Arsonist Lyrics – Halsey

Read the full Arsonist lyrics by Halsey along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song.

[Intro]
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[Chorus]
Arsonist burning down the world to feel its heat
The arsonist doesn’t feel the embers on his feet
Arsonist, your human starter kit came incomplete
My apologies, arsonist, you loved me

[Verse 1]
I’m glued to a building that’s on fire
Handcuffed to a narcissistic liar

Empty space and leather jeans
Eyes are blazed with apathy
Fool me twice, the shame is on me
Am I a victim in your game?
Am I a subtle antique placed?
Will you pass me through your bloodline with your ornamental age?
Can I take the blame for everything you hate?
The punishment and crime are not the same

[Chorus]
Arsonist burning down the world to feel its heat
The arsonist doesn’t feel the embers on his feet
Arsonist, your human starter kit came incomplete
My apologies, arsonist, you loved me

[Verse 2]
You built a small container to keep all of me confined
I am water, I am shapeless, I am fluid, I am divine
Somebody will love me for the way that I’m designed
Devastation, creation, intertwined
You don’t love the flames, you just want them for yourself
Douse my head in kerosene, horizon into hell
And you smothered out the glow I grew for you but it was mine too

[Chorus]

Arsonist burning down the world to feel its heat
The arsonist doesn’t feel the embers on his feet
Arsonist, your human starter kit came incomplete
My apologies, arsonist, you loved me

[Verse 3]
Alchemy’s not love, it’s playing God
And there’s a penance paid for entering the temple like a fraud in your charade
You leave me sleeping in the dark so you can hide away your blade
And lock the door and trap me right here in the blaze

[Chorus]
Arsonist burning down the world to feel its heat
The arsonist doesn’t feel the embers on his feet
Arsonist, your human starter kit came incomplete
My apologies, arsonist, you loved me

[Outro]
Have you ever been broken and thrown down?
Have you ever been worried that you’d be shot and burned off in a sack?
Have you ever given the world to somebody as a gift and had it returned?
Did you know the father’s DNA stays inside the mother for seven years?
Have you ever waited seven years?
Have you ever woken from a dream just to realize that you’re still asleep?
Do you ever wish you were still asleep?
Do you ever wish you wouldn’t wake up?