SLOW FIRE
(live performance)
1
I DO NOTHING
He recognised the way she moved
Her hands on the water
Her fire burning in the hull
The ferryman's daughter
"Hallelujah"
Is that what she's saying?
"Hallelujah"
The gods are playing
He didn't feel the lightning strike
How long was he waiting?
An echo rising deep from the heart
The sound of its breaking
Not even one more night
Spent here without her
Not even one more night
Sold down the river
The morning raised a million suns
How long was he sleeping?
All his stories are shattered at once
Beginnings and endings
Not even one more night
Spent here without her
Not even one more night
Sold down the river
I do nothing
And nothing is left undone
I can do nothing
And nothing is left undone
Remove the blindfold and you'll see
The danger's gone
The flowers growing from the stone
Like they told you that it would (that it would)
Not even one more night
Spent without you
"Hallelujah", is that what she's saying?
"Hallelujah", the gods are playing
2
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN
I remember our first affair
Always pain
Always rain, around my eyes.
It'll never happen again.
It'll never happen again.
Every time I leave you alone
I remember times I couldn't come home
It'll never happen again
Why can't you be
The way that I want you to be
Why can't you see
You've got to change to love me.
3
UNDER INGRID'S WHEELS
Sunlight on glass
Caught me blind
And the wages of love
Blew in at my side
I held its wings
And swallowed it whole
Now it shines in my shadow
And white lines my road
I take the vow
And I swallow the pill
Laid my life on the line
Under Ingrid's wheels
I burned her name
In God's valleys and fields
Laid my life on the line
Under Ingrid's wheels
The heat is cooled
The mind is hot
The body is aching
But reaching for the stars
The angels breathe
In snow and ice
And they nail to my grip
Some semblance of life
I've burned the rope
And I've hammered the steel
Laid my life on the line
Under Ingrid's wheels
The road is long
And I know just how it feels
Laid my life on the line
Under Ingrid's wheels
(I love you baby
You know I do
I love you baby
You know it's true - I do)