Grapevine Fires lyrics

chendrix · Aug 11th 2011 9:13 pm

I actually just saw these guys in concert last week and it was absolutely amazing. Ben talked a little about the song before singing, and how he was influenced heavily by the devastation cause by the 2007 wildfires in california (grapevine happening to be one of the areas). He dedicated that song to the victims. It was touching. Hope that helps.

ollierosser · Sep 17th 2010 10:00 am

I take this song to be about acceptance and closure. It seems to be saying that nothing is forever. The love that the young boy and girl share is intense, but eventually burnt out. He lost here, and it will take a "matter of time" (and hardworking firemen) to put out the hurt.

But it isn't full of regret, as he wouldn't want to have spent the time with anybody else.

sammie729 · Sep 11th 2010 4:43 pm

I think you can interuperate this song how ever you please. If it's to be a literal sense or metephorical... Either or amazing and touching

DRUMSMIKE1970 · Apr 21st 2009 12:19 am

How about this song is about the fires in grapevine california,or the grapevine... It burns here, the fires start and theres not much you can do about it. Except for watch and hope... So you sit complacent,and hope for the best,and as the song progresses,there is hope. This is not a tool song,dont make it more complex than it is.

AMANDA27 · Apr 15th 2009 2:02 am

This song with out of doubt is about death. Look like the end of days, its only a matter of time before we all burn. We all are gonna die and there's no escaping death. Its the impending doom, death. But i could;nt think of anywhere that i would of rather been to watch it all burn away, the narrator of the song is content with his life he would'nt have changed anything. The child dancing in the field of graves represents the peacful acceptance, she represents innocence, and without sin, and we once were just like her, we had no fear of death for a reason, the thought had to come from somewhere or something.

Janie · Jun 13th 2008 2:06 pm

These lyrics are wrong. Why wouldn't it let me correct them?

"as she laughed and danced through the field of graves"

acutefan1 · May 25th 2008 8:12 pm

I think in a way the fires in this song metaphorically is referring to hard times in life, whether it be financially, emotionally, ect. The grapevine fires are the good things in life gone bad, but in the end, everything will be alright. New good things will result from the crash of what was.

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