Dots and Dashes (Enough Already)

The horror aspect is exemplified in the song. My personally view on this is that it's about a female vampire coming to turn the narrator of the song.

Heat filling up my cheeks This is about the blood rushing through the singers cheeks.

Your feet float above the floor Dress torn above your knees Like you've owned it for centuries

This is reference to the female vampire hoovering over her kill, she's wearing clothes that ragged and look well worn and old, because she has been around for centuries, and eventually she just stopped caring about her physical appearance.

The dot's and dashes on the wall are the stipling from her having killed and fed on someone in the narrators house. Their blood is flung over the wall in such as way as to resemble morse code, which is also a metaphor for the vampire woman getting tired and jaded about her immortality. She needs someone to rescuer her from the drudge of everlasting life. She has seen kingdoms come and go, she's seen champions and all kinds of wondrous things, but she's still ultimately alone. The narrator wants to be turned, so he can be with her and see the things she's seen, and he trys to convince her that he can be her companion by sharing his experiences. She tells him that he's too young and inexperienced to live up to that expectation, she can't save him.

In the chorus, he's basically trying to convince her to let him into the pact of immortality and power. He's telling her he has lived and done things and that he's already broken and has the halmarks of a vampire, he's sexually obscene, he's not afraid to sin and walk in the darkness. Just give him a shot.

She eventually does, and they go together into the night, Signalling in a moonbeam. His innocence is slowly leached from him, and he becomes more jaded and hard as a vampire. The innocence also represents his blood being taken from him and his turning in the context of the story.He burns away his humanity.

He follows her and she teaches him the the ways of the vampire. The codes in the sunrise represent that they will die in the sun, and therefore can not understand the lives of those that walk in the light. It becomes foreign to them, but she's telling him even though he becomes jaded and can't understand them, there is still worth in it. And if she ever feels him trying to leave her that she will end him and he will never seen the countless ages and power than he sought. He's her's and She is his, forever.