"I can't survive, I can't stay alive without your love" -- the lyric opens with a fact, not a plea. She is not asking him to reconsider. She is handing him the autopsy before the cause of death has occurred. The song knows that desperation stripped of pride is the most honest sound a person can make. She has already lost the negotiation -- he is leaving -- so she drops the performance and tells him what the exit will cost. "You started this fire down in my soul, now can't you see it's burning out of control?" The fire is not passion. It is the consequence of abandonment, the slow burn of someone who rearranged her life around another person and now has to watch that person walk out of the frame.