Setting Fire to Heaven

Sometimes the right music forces me to write something.

Let's set fire to heaven.

No polite knocking on pearly gates.

Peter's drawing the ace of spades tonight.

You won't keep me out of paradise.

Bring down all their pedestals,

Don't give them anything to climb.

Don't give them a chance to look down on you.

We don't have to stay here.

Everything is dark here.

Want to find out what it's like,

To feel that glorious light?

I bet you'd really like to know.

We've been suffering down here for so long,

That we forgot that we had hearts.

We used to smile.

Everything was once beautiful and innocent.

Let's set fire to heaven.

Let's make it ours.

Let's make it shine ablaze like they never could.

And once it's gone,

It's gone forever.

They don't get to hold it over our heads,

never again.

Then they get to share the dark,

With their forgotten brothers and sisters.

Let's set fire to heaven.

Come, take my hand, beautiful.

Let's dance on the ashes of angel wings.

Let's make love on His throne,

and roll around on all those fluffy, white clouds.

They've kept me locked out for too long.

I'm going to set fire to your heaven,

and hang you by your halos.

Today is the last day,

until night is eternal.

Let's show them they can't control us.

Dance in their light,

until we stain their alabaster floors,

with the blood of our soles,

with the blood of our souls.

We came here to live life.

If you've never been alive before,

tonight is the night.

There's a riot in heaven,

and no one will stop us.

We won't let them again.

It's been too long,

since we felt this kind of warmth.

Let's right every wrong,

and wrong every right.

Let's set fire to heaven,

and really be free for the first time.

It will be our first sunrise,

and their last sunset.

When we're setting fire to heaven,

don't forget to show mercy,

to those who couldn't be here.

Some of us can't set fire to heaven.

Some of us are locked away,

in an even darker Hell.

Steal the clean water,

from their pristine fountains.

Quench the thirst,

of those parched sinners.

When you set fire to heaven,

make it burn bright.

Let it shine in the darkest corner.

Let there not be one shadow,

on this, the most glorious of nights.

Remember what it's like to smile.

Remember what it's like to feel good.

Remember the night we set fire to heaven.

Reviews

[Cryingkate]

Oh How I would love to dance tonight,
With heaven on fire and burning bright.
Watching 24 kt streets of gold
Melt into Jordan, where the Baptist go.

But not just yet, there's something a miss
The whole of the story is still a miss.
Each theory is right, each theory is wrong
Till we've all the facts, we can't burn her down.

LOL You wrote such a great one I had to add my two cents. WOW your Poem is sure inspirational and sure has a flame to cause a riot!

[The Aphotic Atrocity]

Haha! Thank you for the kind words and the additional poem.

[Cryingkate]

LOL Thanks for being a good sport but hey what's a girl to do? YourKinda Preaching is On Fire !

[Vian]

Beautiful. I adore the endless passion of blasphemy! It was amazing. "Hang you by your halos" Ha ha ha, ingenious! Y'know those lines that are so beautifully powerful because the tone is just right or it seems to shoot you in the soul with no hesitation; the ones you find once every couple of poems? I swear every other line I was melting in bliss. The poem is beautiful!

[The Aphotic Atrocity]

Hello again. I really appreciate your reviews.

[Avery]

I really like this! I can feel the freedom and power they've gained. To be alive! Favourite lines: "Let's dance on the ashes of angel wings.Let's make love on His throne"
nicely written :)

[The Aphotic Atrocity]

I'm very glad you enjoyed it. Thank you so much for your review.