Burning Bright

By Driveways

On Into The Past

Released on October 28, 2022

Thumbnail

[Verse 1]

Drown my stomach in gasoline

Fill my lungs with carbon monoxide

I don't what you're asking me

Said I can't stay but I can't go

Legs over this balcony

Break my fall with pavement and street signs

Flamethrowers in back of me

Don't let it burn down


[Chorus]

I can't fight

With my hands tied back

I can't try

And take my life back

When my eyes

Are both rolled backwards

I can't try

And read my last words


[Verse 2]

Take my eyes

I won't believe anything again

I swear I burnt those pages bright

The sieve and sand live inside my head

I kept those paragraphs to myself

Insinuate that I'm wrong

For leaving sacrifices on shelves

Till they're incinerated and gone

Feels like I stumbled into the past

And Faber's words were a guide to me

A fading world is inside of me

I hate the person I tried to be


[Chorus]

I can't fight

With my hands tied back

I can't try

And take my life back

When my eyes

Are both rolled backwards

I can't try

And read my last words


[Bridge]

I'm blind

I'll never read again

I trusted everything they told me to

Burn bright

Light a pyre for the end

I'll torch it all before they know the truth

Take my eyes

I won't believe anything again

I swear I burnt those pages bright

The sieve and sand live inside my head


[Chorus]

I can't fight

With my hands tied back

I can't try

And take my life back

When my eyes

Are both rolled backwards

I can't try

And read my last words

Read my last words