I NEED TO KNOW YOUR FIRE

[Intro: piano stabs, finger snaps, low bass]

[Spoken]
I don’t just want your name.

I want to know
what keeps you awake.

[Drum hit]

[Verse 1: fast, playful]

I want the story
Behind the smile
The thing you wanted
When you were a child

The song you play
When nobody’s near
The dream you hide
When the room can hear

I want the joke
That makes you fold
The scar you never
Quite retold

I don’t just want
A pretty face

[Backing Vocals]
Then what do you want?

[Lead]
I want the map
Behind the place

[Pre-Chorus]

Every person is a locked-up room
With another little universe inside

And I keep falling for the moment
When somebody finally
Opens it wide

[Chorus: huge guitars]

I NEED TO KNOW YOUR FIRE
WHAT MOVES YOUR SOUL

WHAT MAKES YOU LOSE YOUR MIND
WHAT MAKES YOU WHOLE

I want the spark
I want the truth

I want that midnight
“What made you you?”

And when I find it
God, I want it again

That impossible second

When two strangers
Stop being strangers

[Verse 2: bouncing piano]

I love the first confession
After two more drinks

The sudden little silence
Before somebody thinks

“Should I really tell you this?”

[Backing Vocals]
Tell him!

[Lead]
Yes, please.

I want your contradictions
Your terrible opinions

The part of you
That doesn’t fit
In neat little descriptions

One heart
Then another
Another world unfolds

I keep collecting
Tiny truths

Not trophies

[Music cuts]

Souls.

[Pre-Chorus]

Maybe I need many mirrors
To see all the ways
A person can be

Maybe every real connection
Unlocks another
Version of me

[Chorus]

I NEED TO KNOW YOUR FIRE
WHAT MOVES YOUR SOUL

WHAT MAKES YOU RUN
WHAT MAKES YOU LOSE CONTROL

I want the fear
Behind the charm

The reason you still
Guard your heart

And when I find it
God, I want it again

That beautiful collision

When two people
Become real

[Bridge: piano only, intimate]

[Soft Vocal]
It’s not about numbers.

It’s not about winning.

It’s the hunger
To understand.

[Strings enter]

How many entire worlds
Walk past us every day?

How many people
Could change us

If we stayed long enough
To ask?

[Drums build]

I don’t want affection
Without discovery

I don’t want romance
Without curiosity

I want to meet the person
Behind the performance

Again

And again

And again

[Final Chorus: key change]

I NEED TO KNOW YOUR FIRE
LET ME SEE THE CORE

THE THING YOU NEVER
SHOW ANYBODY ANYMORE

Tell me your wonder
Tell me your shame

Tell me what happens
When nobody’s saying your name

I want the spark
I want the depth

I want the moment
We forget what’s left

And if tomorrow
Another soul shines through

I want to know
What makes them
Them too

[Outro: piano, handclaps]

[Lead]
Maybe love is partly
Learning how to see

[Backing Vocals]
See what?

[Lead]
The whole strange universe
Inside somebody

[Pause]

Then falling in love
With discovery

[Final piano crash]