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You want to be set apart?
Burn all of your art, repair the wasteful part
I'm a vampire in a forest fire
Hey, we all got to keep warm
Driving towards the storm
Your father was a pervert
Face down in the dirt
He taught you how to hurt
My father was a miner who lived in the suburbs
Let's live in the suburbs
If I let where I'm from burn, I can never return!
My brother reads you and me his new poetry
How embarassing
Your sister pours the gasoline
I'll fix your meals
While your burns heal!
Find a house, you don't have to rebuild
Stone by stone, brick by brick, nail by nail
My father never meant to leave me this
Let this love last
I drive too fast
Said I'd return if I'd ever cared
But there's no interstate I find to take me there
Burn all of your art, repair the wasteful part
I'm a vampire in a forest fire
Hey, we all got to keep warm
Driving towards the storm
Your father was a pervert
Face down in the dirt
He taught you how to hurt
My father was a miner who lived in the suburbs
Let's live in the suburbs
If I let where I'm from burn, I can never return!
My brother reads you and me his new poetry
How embarassing
Your sister pours the gasoline
I'll fix your meals
While your burns heal!
Find a house, you don't have to rebuild
Stone by stone, brick by brick, nail by nail
My father never meant to leave me this
Let this love last
I drive too fast
Said I'd return if I'd ever cared
But there's no interstate I find to take me there
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky
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Lamp's thoughts on the song's meaning is probably the best way to put it.
Face down in the dirt
He taught you how to hurt"
And trying to move on and let the "Burns Heal".
I don't know what it really means.
Honestly, I hadn't thought of her sister pouring the gasoline as her sister helping the flames grow before, I had just thought that the children were altogether running away (her sister pours the gasoline to run the car as they flee).
I always felt like the song keeps going from the begining of the relationship a sort of symbolic end to it. I thought the lines at the end point out as they find a house together and live in it, and finally he begins driving, but he cant find an interstate to bring him back to her (and she thinks he doesn't care).
What's being said here makes a little more sense overall, though, so I'm getting the idea that they're in the car driving together and cant find the interstate to their past, and eventually just have to give up and move on.
On a side note, I heard the original EP version first and thought it was okay but not their best. The fadeout is good, but I'd heard better. Then I heard their acoustic session on KCRW, and they play this live acoustic on the radio. That version is far better even than the original, and aside from Ocean of Noise is probably my favourite song by them now.