Dear Darkness

Embracing Shadows: PJ Harvey's Ode to Darkness and Redemption
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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

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Tightening, tightening, tightening

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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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