House on Fire

Album: Wolves (2017)
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  • Oh, I can see the storms in her eyes now
    I'm falling overboard in the waves
    In over my head and she's a high tide
    That keeps pushing me away
    I thought that we would build this together
    But everything I touch just seems to break
    Am I your sail or your anchor?
    Am I the calm or the hurricane?

    I feel the ground start to shake
    I hear a voice shouting, move
    But there is no fucking way
    I'd leave you

    So I'll just hold you like a hand grenade
    You touch me like a razor blade
    I wish there was some other way right now, oh oh
    And like a house on fire we're up in flames
    I'd burn here if that's what it takes
    To let you know I won't let go of you, oh oh

    But is the soundtrack to our lives
    The bang of a slamming door
    What happens when we all start to feel like
    Nothing matters anymore
    Every day like a chambered round, a trigger pulled
    A hammer click, a breath we hold
    A world outside I can't control
    No matter what I do

    So I'll just hold you like a hand grenade
    You touch me like a razor blade
    I wish there was some other way right now, oh oh
    And like a house on fire we're up in flames
    I'd burn here if that's what it takes
    To let you know I won't let go of you, oh oh

    How is it a thing
    That we just wanna hurt each other
    I'm waiting out the rain
    It feels like it's going to rain forever
    Someday you will learn
    That all I ever did was for you
    And I would do it all again
    Yeah, I would do it all again

    'Til then I'll hold you like a hand grenade
    You touch me like a razor blade
    I wish there was some other way right now, oh oh
    And like a house on fire we're up in flames
    I'd burn here if that's what it takes
    To let you know I won't let go of you, oh oh

    Of you
    Of you (oh oh)
    Of you
    Of you (oh oh) Writer/s: Brandon Barnes, Joe Principe, Timothy Mcilrath, Zach Blair
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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