I'm standing on the riverbank
The air is thick with soot
With the charcoal of the always crumbling under my foot
It wasn't about the lightning or a sudden act of guy
Just the friction of the miles
And the paths that we tried
The timber started groaning
Under the weight of the lies
And the smoke began to billow
Toward the charcoal colored skies
I watched the first spark catch on a promise we made
And I didn't move a muscle to step into the shade
And it's the bridge that burns
In the middle of the night
Cast in a jacket and a localized light
The way back is gone the cedar is black
There's no magic lever to bring the wood back
The water down below low is a mercury tide
Dividing the hill from the other side
Yeah the heat is a monster and the lessons are learned
From the ashes and the embers of the bridge that burned
You're a silhouette a shadow on the far off shore
And I don't think I can hear your voice anymore
The architects falling in arithmetic display
Of every maybe and forever we threw away
It's a structural cleansing the thermal decree
That there's no more us and there's no more weak
I'm warming my hands by the wreck of the span
Watching the ending of a half finish plan
Did I light the match did you fan the flame or is the
Oxygen of silence the one we should blame
Either way the crossing is a memory now
A skeleton of salt and a broken down vow
And it's the bridge that burned
In the middle of the night
Casting a jacket in a localized light
The way back is gone
The seater is black
There's no magic lever to bring the wood back
The water down below is a mercury tide
Dividing the heel from the other side
Yeah the heat is a monster
And the lessons are learned
From the ashes and the embers of the bridge that burned
let it fall into the deep
The promises we couldn't keep
The fire's die and the river is wide
I'll stay on my own quiet side
The bridge is gone
The bridge is gone
I'm standing on
Hmm I'm standing on