What John has to say about it:
"It's about, the partner relationship where you know its over and you have your final bow together. I had been working on the song in the studio, and I didn't have a title for it or lyrics, then I went wow it kinda sounds like slow dancing in a burning room, and so that became the title and I then wrote a song around it, and its about the end of a relationship, and its like watching it all burned down infront of you, and making it into a beautiful thing."