Fear Not Want
Embracing Love's Risk: A Journey of Desires and Fears
Lyrics
Want
Expressing desire or lack
Who deserves what they want?
Raising a question about deserving what one wants
And who is brave enough to want?
Questioning the courage to desire
Disappoint will find me
Acknowledging the inevitability of disappointment
At the second I finally
Highlighting vulnerability at the moment of desire
Want a thing, anything
Expressing hesitation and openness to any desire
Love
Describing the concept of love
Who deserves what they love?
Raising a question about deserving what one loves
And who's a fool enough to love?
Questioning the wisdom of loving
Disappointment will own me
Recognizing that disappointment may dominate in love
Every moment, I only
Emphasizing the fleeting nature of moments of love
Loved a thing, just one thing
Limiting love to one specific thing
I'm not good enough to get
Expressing self-doubt about worthiness
If I'm still paying off all my debt
Linking worthiness to clearing personal debts
To want and love's a risky bet
Highlighting the riskiness of wanting and loving
So why does this angel tell me, "Fear not"?
Questioning the reassurance of an angel saying "Fear not"
He flew to me, an empty shell
Describing an angel's appearance as empty
And down onto my face I fell
Depicting a moment of submission or reverence
What warning does he come to tell?
Pondering the purpose of the angel's warning
My grave and I are parallel
Comparing oneself to a grave in terms of fate
Then, only for a moment, I
Reflecting on a brief positive experience
Could feel the angel lift the spell
Sensing a lifting of a negative influence by the angel
He said, "The only place safe from love
Stating a belief that safety from love is in hell
And all of its dangers is hell"
Positing hell as the only safe place from love's dangers
I'm not good enough to get
Repeating self-doubt about worthiness
If I'm still paying off all my debt
Reiterating the link between worthiness and debt
To want and love's a risky bet
Reemphasizing the risky nature of wanting and loving
So why does this angel tell me, "Fear not"?
Questioning the angel's reassurance once again
Yet if I ever stand secure
If achieving security, fear becomes the problem, not the solution
In all the pain I might endure
Accepting potential pain as part of life
Fear would be the cancer, not the cure
Identifying fear as a harmful force, not a solution
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