I Will Burn You Down

The door is shut but the walls are thin

I hear somebody move within

And I think: How I could knock?

They'd open up, I'd say that I

Was there to read the meter and I'd like

Just two minutes inside

They'd let me in I'd slip upstairs

I'd walk around the rooms up there

With no shoes on

I'd run my hands along the paint

I'd ask why they changed everything around

And they'd ask me to leave

You will lose a place that once was yours

But you'd best not come around

So if you don't want to feel rejected

Assume that somebody tore it down

My mind goes to other buildings

Like the one that I first met you in

And I think I could go to your place

And ask who you have met since we

Last talked but I must gracefully refrain

'Cos that's just what people do

You will lose somebody that you love

But you'd best not write or call

So if you don't want to go crazy

Assume that they stopped loving at all

But your gut still knows that those stairs still creak

And the walls still talk and the roof still leaks

And a heart still wants and some looks still kill

And a life lives on with a space to fill

And it will, and it will, and it will

Holding on is just part of letting go

But you'd best just walk away

When your life stops being your business

If just to prove you can keep busy anyway

Yeah, holding on is just part of letting go

That's what you said when you left town

But I'm afraid that on my worst day

I'll go myself and I will burn that fucker down

Baby I will burn you down

Baby I will burn you down