[Verse 1] Amidst long-term companionship The blue flame burns but doesn't give off light Emptiness is heavier than happiness It's purposeless Expecting vision without having sight [Chorus] You're a blue flame burning through my optimism A traffic jam to a break from prison The guilt that kills my buzz when I get high What the realist is to idealism You’re starving kids on the television The oily wings on the bird that wants to fly And the blue flame won't subside [Verse 2] A chapped caress and hopelessness Spinning tires to forward progress County homes and singing out of key Blue flame burns eternally It burns in you but glows in me Futures fall as blackened charred debris [Chorus] You're a blue flame burning through my optimism A traffic jam to a break from prison The guilt that kills my buzz when I get high What the realist is to idealism You’re starving kids on the television The oily wings on the bird that wants to fly And the blue flame won't subside [Bridge] Staring at a window full of sky Before you know it, hours have gone by Daytime sleep gives way to endless nights Tears will never know these saddened eyes [Verse 3] Barbed wire fence, unseen expense Broken promise without knowing Blue flames as stealth as they are warm A living soul with spirits low And purpose that died long ago There's the death that's never even mourned [Chorus] You're a blue flame burning through my optimism A traffic jam to a break from prison The guilt that kills my buzz when I get high What the realist is to idealism You’re starving kids on the television The oily wings on the bird that wants to fly And the blue flame won't subside And the blue flame won't subs
