Lyrics
I'd burn alive to keep you warm when you're alone.
I am willing to endure extreme pain ("burn alive") to provide warmth for you when you are alone.
Shiver under blankets in the basement where our secrets sleep.
We hide our secrets in the basement, and you tremble under blankets in that private space.
You pour the liquor on the staircase, girl.
You pour liquor on the staircase, suggesting a ritual or symbolic act.
Pass the flask and close your eyes.
Passing a flask and closing eyes, possibly escaping reality or avoiding confrontation.
Are you grieving for what we've become?
Reflecting on the sorrowful transformation of our relationship, wondering if you are also mourning.
Are you running from that room?
Questioning if you are trying to escape a specific place or situation.
We set the evidence on fire.
We destroy the evidence of our actions by setting it on fire.
We light cigarettes and chase out old regrets.
Lighting cigarettes and confronting past regrets while trying to move forward.
Are you grieving for tonight?
Are you mourning or feeling sorrow for the events of tonight?
I smell the sulfur on her skin (breathe in).
Sensing a distinct smell ("sulfur") on her skin, possibly associated with danger or change.
Yesterday will be the end of you and I.
Referring to the end of the relationship with "you and I" happening in the past ("yesterday").
Yesterday will be the end of shoulders where we rest our head.
Anticipating the end of the comforting support provided by shoulders.
Now we grieve for tomorrow goes on without us.
Grieving for a future where we are absent, emphasizing the inevitability of change.
Now we breathe for no one else.
We breathe for ourselves alone, suggesting a self-focused survival.
Everything is broken slowly sinking under waiting for tomorrow
Everything is falling apart, and we are sinking while waiting for an uncertain future.
waiting for the grave to tell me that she's lonely.
Waiting for death to confirm the loneliness of someone important.
Open up and hold me slowly feel my body becoming one and only.
Yearning for intimacy, a desire for connection and unity in a relationship.
Death is just an excuse to forget you.
Death is used as an excuse to forget the pain associated with you.
Now we run from ourselves.
We are running away from our own selves, possibly avoiding self-reflection or confrontation.
Hope lies not in the mirror.
Hope cannot be found in the reflection of oneself.
I'll burn alive for you.
Expressing a willingness to endure extreme pain once again ("burn alive") for you.
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