"We started a fire / That was never supposed to burn out."
While another comment referred to this fire as a fight, I think it's the relationship itself. Love is supposed to be a passion that never burns away, but the trend with this couple is a hot and hasty beginning fading into coldness or even hatred. This happens with everything they start - bands, jobs, living arrangements - and eventually it happens to their relationship too.
The couple breaks up, either before or after one of them moves to Japan. They both attempt to move on with their lives by dating new people, buying pets, etc. After a significant amount of time (at least long enough to get pregnant and have a baby), one of them starts messaging the other. There seems to still be a spark of attraction on both sides; the fire that was never supposed to go out really hasn't. What's unclear is whether that fire is the passion of rekindled love, or the same destructive flame of boredom - "laziness" and "loneliness," according to the song - that has burned through the rest of their lives.
"We started a fire / That was never supposed to burn out."
While another comment referred to this fire as a fight, I think it's the relationship itself. Love is supposed to be a passion that never burns away, but the trend with this couple is a hot and hasty beginning fading into coldness or even hatred. This happens with everything they start - bands, jobs, living arrangements - and eventually it happens to their relationship too.
The couple breaks up, either before or after one of them moves to Japan. They both attempt to move on with their lives by dating new people, buying pets, etc. After a significant amount of time (at least long enough to get pregnant and have a baby), one of them starts messaging the other. There seems to still be a spark of attraction on both sides; the fire that was never supposed to go out really hasn't. What's unclear is whether that fire is the passion of rekindled love, or the same destructive flame of boredom - "laziness" and "loneliness," according to the song - that has burned through the rest of their lives.