Death, Come Near Me

I'm kinda into death and thrash metal... I really wasn't into gothic from the very beginning (though I'm starting to enjoy post-punk artists XD), but for these artists I've always done an exception. And that song symbolizes everything I like about them... The wonderous, heavy atmospheres they convoy, the vocal artists (especially the female one ._.), the absolute cure for the harmonic enviroment of every song... and last, but not least, their poetical talent, which is the matter that counts most, when talking about the meaning of their songs. First of all, the song is a symbolistic hymn to death. It's a poem dense with sorrow and melancholy. The protagonist is not clear: we don't know if it's a man or a woman, we don't know if there's just one or a whole group. In my opinion, that alone gives the idea of universality of a certain pain. There's no distinction, as long as one's capable of coming in such a situation, when someone gets to befriend the same painful demon that's slaughtering his emotions ("...The rapture of grief is all..."). Melancholy is hereby pictured as a feeling so immense and deep that captures every single one of us and links everyone into this suffering and, eventually, into death ("...Death, come near us and give us life..."). Death is then pictured, in an existencialistic manner, as a Saviour from the pain that stems from living. On the other side, that's a feeling that isolates someone from the world and makes he feel like he's a vagabond, a man with no country ("...in my heart astray... For the solitude of those left behind..."). Love is very important too. As much as one yearns for love so deeply and becomes aware of the void inside him ("...the tears fills the void in my heart astray..."), he's got nothing to but to hope for love to come ("...I seek the night and hope to find love..."). That feeling, however, is so bewildering that the protagonist loses his faith ("...the lost hopes are grieving..."), his hope ("...Oh, shed a tear for the loss of innocence...") and wants to come to a final resolution with Death herself ("...Give me love or give me death... Death come near me, I've summoned you..."). A beautiful artwork, entwined with excellent poetry and strong emotions. Everytime I get to listen to this, I get trapped into its charming, melancholical spiral... Withering inside the burning pessimism I often come to assume, when I gaze in the world and ask myself if there's still love left for me... If my dedication and my trust in love is just going to waste... Anyway... It's plainly Art.