Lyrics
Dear darkness, dear darkness
Expressing a personal connection or familiarity with darkness, possibly metaphorical.
Won't you cover, cover me again?
Pleading for the darkness to provide protection or solace once again.
Dear darkness, dear
Continuing to address darkness as a known entity, suggesting a long-term relationship.
I've been your friend for many years
Claiming a history of being allied with darkness, implying a deep connection.
Won't you do this for me, dearest darkness?
Requesting a favor from darkness, asking for shelter from the harshness of the sun.
And cover me from the sun
Extending the plea for darkness to shield from sunlight, possibly symbolizing difficulties.
And though the words tightening
Acknowledging the pressure or constraints of words, suggesting a sense of suffocation.
The words are tightening around my throat and, and
Describing a feeling of words closing in on the speaker's throat, indicating emotional or verbal oppression.
Around the throat of the one I love
Referring to the tightening words affecting the person the speaker loves.
Tightening, tightening, tightening
Emphasizing the repeated and escalating intensity of the words constricting the loved one's throat.
Around the throat of the one I love
-Tightening, tightening, tightening
-Dear darkness, dear darkness
Revisiting the address to darkness, acknowledging its turn to take care of the speaker and their loved ones.
Now it's your time to look after us
Declaring that it's darkness's moment to provide protection or support.
?Cause we kept your clothes, we kept your business
Referencing a reciprocal relationship with darkness, having supported it in the past during others' good fortune.
When everyone else was having good luck
Highlighting the speaker's loyalty to darkness when others were thriving.
So now it's your time, time to pay
Indicating that it's now time for darkness to reciprocate and support the speaker and their loved one.
To pay me and the one I love
Stating the expectation for darkness to compensate the speaker and their loved one.
With the worldly goods you stashed away
Referring to the worldly possessions or benefits that darkness should provide as payment.
With all the things you took from us
Highlighting the things taken from the speaker and their loved one that darkness should return or restore.
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