[singer A] Turn down the lantern… Lock up the door… There’s a woman in the firelight I ain’t seen before… She came through the smoke like a secret flame, With midnight roses around her name, Barefoot grace on a wooden floor, Like sin had learned what silk was for. Her eyes held storms that would not break, Her lips knew prayers no church could make, And every shadow in the room Leaned toward her like a flower blooms. [transition] [singer B] She moves like revelation, She tastes like mystery, And every man who hears her name Forgets who he used to be. Oh, she sings… Oh, she sings… And the darkness starts to shine. She wore no crown, but the candles bowed, The fiddle hushed, then cried out loud, The guitar bent like a wounded thing, When she turned her hand and wore my ring. She smelled like rain on cedar boards, Like wild blackberries and old accord, Like something heaven tried to hide But could not keep locked up inside. [singer A] She smiled once and the floorboards sighed, The clock struck twelve, then the clock hands died, And I stood there with my good sense gone, Like a faithful man at a siren song. Was she mercy, was she flame? Was she love with another name? Was I chosen, was I cursed, Or just the next man dying of thirst? She moves like revelation, She tastes like mystery, And every man who hears her name Forgets who he used to be. Oh, she sings… Oh, she sings… And the darkness starts to shine. [melodic interlude] [singer B] She said, “Love is not a gentle road, It is fire that learns your bones, It is thunder dressed in perfume, It is roses over stones.” Then she laid her hand upon my chest, Where my lonely heart confessed, And the room spun gold, and the rafters rang, And every hidden angel sang. Come closer, she said, Where the wild things bloom, Come closer, my love, Let the night make room. Come closer, she sang, Where the old stars lean, I’ll show you the flame Between dream and dream. [singer A] I should run, I should pray, But my soul won’t look away. Then the windows flashed with violet light, And the hills woke up in the dead of night, The chimney shook, the black dogs cried, And the river rolled against the tide. She raised her arms and the roof became A cathedral built of smoke and flame, And I saw the truth in her burning eyes: Some love is meant to terrify. [transition] [singer B] Raise the fire, raise the sound, Wake the stars and shake the ground, Love is thunder, love is flame, No man leaves it quite the same. She sings in the firelight, She dances in the smoke, She wraps the night around my heart Like a velvet holy cloak. She moves like revelation, She tastes like mystery, And every man who hears her name Forgets who he used to be. She sings like hallelujah, She burns like judgment day, She kisses like a sacred storm That carries me away. Oh, she sings… Oh, she sings… And the darkness starts to shine. [singer A] I was lost when I found her, I was found when I fell, She made heaven feel dangerous, She made desire ring like bells. She sings in the firelight, And the firelight is mine. Turn down the lantern… Lock up the door… There’s a woman in the firelight… And I am mine no more.
