When The Fire Comes

Music: Gert Wijnalda
Lyrics: Gert Wijnalda
Album: After The Fire Into The Fire

There’s a place I used to live
A couple of days a week
She said now I cannot visit anymore
There’s some guys I used to see
A couple of nights a month
She says now I cannot speak them anymore

‘Cause everything is broken
Everything is smoking
When the fire comes

There’s the rage inside of everyone
That comes climbing up the walls
That we’ve built ourselves
Secure for everybody
And the fire inside our hearts
That we’ve always tried to tame
Yet we never found a way to get it settled down

Now everything is broken
Everything is smoking
When the fire comes
Everything is broken
All is left unspoken
When the fire comes

You know there’s no way we can excuse
All the things we’ve said and done
When the fire came
You know there’s lessons to be learned
Of things that vanished while they’re written in the sand by the sea
Oh, and everything you say can and will be used against you
In the court of love
And there’s the ashes of our lifes together
The ruins that I’m bleeding on
After the fire burned away your heart

I used to look in mirrors, just a little while ago
When I didn’t have a glimpse of what I’ve got inside today
And I’ve never realised the amount of reality in life
No, I’ve never got a grip on how it should have been

Now everything is broken
Everything is smoking
When the fire comes
Everything is broken
All is left unspoken
When the fire comes

You know there’s no way we can excuse
All the things we’ve said and done
When the fire came
You know there’s lessons to be learned
Of things that vanished while they’re written in the sand by the sea
Oh, and everything you say can and will be used against you
In the court of love
And there’s the ashes of our lifes together
The ruins that you’re dancing on
After the fire, after the fire

After the fire burned away your heart (your heart)

After the fire burned away your heart