I Choose the Fire

I keep a matchbook in the kitchen drawer For every promise I was too afraid to strike Your careful hands keep measuring the door While I keep shrinking from the edge of my life But the room is getting smaller And my pulse is getting loud I can hear the hidden answer Underneath the doubt I choose the fire, I choose the flame I choose the shape that answers to my name No more waiting for a sign to come through Love is magic when I make it true I choose the fire, I choose the sky Watch me turn the lock and leave the fear behind If my heart is a spell, then I know what to do Love is magic, and I'm breaking through I wore your silence like a borrowed coat Pinned every future to a photograph Now all the words I swallowed in my throat Are rushing out and cutting through the past There's a tremor in the ceiling There's a sunrise in the hall I was never made for kneeling I was made to call I choose the fire, I choose the flame I choose the shape that answers to my name No more waiting for a sign to come through Love is magic when I make it true I choose the fire, I choose the sky Watch me turn the lock and leave the fear behind If my heart is a spell, then I know what to do Love is magic, and I'm breaking through Let the old walls open wide Let the buried thunder rise Every no becomes a road Every wound becomes a door I choose the fire, I choose the flame I choose the shape that answers to my name No more waiting for a sign to come through Love is magic when I make it true I choose the fire, I choose the sky Watch me turn the lock and leave the fear behind With my whole heart lit up, I know what to do Love is magic, and I'm breaking through The matchbook sleeps inside the drawer The morning settles on the floor I breathe, I stay, I don't look back A little light along the track