Old Alarms

Oh Oh-oh Oh Old alarms Some nights a slammed door turns electric And my ribs go hard as wire I can taste the old smoke rising Even when there isn’t fire That old code still lives beneath me In the muscle, in the marrow Pulling every switch to panic Trying to make the whole world narrow But the curtains are gold in the window And your voice is low, not loud Tell my blood we are not at war now Tell my bones they can come back down Old alarms Going off inside my head again Old alarms Saying run when I should let you in Red lights But the room is clean and still I know the sound, I know the harm Stand down, old alarms Stand down Stand down I’m still here Stand down Old alarms Every siren in the distance Every shadow near the door Used to mean brace for impact Now it doesn’t anymore But the body keeps receipts, man And the pulse can’t always read What is danger What is memory What is only speed Still the morning lays gold on the floorboards Still the air says stay, don’t run So I breathe through every false emergency Till my heart remembers where it’s from Old alarms Going off inside my head again Old alarms Saying run when I should let you in Red lights But the room is clean and still I know the sound, I know the harm Stand down, old alarms Nothing’s burning Nothing’s breaking No one’s coming through the wall It’s just the old fear Dressed up like truth Trying to make me small And I won’t kneel To a ghost in the wiring I won’t live Like the fire’s still on Let it scream Let it empty Let it find out it was wrong Old alarms Going off inside my head again Old alarms Saying run when I should let you in Red lights But the room is clean and still I know the sound, I know the harm Stand down, old alarms Stand down Stand down I’m still here Stand down Old alarms