Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire Songtext
von Kristin Hersh

If you are constrained to put the work you owe
Halfway up a water fall
You can extract and must have
Have the available energy
You can see me through the bars
Where you keep me in the corner of your room


Happy just to see the back of your shirt
And he has me, but for rock how hard?
Like dirty wings, like they wore
Season and guardian, feedin′
Blood moon like sailors on a cruise
We can't close
′Cause I'm happy just to see you

Pushing for the key
He let me out
Dance with me, I'll let a while
Like dirty wings, like what they wore
Spinning and dizzy, find it defying what he would
Now I know I can′t fly
I never knew life
Time lied
Time lied

Feathers are falling
And so am I