Can we keep this one dream safe? Can we count on growing old?

Can I stumble to your cottage and we'll walk down to the shore?

Find some fire that's cooled down and just hope the embers still can keep us warm

I've never been so free, I've never felt so safe

I've never felt so sure they're gonna drag us both away





CHORUS 1

But in this valley of the shadow, while the whole world falls apart

We'll be dancing in the fire of this arson of the heart

If my flame burns low, promise me you'll guide me through the dark





VERSE 2

'Cause even now we dream of revolutions without blood

And I'm letting go the boy who was a tyrant with his love

'Cause the stakes are high and it feels like

He doesn't have much time for growing up

But our dreams are tied to threads in hands of men who've never learned

Well those threads are one more item on our list of things to burn





CHORUS 2

So if you can bring the fuel you know I'm gonna bring the spark

No jury would convict us for this arson of the heart

If my flame burns low, promise me you'll guide me through the dark





BRIDGE

In this cold and empty bed, on this lonely stretch of ice

I know I can't change the world, but I thought that we just might

In the sickness of my head, in this selfish, fucked-up life

I know I can't change the world, but I think that we just might





VERSE 3

Can we keep this one dream safe? Is there time for growing old?

Throw that fuel onto my heart, we'll find our hope when it explodes





CHORUS 3

So, go on, try to build a cage for us, we'll blow it clean apart

And we'll melt down every shackle in this arson of the heart

If my fire burns low, sometime