Matches to Paper Dolls

I changed the locks

But your key, your key's still working

You can't train a moth, I guess

Uh, each beast gets her burden

So we circle this old flame

Too much at stake but too late to change

My nerves are shot, my reserves exhausted

It's a tired plot, but we bought it

Now we're lost

Between love and cholera

Saccharine read, such a sentimental novel

Give you cavities if it doesn't drive you to the bottle

As for me, I'll take another kerosene if you got it

Something harder, look, like a moth you see

And I still get chills when you talk to me

But the years pass by now in twos and threes

These thrills ain't as cheap as they used to be

If you're asking, I can't say no (I can't say no)

Just one more chapter, our book won't close

And I know it's madness to play these odds

It's like giving matches to paper, to paper dolls

I know it's madness, I know

I know it's madness, I know

I know it's mad

Uh, tried sweet talk, tried dynamite

But I sleepwalk back to the battle site

Fight fire with fire, but the fire won't fight

We just fly these circles like tired kites

And you flash some fang

And I bat my lashes

And we're back again

No end to this game with matches

We've been lovers and strangers and friends who get angry

Made mistakes and amends and brief moments of magic

We forgive and forget and give in to attraction

This whole thing depends on amnesia and madness

And I'd be leaving for good, I'd be looking for better

But I got this broken habit I keep gluing back together

The fever, the fire, the feathers

The fever defies measure

And good sense won't venture where the moth will go

If you're asking, I can't say no

Just one more chapter, our book won't close

And I know it's madness to play these odds

It's like giving matches to paper, to paper dolls

Just like, just like, just like, just like

Just like, just like, just like

Just like giving matches to paper dolls

Just like, just like, just like, just like

Just like, just like, just like

Just like giving matches to paper dolls

If you're asking, I can't say no

Just one more chapter, our book won't close

And I know it's madness to play these odds

It's like giving matches to paper, to paper dolls