Intro
Strike the match, watch the porch light bend
Every road we know is a dead end
Pack the car with what still burns clean
Say goodbye to everything we've seen
Verse
Kitchen table, twelve years of scratches
Photographs curling up like matches
Mama's china breaking on the floor
We don't need it, we don't live here anymore
Gasoline on the welcome mat
Zippo sparking, that's that
Watch the curtains catch and climb
Watch the hands stop on the clock, out of time
Neighbors watching from their yards
Hearts like engines, restless, hard
We were never built to stay
Never learned to make the feeling stay
So we're lighting up the only home we've known
Grab your jacket, kid, we're never walking home
Chorus
We never learned to sit still
Never learned to want what we're supposed to
Burn it down on the hill
Start again where nobody knows us
Ashes rising, gray on gold
We're running toward the dark, not scared of getting old
We never learned to sit still
So we won't, so we won't, so we won't
Verse
Six years married to the same old room
Same four walls, same secondhand gloom
Tore the wallpaper down with our hands
Threw the wedding china in the sand
Bonfire on the beach at three
Nothing left that owns me, nothing left of me
Sirens far off, red and blue
We'll be gone before the smoke gets through
Kicked the door down, felt it swing
Free of every rented, borrowed thing
We were never built to stay
Never learned to make the feeling stay
So we're lighting up the only home we've known
Grab your jacket, kid, we're never walking home
Chorus
We never learned to sit still
Never learned to want what we're supposed to
Burn it down on the hill
Start again where nobody knows us
Ashes rising, gray on gold
We're running toward the dark, not scared of getting old
We never learned to sit still
So we won't, so we won't, so we won't
Bridge
Maybe this is all we are
Sparks that never learned to park the car
Maybe home's a moving line
Maybe fire's the only faith that's mine
I'm not scared of what we lose
I'm scared of standing still in someone else's shoes
So light it, light it, let it go
This is the only way I know
Chorus
We never learned to sit still
Never learned to want what we're supposed to
Burn it down, burn it down on the hill
Start again where nobody, nobody knows us
Ashes rising, gray on gold
We're running toward the dark, we're never getting old
We never learned to sit still
So we won't, so we won't, so we won't, so we won't
Outro
Headlights fading into gray
There's nothing burning left to say
We took the match, we took the flame
We'll build a home without a name
