Currently my favorite song in Fire. I would like to see more interpretations of this song. Here is mine
Leave me here and lock the door;
latch the windows, lose the key.
The first two lines show a progressive abandonment to locking up, with the window being closed preventing whatever is inside from communicating and breathing out. This also is exactly how a backdraft occurs being starved of air/oxygen.
But you'll be back some day.
What else then is TRUE LOVE for,
if not to starve and wait for spring?
So I'll just sit and wait.
True love is definitely a reference to the love that comes from God/Jesus (Moving Mountains confirms this). Starving is a necessary precursor to an explosive growth in spring just like a fire needs to starve before a backdraft can occur. The inherent attraction a person has to God/truth causes people to come back, so I think the listener may be mislead to think Thrice wants a person to starve for God. This spiritual feast and famine cycle is a mistake people make.
Oh, swing the door wide open;
show me your jaded eyes.
I will turn them red,
drunk with vivid flame.
You will see again,
and you will learn your real name and speak it.
The person that lost the God in life is consumed by the backdraft in an overwhelming dose of fire that turns the person drunk on truth/faith. The person learns their real purpose/truth in life, but just as soon as this happens..
Leave me with no air to breathe;
leave me here to die alone.
But I won't suffocate.
I'll have everything I need,
when you forget and come back home;
so I'll just sit and wait.
the person leaves truth. Here the person trys again to suffocate God but in reality he/she is suffocating themselves by locking God out of their lives. Truth/God doesn't suffocate because it doesn't burn air to make a flame but creates it by having a relationship with the human spirit/soul. Still God is patient and will wait for us and try again. Instead of maintaining a constant flame that God gives us the person is satisfied with his overwhelming experience, and thinks he/she understands truth.
When your whole world turns to fire.
This last line represents the anti-fire of the original lines. Its the destructive fire of the world's evils. Evil's fire burns us from the outside while God's is an internal positive strength. The backdraft concept shows a cycle of people falling in love with God but then leaving soon after because they think they understand. A backdraft is a dangerous event and being "drunk" is an overwhelming feeling that is also dangerous.
Currently my favorite song in Fire. I would like to see more interpretations of this song. Here is mine
Leave me here and lock the door; latch the windows, lose the key.
The first two lines show a progressive abandonment to locking up, with the window being closed preventing whatever is inside from communicating and breathing out. This also is exactly how a backdraft occurs being starved of air/oxygen.
But you'll be back some day. What else then is TRUE LOVE for, if not to starve and wait for spring? So I'll just sit and wait.
True love is definitely a reference to the love that comes from God/Jesus (Moving Mountains confirms this). Starving is a necessary precursor to an explosive growth in spring just like a fire needs to starve before a backdraft can occur. The inherent attraction a person has to God/truth causes people to come back, so I think the listener may be mislead to think Thrice wants a person to starve for God. This spiritual feast and famine cycle is a mistake people make.
Oh, swing the door wide open; show me your jaded eyes. I will turn them red, drunk with vivid flame. You will see again, and you will learn your real name and speak it.
The person that lost the God in life is consumed by the backdraft in an overwhelming dose of fire that turns the person drunk on truth/faith. The person learns their real purpose/truth in life, but just as soon as this happens..
Leave me with no air to breathe; leave me here to die alone. But I won't suffocate. I'll have everything I need, when you forget and come back home; so I'll just sit and wait.
the person leaves truth. Here the person trys again to suffocate God but in reality he/she is suffocating themselves by locking God out of their lives. Truth/God doesn't suffocate because it doesn't burn air to make a flame but creates it by having a relationship with the human spirit/soul. Still God is patient and will wait for us and try again. Instead of maintaining a constant flame that God gives us the person is satisfied with his overwhelming experience, and thinks he/she understands truth.
When your whole world turns to fire.
This last line represents the anti-fire of the original lines. Its the destructive fire of the world's evils. Evil's fire burns us from the outside while God's is an internal positive strength. The backdraft concept shows a cycle of people falling in love with God but then leaving soon after because they think they understand. A backdraft is a dangerous event and being "drunk" is an overwhelming feeling that is also dangerous.