Cedar Fire, Smoke Rising

Lyrics

I remember the dust of a centuries-old road. Carrying a name that has long since gone cold. I was a blacksmith, a sailor, a thief in the night. Chasing the dawn till I ran out of light. I closed my eyes in a bed made of stone. And woke up a century later, alone. I was a cedar tree up on the hill. Watching the valley grow quiet and still. My roots held the earth, while the kingdoms would fall. I didn't have words, but I witnessed it all. A fire took my branches, I turned into smoke. And drifted away till a new morning broke. Cause the energy never completely expires. It just changes its shape and rekindles the fires. I’ve loved you in leather, in velvet, in lace In cities that vanished without any trace. We’re just travelers shifting from vessel to vessel. Ending a life to let another one settle. Now I sit in this crowded café Staring at hands that are different today. I look up at the stranger who just walked right in. And my chest feels a pull that is older than sin. You have different eyes, and a different name. But the spark in the center is exactly the same. We never truly say a final goodbye. We just trade the old bones for a brand new sky. A river, a sparrow, a breath in the cold. The universe spinning the young from the old. So bury me deep when my timer runs out. Leave all your grief and your ghosts in the doubt. I’ll see you tomorrow, or ten lifetimes on. In the very next shape that I happen to don.