The Burning Down

the lryics r sweet and the same with the music to me this basically means that no matter what someone is loveing you

This song is about feeling far away from God.

Another neat aspect to the song - listen to the guitar swells on the fade-out. After a few minutes, you'll hear "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know".

it's about love and breaking up, "the burning down" is the feeling you get when love starts to fade.

"some of them know love some of us know the burning down" is an outside reflection needed to come to terms with the break up!

When you're in love, when you've believed ardently in a country or a god, when you've loved an organisation, there comes a time when the passion fades, when the light of knowledge dawns that you can give everything and never see a single ounce of your love come back to you. It's at that moment you decide if it's real or an illusion and if it's worth the cold pain of that fire burning down.

King's X songs in their early albums were often related to their Christian faith, though they did not identify as "Christian Rock." Many of these songs refer to aspects of their faith without direct references to Jesus/God. This is one of those songs. Even the strongest faith sometimes experiences moments where we feel as though we are having trouble accessing God, moments bordering on doubt. The Burning Down is about those times when we must struggle to maintain our faith. It beautifully portrays our deep desire to believe even when we are unable or unwilling to see evidence of God in our lives. "I won't put up a fight, where are you tonight" is a plea for God to reveal evidence of his presence in our lives and reinforce or restore our faith. Wonderful song!