Misc Originals – Byro Mitchell - Wildfire (Guitar)

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      She built the one that she’d lost

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A funeral pyre

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And she threw in a statue of him

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 That she made out of brier

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And she threw some of herself

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To drive the flames higher

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    And with rage she danced and spread the spark

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That caused a wildfire

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  And it burned and burned and it burned,

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until nothing was left

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The air grew heavy with embers and smoke,

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        so she held her breath

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She tried to run as long as she could,

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but her legs gave out and she couldn’t get far

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That’s how she got trapped

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        in the wildfire

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Months went by, the green came back,

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        no trace of smoke in the air

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She’d dug a burrow where the bonfire had burned,

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     and kept to herself in her lair

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She saw danger everywhere so she put up a

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fence but she cut herself on the barbed wire

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She needed help but there was no one around

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so she sent up a flare and it sparked another wildfire

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And it burned and burned and it burned,

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        the world turned black

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she just sat there with her head hung low,

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  her skin started to crack

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  No one had answered her plea for help,

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she thought nobody cared

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   That’s why she gave in

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        to the wildfire

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                To the wildfire

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mmmmm

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   As she lay there cracked and bleeding

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she heard a choir of voices pleading

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  It was those she’d left behind

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   Her grief had left her blind

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  she gazed up, expression haunted

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She said this is what they’d all wanted

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They were all liars, and had conspired

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To trap her alone in the wildfire

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And it burned and it burned and it burned,

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        as the truth sank in

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  Their arms circled around her,

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        their tears soothed her skin

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They lifted her up, forgave her

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        for all that transpired

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and that’s how she finally escaped

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            the wildfire