Hide Your Matches

I could catch just like a candle

Melt myself down to an end

And I have no way of ever coming back 'round here again

Or I could glow just like an amber

Rising out of an autumn fire

Drifting toward the heavens floating higher and higher

You better hide your matches boy

'Cause I could spark like thin white paper

Wrapped tight 'round some cigarette

And leave nothing but the smell of smoke and the bitter taste of regret

Or I could get hot like them coals that turn the water into steam

And fall down around you like some misty morning

You better hide your matches boy

You better hide your matches boy

[Chorus:]

Oh, 'cause I'm bound to lose all I am right here in your arms

And it ain't gonna take much

And it ain't gonna take long

So you best turn your eyes if you're not ready tonight

To watch me burn like this

You better hide your matches

'Cause I can't afford to let you go

I'm afraid to draw you near

'Cause I could get so lost in you that I might disappear

And the words are on the tip of my tongue

But you won't hear a sound

'Cause once that fire gets going there's no way to slow it down

You better hide your matches boy

You better hide your matches boy

[Repeat Chorus]

You better hide your matches boy

Oh, yeah

You better hide your matches boy