Love Me Like I'm Not a Weapon

Not a weapon, not tonight Say it once before the fight Cerberus wrote numbers on my skin Called it science, called it discipline I learned to bite before I learned to stay I burned their cages just to breathe one day You came close and didn't reach for control Didn't ask what damage made me whole When I said take what everybody takes You looked past the armor I made So if the relays fall If the sky goes red Don't make a ghost Of the man who saw me Love me like I'm not a weapon Hold me like I won't explode Say my name without the number Bring me back from what they wrote Love me like I'm not a weapon When the war starts closing in If I finally learned to stay here Don't you dare forget to live Pragia still knows the sound of me Every door remembers how I screamed Aresh had the same old haunted eyes I let the past go up in fire Now Grissom kids are cursing in my class Little storms with futures in their hands I teach them shields, I teach them where to run I teach them no one owns what they become But every lesson breaks When your signal fades I'm tough as hell But not for this Love me like I'm not a weapon Hold me like I won't explode Say my name without the number Bring me back from what they wrote Love me like I'm not a weapon When the war starts closing in If I finally learned to stay here Don't you dare forget to live I put ink where the world can find you Not a prayer, not a pretty lie If the beam takes everything from us At least the stars will know you're mine Love me like I'm not a weapon Hold me through the breaking sky Say my name without the number Make it home and prove them lies Love me like I'm not a weapon When the last light starts to give If I finally learned to stay here Don't you dare forget to live Not a weapon, not tonight Just a woman asking you to survive