A Great Fire Lyrics

Lyric discussion by epiphone098 

Cover art for A Great Fire lyrics by Silverstein

I guess i'll take a shot at the meaning,

If you look on the cd's website you see a story attatched to the whole album Its about a family who loses their house in a fire and moves into a hotel where their loyalty is tested And the marraige falls apart

So this song is just the first chapter, the man awakens to the scent of smoke and rushed his family out of the house and saves their lives. This sparks the death of their relationship, and the man's whole life turns around against him.

This finally makes sense that why they have like chapter 1 and 2 etc etc and vices seem to just build off of all this.

That's a good meaning but from what I've seen he sing about a girl that had an alcoholic dad and a mom that didn't care about her and she was raped as a kid. In the music video of Vices you can see that it starts out when shes quite young and then the mom and dad are separated. Then it shows that the mom is selling herself and shes out and then the next part it starts out with her dad drinking beer and shes home, and then he starts pushing her and hit her and in a short...

That's a good meaning but from what I've seen he sing about a girl that had an alcoholic dad and a mom that didn't care about her and she was raped as a kid. In the music video of Vices you can see that it starts out when shes quite young and then the mom and dad are separated. Then it shows that the mom is selling herself and shes out and then the next part it starts out with her dad drinking beer and shes home, and then he starts pushing her and hit her and in a short...