Single / Track

Burn, Don't Freeze!

Sleater-Kinney•Official Audio (YouTube API)

Lyrics

I'd set your heart on fire (When you saw me on that first day)

But arson is no way to make a love burn brighter (Said I'd blossom under your care)

Always thought that the devil was the only one (Wrap me up tight)

Who knew the ins and the outs of the ways of love (Inside your wing)

So I sold off my heart to see how this would end (Is it safe now?)

Now I can't move an inch for fear it will begin

(Is it safe to breathe?)

You come in between me and the darkness (I force my eyes open and now who has changed?)

Please don't you ever leave (You look different, so different today)

Holding your eyes in the hardest stare (Backwards, forwards)

Running around like you wanted me there (Backwards going out of my mind)

Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town (Backwards, forwards)

Then turnin' your back when you're movin' around (Backwards, spinning way off time)

I ain't gonna listen to you no more (Fire, water)

Breakin' outta this place throwin' open the door (Fire baby, baby's putting me out)

Use me up just to fan the flame (Fire, water)

But you'll be sorry as I'm walkin' away (Fire, baby, baby's putting me out)

You're the truest light I've known (I'm the one who decides who I am)

But someday I'll learn, don't need your fuel to burn (I'm the one who will shed this old skin)

Always thought that hell was the only place (I force my eyes open and now who has changed?)

Hot enough to melt our hearts into a locked embrace

There's something so safe about a lack of air (I feel different, so different today)

The only way to make sure that you'll always be there