Dessa - Matches to Paper Dolls lyrics
[Dessa - Matches to Paper Dolls lyrics]
I changed the locks
But, your key, your key’s still working
You can’t train a moth I guess
Oh, each beast gets her burden
So we circle this old flame
Too much at stake but too late to change
My nerves are shot my reserves exhausted
It’s a tired plot, but we bought it
Now we’re lost between love and cholera
Saccharine read such a sentimental novel
Give you cavities if it doesn’t
Drive you to the bottle
As for me, I’ll take another kerosene
If you’ve got it something harder
Built like a moth you see
And I still get chills when you talk to me
But the years pass by now in twos and threes
These thrills ain’t as cheap
As they used to be
If you’re asking, I can’t say no
Just one more chapter our book won’t close
And I know it’s madness to play these odds
It’s like giving matches to paper
To paper dolls i know it’s madness, I know
Tried sweet talk, tried dynamite
But, I sleepwalk, back to the battle site
Fight fire with fire but the fire won’t fight
We just fly these circles like tired kites
You flash some fang and I bat my lashes
And we’re back again
No end to this game with matches
We’ve been lovers and strangers and
Friends who get angry
Made mistakes and amends and
Brief moments of magic
We forgive and forget and
Give in to attraction
This whole thing depends on
Amnesia and magnets i’d be leaving for good
I’d be looking for better
But, I got this broken habit
I keep gluing back together
The fervor the fire the feathers
This fever defies measure
And good sense won’t venture
Where the moth won’t let it
If you’re asking, I can’t say no
Just one more chapter our book won’t close
And I know it’s madness to play these odds
It’s like giving matches to paper
To paper dolls i know it’s madness, I know
But, your key, your key’s still working
You can’t train a moth I guess
Oh, each beast gets her burden
So we circle this old flame
Too much at stake but too late to change
My nerves are shot my reserves exhausted
It’s a tired plot, but we bought it
Now we’re lost between love and cholera
Saccharine read such a sentimental novel
Give you cavities if it doesn’t
Drive you to the bottle
As for me, I’ll take another kerosene
If you’ve got it something harder
Built like a moth you see
And I still get chills when you talk to me
But the years pass by now in twos and threes
These thrills ain’t as cheap
As they used to be
If you’re asking, I can’t say no
Just one more chapter our book won’t close
And I know it’s madness to play these odds
It’s like giving matches to paper
To paper dolls i know it’s madness, I know
Tried sweet talk, tried dynamite
But, I sleepwalk, back to the battle site
Fight fire with fire but the fire won’t fight
We just fly these circles like tired kites
You flash some fang and I bat my lashes
And we’re back again
No end to this game with matches
We’ve been lovers and strangers and
Friends who get angry
Made mistakes and amends and
Brief moments of magic
We forgive and forget and
Give in to attraction
This whole thing depends on
Amnesia and magnets i’d be leaving for good
I’d be looking for better
But, I got this broken habit
I keep gluing back together
The fervor the fire the feathers
This fever defies measure
And good sense won’t venture
Where the moth won’t let it
If you’re asking, I can’t say no
Just one more chapter our book won’t close
And I know it’s madness to play these odds
It’s like giving matches to paper
To paper dolls i know it’s madness, I know