Staring At You

Let me ride… In this silent drive...

BURNING HOUSE
Words & Music by Rhob Elliott
©2013, Awful Racket Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved

[Verse 1]
We built this house
Brick by brick 
With our own hands
Wrote our names in the concrete 
Where we used to stand
But the storms rolled in 
And the sparks flew high
Now we sleep in silence 
Under smoke-filled skies

[Pre-Chorus]
Photographs melt 
On this mantle of doubt
Love’s last whispers 
Getting all choked out
We're holding on
But no longer to each other
Just to memories 
We try to bury under...

[Chorus]
This burning house
We can't pretend
That the flames aren't crawling 
Through every bend
We lit the fire 
With the lies we told
Watched the walls fall down
Hearts turn cold
And I don't know how to save us now
From this burning house

[Verse 2]
Curtains turn to ashes, dreams to dust
What we had’s now cracked and covered in rust
I hear you crying from the other side
But we're trapped by pride and too hurt to try

[Pre-Chorus]
Shadows dance on what used to be
The home we made, now a casualty
Of all the words we never said
And all the love we left for dead

[Chorus]
This burning house
We can't pretend
That the flames aren't crawling 
Through every bend
We lit the fire 
With the lies we told
Watched the walls fall down
Hearts turn cold
And I don't know how to save us now
From this burning house

[Bridge]
Do we run or do we fight?
Can we douse this pain with light?
Or are we just ghosts in the smoke
Hanging on to what’s already broke?

[Chorus]
This burning house
We can't pretend
That the flames aren't crawling 
Through every bend
We lit the fire 
With the lies we told
Watched the walls fall down
Hearts turn cold
And I don't know how to save us now
From this burning house.

[Outro]
So if you go, go fast, don’t look back
I’ll be the ember in the aftermath
Just another soul who tried to stay
In a burning house that gave way
To ash and fate
Burning House

Let me ride… In this silent drive...

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