Lips Like Knives
Love's Razor: Embracing the Pain of Passion
Lyrics
Your lips are like knives against my skin
Your lips are harsh and cutting, causing pain on my skin.
(Your lips are like knives against my skin)
(Repeated) Emphasizing the impact of the person's lips on the speaker's skin.
Suffocate me, say you love to hate me
Expressing a desire for intense emotional engagement, even if it involves negativity.
Whatever's left of my heart, deteriorating
Describing the gradual deterioration of the speaker's heart.
I'm addicted, and I hate to admit it
Admitting addiction to a situation or person, despite disliking it.
You got me caught in a web, just another victim
Feeling trapped in a problematic situation, being a victim once again.
Your lips are like knives against my skin
(Repeated) Reiterating the impact of the person's lips on the speaker's skin.
Can't get back the time that I put in
Regretting the time invested, unable to retrieve it.
These bloodshot eyes will never see you again
Accepting the impossibility of seeing the person again due to the painful experience.
'Cause your lips are like knives against my skin
(Repeated) Reinforcing the cutting effect of the person's lips.
I'm decaying, and there is no escaping
Describing a process of decay, possibly emotional or mental, with no escape.
Can't run away from myself, I'm slowly breaking
Acknowledging the inability to run away from one's own problems and gradual breakdown.
Your fire, I can't control the flames
Describing the intensity and uncontrollable nature of the person's influence.
Cashing in my one-way ticket to an early grave
Choosing a path towards self-destruction, symbolized by a one-way ticket to an early grave.
Your lips are like knives against my skin
(Repeated) Reiterating the impact of the person's lips on the speaker's skin.
Can't get back the time that I put in
Expressing the irreversibility of invested time.
These bloodshot eyes will never see you again
Accepting the permanent separation due to the painful experience.
'Cause your lips are like knives against my skin
(Repeated) Emphasizing the cutting effect of the person's lips.
If I meant anything
Raising doubt about the speaker's significance, suggesting that if meaningful, there would be a plea to stay.
You'd be begging me to stay
Imagining a scenario where the person should be desperately asking the speaker to stay.
Begging me to stay
(Repeated) Reinforcing the idea of someone begging the speaker to stay.
Am I your rocket dream?
Pondering if the speaker is just a dream for the person, part of a fantasy.
Just to float in your parade
Being present in the person's celebration or success, but without real substance.
Float in your parade
(Repeated) Emphasizing the speaker's presence in the person's parade without true connection.
Your lips are like knives against my skin
(Repeated) Reiterating the impact of the person's lips on the speaker's skin.
Can't get back the time that I put in
Repeating the theme of irreversible time loss.
These bloodshot eyes will never see you again
Stating the impossibility of seeing the person again due to the painful experience.
'Cause your lips are like knives against my skin
(Repeated) Emphasizing the cutting effect of the person's lips.
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