[Intro]
(low guitar hum, distant choir, crackling fire)
Stay back…
…No.
Come closer.
[Verse 1]
I built these walls from iron warning
Brick by brick, a disciplined flame
Learned real young if you love something loudly
The world finds a way to make you pay
So I kept my distance
Kept my hands clean
Kept my fury folded
Sharp and unseen
Then you laughed in the face of danger
Like fear was a language you never learned
God help me, woman…
You looked at fire
and never flinched when it burned
[Pre-Chorus]
And I should’ve known
The second you smiled
You’d be the kind of trouble
Worth going wild for
[Chorus]
You walk through fire like you know my name
Smile at the worst of me, call it flame
What kind of woman looks at ruin and grins?
Makes a home in the blaze beneath my skin
I should run
I should fight
Should shut every door and kill every light
But there you stand
Like the goddamn sun
And now I burn for someone
[Verse 2]
You throw yourself between teeth and violence
Like your life’s some debt you gotta repay
And every time I drag you back from danger
You just thank me like I saved the day
You infuriate me
You reckless thing
Got no sense of self-preservation
No fear of kings
And somehow when the night gets quiet
When the war in my head finally goes still
It’s your stupid grin I think about
That’s the part that gets me killed
[Pre-Chorus]
I was made for battle
For standing guard
Not this helpless ache
Beating under armor
[Chorus]
You walk through fire like you know my name
Smile at the worst of me, call it flame
What kind of woman looks at ruin and grins?
Makes a home in the blaze beneath my skin
I should run
I should fight
Should lock this heart away out of spite
But there you stand
Like the goddamn sun
And now I burn for someone
[Bridge] (drop everything but piano / low strings / explosive rise)
I have seen what fire does
What it takes
What it leaves
I have held ash in my hands
And called it mercy
So tell me why your touch
Feels nothing like destruction
Tell me why your name
Sounds so damn close to salvation
[Final Chorus - BIG]
You walk through fire like you know my name
Smile at the worst of me, call it flame
What kind of woman looks at ruin and grins?
Makes a home in the blaze beneath my skin
If this is war
Then let me lose
If this is love
Then light the fuse
There you stand
Still choosing me
And God…
I have never burned this clean
[Outro]
(just vocals + crackling fire)
Stay back…
…please.
Because if you stay…
I won’t let you go.