Sleater-Kinney - Burn, Don't Freeze! lyrics

rate me

I'd set your heart on fire

but arson is no way

to make a love burn brighter.

(When you saw me, on that first day

said I'd blossom under your care).

Always thought that the devil was the only one

who knew the ins and the outs of the ways of love,

so I sold off my heart to see how this would end,

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

(Wrap me up tight inside your wing

Is it safe now, is it safe to breathe?)

You come in between me and the darkness,

please don't you ever leave.

(I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?

You look different, so different today)

Holding your eyes in the hardest stare

running around like you wanted me there

Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town

then turnin' your back when you're movin' around

I ain't gonna listen to you no more

breakin' outta this place, throwin' open the door

Use me up just to fan the flame

but you'll be sony as I'm walkin' away

(Backwards, forwards, backwards going out of my mind,

Backwards, forwards, backwards spinning way off time

Fire to water fire, baby baby putting me out

Fire to water fire, baby baby putting me out)

You're the truest light I've known,

but someday I'll learn

I don't need your fuel to burn.

(I'm the one who decides who I am

I'm the one who will shed this old skin)

Always thought that hell was the only place

hot enough to melt our hearts into a locked embrace

There's something so safe about a lack of air

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

(I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?

I feel different, so different today)

Holding your eyes in the hardest stare

running around like you wanted me there

Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town

then turnin' your back when you're movin' around

I ain't gonna listen to you no more

breakin' outta this place, throwin' open the door

Use me up just to fan the flame

but you'll be sony as I'm walkin' away

(Backwards, forwards, backwards going out of my mind,

Backwards, forwards, backwards spinning way off time

Fire to water fire, baby baby putting me out

Fire to water fire, baby baby putting me out)

I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone

Don't you wanna?

Did you really change your mind?

Ain't you gotta?

Cause this fire is too bright.

Don't you wanna?

Could this be your only crime?

Ain't you gotta?

Did you really change your mind?

Holding your eyes in the hardest stare

running around like you wanted me there

Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town

then turnin' your back when you're movin' around

I ain't gonna listen to you no more

breakin' outta this place, throwin' open the door

Use me up just to fan the flame

but you'll be sony as I'm walkin' away

(Backwards, forwards, backwards going out of my mind,

Backwards, forwards, backwards spinning way off time

Fire to water fire, baby baby putting me out

Fire to water fire, baby baby putting me out)