| The Birthday Massacre – Cover My Eyes Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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To me, this song is about a vampire regretting losing themself. She remembers the warmth of summer and the beauty of what she could see in the daylight. Since then left behind, as vampires are hurt by the sun. Which she probably found out the hard way, as she never wants to see the light. Vampires are also hurt by free-flowing water, but I always took that as rivers and oceans. They need earth beneath them at all times, and cannot sleep unless it is the earth from under their coffin. I never pictured it as rain, but it checks out because rain goes into rivers and oceans. Cover my eyes tonight, Don't let me see the light. She's in her coffin, ready to go to sleep, she can't see the sunrise she longingly misses. Vampires are undead, with no beating hearts or warm blood. She's always cold as winter and she hates it. The moon in her eyes forever, as night is when vampires are free to be. She's probably speaking these words to the vampire who turned her, as now that they're there, it is always this. Vampires also fly and can hang upside down as a bat, so falling into the night and the sky sounds much more sensible. Forever crawling and crying, it could be sadness of regret, it could be pain from hunger if she doesn't want to kill her prey or make new vampires. She doesn't know herself anymore because her soul is lost and she has become a child of the night. Never the same because there's no going back, but she remembers her life before this. All that she is now is her primal need to hunt and feed and she wishes that there was more. The amount of times she's almost begging the other vampire to not let her see the light makes me believe that she tried to go out into the light on her own and almost died - and she might be self-destructive in her sorrow enough to walk into the sun and rain and end her curse, but she's died once before... she knows the pain of loss, she found something worse than life, what could happen when you die in un-life? Where would you go with no soul? That's enough to scare her into remaining in this awful place. |
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