[ti:Forest Fire] [ar:Mount Eerie] [al:A Crow Looked At Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Forest Fire - Mount Eerie [00:19.24]The year moves on without you in it [00:26.06]Now it is fall without you [00:31.34]I had to close the windows and doors without you coming through [00:38.32]I kept them open for as long as I could [00:44.58]But the baby got cold [00:50.89]I watched the calendar bulldoze [01:09.15]This whole past summer was a lingering heat wave [01:14.59]And I remember late August our open bedroom window [01:20.06]Going through your things with the fan blowing [01:23.58]And the sound of helicopters and the smell of smoke [01:28.12]From the forest fire that was growing billowing [01:31.83]Just on the edge of town where we used to swim [01:36.87]They say a natural cleansing devastation burning the understory erasing trails [01:44.85]There is no end [01:46.58]But when I'm kneeling in the heat [01:49.17]Throwing out your underwear [01:51.78]The devastation is not natural or good [01:56.28]You do belong here [01:58.69]I reject nature [02:01.82]I disagree [02:04.16]In the hazy light of forest fire smoke [02:07.93]I looked across at the refineries and thought [02:11.88]That the world was actually constantly ending [02:16.84]And the smell and roar of the asphalt truck that was idling [02:21.04]Just out the window tearing up our street [02:24.58]I missed you [02:27.14]Of course [02:29.52]And I remember thinking the last time [02:32.32]It rained here you were alive still [02:36.15]And that this same long heat that I was in contained you [02:42.42]And in this same heat I open the window next to you [02:48.53]On your last morning [02:52.03]So you could breathe and then so you could ghost away [02:59.71]And now so the room will hopefully [03:07.14]Stop whispering [03:14.29]The grind of time I'm not keeping up with [03:21.00]The leaf on the ground pokes at my slumbering [03:27.29]Grief walking around severed lumbering [03:36.32]But slowly sovereignty reasserts itself [03:45.96]I don't want it though [03:52.07]And betrayal whines [03:58.95]Who and how could I [04:04.77]Live