Burn

I see this song being from the perspective of a music artist/performer on stage at one of their shows.

At the start of the song, the artist is simply making their way on to the stage and they're looking at their audience - who is waiting and anticipating their show/set. The artist knows that the audience is waiting for them, they're waiting for the artist to start so they can feel all of those raw emotions that the artist's music has to give them.

"And what we see, is everybody's on the floor Acting crazy getting loco to the lights out Music's on, I'm waking up, we stop the vibe, and we bump it up And it's over now, we got the love, there's no secret now, no secret now" ------Then the artist starts to preform and the audience is going crazy - getting lost in the sound and dancing around. The rush of the performance is just surging through the artist's body (getting a high off the performance) and they feel alive.

"When the lights turned down, they don't know what they heard Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world" ------And even though the audience might not take in the artist's songs with the same meaning to the artist themselves, the artist knows they have power in their art/songs and is able to show the world what they can do.

It might not make much sense but that's my interpretation of the song.

Ryan Tedder who co-wrote the song had talked about the song in the same sentence regarding civil rights struggles and how people are fighting to get through it.

"We, we don't have to worry bout nothing" - The Future "Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world" - Sharing Love/Power "We don't wanna leave, no, we just gonna be right now" - The Fight "And it's over now, we got the love, there's no secret now, no secret now" - The Fight is over

Of course it took off in the US after that Gay Marriage bans are starting to be lifted.

My thought on this song is that fire = purpose or a cause you believe in strongly (such as gay marriage, equality for all, etc.) and burn = the spreading of the "fire"

This is a song about standing up for what you believe in and being with others share the same dream because there is strength in numbers and the more people that believe in the same cause the greater chance for acceptance or change.

I think this song is about weed. Because they got that "fire" which is a term used for good weed. And there going to let it burn. There going to smoke it. "We can light it up" they start to smoke it "so they can put it out" talking about the cops. The cops will put it out when they get caught.

I think this is about a Tyranist uprising.

"We, we don't have to worry bout nothing 'Cause we got the fire, and we're burning one hell of a something They, they gonna see us from outer space, outer space Light it up, like we're the stars of the human race, human race"

This is the mysterious introduction. We don't know what is going on yet.

When the lights turned down, they don't know what they heard Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world We'll be raising our hands, shining up to the sky 'Cause we got the fire, fire, fire, yeah we got the fire fire fire

Nobody is expecting this to happen (refer to line one of this stanza). They decide to become socialist (end of line 2, line 3). Goulding is also stating that she has the power (fire) to keep this under control.

And we gonna let it burn burn burn burn We gonna let it burn burn burn burn Gonna let it burn burn burn burn We gonna let it burn burn burn burn

This is just saying that her group will watch the chaos with enjoyment, gaining strength from others' pain.

The rest is just repeated lines.

This song, to me, is about the world waking up and spreading their love and light to the world. 'there's no secret now' means we are waking up to the fact that corporations and banks (portrayed as governments) are trying to destroy the human race and any humanity that is left. Waking up to the fact that we are not just human, but amazing beings with the power to save humanity and free it from the clutches of evil. i love this song, it has such a great hidden meaning :) peace, love and light to all who read this. We are all one

"We, we don't have to worry bout nothing 'Cause we got the fire, and we're burning one hell of a something" -----Obviously, we have no worries because we have the fire, symbolizing the hype of a party.

"Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world We'll be raising our hands, shining up to the sky 'Cause we got the fire, fire, fire, yeah we got the fire fire fire" -----What is a match? It's something that has the potential to "light" something much bigger. Because the artist goes on stage and is performing this song, they have this match and will soon start "burning one hell of a something".

"And we gonna let it burn burn burn burn We gonna let it burn burn burn burn Gonna let it burn burn burn burn We gonna let it burn burn burn burn" -----Not putting this "fire" (party) out any time soon.

"We don't wanna leave, no, we just gonna be right now And what we see, is everybody's on the floor Acting crazy getting loco to the lights out" -----Not wanting to stop; acting in the now and partying it out.

I feel like this song relates to the hunger games if you know what i mean.

Aliens. It's obviously about aliens.

I think its about a rebellion, the fire and light being the beginning of the rebellion.