TITLE: Borrowed Fire [Verse 1] I went looking for a reason Where the morning hadn't grown All the houses held their breathing I was out there with my ghosts Had a winter in my jacket Had a stone behind my ribs Then the dark unzipped above me And the first white ember lived [Pre-Chorus] Gone before I named it Bright enough to stay Some things only touch you once And never go away [Chorus] Borrowed fire, borrowed fire Falling like a prayer cut loose from the wire You don't have to stay to turn the dark entire Burn me awake, borrowed fire [Verse 2] Some old leaving keeps returning In a language made of flame Every bright thing I have buried Finds another way to say my name Coffee cold in both my hands Frost shining on the rail If a spark can cross the ages Maybe I can still prevail [Bridge] Nothing stays because we ask it Nothing shines because it's ours Still I held my breath like scripture Under temporary stars Let them fall and let them finish Let them vanish into blue I don't need to own the light To carry what it knew [Final Chorus] Borrowed fire, borrowed fire Falling like a prayer cut loose from the wire You don't have to stay to turn the dark entire Burn me awake, borrowed fire Borrowed fire, borrowed fire Old ghosts singing in a meteor choir I don't need forever, I don't need higher Burn me awake, borrowed fire
