commit your body to advice you can't live with
it's hard enough to lose a life that you once lived
and all that's left are all the things
that you've never wanted, never wanted
cause you're trembling at the sight of blood
it leaves you cold and alone
and we can't live on with the sins you've learned
the hunger's gone, gone

cause you know what you have to do just to keep you happy
you know what you have to do just to keep you standing
you know what you have to do

you have changed your reasons
now you're locked and it's too late
you got no redemption with your ways
so you give in move from one neck
to the next to let you live
with one embrace you take a life of innocence

and all that's left still doesn't taste to those
that you've been hunting, that you've been hunting
cause youre trembling at the sight of blood
it leaves you cold and alone
and we cant live on with the sins you've learned
the hunger's gone, gone.

cause you know what you have to do just to keep you happy
you know what you have to do just to keep you standing
you know what you have to do

you have changed your reason
now you're locked and its too late
and you got no redemption with your ways
so you give in



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    Either, the literal interpretation would be it's about a serial murderer, or metaphorically it could be aboput someone who doesn't want to commit. Either way it's an awesome song. Period.

    Pie-Faced-Ghoulon February 27, 2005   Link
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    I thought this song was about vampires...

    so long sopranoon October 03, 2005   Link
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    the gates of dis are in dante's inferno when they descend into lower hell.

    kill-in-tonson December 06, 2005   Link
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    and i like the vampire idea

    kill-in-tonson December 06, 2005   Link
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    Yeah, I definitely get vampires, but also a sense of having to do something to survive, even if you don't want to.

    prayingmantis84on March 29, 2006   Link
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    probably drugs.

    Vroomfondellon December 31, 2006   Link

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