Warm Blood

Oh Oh-oh Oh Warm blood They sold me a room with no windows Called it peace, called it control But I could hear the whole world knocking In the pipes and in my bones Then my name lit up in daylight And the numbness left my hands All that red beneath the silence I was done dying where I stand So I threw the lock into the morning Let the real wind hit my lungs No more shadows for a language No more iron on my tongue Warm blood Breaking like the dawn in me Warm blood I don’t owe the night a thing Hands high Face turned to the full sun Came back whole, came back for good Built for the daylight Built for the daylight Warm blood Oh-oh Warm blood Oh-oh Built for the daylight Oh-oh Alive on purpose Warm blood I don’t need pain to look holy Don’t need scars to make me sing Don’t need a grave behind my eyelids Just to make my heartbeat mean a thing Let the dark keep all its theater I won’t wear it on my face There’s a pulse beneath the surface And it sounds like my own name So I stepped out past the old alarms Let the bright side hit my eyes Got that fire in my bloodstream And it finally wants the sky Warm blood Breaking like the dawn in me Warm blood I don’t owe the night a thing Hands high Face turned to the full sun Came back whole, came back for good Built for the daylight Built for the daylight Warm blood No shrine in my chest No ghost in my mouth No hand-me-down grief to drown me out I got my own name and I say it loud Open the doors Open the ribs Let every locked-up color in I want the whole sky I want it close I want the real thing in my bones Look at me now Wide awake now Warm blood Breaking like the dawn in me Warm blood I don’t owe the night a thing Hands high Face turned to the full sun Came back whole, came back for good Built for the daylight Built for the daylight Warm blood Oh-oh Warm blood Oh-oh Built for the daylight Oh-oh Alive on purpose Warm blood