[Verse 1]
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”
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Bridge]
[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)
[Chorus]
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