[Verse 1] Ink in my lungs Books to the ceiling Little shake a falling weight Cut out my reading Opened my eyes In a borrowed name Tiny blue hair Same hunger Same brain [Pre-Chorus] Pages live only in my head Body shakes when I try to stand So I plot them from my fever bed Ink-stained dreams bigger than this land If they say "That world is not for you" I'll carve my own way through [Chorus] I will fill this world with paper Write my stories across the land If the world won't give me pages I will conspire and make my own Every fever Every fist drill to my head Every "stay where you belong" I am frail but I am fire I am ink that won't be gone [Verse 2] Markets of mud and shouted prices Chalk-dusted ledgers I barely see Priests with their guarded rows of parchment “Too high Too holy for girls like me” Fever that Devours with open maw Steps that shake on the winter stones Still I hoard scraps Recipes Rumors Blueprints blooming in feeble bones [Bridge] I remember trains and neon Names I’ll never speak aloud Now it’s cobblestones and candles And a different kind of crowd When my fragile body falters When the fever fills my eyes Let a single Stubborn promise Be the reason I stay alive [Chorus] I will fill this world with paper Write my stories across the land If the world won't give me pages I will conspire and make my own Every fever Every fist drill to my head Every "stay where you belong" I am frail but I am fire I am ink that won't be gone [Verse 2] Silver rings Velvet on their sleeves They lock their wisdom up with keys Call it “right” ’cause they were born I call it wrong dressed up as form Blue-robed smiles hiding clever teeth Gold contracts written underneath Every rule says I should bow But I’m writing new ones now [Pre-Chorus] I stand where I'm told to stand Bow my head Hide my hands But under this quiet skin A forest of stories expands [Chorus] I will fill this world with paper Write my stories across the land If the world won't give me pages I will conspire and make my own Every fever Every fist drill to my head Every "stay where you belong" I am frail but I am fire I am ink that won't be gone
