May I sleep in fire ?

[Verse 1] Mother, why do people cry When I hum their names at night? Why do windows crack when I Whisper secrets to the sky? Why do dogs all bare their teeth When I pass beneath the eaves? Why do candles die so fast When I walk the hallway past? [Pre-Chorus] I found a beetle in my chest It whispered dreams I won’t confess It told me truth is shaped like wire— Mother, may I sleep in fire? [Chorus] Mother, may I peel the light Off the moon and eat the night? May I draw a door in skin And let the colder thing come in? I feel it crawling in my veins It sings in tongues I can’t explain You said I’m special, born to sire— But mother, may I sleep in fire? [Verse 2] Mother, why does father shake When I touch the glass and wake? Why does sister sleep with knives And whisper prayers to save her life? Why do birds fall from the trees Every time I start to breathe? Why do mirrors show me grinning When I know I’m not beginning? [Pre-Chorus] My dreams are stitched with limbs and thread I kissed a doll until it bled The voice beneath my floor grew higher— Mother, may I sleep in fire? [Chorus] Mother, may I paint the walls With the names of things that crawl? May I plant a toothless grin In the garden of my sin? There’s something knocking in my skull Its lullabies are never dull It promised love dressed in barbed wire— So mother, may I sleep in fire? [Bridge] I found your book, the one you hide With pages made from fathers’ hides The ink was warm, it spelled my fate— Is that why strangers call me hate? You said the stars were mine to break You said the earth would someday shake When I decide what I desire— Mother, may I sleep in fire? [Final Chorus] Mother, may I kiss the dead Lay my cradle in their bed? May I feast on what they fear And wear their sorrow like a mirror? I feel so cold, and yet I burn With secrets I will never learn So tell me, as the flames grow higher— Mother... May I sleep... In fire!? [Outro – Whispered] ...I think the fire sleeps in me....