Witness
Witnessing Tragic Beauty
Lyrics
Drag your fingers across my wounds
Inviting someone to touch and feel the scars or emotional wounds.
Be the witness to my sufferings
Requesting someone to witness and understand the pain and hardships.
I’ve found my crown of thorns
Expressing the discovery or acceptance of personal suffering symbolized by a crown of thorns.
Representation of the tragedy
Symbolizing personal pain and struggles as a form of artistic representation.
I portray not to mourn
Clarifying the intention not to express sorrow but to immerse in the experience.
But to bathe in blood my limbs
Describing a willingness to endure pain and possibly indulge in self-destructive behavior.
Adorning fractures
Highlighting and beautifying one's fractures or vulnerabilities.
Portraying to drown the pain
Presenting a facade of drowning the pain through artistic expression.
Cathartic facture
Referring to the therapeutic release of emotions through art.
Retracing where I failed
Reflecting on past failures and retracing the steps taken.
Despite how long I suffered
Acknowledging a prolonged period of suffering.
Art's been ephemeral to date
Noting the transient nature of art until now.
Stitching these wounds with gold
Symbolizing the attempt to heal emotional wounds using precious materials like gold.
Until they bleed again
Anticipating a repetition of pain despite efforts to heal.
Drag your fingers across my wounds
Repeating the invitation to touch and feel the wounds.
Be the witness to my sufferings
Reiterating the call for someone to witness and understand the suffering.
Drawing beauty from tragedy
Emphasizing the extraction of beauty from tragic experiences.
Be a witness to the pain
Encouraging someone to witness and appreciate the pain as a form of art.
Admire the painting
Encouraging admiration of a painting created through desperate thoughts.
I’ve traced with my desperate thinking
Highlighting the process of creating art through intense and desperate thinking.
Drag your fingers across my wounds
Repeating the call to touch and feel the wounds for emphasis.
Be the witness to my sufferings
Reiterating the invitation to witness and understand the suffering.
Lending you my sight
Offering a perspective or insight to someone else's viewpoint.
Art is in the eyes of the beholder
Stating that the value or interpretation of art depends on the observer.
While you adjust them to the light
Commenting on the subjectivity of art perception based on the observer's adjustment to light.
Watch the blood turn to paint
Metaphorically describing the transformation of pain into artistic expression, like blood turning to paint.
Adorning fractures
Repeating the idea of beautifying fractures or vulnerabilities.
Representing suffering
Depicting suffering through artistic representation.
Drawing beauty from
Emphasizing the extraction of beauty from personal tragedy.
My fucking tragedy
Explicitly linking beauty to the artist's own painful experiences.
Blood turns to gold
Symbolizing the transformation of pain into something precious, like gold.
Drawing beauty from
Repeating the idea of drawing beauty from personal tragedy.
Be a witness to the pain
Encouraging someone to witness and appreciate the pain as a form of art.
Be the witness to my pain
Repeating the call for someone to witness and understand the suffering.
Drag your fingers across my wounds
Reiterating the invitation to touch and feel the wounds.
Be the witness to my sufferings
Concluding with a repeated call for someone to witness and understand the suffering.
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