Set the Fire to the Third Bar Lyrics – Snow Patrol

Read the full Set the Fire to the Third Bar lyrics by Snow Patrol along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Snow Patrol’s music, you can also explore These Alarms, another song by Snow Patrol.

[Verse 1: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms and state lines
The distance from “A” to where you’d be
It’s only finger-lengths that I see

[Pre-Chorus 1: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
I touch the place
Where I’d find your face
My fingers in creases
Of distant dark places
[Verse 2: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I’ve found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

[Pre-Chorus 2: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
Their words, mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

[Chorus: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground, I
I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

[Verse 3: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
After I have travelled so far
We’d set the fire to the third bar
We’d share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids

[Pre-Chorus 3: Gary & Martha Wainwright]

And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can’t keep in

[Chorus: Gary & Martha Wainwright]
And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground and I
I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground and I
I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms