Lyric discussion by sockrockinn 

Cover art for City Escape lyrics by Dear Hunter, The

to monuments melodies...sooo sounds like the mars volta, especially the intro...

Ms. terri and the flame is his mother and the man she slept with. The flame is the bastard child of the fire.

"In the heat of the night, the river rendered the chance she surely needs to stay alive."...the river represents her baptism...her re-birth, she now lives on vicariously through her conceived child, the fire. She lives on through her son, as anyone with a child live on through their children.