Ashes & Fire

As he stared past the fire
 His hunger to leave, well, it gnawed his poor heart alive
 Her skin smelled like black cherry blossom perfume
 The sailboats they all sailed by and a river she cried
 And the wind was suddenly sweeter than Roosevelt pie
 The windows broke out and the cigarette smoke drifted by
 The bums on the bowery, they were swallowed in the lights
 As cars rumbled by in the night screamin', "Run for your life"
 With cool and silvery eyes
 And a heart that was fit for desire
 Drown in a river of tears, oh, a river she cried
 Left her with her heart made of ashes and fire
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 One day there was a silence and it washed through the town
 There was no reason to speak and no one made a sound
 Her eyes were indigo and the cats were all calico
 And the sailboats they all sailed by and a river, she cried
 With cool and silvery eyes
 And a heart, it was fit for desire
 Drown in a river of tears, oh, a river she cried
 Left her with a heart made of ashes and fire
 Ashes and fire
 Ashes and fire
 Ashes and fire