i need help - modest mouse fire metaphor

so far i think this is the best. beth liked it, mark didn't...

In their album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, the alternative band Modest Mouse observes that “Everyone is a building burning, with no one to put the fire out.” To the casual listener these words may smack of pop-rocker metaphysical angst, but in the context of contemporary psychiatry, the lyrics begin to sound more like an indictment. While many mental health patients are successfully stabilized, countless others are treatment resistant—their fires rage on as mental health practitioners desperately fling pharmaceutical cocktails at the flames and hope for the best. As a scientific community we are diligently searching for more effective methods to fight the blaze of mental illness, but it is also critical that we step back and reconsider the nature of this fire. If every patient is indeed a “building burning,” perhaps it is time that we learn to differentiate between a garden variety fire and an electrical fire and then treat our patients accordingly: it is time that we permit etiology a say and acknowledge that a system of psychiatric nosology is incomplete without an exploration of causes.

since debby probably isn't familiar with modest mouse, i may give it a little different spin and rewrite it without the quote (see i need help - no modest mouse fire metaphor; you'll have to scroll up or down to find it--this isn't a link)...