The Stranger At My Door Lyrics - Firewatcher's Daughter - Brandi Carlile

I have seen the firewatcher's daughter 

Watching fires burn from smoke to black 

There's nothing she won't burn 

From Styrofoam to urns, to someone else's ashes in a sack 

You can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass 

You can pass the time here, fire lives into the past 

An all-consuming flame, that refines and new begins 

It'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins 

It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die 

And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes 

Condemn their sons to Hades 

And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well 

But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter 

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We exercise the demons of the things we used to know 

The gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes 

We think we're moving on, from materials we long 

To forget we ever sold our souls to own 

There's a chilling absolution that we're given from our birth 

A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth 

But nothing scares me more 

Than the stranger at my door 

Who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth 

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It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die 

And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes 

Condemn their sons to Hades 

And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well 

But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter