In the neon haze

All the regulars gaze

At her dancing there

They don't know her real name

No one feels her pain

But they love to stare

When she takes a break

She sits outside and shakes

The flakes of snow from her hair

CHORUS

Like snowflakes in fire

The minutes melt away

She wants to rescue the hours

Before they hit the flames

Like snowflakes in fire

She goes home along

She unplugs her phone

Puts a pen to a page

The letter takes it all in

The remorse and the sin

The abuse and the rage

She seals it with a teardrop

Puts it in a pinebox

And drives upstate in the rain

Like snowflakes in fire

The minutes melt away

She wants to rescue the hours

Before they hit the flame

Like snowflakes in fire

You hold her like a ghost

Through the frozen rain

Tangled in her hair

She's calling you again

Pull her far from here

Deep into your heat

Let her touch the holes in your hands and feet

See the thin smoke rise

Into the frozen skies

Smell the burning pine

She's sitting there below

Watching flakes of snow

Melt in the fire light

She thinks of long ago

A past so bitter cold

And she says goodbye

Like snowflakes in fire

The minutes melt away

She wants to rescue the hours

Before they hit the flames

Like snowflakes in fire