Fire Snakes Lyrics

Fire Snakes lyrics

LAURA VEIRS

Fire Snakes



Mermaids

Shimmer in the waves

Wanted to share a word

Course they only waved

Left me alone

With the blood in my mouth

To paw and to pray

To tear at the fray for a thundercloud



To dress up your wounds

Wash off the salt

Freshen the blooms

At your sea-rusted altar



Caldera's edge

We'll hold hands and wait

Mudflows are greyhounds

Exploding from gates

With hot ash and hot rocks

They'll crash and they'll mosh

Till the trees are all flat

And we all collapse from the chase



Then I'll dress up your wounds

Wash off the salt

Freshen the blooms

At your mud-crusted altar…