Time To Burn

Time to burn, we could talk all the problems through

Are the promises still unbroken?

Do the spoken words still ring true?

Oh, and where are you?

Time to burn, wakes and weddings, celestial choirs

And while one hand shakes on the bargain

See the other stoke the sooty pyre

So we're all on fire, burning for tomorrow

So much time wish and hoping

Soon the future will come

With a bridal wreath for the wedding

In the hands of the prodigal son

So much left undone

Here we are with time to burn

So much time wishful thinking

All the whitest of lies

With the prodigal caught at the border

And the order of service awry

No time for goodbyes

Will we ever start to learn?

Time to burn, wakes and weddings become confused

All the faces over-familiar

In the whirlwind of déjà vu

Oh, but where are you?

Time to burn, all our lifelines are gathered round

With a speech from the back of a postcard

All the memories free in one bound

Free and gone to ground

Free and gone forever

Free and gone to ground

So I will remember

So much lost and found

Here we are with time to burn