, she sits by my side…I can feel the past and the future collide

She leans in and whispers: “don't think just decide:

What do you see in the fire?”

I see the faces of my victims whose hearts I once broke, calm and alive in the curling smoke

All I can do is sit here and hope they may find a way to forgive me

There's something unspoken there in your eyes

A pain or a love I don't recognize

I better ask you now before it dies…

What do you see in the fire?

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