Past the Fire

Past the Fire

Seeking life in laden skies, looking past the fire
Fading flames dance in your eyes, turning from the pyre
Rain drops fall to fleeting hopes, untaken on the wind
You'd give your heart to flay these ropes, you saw the way he grinned
The way he stirred about the flames, the ghostly way he sauntered
About the task of taking names, the spirits he has laundered
One name is lost forever more, a' pinned upon his brow
I've read that name not once before, a thousand times till now
I've known the curse of sinner’s games, i've felt the deathly fire
I read the list of sinner’s names, you know i'm not a liar
Upon the alter of the dammed, they said my downfall lies
But was my triumph ever planned, did once i slip these ties?
I am the man i ever was, though none who knew me be
I hold this sacred list because, this task was passed to me