What Comes After
Echoes of Regret: Unveiling Life's Bittersweet Symphony
Lyrics
I'm left unsure
I am uncertain about something
With thoughts that I once ignored
Contemplating thoughts that were previously dismissed
I'm left impure
I feel morally tainted or corrupted
With words I've heard a thousand times before
Repeating words that have become familiar and repetitive
I'm in too deep to take the reigns
I am deeply involved and unable to control the situation
But it's just one cruel twist of fate
An unfortunate and unexpected turn of events
It reaches out constricts the veins
An external force tightens its grip, affecting the core
I'm watching as your life's retraced
Observing the review and reflection of your life
Locked in my own philosophy
Stuck in my own set of beliefs and principles
Take my thoughts to the grave with me
Choosing to keep my thoughts secret even in death
The conscious worry and woes of the jaded folks up here
Concerns and troubles of cynical people in this realm
When the dead appear
Referencing the appearance of the deceased
Worms crawl in between my nails
Describing decay with graphic imagery
Skin molds and falls away
The deterioration of the body, shedding like skin
Please leave my bones to stay
Pleading for the preservation of bones for a potential resurrection
They'll live and find another way
Belief in the continuation of life through another means
Locked in my own philosophy
Continuation of being trapped in personal beliefs
Take my thoughts to the grave with me
Insisting on taking personal thoughts to the afterlife
The conscious worry and woes of the jaded folks up here
Expressing concerns and troubles of cynical people in the afterlife
When the dead appear
Reference to the appearance of the deceased in the afterlife
Encase me in a willow
Symbolic request to be surrounded by nature until the end
Cradle to the end
Being cradled by nature until the end of life
Consume me Mother Earth
Asking for forgiveness from the Earth for what remains
Forgive all that's left
Seeking absolution for what is left behind
At least I'm not your grave digger
Expressing relief at not being responsible for burying others
Put you shallow
Describing a shallow burial
Salt it fallow
Adding salt to keep the ground barren
Leave your body full of mold
Leaving a body to decay and become moldy
Resurrected
Imagining a resurrection and infection of the buried
Infected
Feeling tainted and influenced, attempting to claim one's soul
Trying to take my soul
Struggling against an attempt to take away one's essence
Dead and buried
Being dead and laid to rest without a spouse
Unmarried
Not united in death with a partner
From this place called home
Referring to a departure from a place that was once called home
Was it worth it
Questioning the value or significance of past actions
Did you earn it
Asking whether one earned the consequences of their actions
Will a scapegoat die if you burn him
Questioning the fate of a scapegoat when subjected to fire
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