Beautiful song, the harmonies between blake and vernon are incredible. This song to me sounds like a call to God. In the Bible "Cedar" wood is often used to describe a strong and flourishing nation or a mighty fortress (i.e. The cedars of Lebanon) this ties into the lyrics "stop before I build a wall around me" and "I need a forest fire". Basically it sounds like they are saying that they have are very content with their wealth/materials/lives and that scares them. In their wealth and abundance they fear that they are losing their need/desire for God amd they want God to burn their cedars down and to stop them before they get to comfortable in their earthly lives. They want something to happen in their lives that brings them back to needing/wanting God. The lyric "Im saved by nature but it always forgets what I need" seems to be an almlst sarcastic line that shows how people who replace God with nature dont have anyone to care for them. Nature doesnt really care about what you need, God does. I am not sure how the line "youre thicker than you think" fits into my narrative, but the line "you know that money bought your name" could easily be referencing Judas selling Jesus' priceless name for "money". The line "Can I repay you with some blame" seems to be indicative of what we all do to God. When things are going good we feel self reliant, as if we didnt need him, and then when things go bad we "repay" the good thing that he gave us before with "blame". We dont awknolwedge God for the good in our lives but we blame him for the bad.
TL;DR The writer's lives are going really well, almost too well, and they are fearful that their pride and self-reliance will take-over if God doesnt "stop" them and bring them a "forest fire" (a humbling trial of some sort)
@Stlbecker27 I think this song is about a crush. First of all burn it like cedar, there was a burning rose in the music video. 2: I request another dream, you think about your crush everyday hence you dream about your crush everyday. 3rd Im saved by nature but it always forgets what i need, your crush doesn't know anything about you so your needs are forgotten.4: I hope you'll stop me before I build a wall around me, stop dreaming about your crush and start living it, or else you'll be isolated. Last, can I repay you with the...
@Stlbecker27 I think this song is about a crush. First of all burn it like cedar, there was a burning rose in the music video. 2: I request another dream, you think about your crush everyday hence you dream about your crush everyday. 3rd Im saved by nature but it always forgets what i need, your crush doesn't know anything about you so your needs are forgotten.4: I hope you'll stop me before I build a wall around me, stop dreaming about your crush and start living it, or else you'll be isolated. Last, can I repay you with the same blame?, you want to return a stolen heart if it is indeed given to you and you want to return a favor.
Beautiful song, the harmonies between blake and vernon are incredible. This song to me sounds like a call to God. In the Bible "Cedar" wood is often used to describe a strong and flourishing nation or a mighty fortress (i.e. The cedars of Lebanon) this ties into the lyrics "stop before I build a wall around me" and "I need a forest fire". Basically it sounds like they are saying that they have are very content with their wealth/materials/lives and that scares them. In their wealth and abundance they fear that they are losing their need/desire for God amd they want God to burn their cedars down and to stop them before they get to comfortable in their earthly lives. They want something to happen in their lives that brings them back to needing/wanting God. The lyric "Im saved by nature but it always forgets what I need" seems to be an almlst sarcastic line that shows how people who replace God with nature dont have anyone to care for them. Nature doesnt really care about what you need, God does. I am not sure how the line "youre thicker than you think" fits into my narrative, but the line "you know that money bought your name" could easily be referencing Judas selling Jesus' priceless name for "money". The line "Can I repay you with some blame" seems to be indicative of what we all do to God. When things are going good we feel self reliant, as if we didnt need him, and then when things go bad we "repay" the good thing that he gave us before with "blame". We dont awknolwedge God for the good in our lives but we blame him for the bad.
TL;DR The writer's lives are going really well, almost too well, and they are fearful that their pride and self-reliance will take-over if God doesnt "stop" them and bring them a "forest fire" (a humbling trial of some sort)
@Stlbecker27 I think this song is about a crush. First of all burn it like cedar, there was a burning rose in the music video. 2: I request another dream, you think about your crush everyday hence you dream about your crush everyday. 3rd Im saved by nature but it always forgets what i need, your crush doesn't know anything about you so your needs are forgotten.4: I hope you'll stop me before I build a wall around me, stop dreaming about your crush and start living it, or else you'll be isolated. Last, can I repay you with the...
@Stlbecker27 I think this song is about a crush. First of all burn it like cedar, there was a burning rose in the music video. 2: I request another dream, you think about your crush everyday hence you dream about your crush everyday. 3rd Im saved by nature but it always forgets what i need, your crush doesn't know anything about you so your needs are forgotten.4: I hope you'll stop me before I build a wall around me, stop dreaming about your crush and start living it, or else you'll be isolated. Last, can I repay you with the same blame?, you want to return a stolen heart if it is indeed given to you and you want to return a favor.