Lyrics

We melted down the gold The gold that we found buried in her teeth For wigs her hair was sold To drunken soldiers, stumbling down the street Let us burn the light And all that's good and right Inside our hearts The chemicals that caught The rainbow colored shapes to fill our eyes Made powder from her bones Dissolving it with sugar as prescribed Let us burn the light And all that's good and right Inside our hearts With victory declared Gently spread her feathers on the wall Then dosing in the sleigh We woke to see the stadium at dawn Let us burn the light And all that's good and right Inside our hearts We melted down the gold The gold she wore when she had been a wife Her secrets then were told By drunken poets, tired of their lives