Hand-Lit Fire

[Intro] [Verse 1] The flame eye blinks, then quits its watch Kiln skin holds a furnace red The shutdown clock keeps chewing minutes While the hot face sweats overhead [Chorus] Keep that kiln hot through the dead shift Hold the line, don’t let it fall Through the peep door, hand-lit fire Clinker’s not a scrap at all [Verse 2] The lead says dump the run by morning I say look at the burning bed I crack the door against the heat blast And strike the burner back to red [Chorus] Keep that kiln hot through the dead shift Hold the line, don’t let it fall Through the peep door, hand-lit fire Clinker’s not a scrap at all [Guitar solo] [Bridge] One glove scorched, one eye on draft One hand steady on the rod You can call the whole run wasted I can hear the flame catch hard [Chorus] Keep that kiln hot through the dead shift Hold the line, don’t let it fall Through the peep door, hand-lit fire Clinker’s not a scrap at all