Lyrics
Protection or prison?
Contemplating whether the current situation is a form of protection or imprisonment.
Defense mechanisms, surely out of breath
Acknowledging defense mechanisms that are exhausted and ineffective.
Did you look away when I was being ripped apart?
Questioning if someone turned away during a difficult moment of personal suffering.
Did you smile with glee when my blood was everywhere?
Asking if someone took pleasure or satisfaction in witnessing the narrator's pain and bloodshed.
Now we must choose on our exit theme
Facing a choice regarding the theme or manner of departure.
Dilating into fever dreams
Expanding into hallucinatory or intense dreams.
All is dark and none is bright
Describing a situation where everything is dark and devoid of brightness.
Push it out
Encouraging the release or expression of inner emotions or thoughts.
Save your light with non-linear healing
Preserving one's inner light through a non-linear healing process.
It festers and stalls until nothing can escape
Highlighting the buildup of unresolved issues that eventually become inescapable.
Stuck in its bruise and swell, you'll return to the frail
Being trapped in a situation that causes pain and returning to a state of vulnerability.
Return to the frail
Emphasizing the inevitability of returning to a fragile state.
This is as normal as it gets
Asserting that the depicted situation is a standard or typical occurrence.
And this is as natural as it was
Stating that the situation is as natural as it was before.
What keeps you here?
Posing a question about the factors that anchor someone in a particular place or state.
What keeps you here inside me?
Asking about the internal factors that keep someone bound or connected.
Why not just open up this flesh and run free?
Suggesting a desire to break free from the constraints of the physical body.
I need to be here in completion
Expressing a need to stay and endure the situation until it reaches its conclusion.
Debt is not removed if the price has not been paid
Highlighting that debts, metaphorical or real, remain until the required price is paid.
You survived this once
Acknowledging a previous survival but implying that future challenges may not be overcome.
You'll not survive again
Warning against the likelihood of not surviving a similar situation again.
In some future fashion, you will suffer
Anticipating future suffering in a different manner or style.
You might feel phantom pains when you least expect it
Suggesting the possibility of feeling residual pain unexpectedly.
But you'll forever endure mental poison darts
Indicating enduring psychological pain or scars that persist.
God's hands push me down
Symbolizing external forces or challenges pushing the narrator down.
Push me down
Reiterating the idea of being pushed down by divine forces.
God's hands push me down
Continuing the theme of divine forces exerting pressure.
Pummel me to the ground
Describing a forceful and aggressive descent to the ground.
God's hands shove me down
Repeating the notion of being forcefully pushed down by a higher power.
With incredible punishment and emotional trauma spikes
Elaborating on the intensity of punishment and emotional trauma inflicted.
What a noisy sound that heaven makes
Describing the loud and unsettling sounds associated with heavenly forces trying to pull the narrator towards death.
when it tries to pull me in to my deathbed
Portraying a sensation of being pulled towards a deathbed by divine entities.
What a stinging sensation
Expressing a sharp and uncomfortable feeling.
Healing in sequence
Suggesting a process of healing that occurs in a specific order or sequence.
I could plead and I could beg
Expressing a futile attempt to seek mercy through pleading and begging.
But mercy will not be found
Conveying the absence of mercy or compassion despite pleading.
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