Battlestar Anorexia
Eternal Decay: Battling Anorexia's Poisonous Embrace
Lyrics
This disease will make your heart explode
This illness will cause your heart to burst.
Melt your teeth and flesh down to the bone
It will dissolve your teeth and flesh until only bones remain.
They took our blood now, baby
Refers to someone taking their blood without permission.
Your kiss shall poison me
Describes how their kiss will act as poison.
They took our blood with no permission slip
Reiterates the unauthorized taking of blood.
Darling, won't you please…
Asking the listener to become emotionless or unfeeling.
Turn to stone!
Repetition emphasizing the desire for emotional numbness.
Turn to stone!
Continues the plea to become unfeeling.
This disease will make your blood turn gray
Indicates that the illness will turn one's blood color to gray.
Catch your breath and lay yourself to waste
To struggle for breath and waste away.
This is jet black field trip to the end of days
Metaphorically describes a dark journey towards the end.
They took our blood now baby, maybe some things never change….
Suggests a resigned acceptance of certain negative things.
Turn to stone!
Repetition emphasizing the desire for emotional numbness.
Turn to stone!
Continues the plea to become unfeeling.
Time makes corpses of our moving parts
Time deteriorates our bodies, turning us into corpses.
You'll see, when Revlon smiles steal your spotlight
When superficial beauty steals attention away.
You'll be saved if you repeat my name
Implies salvation or safety through repetition of a name.
Laid to waste ‘cause some things never change
Accepting defeat or failure as inevitable.
Drawn and quartered like you wanted it,
Being treated or dismembered as desired by another.
You'll do as I please.
Asserting control or dominance over someone else.
I carved your name into this pretty flesh: "You shall die for me."
Threatening someone's life by carving their name into flesh.
Time makes corpses of our moving parts
Repetition of the concept of time deteriorating our bodies.
You'll see, when Revlon smiles steal your spotlight
Reiteration of how superficial beauty can steal attention.
Time makes corpses of our moving parts
Continued repetition of the concept of time's effect on our bodies.
You'll see, when Revlon smiles steal your spotlight
Reiterating how superficial beauty can divert attention.
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