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Cigarette Burns

from TV Hill by Eric Agner

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    I wrote this one for FAWM 2010 (February Album Writing Month).
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Our history is coded deep into the bone
every fall and fracture, every inch we've grown
caught in a cycle we can never read
it's awful and familiar, every word and deed

Chorus:
If I hold my hand to the fire
Hold it til it burns
ever time I pray for lessons learned
the time I worry
about what I might become
is when I turn away, when I go numb

In my hand I hold a cigarette, watching as it burns to ash
seems like it burned hotter some time in the past
watching smoke drift away, I can never doubt
when the fuel is gone, every fire burns out

Chorus

Some burn slow and smolder, some burn out in a rage
Some glow a distant beacon, an explosion, fireworks display
a spark in the corner lighting up the room
in the end the ashes fall when everything's consumed

Chorus, and out.

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from TV Hill, track released January 18, 2011
Music and lyrics ©Eric Agner

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