Matches to Paper Dolls

I changed the locks But your key, your key's still working You can't train a moth I guess Oh, each beast gets her burden So we circle this old flame Too much at stake But too late to change My nerves are shot My reserves exhausted It's a tired plot, but we bought it Now we're lost Between love and cholera Saccharine read - such a sentimental novel Give you cavities if it doesn't drive you to the bottle As for me, I'll take another kerosene If you've got it something harder Built like a moth you see And I still get chills when you talk to me But the years pass by now In twos and threes These thrills ain't as cheap As they used to be If you're asking, I can't say no Just one more chapter Our book won't close And I know it's madness To play these odds It's like giving matches to paper To paper dolls I know it's madness, I know Tried sweet talk, tried dynamite But I sleepwalk, back to the battle site Fight fire with fire but the fire won't fight We just fly these circles like tired kites You flash some fang And I bat my lashes And we're back again No end to this game with matches We've been lovers and strangers and friends who get angry Made mistakes and amends and brief moments of magic We forgive and forget and give in to attraction This whole thing depends on amnesia and magnets I'd be leaving for good, I'd be looking for better But I got this broken habit I keep gluing back together The fervor the fire the feathers, this fever defies measure And good sense won't venture, where the moth won't let it If you're asking, I can't say no Just one more chapter Our book won't close And I know it's madness To play these odds It's like giving matches to paper To paper dolls I know it's madness, I know --- Matches To Paper Dolls - Dessa