Banquets The Flicker and the Flame lyrics

Slow, stale, breaths of air,
pace the floor from the couch to the stairs,
I felt the world ripped from limb and it all went grey.
Oh, I hear the sound from the sprawl.
Another loss after spending all, we were numb, in pieces, missing more each day.
We scrub the deepest stains.
We scrub the saddest stains.
You will radiate.

The open field, to the city block,
a final breath, a final thought,
became the sounder of thunder.
I heard the sound of thunder.
Give the weather a sign that you're still here.
Cloud the sky, put a chill in the air.
Say you're starting over,

strike the ground again, to show you're still here.
Strike the ground again, they were your years.
The strike the ground again, with the flicker and the flame.


You lived, you lived like lightning.
Gave the kids with the best of something.
There's a piece of you in my head.
I know you lived, you lived like lightning.
The flicker and the flame,
some smoke, but the burn remains.

It's tragic ways we leave this tragic place.
I write your name up on my wall and tried the words that never came.
It's tragic ways.

You lived, you lived like lightning.
Gave the kids with the best of something.
There's a piece of you in my head.
I know you lived, you lived like lightning.
The flicker and the flame,
some smoke, but the burn remains.