Out Of the Fire
Iris Dement

On a gravel back-road, down deep in the Fall

So long ago, yet how well I recall

My Grandfather's green truck with the rusted-out rims

and me on the seat, 'tween my Mamma and him

How we rattled along, 'till the old Ford, it stalled

and Momma said Jump on out, pick you a big cotton ball

An Autumn leaf scraped its way 'cross the road

we were headed back home.

See the proud, thrusting, curve of the robin's red breast

out gathering worms to return to her nest,

the lavender haze at the first light of dawn,

a woman's clear voice lilting in song,

and all the fine words our poets have said,

the sparkling dew upon the spider's silk web!

Does one matter more? Does one matter less?

Who of us can say?

The tents are rolled up, the Revival's left town

all that remains is the fine sawdust ground

still wet from the tears that fell from the eyes

of folks too far down to hang back in pride

And I am here, too, like I always was:

deep in the pain, strong in the love

still singing my prayer to Heaven above

heartfelt and true.

Once you were the dawn, the dusk, and the light

Without the dream of holding you tight

my days turned to black, I could hardly take breath

I stumbled my way thru a fate worse than death

But like the Phoenix that rose right out of the fire,

I came back too, from a bed of desire

and shook from my wings the ash from the pyre,

and headed back home.

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(We\ (We"re Not) The Jet Set Acres Of Corn After You're Gone After You're Gone All Is Sold And This You Call Work Banks Of Marble Before the Colors Fade Big City Blessed Assurance Break My Mind Broad Gold Calling For You Childhood Memories City Of New Orleans Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day Fifty Miles of Elbow Room Fill My Way With Love Folsom Prison Blues From An Airplane From The Oriental Notebook Go On Ahead and Go Home God May Forgive You (But I Won't) God May Forgive You (But I Won't) God Walks The Dark Hills Goodbye Little Darling He Reached Down Heart's Highway Hide Thou Me Higher Ground Hobo BIll's Last Ride Hobo Bill's Last Ride Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart I Don't Want to Get Adjusted I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World I Miss A Lot Of Trains I Never Shall Forget the Day I Still Miss Someone I'll Take My Sorrow Straight I'm Out To Try My Hand At Love Again I'm Still In Love With You I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart I'll Take My Sorrow Straight I'm Out To Try My Hand At Love Again I'm Still In Love With You I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart If That Ain't Love In Spite Of Ourselves Infamous Angel It's Not With A Lover's Lyre \/ The Muse Jambalaya Keep Me God Keep On The Sunny Side Last Toast Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Let the Mystery Be Let's Invite Them Over Let's Invite Them Over Letter to Mom Like A Whte Stone Listening To Singing Livin' On the Inside Living On The Inside Lot's Wife Love Abides Makin' My Way Back Home Mama Was Always Tellin' Her Truth Mama's Opry Mama's Opry Mexican Home Mom And Dad's Waltz Mom And Dad's Waltz Mornin' Glory Morning Glory My Life No Time To Cry Nobody Gonna Love On Me No More Not With Deserters Oh How Good On The Wings Of A Dove Our Town Over The Garden Wall Pack Up Your Sorrows Prayer Pretty Saro Quality Time Reject The Burden Sing The Delta Song About Songs Sweet Forgiveness Sweet Hour of Prayer Sweet Is The Melody That Glad Reunion That Glad Reunion Day That's The Way Love Goes That's The Way Love Goes The Cherry Tree Carol The Heart Tells The Story The Kingdom Has Already Come The Night I Learned How Not To Pray The Old Gospel Ship The Old Rugged Cross The Shores Of Jordan The Souls Of All My Dears The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home The Unclouded Day The Way I Should There's a Wall in Washington There's a Whole Lotta Heaven There's A Wall In Washington These Hills This Kind of Happy To My Poems Trouble Troublesome Waters Upon The Hard Crest Walkin' Home Walkin' Home Wasteland of the Free Wayfarin' Stranger Wayfarin' Stranger We Could Wheels Of Love When I Was Yours When Love Was Young When MY Mornin' Comes Around When My Mornin' Comes Around Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies Whispering Pines Wildwood Flower You've Done Nothing Wrong You've Done Nothing Wrong

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