If I burn love as a fuel

Would it turn into passion, or instantly to ashes

I've been the flame, I've been the fool

I know the scars that every match leaves

Just like a flower, I bloom on my own

My roots run deeper than you'll ever see

Don't cut me off to take me home

A garden isn't built by owning a tree

If you want to love me, love me where I grow

Don't pull me from the ground just to watch the colors show

I've been severed before, I know how it ends

Beautiful for a moment, then the wilting begins

I won't be kept inside a vase

A pretty thing behind your glass

I've fought too hard to find this place

To let your love become my cage

I burned so bright for those who held the match

Then wondered why there's nothing left to catch

But now I know the fire's mine to keep

A warmth I share, not one you get to reap

If you want to love me, love me where I grow

Don't pull me from the ground just to watch the colors show

I've been severed before, I know how it ends

Beautiful for a moment, then the wilting begins

So come sit beside me in the dirt

Where love isn't clean but no one gets hurt

We don't need to frame it to make it true

Just let it grow wild the way it's meant to