Hide Your Matches

I could catch just like a candle

Melt myself down to an end

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

Or I could glow just like an ember 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 coles 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

Oh, 'cause I'm 'bout 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 wanna 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

Yeah, 'cause I'm 'bout 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

You better hide your matches, boy

Oh, yeah

You better hide your matches, boy