Crack two eggs on the flat top steel
Grease pops sharp like a busted heel
Regular Joe wants his coffee black
Says the shrine ash keeps the dark back
Wings like paper thin and bone white
Drift through ruin in the cold night
Bonfire flickers spits and sighs
Ash lifts soft where the hollow lies
Pale wings in the firelight
Warmth is all the hollow made
Dance slow through the ember night
Don't you burn don't you fade
Bell dings sharp order up for two
Hash browns golden bacon crisp and true
Joe don't talk bout the chosen dead
Just stares at steam where the words went unsaid
Pale wings in the firelight
Warmth is all the hollow made
Dance slow through the ember night
Don't you burn don't you fade
Coffee cold in a chipped white cup
Shrine don't judge what you're running from
Flame don't care if you're lost or found
Heat just rises off the ground
Moth circles close where the flame leans low
Singed tips tremble in the undertow
No knight returns no bell will toll
Just ash and wing and a dying coal
Flip the spatula scrape the grill clean
Night shift ends where the dawn's first been
Joe tips his hat walks out the door
Moth's still dancing on the shrine floor
Pale wings in the firelight
Warmth is all the hollow made
Dance slow through the ember night
Don't you burn don't you fade
Pale wings in the firelight
Warmth is all the hollow made