This is taken from the bands lead singer Sully Erna when asked about the song's title (which is also the albums title). "It's metaphorical. It's certainly not meant to be an egotistical statement more than it's metaphorical for the changes in our lives individually and for me personally, that is happening especially over the last couple of years where I decided to just cleanse out a lot of negative things, a lot of negative people. You know some of those people being long-term friends of mine and you know certain family members that I just started realizing that was here for the wrong reasons or at least representing themselves that way and it really was time for me to stop carrying other people's problems and their crosses.
You get to that point in your life where you just want to start living your life and not living in these black clouds that everyone else is surrounding themselves with. Sometimes you have to kind of burn it down to the ground and rebuild it from scratch."
This is taken from the bands lead singer Sully Erna when asked about the song's title (which is also the albums title). "It's metaphorical. It's certainly not meant to be an egotistical statement more than it's metaphorical for the changes in our lives individually and for me personally, that is happening especially over the last couple of years where I decided to just cleanse out a lot of negative things, a lot of negative people. You know some of those people being long-term friends of mine and you know certain family members that I just started realizing that was here for the wrong reasons or at least representing themselves that way and it really was time for me to stop carrying other people's problems and their crosses.
You get to that point in your life where you just want to start living your life and not living in these black clouds that everyone else is surrounding themselves with. Sometimes you have to kind of burn it down to the ground and rebuild it from scratch."