I kind of disagree with everyone so far, although there are a lot of good arguments. Here's my take.
The lyrics for the end of the first verse are wrong, they should be:
Home's face: how it ages when you're away
Spring blooms and you find the love that's true
But you don't know what now to do
Cause the chase is all you know
And she stopped running months ago
To me, this is about a relationship the narrator is in and is tired of. The first line suggests they're no longer attracted to them; home's face being that of his girlfriend, which has (metaphorically) aged. The initial excitement has worn off; "she stopped running months ago." Basically, he feels trapped because, as line 2 suggests, he at least thought it was true love, but now feels nothing.
This now fits in a lot better with the burning house metaphor. The first line of the song implies that the narrator set his own house on fire. The second verse expands this idea; he's both literally burning his house down to escape the draw of material possesions, and metaphorically burning down this relationship, "everything that you hold dear". In both cases he "shed not a single tear" because he's now "finally free" from the enabling comfort of a stable relationship and material wealth.
The chorus is what ties the two together; when he's at home, with his girlfriend, all he can think about is that he'd rather be somewhere else, with someone else, but is kept there by the stability they provide.
So the overall message with this interpretation is the opposite of what pretty much everyone else here has said...i think it says to go out and meet random people, rather than get stuck in a stable relationship.
I kind of disagree with everyone so far, although there are a lot of good arguments. Here's my take. The lyrics for the end of the first verse are wrong, they should be: Home's face: how it ages when you're away Spring blooms and you find the love that's true But you don't know what now to do Cause the chase is all you know And she stopped running months ago To me, this is about a relationship the narrator is in and is tired of. The first line suggests they're no longer attracted to them; home's face being that of his girlfriend, which has (metaphorically) aged. The initial excitement has worn off; "she stopped running months ago." Basically, he feels trapped because, as line 2 suggests, he at least thought it was true love, but now feels nothing. This now fits in a lot better with the burning house metaphor. The first line of the song implies that the narrator set his own house on fire. The second verse expands this idea; he's both literally burning his house down to escape the draw of material possesions, and metaphorically burning down this relationship, "everything that you hold dear". In both cases he "shed not a single tear" because he's now "finally free" from the enabling comfort of a stable relationship and material wealth. The chorus is what ties the two together; when he's at home, with his girlfriend, all he can think about is that he'd rather be somewhere else, with someone else, but is kept there by the stability they provide. So the overall message with this interpretation is the opposite of what pretty much everyone else here has said...i think it says to go out and meet random people, rather than get stuck in a stable relationship.