Firesmoke - Kate Tempest, Kae Tempest

My visionary is a vision

I watch her dancing by the window

And it rips my flesh to ribbons

And the whole world is just ripples

In the middle distance

I listen to her hips

I push my kisses to her lips

We move like we were born to move

The night is teeth and pistons

And there is something in this tenderness that makes me want to live

Firesmoke

Her mouth sets free this captive

Come close to me

Free me

Let me untangle the madness that knots you

I drop to my knees and crawl across you

I tell you I’ve got you

It’s firesmoke

So go on, give me three days of your body and mine

Time is a blind eye and I see your mind in my mind’s eye

You make me immortal

You take me to space

You are a planet

A place I’ve not known

Your body is home to rare gods

I kneel at their temple

I’m blown to bits, gentle, ferocious

We are open

Explosives have nothing compared to these sparks

So let’s fall apart

And then lie with me, breathing in the den of the dark

It’s firesmoke

Your mouth sets free this captive

Come close to me

Free me

Untangle the madness that knots me

You drop to your knees, you crawl across me

You lick your lips softly

It’s firesmoke

The fire rises between us

And makes us get on the wrong trains

Walk the wrong way

Makes strangers smile greetings on Lewisham way

I bathe in this fire

It warms without burning

Compels without force

And it turns without turning the world

So, please, you keep your purpose

Your poise and your journey

I’ll be by the fire

Thinking, nothing I’ve learned can prepare me

For everything else that needs learning

Is this how it feels to feel certain?

'Cause for so many years my love’s been a burden

But now comes this fire to cleanse and restore us

To fuel us and calm us and push us both forwards, forwards