Lyrics

I’ve been lately thinking about the smile I have to wear
About how I still wanna be heard and how many things aren’t fair
About how I like nobody but still love everyone
And about how I beg God to have my day in the sun

Oh Girl, just burn it down. Burn down your dreams.
Save yourself! No breaking down! You could be free!
This is your fair warning, this is your reprieve.
Or stay here & experience the burning down
-- I’m gonna burn it down

Well I used to live in holiness with other righteous girls
But I could not bear the loneliness and they threw me from their world
& Now love is splashing on me like blood outside of my skin
I know it belongs there somewhere but I refuse to let it in

Oh Girl, just burn it down. Burn down your dreams.
Save yourself! No breaking down! You could be free!
I’m giving you fair warning, this is your reprieve.
Or stay here & experience the burning down
-- I’m gonna burn it down

The bleeding heart of my youth is hard as a stone
What’s left of it beats bereft, it works better on its own.
A lifetime in no-man’s land, I’m fried as the desert sand
But tonight I’ll sing my heart out, and I’ll lay it in your hand

Girl, burn it down. Burn down your dreams.
Save yourself! No breaking down! You could be free!
This is your fair warning, yeah this is your reprieve.
Or Stay here & you’ll experience the burning down with me
Stay here & you’ll experience the burning down with me
Stay here & you’ll experience the burning down
-- I’m gonna burn it down