AN- Please note, I don't own the song used. It is by Hozier and I DO NOT claim to own it.
Insp. Arsonist's Lullaby by Hozier
When I was a child, I heard voices...
Some would sing and some would scream
You soon find you have few choices..
I learned the voices died with me
It was her only friend.
The only thing that wouldn't run in terror.
She loved it.
The way it snaked along her hands, down her arms, down her body.
It was pleasantly warm at first.
When I was 16 my senses fooled me
Thought gasoline was on my clothes
I knew that something would always rule me...
I knew this sin was mine alone
It grew hotter.
Hotter.
Hotter still.
When I was a child I'd sit for hours
Staring into open flames
Something in it had a power,
Could barely tear my eyes away
She couldn't stand it any longer.
She could not control it any longer.
She had to let it go or she would be nothing but ash.
She let the flames burn along the confines of her cell.
She couldn't stop it anyway.
All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons -
Always keep them on a leash
He was there when she woke up.
He was with her as he'd been for so long.
He told her he loved her.
This demon.
This freak.
And she loved him back.
Well I knew love's perfect ache
But my peace has always depended
On all the ashes in my wake
She let the flames lick the edges of her heart.
She let him go.
She forced him away.
She let the fire consume...everything.
Religion was strong.
Hate can be stronger.
The boys who teased.
The men who called her a freak.
But through it all.
One man, who was teased, one man who was put down, called a freak, ridiculed, feared...
He saw nothing but beauty in her.
The fires didn't hurt him.
He was borne of fire.
They didn't scare him.
He came from a world on fire.
He loved her all the more because of it.
All you have is your fire,
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons,
Always keep them on a leash...