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“Things We Lost in the Fire” is the first song that Dan Smith wrote for Bastille as he revealed to Sophie Eggleton. In MetroLyrics’s song explanation series, Dan explains what the song is about:
"I think a lot of the songs on the album are kind of a big mash of things I’ve been reading or thinking about. And I think “Things We Lost In The Fire” – there’s sort of parts of it that come from real life. I think I got the idea while I was at university and I was chatting with one of my friend – and you know, you’re new to the uni and you’ve new friends and you have to find out all about their lives and before. This girl was saying that when she was a kid her family’s house had burned down and they lost everything. And I guess, things like house fires, you just don’t – it’s a thing that happens – but, I guess, not many people know anyone who that’s happened to. I was just mad hearing about it, ‘cause I think it’s fascinating how through life we accumulate stuff and all these kind of physical memories of all the things we’ve done. And the idea of losing all of that in one big blow, I guess would be crazy – it just seemed like a perfect metaphor for the end of a relationship."
The track was released digitally on August 23, 2013, and physically on August 26, 2013. However, it was also featured on their "Laura Palmer" EP, which was self-released on July 4, 2011. The music video for “Things We Lost In The Fire” was released on July 13, 2013. It was shot in Kėdainiai, Lithuania, and directed by Naor Aloni.
Bastille has explained its inspiration as follows:
"I think I got the idea while I was at university and I was chatting with one of my friend… This girl was saying that when she was a kid her family’s house had burned down and they lost everything."
Overall, the song is about those things that you loose along the journey of life, which the band assimilates to loosing prized possessions in a house fire. For more details read the other annotations.
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