| Sadie saw smoke curling up from the trees
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| Put on her coat and went outside to see
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| A girl was feeding leaves and branches
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| To a pile of burning debris and dancing
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| Sadie said, «Got a nice fire tonight
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| What’s your name, if you don’t mind?»
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| She said, «My name is Serafina
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| But people call me Sera to save some time»
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| «Well, I got all the time in the world»
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| Sadie grabbed a stick and lit it while the girl
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| Said she’d been committed as a child
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| Discovered her love for fire, ran wild
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| In the asylum was a charming arson
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| Who broke out with his girl and started
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| Burning through Georgia like a moonstruck Sherman
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| Sera knew what she wanted for sure then
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| «People are who they are,» she said
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| «And I want their kind of love
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| Where you’re bad together and it’s good»
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| Sadie said, «Let me grab some wood and booze
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| See if we can’t keep this thing alive 'til noon»
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| (Serafina)
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| Shoots Roman candles all around
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| (Serafina)
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| Smiling with matches in her mouth
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| (Serafina)
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| Wears a bright, blazing crown of flowers and down
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| (Serafina)
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| Smell of gasoline in her hair
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| (Serafina)
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| Cinders glow as she blows cool air
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| (Serafina)
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| In her stare burns a solar flare
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| Months went by and they were happy
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| Setting fire to trashed mattresses
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| Cars with tickets on their dashes
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| Mannequins scattered in tattered masses
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| Through the rundown mall
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| They’d take pictures for their book
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| Rubbing the ash and the soot
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| On each other’s skin 'til it turned gray
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| And pose like dying lovers from Pompeii
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| In an overgrown lot
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| They fucked 'til it got too hot
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| Lying on top of a burning blanket
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| They hopped up and stood there naked
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| Smoking cigarettes and coughing
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| Sera threw her lighter in, heard it popping
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| «We gotta keep it up, Sadie, no stopping
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| We gotta keep it up, Sadie, we’re not stopping»
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| They watched as the wind caught
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| The fire spread a little further and died off
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| Sadie said, «I'm gonna buy us an old house in a big town
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| Where we can start a life and burn it all to the ground»
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| (Serafina)
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| Shoots Roman candles all around
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| (Serafina)
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| Smiling with matches in her mouth
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| (Serafina)
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| Wears a bright, blazing crown of flowers and down
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| (Serafina)
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| Throws firecrackers at their feet
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| (Serafina)
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| Yeah, and they start dancing, dancing while they sing
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| (Serafina)
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| Throws her dress in the flames
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| (Serafina)
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| Black sequins writhing, black sequins shine
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| (Serafina)
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| They sing, «We'll never die»
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| (Serafina)
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| «Yeah, we’ll burn and cry, we’ll never die» |