[Verse 1]
I left the porch light burning for a town I couldn’t name
With a paper map folded where the old road used to change
Your letter in my jacket, your fingerprints in the crease
I carried every answer till it stopped resembling peace
[Pre-Chorus]
You said, “Don’t come back empty-handed”
I said, “I’m trying to become”
The engine coughed beneath us
And the county line was gone
[Chorus]
If I break, let it be open
If I fall, let the ground remember
I was more than what they told me
I was fire under winter weather
Call my name through the hard rain
I’ll come back with a heart still beating
No, I won’t disappear quietly
I won’t disappear quietly
[Verse 2]
The factory windows flickered like a warning in the fog
A radio kept stuttering through a sermon from the dawn
We found a diner closing, two coffees and a chair
You drew a crooked river on a napkin and said, “There”
[Pre-Chorus]
You said, “The past is not a prison”
I said, “It knows the shape of me”
Then every light went crimson
And the whole room lost its sleep
[Chorus]
If I break, let it be open
If I fall, let the ground remember
I was more than what they told me
I was fire under winter weather
Call my name through the hard rain
I’ll come back with a heart still beating
No, I won’t disappear quietly
I won’t disappear quietly
[Bridge]
Cut the signal, split the ceiling
Let the buried sirens rise
All the years I kept retreating
Put their teeth behind my eyes
I am not the locked-up room
I am not the borrowed tune
I am not the hand that trembled
When it reached for something true
[Screamo]
Tear the silence out!
Tear the silence out!
I’m still here!
I’m still here!
[Breakdown]
One step through the fracture
Two hands on the wheel
No more asking permission
To say what I feel
[Final Chorus]
If I break, let it be open
If I fall, let the ground remember
I was more than what they told me
I was fire under winter weather
Call my name through the hard rain
I’ll come back with a heart still beating
No, I won’t disappear quietly
I won’t disappear quietly
[Outro]
The porch light keeps burning
But I know where I’m going
The road bends past the county line
And the morning starts showing