In "Everything On Fire," Maia Toakley keeps digging into a connection she cannot fully leave, asking friends not to update her because she wants the truth from the one she still imagines beside her. The future keeps pulling them together, whether raising children or grieving parents, and in her head they can survive any disaster. Yet the bridge admits she is counting time and wondering why, caught between longing and the bittersweet ache of breaking contact.
Everything On Fire Lyrics by Maia Toakley
Everybody wants to know if
I’m missing you
I see Archie next week
I’m gonna tell him not to tell me
A thing about you
I’ll hear it from your own mouth
When I touch back down
‘Cause I don’t know when to stop digging
But when I think about having babies
They’re not just anyone’s babies
It’s you and I in the thick of it
Taking turns at screaming
When I think about parents dying
It’s you I wanna be crying on
In my head we can handle
Everything on fire
What a way to break the contact
How bittersweet
And we could cut the bullshit
As you held me through the scream
‘Cause if honesty is everything
Then you and I, we’ve got a lot to believe in
So when I think about having babies
They’re not just anyone’s babies
It’s you and I in the thick of it
Taking turns at screaming
When I think about parents dying
It’s you I wanna be crying on
In my head we can handle
Everything on fire
I’ve been doing the numbers in my head
Telling myself that we’ve still got time on our hands
Can’t get high without thinking of you
I have a feeling we’ll always be wondering why
‘Cause when I think about having babies
They’re not just anyone’s babies
It’s you and I in the thick of it
Taking turns at screaming
When I think about parents dying
It’s you I wanna be crying on
In my head we can handle
Everything on fire