Fear the Fire - eleventyseven

Got these bones in my knees cryin' out for relief

I was 6 years old, even then I felt the heat from you

You know I tried to tame myself for you

And you might not believe it but I

Test myself, thought about the apocalypse

Crushed my health while my trust turned to rust in you

I prayed away myself for you

We don’t fear the fire

And we don’t need your ceremony

Sacramental matrimony

We don’t fear the fire

And we don’t need permission slips

Your vaccinized evangelists hey

Had a dream that you watched me die

You lit the cigarette that burned me alive

So give my best to the 99

We don’t fear the fire

I was birthed headfirst

Into shame into flame like a

Curse burning my wonder into waste for you

You knew I ran away just like I do

And all that lingers are these

Teenage blood pact promises we made

They sink like fangs into me when I think of you

I threw away the best parts of me for you

We don’t fear the fire

And we don’t need your ceremony

Sacramental matrimony

We don’t fear the fire

And we don’t need permission slips

Your vaccinized evangelists hey

Had a dream that you watched me die

You lit the cigarette that burned me alive

So give my best to the 99

We don’t fear the fire

Gloomy organ music will tell us all to pay respects

What if your certainty isn’t currency for whatever happens next?

We don’t fear the fire

And we don’t need your ceremony

Sacramental matrimony

We don’t fear the fire

And we don’t need permission slips

Your vaccinized evangelists hey

Had a dream that you watched me die

You lit the cigarette that burned me alive

So give my best to the 99

We don’t fear the fire