Lyric discussion by khonsu 

Cover art for Fire/Fear lyrics by Head and the Heart, The

This is an excerpt from the fuel/friends blog that I think gets this song's meaning spot-on. (and obviously, THATH agrees):

After listening to the first performance (because I am linear in my narrative and always like tracing connections) I told Josiah that it sounded like a bookend to the song “Honey Come Home” — the same ache of a breaking or broken relationship, the same interminable distance from one person to another even as you sit nearby, or across town. He smiled the way that makes his eyes crinkle and affirmed that this is indeed a preface to that very song from their first album, but written from the perspective of the woman in the relationship, and from a younger time in their story