A relationship ('slow burning cinders') that started off maybe more quickly than they thought ('we lit them in so much haste'), but, like a forest fire, it proved to be more than they could handle and destruction followed, probably a lot of fighting ('high hazard seasons') and throwing of things ('houses laid to waste') - or maybe even just breaking up a family.
The chorus.. she's talking to the other person in the relationship and wondering if they understand as much as she has upon leaving it, but it seems that they don't.
Second verse is about remembering the past and uncovering maybe a new relationship to reveal the old, chaotic one. Like the 'branches are cracked and bowed', she hasn't completely healed and neither has the forest.
The bridge details more on the relationship, where she realizes things could have been so much easier if she'd left early on instead of keep coming back to take what was hers, being in such close contact probably pulled her in again and that's why the relationship lasted so long.
Anyway, great song. I never really understood it til I really thought about the lyrics.
A relationship ('slow burning cinders') that started off maybe more quickly than they thought ('we lit them in so much haste'), but, like a forest fire, it proved to be more than they could handle and destruction followed, probably a lot of fighting ('high hazard seasons') and throwing of things ('houses laid to waste') - or maybe even just breaking up a family.
The chorus.. she's talking to the other person in the relationship and wondering if they understand as much as she has upon leaving it, but it seems that they don't.
Second verse is about remembering the past and uncovering maybe a new relationship to reveal the old, chaotic one. Like the 'branches are cracked and bowed', she hasn't completely healed and neither has the forest.
The bridge details more on the relationship, where she realizes things could have been so much easier if she'd left early on instead of keep coming back to take what was hers, being in such close contact probably pulled her in again and that's why the relationship lasted so long.
Anyway, great song. I never really understood it til I really thought about the lyrics.