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Fire/Fear Lyrics
It's a long way to the other room
While I'm grading papers and tying shoes
You never had much to lose
So I'm blaming you for these hopeless blues
What's to say when the kids are gone?
I've made up the beds and been left alone
You look at me, as cold as a stone
There's no way to write what's been done wrong
You left me a fool
So what to do?
Hold me down if I'm running off
They say it gets better, baby, soon enough
So I'll shut my mouth and I'll steal my heart
I still feel like a girl, thinking when we started, but
I want to feel the fire again, with you or anybody else
I want to feel the fear again, with you or anybody else
So what to do? What to do?
While I'm grading papers and tying shoes
You never had much to lose
So I'm blaming you for these hopeless blues
I've made up the beds and been left alone
You look at me, as cold as a stone
There's no way to write what's been done wrong
So what to do?
They say it gets better, baby, soon enough
So I'll shut my mouth and I'll steal my heart
I still feel like a girl, thinking when we started, but
I want to feel the fear again, with you or anybody else
So what to do? What to do?
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This is an excerpt from the fuel/friends blog that I think gets this song's meaning spot-on. (and obviously, THATH agrees):
After listening to the first performance (because I am linear in my narrative and always like tracing connections) I told Josiah that it sounded like a bookend to the song “Honey Come Home” — the same ache of a breaking or broken relationship, the same interminable distance from one person to another even as you sit nearby, or across town. He smiled the way that makes his eyes crinkle and affirmed that this is indeed a preface to that very song from their first album, but written from the perspective of the woman in the relationship, and from a younger time in their story