Lyrics
I need someone to hold me down
I need emotional support and stability from someone.
I need your weight
I require the burden and presence of your emotional weight.
I need your ground
I need the solid foundation and security you provide.
I need someone to hold me down
Expressing the recurring need for someone to anchor and support.
I need your weight
Reiterating the desire for the emotional weight and stability.
I need your ground
Reiterating the need for the grounding influence in a relationship.
I need someone to hold me down
Emphasizing the consistent need for someone to provide support.
I need your weight
Reaffirming the importance of the emotional weight from the person.
I need your ground
Reaffirming the importance of the grounding influence in a relationship.
Oh
Expression of a feeling, possibly indicating anticipation or realization.
If you give it to me
If you provide what I need emotionally,
I'll take what I need
I will take what is necessary for my well-being.
Leave you the husk of the seed
I might leave you with only the remnants or less significant parts of our connection.
The skin of my teeth
I'll retain only the bare minimum, like barely holding on.
Down
Down, possibly indicating a lowering of emotional state or surrender.
I need someone to hold me down
Reiterating the need for someone to anchor and support emotionally.
I need your weight
Reiterating the desire for the emotional weight and stability.
I need your ground
Reiterating the need for the grounding influence in a relationship.
I need someone to hold me down
Expressing the recurring need for someone to anchor and support.
I need your weight
Reiterating the desire for the emotional weight and stability.
Wait wait wait wait wait
Expressing a pause or hesitation in the emotional request.
I know I'm going to die
Acknowledging an awareness of mortality without fear.
But I'm not afraid
Asserting a lack of fear specifically related to death.
Not of that
Clarifying that the lack of fear is genuine.
And that's not a lie
Reiterating the absence of fear related to mortality.
My fear is ancient
Describing a fear that is ancient, deep-rooted, and enduring.
Like a rock formation
Comparing the fear to a geological formation with a long history.
Formed eras and ages ago
Highlighting the ancient origin of the fear, spanning eras.
Now it's strewn with youth faded
Describing the fear as now marked by the passage of time and experiences.
And heartbreak
Indicating that the fear is intertwined with youth fading and heartbreak.
It's pretty and jaded
Characterizing the fear as both attractive and worn by experiences.
Pretty and jaded
Reiterating the duality of the fear, both beautiful and worn.
Professions of devotion
Referring to promises of loyalty and dedication that are long forgotten.
Long since forgotten
Highlighting that these promises demand no emotional investment anymore.
That require no emotion
Stating that there is no need for emotional commitment in these past professions of love.
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