I Want A Love Like This
Yearning for a Transcendent Love: Everything Everything's Poetic Journey
Lyrics
Why don't you listen to your mama?
Challenging the listener to heed their mother's advice.
She's old
Highlighting the mother's age, suggesting wisdom or experience.
They call it madness under pressure
Referring to challenging situations as madness under pressure.
I call it home
Personalizing challenging situations as a familiar or comfortable space.
'Cause someone always dies
Suggesting a consequence of death associated with certain actions.
Someone always dies when we do this
Emphasizing the inevitability of death when engaging in certain behaviors.
Someone always dies
Reiterating the likelihood of death in the mentioned activities.
Someone always dies when we do this
Repeating the connection between specific actions and death.
And I feel alive
Expressing a sense of vitality or excitement.
'Cause I want a love like this
Desiring a love that brings a similar sense of aliveness.
I feel alive
Reiterating the desire for a particular kind of love.
'Cause I want a love like this
Affirming the feeling of being alive due to the desired love.
I feel it coming, I feel it coming, yeah
Anticipating the arrival of a certain feeling or experience.
You're the one who takes me there
Identifying the person responsible for taking the speaker to that experience.
I feel alive
Reaffirming the sense of vitality attributed to the desired love.
'Cause I want a love like this
Expressing the ongoing yearning for a specific type of love.
I really love bizarre behavior
Expressing an appreciation for unconventional or unusual behavior.
You see
Clarifying the speaker's preference for unique actions.
I want the teeth of the enchanter
Desiring the characteristics of an enchanter, possibly magical or captivating.
On me
Expressing a personal desire to possess the mentioned enchanting qualities.
'Cause someone always dies
Reiterating the connection between specific actions and death.
Someone always dies when we do this
Emphasizing the recurring theme of death in certain behaviors.
Yeah, someone always dies
Reiterating the likelihood of death in the mentioned activities.
Someone always dies when we do this, this, this
Highlighting the repetitive nature of the connection between actions and death.
And I feel alive
Expressing a sense of vitality or excitement.
'Cause I want a love like this
Desiring a love that brings a similar sense of aliveness.
I feel alive
Reiterating the desire for a particular kind of love.
'Cause I want a love like this
Affirming the feeling of being alive due to the desired love.
I feel it coming, I feel it coming, yeah
Anticipating the arrival of a certain feeling or experience.
You're the one who takes me there
Identifying the person responsible for taking the speaker to that experience.
I feel alive
Reaffirming the sense of vitality attributed to the desired love.
'Cause I want a love like this
Expressing the ongoing yearning for a specific type of love.
Like this
Repeating the desire for a love as mentioned earlier.
Like this
Reiterating the desire for a love as mentioned earlier.
And I feel alive
Expressing a sense of vitality or excitement.
'Cause I want a love like this
Desiring a love that brings a similar sense of aliveness.
I feel alive
Reiterating the desire for a particular kind of love.
'Cause I want a love like this
Affirming the feeling of being alive due to the desired love.
I feel it coming, I feel it coming, yeah
Anticipating the arrival of a certain feeling or experience.
You're the one who takes me there
Identifying the person responsible for taking the speaker to that experience.
I feel alive
Reaffirming the sense of vitality attributed to the desired love.
'Cause I want a love like this, like this
Expressing the ongoing yearning for a specific type of love.
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