Ashes on the Amplifier

Boot print on the welcome mat

Key snapped in the lock

Your photo on the fridge door peeling

Clock stuck at twelve o’clock

Ashtray full of burned-out plans

Phone screen spider-cracked

Silence like a loaded weapon

Staring at my back

I’m setting fire to all these lies

Ashes on the amplifier

Watch it rise (watch it rise)

Screaming your name till the walls cave in

If this is hell

Then let it begin

I won’t crawl

I won’t get tired

Pour the hurt into the wire

’Cause every scar

Every spark

Every dark desire

Leaves ashes on the amplifier

Boots stomping on the floorboards

Neighbors bang the wall

Rage tastes like rust and copper

I’m laughing through it all

Your ghost sits on the bedside

Hands around my throat

I carve another crooked promise

In the lining of my coat

I’m setting fire to all these lies

Ashes on the amplifier

Watch it rise (hey!)

Screaming your name till the walls cave in

If this is hell

Then let it begin

I won’t crawl

I won’t get tired

Pour the hurt into the wire

’Cause every scar

Every spark

Every dark desire

Leaves ashes on the amplifier

[Guitar screams

Drums drop to half-time]

Tear out the pages

Rip up the script

Nails in the past as the future slips

You lit the fuse

I keep the flame

Burn my lungs as I chant your name (your name)

I’m setting fire to all these lies

Ashes on the amplifier

Raging sky

Screaming your name till the walls cave in

If this is hell

Then let it begin

I won’t crawl

I won’t expire

Feed the pain into the wire

’Cause every scar

Every spark

Every dark desire

Leaves ashes on the amplifier (oh yeah)