Melanie Martinez
Set the Fire to the Third Bar
[Verse 1]
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from "A" to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I touch the place
Where I'd find your face
My fingers in creases
Of distant dark places
[Verse 2]
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Their words, mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
[Chorus]
And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground, I
I pray that somethin' picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
[Verse 3]
After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
[Pre-Chorus 3]
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weepin'
A joy you can't keep in
[Chorus]
And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground and I
I pray that somethin' picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground and I
I pray that somethin' picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms