Matchstick Heart

You lit a match in my kitchen

Just to see what would catch

Burned your name in the drywall

Said

“we’re never going back”

Ash on your thrift-store jacket

Boot prints through my bed

You laughed at the smoke alarm

Said

“at least we’re not dead”

You’re fire

Fire

Matchstick heart

Strike once

Baby

Tear me apart

You burn through every borrowed night

Leave black rings where you held me tight

You’re fire

Fire

Can’t stand close

Still I lean in till my eyebrows toast

If you’re the spark I’m the cheap old bar

Going up under your matchstick heart

We kissed outside the station

Sirens in your eyes

You said love’s just combustion

If it hurts

That’s the price

You carved songs in my ceiling

Till the paint began to peel

Every “forever” you whispered

Smelled like gasoline and steel

You’re fire

Fire

Matchstick heart

Strike once

Baby

Tear me apart

You burn through every borrowed night

Leave black rings where you held me tight

You’re fire

Fire

Can’t stand close

Still I lean in till my eyebrows toast

If you’re the spark I’m the cheap old bar

Going up under your matchstick heart

[Drums drop to toms

Guitars on stabbing chords]

One more flare in a paper town

We both know how this ends

You’ll blow out

I’ll black out

Still I’d do it all again (yeah)

You’re fire

Fire

Matchstick heart

Strike once

Baby

Tear me apart

You burn through every borrowed night

Leave black rings where you held me tight

You’re fire

Fire

Last call smoke

I keep breathing in every choking joke

If you’re the spark I’m the cheap old bar

Going up under your matchstick heart