[Intro] i didn’t sleep again counted cracks across the ceiling four a.m. tastes like iron and your ghost is still breathing you said i need fixing said i’m poison in the vein said love’s not a habit it’s a cure for the pain [Verse 1] i wore your warning like a halo thin and cutting through my skin every mirror in this flat knows the mess i’m living in you called me sick, you called me broken like a diagnosis read but the devil in my bloodstream sounds a lot like what you said [Pre-Chorus] i feel it crawling up my lungs i taste it when i try to run you say the light will set me free but i don’t want the sun [Chorus] i don’t need the light i’ll burn it instead instead… give me ash on my tongue ash on my tongue i’ll set fire to the words you said let them fall from my lungs give me ash on my tongue give me ash on my tongue [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] you kissed me through the smoke said tomorrow we’d be clean but tomorrow’s just a rumour sold to desperate machines i see the tremor in my fingers when your name lights up my screen every promise tastes like petrol every dream like nicotine [Pre-Chorus] it’s scratching at the back of my head it’s laughing every word you said you say the light will set me free but freedom’s just another thread [Final Chorus] i don’t need the light — i am the flame instead instead… give me ash on my tongue ash on my tongue i swallowed every word you said now they burn in my lungs give me ash on my tongue ash on my tongue ash on my tongue [Outro] ash on my tongue… ash on my tongue… ash on my tongue…
