Billie Eilish: &Burn Meaning

Song Released: 2017

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&Burn Lyrics

Lips meet teeth and tongue
My heart skips eight beats at once (that's better)
If we were meant to be, we would have been by now
See what you wanna see, all I see is him right now
Him right now

I'll sit and watch your car burn
With the...

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   anonymous

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   Apr 2nd 2020 report

   i feel like the song is about a boy loving her and leaving and not coming back for a reason she dosent know

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   anonymous

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   Dec 29th 2019 report

   I think its about a one night stand. So its most likely fictional. Look at the verse “you never came back to ask it out.” Maybe the fire got started with a one night stand and billie wanted more.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 18th report

   Got hard time interpretin all of her songs.bt i guess it abt lover who left her n she burnin like firee.
4. anonymous

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   Jul 3rd report

   I think it’s about her and this guy she used to love, but he broke her heart and didn’t apologise? Idk tbh. Love you Billie!
   
   Chelsea :]
5. Anonymous2728

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   Feb 1st 2021 report

   From my POV, it's a love interest of Billie who loved her first. But then, when she falls hard for that person. He left her. "It ended before it started."
6. anonymous

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   Jan 1st 2021 report

   I think it's about sexual assault and the person denying it and it's a fire of anger that has been created.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
7. anonymous

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   Nov 26th 2020 report

   I think that Billie got dumed "with the fire that you started in me", but he wanted to get back again, Billie said no, "but i'll never let you back to put it out".

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
8. anonymous

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   Sep 22nd 2020 report

   I believe that it is about a friend or even love interest dying (hence the date) and potentially of heart disease, since the lyrics go "we all found guilty in the court of aorta."
9. anonymous

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   May 20th 2020 report

   I think it's about Billie getting dumped and she is mad at the guy (he is the "bad guy"
10. anonymous

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    Feb 13th 2020 report

    I feel as if this song is about billie expressing herself and expressing her feelings on love.
11. anonymous

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    Oct 13th 2019 report

    I personally think it's the fires going on in all the forests. "I'll sit and watch your car burn with the fire that you started in me" "Watch my heart burn". All of these quotes can be interpreted as the wildfires that were burning houses and cars and killing people and wildlife. The heart of the forest was set on fire bc humans betrayed her (the forest or mother nature). Billie did say that this song is not what you think, and many think it's about a loved one leaving. I think it's abt something bigger.
12. anonymous

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    Jul 10th 2019 report

    I imagine it’s because her friend died on her and she feels guilty and angry that he left her.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
13. anonymous

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    Jul 9th 2019 report

    do y'all realize that "watch" and "&burn" are VERYYY similar In the lyrics.
    
14. Karma

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    Mar 1st 2019 report

    Its about Billie and how shes angry at her lover for getting her hpes up and just all out using her just to dump her. So she wants to burn him like the fire in her heart

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