Fire

Remember your last birthday?
Three months before June
I bought two cards 'cause I
Just couldn't choose
I wrote, "Love you, forever"
Like I always do
But now I'm in the kitchen
They're all that's left of you

And I had to burn my house down just to forget the way
We used to lie, drunk on the floor, just drinking all day
Now I can't bear the burden of what I'm still to find
This place ain't big enough for me and what's left behind

So I try, I try to cast you straight into the fire
Breathe the smoke of what is left behind
I try to cast you straight into the fire

Caught in an endless Sunday
My pride's split in two
Paint over words you wrote me
With wet baby blue
But I can still feel the tether
Pulling me to you
Wherever I go, you're never
Too far from my view

That's why I had to burn my house down just to forget the way
You'd stare at me and say that you could watch me all day
Now I can't bear the burden of what I'm still to find
This place ain't big enough for me and what's left behind

So I try, I try to cast you straight into the fire
I breathe the smoke of what is left behind
I try to cast you straight into the fire

But ever since I moved house
I dream every night
They're vivid and full of color
They always burn bright
The images never leave me
And put up a fight
'Cause there wasn't a fire hot enough
To burn you out of my mind

So I try, I try to cast you straight into the fire
I breathe the smoke of what is left behind
I try to cast you straight into the fire
The fire, the fire, the fire

So I try, I try to cast you straight into the fire
I breathe the smoke of what is left behind
I try to cast you straight into the fire
The fire, the fire, the fire