Dead Skin
Embrace Decay: Unveiling the Profound Meaning in Vasa Kumora's 'Dead Skin'
Lyrics
Wake Up wake up your death is closer
Calling attention to wake up and realize that death is approaching nearer.
Give up give up to your decay
Encouraging acceptance or surrender to the process of decay and decline.
Each passing day your life goes away
Every day that passes contributes to the diminishing of one's life.
Breath after breath your time runs away
Each breath signifies the passage of time, slipping away gradually.
Death little Death wants a toll again
Death, metaphorically referred to as a being, demands payment or sacrifice once more.
Once again once again once again
Repetition emphasizing the recurrence of the cycle.
What are what are you going to lose today
Rhetorical question probing what will be lost or sacrificed on the current day.
What will you give of yourself to death
Questioning what aspects of oneself will be given up or surrendered to death.
She feeds she feeds from your empty hands
Death is sustained or strengthened by what is relinquished or given away.
With every binge your memories fade away
Memories fade as one indulges or surrenders more to death.
Death wolfs before you what you have already been
Death confronts the person with what they've previously experienced or endured.
Death wolfs before you what you have already lived
Death reminds the person of their past life experiences.
Death wolfs before you what you have already been
Similar to lines 12 and 13, emphasizing the repetition of facing one's past.
Death wolfs before you the one you were used to be
Death confronts the person with the version of themselves they were accustomed to being.
Wake up wake up you are deader than the day before
Repeated urging to wake up to the reality that each day, one is closer to death.
Your past your past falls from you like dead skin
Comparing the shedding of one's past experiences to shedding dead skin.
You will fall you will fall Death pretends another toll
Predicting or warning about an impending fall or demise with death demanding a toll.
You will fall you will fall in her jaw you will fall
Reiterating the anticipation of falling into the jaws or grasp of death.
You will fall you will fall Death pretends another toll
Repetition of the prediction of falling into death's control.
You will fall you will fall In her jaw you will fall
Emphasizing the inevitable fall or succumbing to death.
Death wolfs before you what you have already been
Recalling or reminding the person of their past experiences in the face of death.
Death wolfs before you what you have already lived
Similar to lines 12 and 13, emphasizing the reminder of past lived experiences.
Death wolfs before you what you have already been
Repeated emphasis on facing one's past in the presence of death.
Death wolfs before you She loves your dead skin
Death cherishes or desires the discarded or lifeless aspects of the person.
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