This song is about putting up false fronts and not showing your fleshy underbelly. In stanza 1, he's talking to someone who just lost a very dear relationship but who has decided to at least appear as if she is "over it" instead of selling her soul to the burning bridges - that is, making her life centered around the failed relationship.
Stanza two is him talking to his love in his own failed relationship. He is the "man" he talks about - it's about how he needs to get away from the "burning bridges" so that he can keep up the facade of moving on. Whether or not he is still obsessing over it, he wouldn't say that he is "spending his time driving over burning bridges", or obsessing over failed relationships.
The "longing to be uninvolved" is the desire to be out of the whole situation, though it's not really sure whether he'd rather be back in the failing relationship or single and not having to deal with the drama of it all. Desire to fix the burning bridges only leads to pain (a "heart attack", of sorts, in that it is an attack on his heart) and all that pain doesn't fix the fact that it's all over anyway.
Love this song...I'm always struck by the line "You were forced to decide on other plans."
This song is about putting up false fronts and not showing your fleshy underbelly. In stanza 1, he's talking to someone who just lost a very dear relationship but who has decided to at least appear as if she is "over it" instead of selling her soul to the burning bridges - that is, making her life centered around the failed relationship.
Stanza two is him talking to his love in his own failed relationship. He is the "man" he talks about - it's about how he needs to get away from the "burning bridges" so that he can keep up the facade of moving on. Whether or not he is still obsessing over it, he wouldn't say that he is "spending his time driving over burning bridges", or obsessing over failed relationships.
The "longing to be uninvolved" is the desire to be out of the whole situation, though it's not really sure whether he'd rather be back in the failing relationship or single and not having to deal with the drama of it all. Desire to fix the burning bridges only leads to pain (a "heart attack", of sorts, in that it is an attack on his heart) and all that pain doesn't fix the fact that it's all over anyway.
Love this song...I'm always struck by the line "You were forced to decide on other plans."