Up With the Smoke - Down With the Ash (live) - Turboweekend

I saw the animal six as a silhuette fixed on the back wall

I turned my body around so I could face the sound of the cat’s call

The broken window was shaking and my bones were aching to follow the trail

Where the curtains were torn by the claws and the horns I saw the sweep of the nine tails

Through the shimmering light I stumbled into the nights empire

And with the spark in my hand I followed blood in the sand to the bonfire

This is a farewell to names, old tags burn in the flames with a flash

And as your old body chokes you rise up with the smoke and come down with the ash

Wind from the coastline blows cross the highs and the lows turning wolves into sheep

Just when the skyline quakes, clouds fall into the lake, stars are lost in the deep

Trombones and tamburines play, big sound makes everything sway

Vision blurred by the heat, bodies are chained to the beat

Breaking the loop, I saw the birdmen swoop down for prey

Their beaks in my back I heard the branches crack as they flew me away

This is a farewell to names, old tags burn in the flames with a flash

And as your old body chokes you rise up with the smoke and come down with the ash

It has exploded the frames, memories tied to the games of the past

I am devided and tossed, among the bones of the lost I am the first and the last

Heart beat, heart beat. We’ve never been down this street

These licks these tricks – We’re playing with the animal sixth

Through the shimmering light I stumbled into the nights empire

And with the spark in my hand I followed blood in the sand to the bonfire

This is a farewell to names, old tags burn in the flames with a flash

And as your old body chokes you rise up with the smoke and come down with the ash