What does Burn It Down mean?

Linkin Park: Burn It Down Meaning

Album cover for Burn It Down album cover

Song Released: 2012


Burn It Down Lyrics

The cycle repeated
As explosions broke in the sky
All that I needed
Was the one thing I couldn't find
And you were there at the turn
Waiting to let me know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it...

  1. anonymous
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    Jan 8th 2013 !⃝

    It means love never lasts, it all comes crashing down eventually..

  2. D3MON_K33P3R
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    Jan 6th 2013 !⃝

    i think this song talks about how we work hard to build something or some place in to a power and strong country or organization but in the end it all comes crashing down to the grown and it repeats over and over

  3. anonymous
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    Dec 6th 2012 !⃝

    It can fit the story of satan being cast out of heavan. Funny that it also fits human interpersonal relationships, be it child-parent. Boyfriend-girlfriend. Husband-wife. Soldier-commander.maybe our nature is to destroy things we try to protect. Or hurt the ones we love...

  4. anonymous
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    Sep 27th 2012 !⃝

    They are warning us all what is coming.

  5. anonymous
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    Jul 15th 2012 !⃝

    I think it means building a relationship not just as lovers but with family members as well but you keep building that REALATIONSHIP but at the end of the Day it pointless to build up the REALATIONSHIP because it alway burns down and crash down so that's what I think when Chester sings where building it up to burn it down we can't wait to burn it the ground

  6. anonymous
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    Jul 13th 2012 !⃝

    After seeing an interview with Chester's meaning towards the single - Burn It Down, I think the song means, for example, "you work on a relationship, you get to a certain point it falls apart and you go and you start a new relationship and you work on that and the goal is to get to a point where you just build it up and it kinda stays there. Hopefully when it comes to relationships." that part was from an interview. So I think this song means that it's typical for humans to build things ( relationships, hope, dreams etc.) up and tear them down to nothing and well the "goal" is to try and keep it up and leave it there and not burn it down.

  7. anonymous
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    Jun 26th 2012 !⃝

    I think this song is about Lucifer when he was thrown down from heaven & when he hopes to have his turn as God which will never happen. God will always be king

  8. anonymous
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    Jun 18th 2012 !⃝

    My interpretation for the lyrics is a general philosophical meaning as it's touching all life corners like love, politcs,celebrities life.
    But the matter of interpreting a song's lyrics is personal perscreptive,so,what I've got to say is that we can't have a straight truthful meanings of 'em as the philosophers said.

  9. anonymous
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    Jun 18th 2012 !⃝

    Sound like a reference to the TOWER OF BABEL story to me. I read it in Genesis 11.

    Genesis 11 - New International Version (NIV)
    The Tower of Babel

    11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

    3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

    5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

    8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c] —because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

  10. anonymous
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    May 4th 2012 !⃝

    Human Genome Project.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  11. anonymous
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    Apr 22nd 2012 !⃝

    This song is about how we build up celebrities and tear them down again
    "we're building it up, to break it back down"
    said by Shinoda himself.

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