| verse 1 I'm gonna build myself a bonfire down by the rivers edge where we kissed under the moonlight and made a lover's pledge so many promises going up in smoke I'm gonna build myself a bonfire | |
| verse 2 I'm gonna take that first sweet letter you ever wrote to me the one you signed forever and swore you'd never leave and I'm gonna throw it in and I'm gonna watch it burn I'm gonna build myself a bonfire | |
| chorus It's too sad to go back and feel the pain strike a match - let the past - go up in flames till the moments I remember turn into dying embers tonight I'm gonna build myself a bonfire | |
| verse 3 I'm gonna take the pictures off the wall and strip the sheets from my bed I might as well go on and torch it all till there's nothing left but ashes of us - it's time to move on I'm gonna build myself a bonfire | |
| chorus It's too sad to go back and feel the pain strike a match - let the past - go up in flames till the moments I remember turn into dying embers tonight I'm gonna build myself a bonfire | |
| tag I'll ride off into the sunset one day I'll forgive and forget tonight I'm gonna build myself a bonfire tonight I'm gonna build myself a bonfire |