Dashboard Confessional

I Light My Own Fires Now

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I Light My Own Fires Now Lyrics

Slip out the back before those
Handlers get too tight on you
I light my own fires now
I light my own fires now
Slip in this town like it was measured
To fit right on you
We light our own fires now
We lead ourselves into the night.

Oh yeah

I don't think I'll be held inside an ordinary cell
Am I the escape, or am I the escape artist
I know, I know
It's just a question of details

Or one of denial
Could all this trip-wire cut so easy
We'll just see

Cut me a long before the
Motion sense off its sensors
We move in silence now
We got our secrets with our lives
Cover our tracks so we are
Protected from surveillance
We move in silence now.

We lead ourselves into the fires
Into the fire, into the fire, into the fires...

And all the saints will rise again
The sons of wealthy men
Tear the whole world down before our lives.
And all the signs we should have read
But we ignored,
Will hunt us long after the last of us has died

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ellie117 On Sep 27, 2007

Hands Down

Screaming Infidelities

Again I Go Unnoticed

The Good Fight

Vindicated

Oh yeah

I don't think I'll be held inside an ordinary cell
Am I the escape, or am I the escape artist
I know, I know
It's just a question of details

Or one of denial
Could all this trip-wire cut so easy
We'll just see

Cut me a long before the
Motion sense off its sensors
We move in silence now
We got our secrets with our lives
Cover our tracks so we are
Protected from surveillance
We move in silence now.

We lead ourselves into the fires
Into the fire, into the fire, into the fires...

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2007-09-27 00:18:46

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by severalways

18y ago

i love chris carrabba. almost everything he's written... but idk. this song doesn't completely do it for me. it's not my favorite...but it's growing on me. it seems a lot like the sound that comes with thick as thieves.

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by severalways

18y ago

...but his voice... makes up for anything i don't like about it.

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by terra88

18y ago

Sounds like he says "but we ignored the dead"

Instead of 'mama denial' it should say "Or one of denial"

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by *Star*eyes*

18y ago

I agree with youu severalways

When i first heard it i thought hmm & was undecided

but now i'm beginning to love it xDD

Woohoo i shall be seeing chris carrabba in 13 daysss !!!!!!

so excited xD

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by totallyxxrad

17y ago

i believe this song displays a message. something sincere. more broad then it seems. i think it's talking about people controlling you. like parents, authority, boss', etc. this song is talking about freedom. freedom to be yourself. control you own life -> "i light my own fires now". it's about someone coming into realization of where they stand. it's possible that "you" is not referring to a "girl", but to the writer himself.

i don't know, something to consider i suppose!

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by jumbigaya

17y ago

I think this song is talking about judgement day .. At first it seems the speaker is sort of rebelling against God n religion and stuff, but admitting that he's sinning as well: "We lead ourselves into the night" and later "We lead ourselves into the fires" meaning hell and sin and all that. Then later, "And all the saints will rise again The sons of wealthy men Tear the whole world down before our lives. And all the signs we should have read But we ignored, Will hunt us long after the last of us has died" That whole part is talking about how on judgement day, the dead will rise and everything and the world & our lives will be over, and they'll all realize that they should have payed attention and been "good" in the first place. That's my interpretation at least :)

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by cloudy eye

17y ago

I don't know, I took the line "All the saints will rise again," to be another reference to New Orleans after Katrina. You know... like the football team? Ha. Haha. Ahahaha.

Well it's not COMPLETELY unfounded - just look at "The Widow's Peak."

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