What you can’t see won’t hurt you

What you don’t know just might

I want to rip out my organs

And set them all alight

Bonfire tonight

Come to the bonfire tonight

We’re stackin’ up bones tall as we can go now

Banned books and heretics

Bring more if you've got ‘em at home now

Big fire needs bigger sticks

They’ll do the trick

Give the bonfire some kick

What I don’t feel in a K hole

Concerns me not, my dear

Go home and light some candles

I might start smelling weird

Come on, didn’tcha hear?

There’ll be a bonfire not far from here

What you can’t see won’t hurt you

No one can see at night

Unless we rip out our organs

And set ‘em all alight

Bonfire tonight

We’re having a bonfire tonight

Bonfire tonight

Come to the bonfire tonight

What if I told you things would get better with time?

Would you believe me?

What if I held your hand in an abandoned mine

So then you'd believe me?

I may be sure-footed, but I’ll still be shooting blind

My mind’s eye conceiving

No way out—no way up

Not in doubt—not in hope

But in case—instead—your taste—my bread

I’m always leaving clues, but are they for you?

Will you unearth them?

There’s never been a surefire way to find which words are true

Or when you first heard them

I stopped by the post box to drop in a card for my dad

Thought, “maybe I’ll call, but more likely I’ll flake and forget.”

Once I got home, cooked, and ate, he was long since in bed

Thinking I’m not an island; I’m a bleached coral atoll at best

In a way, I am

I promised my neighbor I’d bring her a fresh loaf of bread

But I had to spend a week in Ann Arbor hooked up to machines

Once I was home, I lived solely inside my own head

Thinking death could be conquered with chores and more realistic dreams

In a way, it can

If time’s taught me anything,

It's that I asked far too much of it

When the ranks needed scattering,

Thought I knew what would come of it

In a way, I did

Once you’ve learned all you can learn,

Tell me—what is it you wanna burn?

Bonfire tonight

We’re having a bonfire tonight

If I dance in the searchlight at the penitentiary,

Is that what you mean when you say “free?”

Apparitions claw, but that fence never seems to budge

I would join in, but that’d be no fun

An AC unit fell from up above the floor I’m on

Took my head clean off on its way down

Pick whichever bones you like and toss ‘em on the pile

Don’t forget your manners or your smile

They’ll burn for quite a while

Thanks to the adipose, the clotted blood, and the bile

Bonfire tonight

Come to the bonfire tonight

Bonfire tonight

Come to the bonfire tonight

Bonfire tonight

Come to the bonfire tonight

Bonfire tonight

Come to the bonfire tonight