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Leave me here and lock the door
latch the windows, lose the key
But you'll be back some day
What else then is TRUE LOVE for
if not to starve and wait for spring
So I'll just sit and wait
Oh, swing the door wide open
show me your jaded eyes
I will turn them red
drunk with vivid flame
You will see again,
and you will learn your real name and speak it
when your whole world turns to fire
Leave me with no air to breathe
leave me here to die alone
But I won't suffocate
I'll have everything I need
when you forget and come back home
so I'll just sit and wait
latch the windows, lose the key
But you'll be back some day
What else then is TRUE LOVE for
if not to starve and wait for spring
So I'll just sit and wait
Oh, swing the door wide open
show me your jaded eyes
I will turn them red
drunk with vivid flame
You will see again,
and you will learn your real name and speak it
when your whole world turns to fire
Leave me with no air to breathe
leave me here to die alone
But I won't suffocate
I'll have everything I need
when you forget and come back home
so I'll just sit and wait
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think of it like this. the pet iguana escaped from it cage and goes running out of the room, gets lost and for 12 months everyone opens doors slowly in fear of the iguana being there scurrying away and making the human poop their pants. however, in time they forget their ever was a lizard in the house and all returns to normal. then, 2 years after the courageous jail break, dad goes to clean the furnace and find an old dead, dried up iguana corpse hiding back there. with its dead dry skin pulled back with the looks as if its dying though was "why did you fear me, i never wanted to hurt you. i wanted to hang on the curtains and i liked eating fruit. because of your ignorance i died." kinda thing. i get the feeling that this song is just about the negligence of a small spark that lead to a raging inferno.....perhaps started by an idle cigarette left in an ash tray.
Leave me here and lock the doors latch the windows lose the key but youll be back some day. I think that means you cant just keep covering up sins or lies you will have to repent. When you revisit your sins "You will see again, and you will learn your real name" Means you cant hide them forever. again any bodies interpretation could be "correct", they could all be "correct" I think Dustin leaves it up to the listener to decide on his own.
Don't get me wrong, I know that's what he is doing. But one thing I really like about Thrice is that they keep stuff like this ambiguous in the sense it could be pegged to almost any religion or spiritual/personal belief. Even Atheism (someone leaves behind a good part of themselves, only to come back and realize they were bad or had no significant attempt at helping humanity).
I am personally a Muslim, and this song fits just as perfectly for me as it would for a Christian if he was referring to God as the narrator.
Leave me here and lock the door;
latch the windows, lose the key.
The first two lines show a progressive abandonment to locking up, with the window being closed preventing whatever is inside from communicating and breathing out. This also is exactly how a backdraft occurs being starved of air/oxygen.
But you'll be back some day.
What else then is TRUE LOVE for,
if not to starve and wait for spring?
So I'll just sit and wait.
True love is definitely a reference to the love that comes from God/Jesus (Moving Mountains confirms this). Starving is a necessary precursor to an explosive growth in spring just like a fire needs to starve before a backdraft can occur. The inherent attraction a person has to God/truth causes people to come back, so I think the listener may be mislead to think Thrice wants a person to starve for God. This spiritual feast and famine cycle is a mistake people make.
Oh, swing the door wide open;
show me your jaded eyes.
I will turn them red,
drunk with vivid flame.
You will see again,
and you will learn your real name and speak it.
The person that lost the God in life is consumed by the backdraft in an overwhelming dose of fire that turns the person drunk on truth/faith. The person learns their real purpose/truth in life, but just as soon as this happens..
Leave me with no air to breathe;
leave me here to die alone.
But I won't suffocate.
I'll have everything I need,
when you forget and come back home;
so I'll just sit and wait.
the person leaves truth. Here the person trys again to suffocate God but in reality he/she is suffocating themselves by locking God out of their lives. Truth/God doesn't suffocate because it doesn't burn air to make a flame but creates it by having a relationship with the human spirit/soul. Still God is patient and will wait for us and try again. Instead of maintaining a constant flame that God gives us the person is satisfied with his overwhelming experience, and thinks he/she understands truth.
When your whole world turns to fire.
This last line represents the anti-fire of the original lines. Its the destructive fire of the world's evils. Evil's fire burns us from the outside while God's is an internal positive strength. The backdraft concept shows a cycle of people falling in love with God but then leaving soon after because they think they understand. A backdraft is a dangerous event and being "drunk" is an overwhelming feeling that is also dangerous.
he is waiting in a room starving, temptation comes to him to test him but it doesn't matter, the world can burn because he is true to his saviour