Burn the Light

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 streetLet us burn the light

And all that's good and right

Inside our heartsThe chemicals that caught

The rainbow colored shapes to fill our eyes

Made powder from her bones

Dissolving it with sugar as prescribedLet us burn the light

And all that's good and right

Inside our heartsWith victory declared

Gently spread her feathers on the wall

Then dosing in the sleigh

We woke to see the stadium at dawnLet us burn the light

And all that's good and right

Inside our heartsWe 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