Suicide Pact
Eternal Embrace: A Poetic Farewell by Take It to Heart
Lyrics
Let's go out
Expressing the desire to go out or end something.
With a bang
Suggesting a dramatic and impactful conclusion.
Let the flames
Symbolizing a destructive and intense journey.
Light our way
Using flames as a metaphor to guide the way, possibly through destruction.
This isn't easy for me to do
Acknowledging difficulty in taking this action.
To stop myself from asking
Expressing hesitation in asking a question, possibly related to the decision being made.
What's there to prove?
Questioning the need to prove something.
(What's left to prove?)
Reiterating the questioning of what is left to prove.
It's all in this letter
Referring to a letter containing significant information or feelings.
From me to you
Expressing the personal nature of the content in the letter.
It's everything, you've heard it all before
Stating that the content of the letter is not new or original.
(Never read, I tore it right in two)
Indicating the rejection or disregard of the information in the letter.
So before you turn and close the door
Addressing the act of closing a door and emphasizing the speaker's love.
(Just know that I loved you)
Reiterating love before the potential end.
As I take
Indicating the speaker's impending death.
My final breath
Stating the finality of the speaker's breath.
Just know it was floating in your lungs
Metaphorically connecting the speaker's breath to the recipient's lungs.
With just a kiss goodnight
Highlighting the significance of a final kiss as a goodbye or goodnight.
Or a kiss goodbye
Offering two possibilities for the final kiss, either goodbye or goodnight.
Let's take our last withering love
Suggesting a conclusion to a love that has withered away.
(And bring it to it's fucking knees)
Expressing a desire to bring the withering love to its end forcefully.
Let's just go out with a bang
Repeating the desire to end with a dramatic and impactful conclusion.
And put our lives to rest
Proposing putting an end to their lives.
When the bell tolls again
Referring to the tolling of a bell, possibly signifying death.
(When the bell tolls again)
Repeating the reference to the tolling of a bell and the dancing of names with the dead.
Our names will be dancing with the dead
Suggesting a connection with the dead through the repetition of names.
(Among the dead)
Further emphasizing a connection with the dead.
Hymns for our hopeless hearts
Referring to hymns for hearts without hope.
Sung into the night
Describing the singing of hymns into the night.
The vigil will light a sorry sky
Depicting a vigil that illuminates a sorrowful sky.
Hymn for a hopeless heart
Reiterating the theme of a hymn for a heart without hope.
We've been buried before
Acknowledging past struggles or difficulties.
Under the weight of duress
Describing being overwhelmed by pressure in the past.
Put your lips to the barrel, my dear
Suggesting a dark and drastic action involving a firearm.
I'm waiting for you there
Waiting for the recipient at a significant and possibly dangerous location.
We'll greet death with a kiss
Expressing a willingness to embrace death with a kiss.
We'll greet death with a kiss
Repeating the willingness to embrace death with a kiss.
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