Don't Cling to Life
Embracing Life's Fragility: A Melodic Reflection
Lyrics
With all your chances gone awry
Expressing regret or missed opportunities in life.
To be collected by your palms
Suggesting a desire to grasp and control one's fate or experiences.
If I had only stood aside
Reflecting on a moment where the speaker should have stayed out of something.
With dower sediment in hand
Mentioning the presence of heavy emotional baggage or burdens.
Forego delusion to disarm
Advising against self-deception to disarm potential emotional pain.
Then dance around your lonely cave
Imagery of solitude and introspection, dancing in one's own emotional space.
In my relentless state of charm
Describing a state of charm despite persistent loneliness.
Let's stay close for all our days
Expressing a desire for enduring closeness.
And as it banes deadly grip
Conveying the suffocating grip of something ominous.
The world collapses 'round my room
Depicting a collapse of the world around the speaker.
The water floats, the floor's adrift
Describing a disorienting and chaotic situation.
Your eyes demand the darkest gloom
Highlighting a demand for darkness in the eyes, possibly indicating a somber perspective.
With hands held tight, it goes and goes
Emphasizing the relentless passage of time, holding onto something that slips away.
The light that once shot off the pale
Referencing a loss of brightness or hope.
A steady hand's return to stone
Indicating a return to a hardened or emotionless state.
Let's stay close for all our days
Reiterating the desire for enduring closeness despite challenges.
Failing this, let's dance and cry
Expressing a suggestion to embrace both joy and sorrow as a way to understand the purpose of life and death.
Failing this, let's dance and cry
-So we remember why we die
-We remember why we die, yeah
-Failing this, let's dance and cry
-Failing this, let's dance and cry
-So we remember why we die
-We remember why we die
-Don't cling to life, don't cling to life
Advising against an overly attached or fearful approach to life, emphasizing the emptiness on the other side.
Don't cling to life, don't cling to life
-There's nothing on the other side
-There's nothing on the other side
-Don't cling to life, don't cling to life
Repeating the warning not to cling to life and reinforcing the idea that there is nothing significant on the other side.
Don't cling to life, don't cling to life
-There's nothing on the other side
-There's nothing on the other side
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