Ashes in the Rain

from BE HERE NOW by The Mynabirds

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February 1, 2017
This song might sound like a simple lovers’ quarrel (and it is on some level), but I feel like we’ve been watching two political parties trying to burn down the country they supposedly love and have been voted into office to serve and protect, each side blaming the other. I gave up in that song. If something’s not worth saving, I felt ready to strike the match.

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You want to write it down  
Every wrong I can’t erase
 So let me help you out
 I’ll light both sides of the page

No one ever said this would be easy 
No one ever said this would be fair
 But I can burn the house we built together  
And we can stop pretending that we care

I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE 
LEAVE THE ASHES IN THE RAIN

Well are you happy now? 
You don’t have to carry all the weight  
Wouldn’t want to bring you down  
While we’re going up in flames

No one ever said this would be easy 
And no one ever said it’d be this hard
 Why should I try to hold it all together  
When you’re the one who’s tearing us apart

I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
 IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME 
I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
 LEAVE THE ASHES IN THE RAIN  

Now I know nothing’s forever  
Honestly, honestly

I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
 IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME
 I CAN FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
 LEAVE THE ASHES IN THE RAIN   

No one ever said it would be easy  
No one ever said I can fight fire

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from BE HERE NOW, released August 25, 2017

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The Mynabirds Los Angeles, California

American singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn is a shape-shifter who can’t sit still. Since 2010 she’s worked under the moniker The Mynabirds, releasing three critically acclaimed and stylistically different albums on Saddle Creek: What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (2010) and GENERALS (2012), both produced by Richard Swift, and Lovers Know (2015). ... more

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