I Am the Arsonist

from Cold Black World by HUSBAND

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Do you trust what I say to you?
Does it mean what I want it to?
Can I take away all your doubt,
Is there a way I can burn this out of you...

Do you need some sort of spectacle?
Or just a simple proclaim?
Or some amalgam of both,
Like whispers found in flames that fly...

Why are we afraid, why do people change,
What the hell is love and why are we alive?
Just to get to you, I'll set a bush ablaze,
I'm not Jesus Christ, how can you believe in me anyway?

I'll memorize you like good scripture
Send up praises to your holy name
Hold you close and scream, "Hallelujah!"
I'd set my own self on fire for you
And burn the city down.
Burn all the monuments to the ground.
Turn the sky orange the ground grey.
Paint this whole World all in flames...

Now do you see what you made me become?
I left home, burned all my bridges down.
I stand atop a Cold Black World, all alone.
Nothing but these ashes in my hands

Where are you at, are you safe?
Who are you with, do you like his face?
Does he have matches, does he have flint,
Does he have the will to love,
and forget it ever happened?

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from Cold Black World, track released May 11, 2011
Justin Brewer-Golightly - Vocals, piano
Zachary Williams - Guitar
Thomas Alverson - Bass
Mike Dove - Guitar
Ian Lee - Drums

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