River Styx
Journey through Redemption: Black Rebel's River Styx Revelations
Lyrics
Will you lay me down
Asking if the listener will lay the speaker down
Will you lay me down
Repetition, emphasizing the request to be laid down
Will you lay me down inside heavens walls
Asking to be laid down inside heaven's walls
Where every soul is a setting sun
Describing a place where every individual fades away like a setting sun
Will you take my hand
Asking if the listener will take the speaker's hand
Will you take my hand
Reiteration of the request to take the speaker's hand
Will you take my hand down to the waters edge
Asking to be taken down to the water's edge
Where every sin has been washed away
Describing a place where all sins have been cleansed or absolved
But I can't run if I can't walk
Expressing inability to move forward without the ability to walk
And I won't love if I can't stop
Stating a refusal to love without the ability to stop
Every minute the pressure drops
Referencing a decrease in pressure or tension over time
From your first breath 'til your heart stops
Life's journey from birth until death, emphasizing its finite nature
Will you let them pass
Asking if the listener will allow certain things to pass
Will you let them pass
Repetition of the request to allow things to pass
Will you let them pass across this killing floor
Asking if certain things will be allowed to pass on a killing floor
Where every shadow is cast in stone
Describing a place where every shadow or action is permanent
But I can't run if I can't walk
Expressing inability to progress without certain prerequisites
And I won't love if I can't stop
Refusal to love without the ability to stop
Every minute the pressure drops
Reference to decreasing pressure or tension over time (repeated from earlier)
From your first breath 'til your heart stops
Emphasizing life's finite nature from birth to death (repeated from earlier)
Carry me
Requesting to be carried
Carry me
Reiteration of the request to be carried
But you take, take, it's never enough
Expressing a feeling that what is taken is never sufficient
You just take, take, it's never enough
Repeating the sentiment that what is taken is insufficient
You just take, take every part of me
Stating that everything is taken, alluding to a complete consumption or depletion
All of me
Expressing that the entirety of the speaker is taken or consumed
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