Brandi Carlile - The Stranger At My Door lyrics

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 pa** the time here, fire lives into the past And 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 We exorcise 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 at 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