BURN ME DOWN
Music & Lyric Gilly Slinn Vocal/Miles Cope Guitar/Steve Homan
Now
I am not the type to be
Obsessed with my mortality
I've
danced with deaths anatomy
And
I am not afraid
The
simple facts are plain to see
First
we live then cease to be
And
when we fall were history
But
I am not afraid
And
deaths disserted continent
Will
not scare me from my intent
I'll
breathe until this breath is spent
Then
I will gladly go
At
home inside the midnight sky
Wrestles
travelers turn an eye
Must
wait its turn and bide it's time
Cause
I am not afraid
So
burn me down to a cinder
Burn
me down to distant dust
My
poor old eyes will fertilize
The
good earth’s noble crust
Cause
when this ride is over
For
my final serenade
My
lonely smoke is going to get the joke
Cause
I am not afraid
We do not
know when we will go
To
that dark and distant land
I
will not fight that long goodnight
Or
shake its bony hand
I'll
take whatever's thrown at me
Inevitable
sweet uncertainty
Will
not obscure these hopes for me
Cause
I am not afraid
Mystifying
diatribe could not
Withstand
those tears I cried
When
you stepped across that great divide
And
left me on my own
Life
I tried to rearrange did not work out
So
nothing changed but nothings ventured
Then
nothings gained and I was not afraid
So
burn me down to a cinder
Burn
me down to dust and bone
Then
blow me out the chimney
And
I'll find my own way home
And
when that dust has settled
And
the piper has been paid
This
smile of mine will transcend time
Cause
was not afraid
So
burn me down sweet Jesus
Burn
me down into the ground
And
come on boys and set me free
You
might scare them but you don't scare me
Cause
I was not afraid.