Backdraft

Embers of Patience: Thrice's Backdraft Unveils the Power of True Love
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Lyrics

Leave me here and lock the door

Expressing a desire to be left alone and isolated by locking the door.

latch the windows, lose the key

Suggesting a desire for seclusion by securing the windows and intentionally losing the key.

But you'll be back some day

Anticipating a return, indicating a sense of inevitability or cyclicality in relationships.

What else then is TRUE LOVE for

Questioning the purpose of true love and suggesting it involves enduring challenges.

if not to starve and wait for spring

Defining true love as the ability to endure hardships and wait for better times, symbolized by spring.

So I'll just sit and wait

Accepting the situation and expressing willingness to patiently wait.


Oh, swing the door wide open

Inviting openness and honesty by urging the other person to swing the door wide open.

show me your jaded eyes

Requesting to reveal the true, weary emotions through the eyes.

I will turn them red

Asserting the speaker's intention to intensify those emotions, making them "red" or more vivid.

drunk with vivid flame

Describing a state of being intoxicated with intense emotions, possibly passion or turmoil.

You will see again,

Assuring that clarity and understanding will follow the emotional intensity.

and you will learn your real name and speak it

Emphasizing the importance of discovering and vocalizing one's true identity.

when your whole world turns to fire

Suggesting that self-discovery and truth-speaking occur when the world is in a state of chaos or transformation.


Leave me with no air to breathe

Expressing a willingness to endure suffocation or hardship for the sake of the relationship.

leave me here to die alone

Accepting the possibility of facing death alone as a consequence of the situation.

But I won't suffocate

Asserting resilience, stating that the speaker won't suffocate and will find what they need.

I'll have everything I need

Claiming self-sufficiency and completeness even in the absence of the other person.

when you forget and come back home

Anticipating the other person's return but acknowledging that the speaker will be fine on their own.

so I'll just sit and wait

Reiterating the willingness to wait patiently for the other person to come back.

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