We Never Learned to Sit Still

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