[Verse 1]
Why dream?
We’re breaking out of this machine
We'll bathe the walls in gasoline
And watch the fires grow

We’ll burn this house
They'll raise the fence that keeps us in
The cabinets and the medicine
Beds like box cars in a row

[Chorus]
And when the wave comes sweeping
The cold blood sleeping in your veins, your veins
After the fire
The sun comes crashing
Through a cloud so black and full of rain, of rain
After the fire
I swear one day
We'll forget them locking us away, away
After the fire

[Verse 2]
Locked in
The days will end as they begin
With yellow moonlight on your skin
This madhouse, it’s no home
Let’s go home
Get the matches
Cut the phone
[Chorus]
And when the wave comes sweeping
The cold blood sleeping in your veins, your veins
After the fire
The sun comes crashing
Through a cloud so black and full of rain, of rain
After the fire
I swear one day
We'll forget them locking us away, away
After the fire

[Bridge]
We were dancing with the ashes falling
We were singing by the open flame
Let it burn
Tomorrow is another day
We were dancing with the ashes falling
We were singing by the open flame
Let it burn, let it burn
Tomorrow is another day

[Chorus]
And when the wave comes sweeping
The cold blood sleeping in your veins, your veins
After the fire
The sun came crashing
Through a cloud so black and full of rain, of rain
After the fire
I swear one day
We'll forget them locking us away, away
After the fire
I swear one day
We'll forget them locking us away, away
After the fire