The Echoing Green - Flame lyrics

It's a dark and lonely winter You say "this hell's never felt so cold" Yet there's the faintest smell of cinders And a truth yet to be told And a sound surrounds your secret Something I've heard, but can't yet see Like whispers in the twilight The secret now revealed to me... It's a flame Burning just behind your eyes I'm praying for rain But nothing will put out these fires That burn and blaze Wait Let's not forsake all these years If you'd just stay There's so much truth still to hear And I'll listen all night To your hopes and every fear I won't say it's alright These things always end in tears You're fanning the flame And everything is catching fire The things that you hate And everything that you desire Are one and the same Running to escape this pyre And cover the shame Hiding just behind your eyes Through green and grey We turn, turn with hearts on fire We feel it inside We're steeling to die To burn, burn what we conspire We cast it aside To keep us alive There's a flame The things that you hate The tears that you taste We burn it away There's a flame