“The Thing I Fed” is about what happens when you carry anger, resentment, old wounds and grudges for so long that they start becoming part of who you are. It’s about mistaking anger for strength, revenge for justice, and silence for being tough. Eventually you have to face the fact that sometimes the thing haunting you isn’t something someone else created. It’s something you kept feeding. The song isn’t really about defeating a monster. It’s about recognizing yourself in it and finally deciding to stop feeding it.more