You packed your words like loaded shells Left 'em scattered on the stairs I fell I swept the house but found no peace Just broken frames and shattered speech I kept your dress, the one you wore The night you said you wanted more Now it hangs like guilt from that old beam Smells like ashes and gasoline Ashes and gasoline That's what our love turned out to mean You gave the spark, I fed the flame We both watched it burn in shame Some things die, some things explode And some just haunt the empty road Ashes and gasoline and me I lit the porch with one last match No turning back, no looking back The smoke don't choke like silence did And fire don't lie like promises hid You took the prayers, I took the sin We both knew hell was closing in Now all that's left of you and me Is in the wind, wild and free Ashes and gasoline Our story soaked in kerosene The final page was set to blaze And I still walk through phantom flames No water left, no in-between Just ashes and gasoline So if they ask what happened here Tell 'em love and hate got too near And what survived was not too clean Just ashes, and gasoline