Going Down In Flames

For fantasy-theme criticism, I chose to write about the 3 Doors Down song "Going Down In Flames", lyrics at bottom of post. The song is about falling in love and not having anyone to catch you. There's a lot of symbolism that we hear all the time about love and the process within the song. For example, the song includes the word falling a lot; this is related to love because the accepted way to describe a relationships progression is to say that you have "fallen" in love with that person. You obviously don't actually fall, but it's the symbolic illustration of deepening a relationship with someone.

The song also goes on to ask for someone to catch him as he's falling saying that if they don't they'll miss him once he's gone. That's symbolic of people being in uneven and unhealthy relationships where one person is really into it and the other person is not and is not willing to "catch" the other person that is "falling".

Don't tell me what to think
Cause I don't care this time
Don't tell me what to believe
Cause you won't be there
To catch me when I fall
But you'll need me when I'm not here at all
Miss me when I'm gone again, yeah

I'm going down in flames
I'm falling into this again, yeah
I'm going down in flames
I'm falling into this again

Don't tell me how life is
Cause I don't really want to know
Don't tell me how this game ends
Cause we'll just see how it goes
Catch me when I fall
Or you'll need me when I'm not here at all
Miss me when I'm gone again, yeah

I'm going down in flames
I'm falling into this again, yeah
I'm going down in flames
I'm falling into this again, yeah

Now, I'm all the way down here
I'm falling
I'm all the way down here
I'm falling down again
I'm falling down
I'm falling down
I'm falling down

I'm going down in flames
I'm falling into this again,
I'm going down in flames
I'm falling into this again

Now, I'm all the way down here
I'm falling
All the way
All the way down here
I'm falling down again now I'm falling down