Eric Nam Explains How the Fire Started Lyrics and Meaning

In the middle of my writing process, I went off to shoot the show called The Traitors. Spoiler alert. If you haven't watched it, it's your fault. I got to the final three and then I got stabbed in the back. As soon as that happened, I was like, I have the perfect song to put out. When we're in Scotland, we're not we don't have any internet. So I had like a old MP3 player with my songs on it with like a wired headphone and I would just sit there cuz I was like okay when I get out I'm going to rewrite this song and do that and I would be listening to the what was the first version of this song and I was like huh not knowing what would have happened.

This was about other people in my life and now suddenly it is about Rob and Mora. I did not win this show but I will win in music some other way and it's going to be through this song. Oh, you never so much of this song resonates with me and was written because I have had some really crazy people in my life. People who tried to take advantage of who I was, what I was, and it's really bad. What you may not understand about me is I won't hesitate to let you go. I have decently strong boundaries now.

It's like a picket fence. People can't jump over and you can't just walk in through the door, but it's at least a boundary painted fresh. You had your chance to tell the truth. You knew the right thing to do. just be honest and nice and good and decent. Which apparently is very hard for a lot of people. You would think it's like, "Yeah, I screwed up. I'm sorry." And we can like move on and be adults, but some people will die on crazy hills. And in the context of Rob, look, we could have won it together, but to each his own. That's that's his choice. He could have made the right choice, which is to win

with me. So, how can you turn and walk away? from a fire you started. I never owed you anything. No matter how you saw it, I remember specifically being in really toxic situations. People trying to hold things against me when it's not sound and it's wrong and it's just dishonest. Essentially, it was blackmail and threats. I guess that's what the best way to say it, you know. And I was like, this is actually insane because it's all not true, but then you live in fear of these ridiculous situations.

Blow your smoke as I go up in flames. Shame on me thinking that you started. When you're in that moment, you have these threats or blackmail or whatever and you're like, "Please don't do this." You could literally choose to do the right thing. You could literally none of this. You could do just none of this. You could save me. You could save yourself. You could save this entire situation and just like we could just again move on. But then you're like, "Watch this. Hit the red button. Everything explodes." And you're like, "Fun.

Burn me down. Baby, that's how you leave me. Oh, you come around. And you tell me you need me. Yeah, you blew the thing up. I'm stuck there burning up. And then you're like, "I'm sorry. My bad. Will you forgive me?" And then you're just being manipulated by the most toxic people in the world, which is crazy. But crazy exists. Crazy is a real person and she is in the room. Oh, you never gave a damn about me. Oh, you know that's true.

What you may not understand about me is I would never do the same to you. Why and how did I trust this person at all? Right? Did they even care about me at all? Like they had a plan to just screw you over from the top. Like that last line is like, "I would never do the same to you." Like I genuinely would not. Even in gameplay, I just really can't. As if you've seen Traitors, you know, everybody's like, "You should have turned on him. You should have stabbed everybody in the back." It's like, but that's not me. Like, I could not do

that. When I called Rob and Mora, I was like, "Hey, I think I'm going to do a music for this song. Can you do it?" Rob was like, "Literally, it's the least I can do for you. And Mara was kind of like, I just need to look hot. Let's do it. I'm like, okay, fair. This originally was a duet and I had some really cool people that we were like, oh, I think do we do this? And then last minute we went with the solo version, but I need a duet partner. Guys, let us know in the comments who you think should be on the featured version, the allstar version of this