Burning Bridges

I smiled while the knives stayed hidden in your sleeves

Gave you every sunrise, you still fed me your goodbyes

You mistook my silence for the lack of any spark

But I was holding fire, learning how to leave my mark

I bent like rain on broken glass

You thought that I would never pass

But every scar you put in me

Turned into gasoline

I’m burning bridges I can’t cross back tonight

No more begging for a place where I don’t belong in sight

You thought my kindness made me soft, made me easy to break

Now I’m the flame you can’t control, the price you have to pay

I’m burning bridges, letting all your shadows fade

You took my open hands and turned them into chains

Called it love when all you left me was the pain

I kept your secrets like a vow I never should have sworn

Now I’m tearing down the silence I was hiding in before

I bent like rain on broken glass

You thought that I would never pass

But every scar you put in me

Turned into gasoline

I’m burning bridges I can’t cross back tonight

No more begging for a place where I don’t belong in sight

You thought my kindness made me soft, made me easy to break

Now I’m the flame you can’t control, the price you have to pay

I’m burning bridges, letting all your shadows fade

Watch me rise from the ashes of your lies

No more drowning in the truth you tried to disguise

I don’t hate you, but I won’t stay

I’m learning how to walk away

If love is war, then I survive

With every last goodbye

I’m burning bridges I can’t cross back tonight

No more begging for a place where I don’t belong in sight

You thought my kindness made me soft, made me easy to break

Now I’m the flame you can’t control, the price you have to pay

I’m burning bridges, letting all your shadows fadeLet the smoke write my name in the sky

I was gentle, now I’m not afraid to fight

Burning bridges, and I’m finally free