I tried to kill the pain
But only brought more
(So much more)
I lay dying
And I'm pouring, crimson regret, and betrayal

I'm dying
Praying
Bleeding
Screaming
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
My God! My tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God! My tourniquet
Return to me salvation

Do you remember me?
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side?
Will you forget me?

I'm dying
Praying
Bleeding
Screaming

Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?

My God! My tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God! My tourniquet
Return to me salvation

(Return to me salvation)
(I want to die!)

My God! My tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God! My tourniquet
Return to me salvation

My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries, for deliverance
Will I be denied?
Christ! Tourniquet! My suicide


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Tourniquet Lyrics as written by Amy Lee Ben Moody

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    General Comment

    Clearly this song is about suicide and the religious stigma attached to it.

    She has already begun the process of killing herself (I always envision something more dramatic, like wrist-slashing-- it is both relatively slow and involves bleeding), and it's going slowly, so that there's time for the thoughts (unless the song takes place in some sort of purgatory) that accompany it.

    The actions are pretty straightforward. They're dying, and now they're regretting having taken that action. Particularly, the regret centers around religion; in the Christian tradition, suicide is a condemning sin. However, the second verse implies that the suicide victim has been "lost" long before their suicide. They once knew God but fell away from it, but return now at the hour of their death.

    The last verse sums it up: They want to die, but they don't want to be condemned as an unsaved sinner-- they want deliverance, and genuinely. The result is unclear by the lyrics and the sudden cut-off ending into a soft, mournful elegy. They could be sadly saved in death, or bitterly denied.

    MurasakiNekoon February 25, 2006   Link

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