Page 177 of Of Heartbreak and Harmony

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When the morning sun rises, your breath tantalizes my brain

This pain won’t go away easy, I’m still here to please you, oh baby

You’re the fire-colored flower at the end of the yard

If you’re trying to grow you won’t get very far

We don’t need much, just keep all the touching in vain

Firebird, make it all new

We’re just ashes in the end

I don’t need you my friend

But I want you

It’s light out, you don’t have to stay

You made it all better now you can just go on your merry way

When the morning sun rises, your breath tantalizes my brain

This pain won’t go away easy, I’m still here to please you, Oh baby

Baby

You’re the fire-colored flower at the end of the yard

if you’re trying to grow you won’t get very far

The pickins here are poor, I promise life has more to give you

Firebird, make it all new

We’re just ashes in the end

I don’t need you my friend

But I want you

Phones are lit and held in the air, waving back and forth with the melody, and the crowd sings along so beautifully that it gives me chills. But when we come to the last chorus, Torren switches up the lyrics, singing the revised version that he gave to me the night he proposed.

Firebird, you made it all new

We’re just ashes in the end

But I need you my friend

Oh, I need you

He calls it our love song born of heartbreak and harmony, and even now, months later, it brings tears of happiness to my eyes.

The End

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