Secret Fires

Touch me through your screen door
I want to remember you
They that are behind me
Are there against the moon

Remember when we used to ride
Underneath the power lines
In Inferno valley
When your father was alive

I worked for days and years
Through the dust and the heat
I came around to see you
On highway burning feet

I spend my days at the mill
I came home and cared for you
In the year that we lived in secret fire

I took my razor blade
I laid Rubeun in the shade
And I heard the radio moan

I took my place in the hills
Jagged with the secret fires
I called you through the valley
Down along the wires

With dust upon my eyes
Came the first day of the year
I saw a house where no one lived
On the black land and under the red sky
You washed my hair and body beside the firelight

So, touch me through your screen door
I want to remember you
We struggled the year we lived in the secret fire