Don't Shed Your Tears
Eyes Of Salt: A Journey Beyond Tears
Lyrics
They said don't shed your tears
Advice not to cry
I won't be here much longer, I've said it for years
Expressing a prolonged sense of departure
My body lost at sea
Metaphorically lost at sea, uncertain afterlife
No heaven no hell, but somewhere in between
Existence between extremes, neither heaven nor hell
Put flowers on my grave
Symbolic request for remembrance after death
Everything that I had, I gave
Complete self-sacrifice, giving all possessions
Now listen to my eulogy
Desire for the audience to listen to the eulogy
And share the stories of my memories
Encouraging sharing memories in the eulogy
I would have tried anything to take away, to take away your pain
Willingness to do anything to alleviate someone else's pain
I would have tried anything to take away, to take away your pain
Repetition emphasizing the commitment to easing pain
They said don't shed your tears
Reiteration of advice not to cry
I'm doing this so I can stay alive
Self-sacrifice for personal survival
I'm trapped in my body
Feeling trapped within one's own body
I hold the key
Claiming control over one's fate
They said don't shed your tears
Repetition of advice, linking survival to memory
Your memory is how I survive
Relying on memories for personal survival
I'm trapped no more
Claiming freedom from being trapped
I'm breaking free
Expressing liberation and breaking free
A fathers treasures is a mothers dark
Contrast between a father's treasures and a mother's darkness
A fathers burden is a mothers heart
Highlighting burdens carried by each parent
I was abandoned I was still a child
Experience of abandonment during childhood
A life of love born in denial
Life built on love but denied or rejected
I wasn't lost I just lost my way
Clarifying not being lost but losing the way
On a one way trip to an early grave
Journey towards an early death
Don't shed your tears because the cuts too deep
Discouraging tears due to profound emotional pain
I fear the sky but now it's where I sleep
Fear of the sky as a metaphor for death
Don't shed your tears
Reiteration of advice not to cry
Don't shed your tears
Repetition emphasizing the importance of not crying
I would have tried anything to take away, to take away your pain
Repetition of the willingness to ease someone else's pain
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