| Rainer Maria – Burn Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it's about not having the confidence or the strength to love someone...it's about being scared to love someone because you don't believe that they would love you enough to do anything for you including being burned. and you just won't believe or trust them, because you selfishly don't want yourself to get hurt. you'd rather have them burn in their love for you. they're willing to give you everything, and you just take and take and take because you can (like a tyrant)...in the end, you can't even do the very simple thing of letting them go, trusting them, loving them. it's like in frank stockton's amazing short story, "the lady or the tiger," in which the princess has the ultimate decision of sending her convicted lover to the teeth of the tiger or to a lovely new bride...if he dies, he will have lived only loving the princess and her alone. but if he marries, the princess will be forever suffering in her jealousy because he cannot be hers. which pain is worse? having your lover dead or knowing that he is there but you cannot be with him? |
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