The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
""This is it The final place to falter To see the destination To be the one who makes the final call We rise to fall This is where we clear the path to freedom To gain the new horizon And bleed onto the road we lost before So rise to... Save me My miracle To escape the way we feel We bleed and rush To say goodbye Fly through My window to Free what's left behind We fall and rise to feel alive Save me my miracle Take my doubts away and fly through my window I'll rise and fall through you And so we we speak To feel a little less neglected To reach the final chapter And understand The answers that you hide To build the final structure And fight the desperation We'll meet the one We had to leave behind So rise my friend to... Save me My miracle To escape the way we feel We bleed and rush To say goodbye Fly through My window to Free what's left behind We fall and rise to feel alive Save me my miracle Take my doubts away and fly through my window I'll rise and fall through you Save me my miracle To escape the way we feel we bleed and rush to say goodbye Fly through my window To free what's left behind We fall and rise to feel alive Save me my miracle Take my doubts away and fly through my window I'll rise and fall through you""
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"To see the destination, to be the one who makes the final call" - to seek the end-of-life/afterlife, and be the one who makes the decision when that happens.
"To escape the way we feel we bleed and rush to say goodbye" - thats pretty obvious.
"Save me, my miracle, take my doubts away and fly through my window I'll rise and fall through you" - to me it sounds like asking God (or similar) for a sign that its okay to do it. Saving him by letting him know it's okay to end his life or giving him the strength to actually do it. A sort of reverse selling your soul - like I'll believe in you or commit to you (rise and fall through you) if you just let me know this is okay to do or help me to do it.
"And so we speak to feel a little less neglected" - speaking to a God (not something he would normally do) to try overcome the neglect he's felt living this existence.
"To reach the final chapter and understand the answers that you hide" - again, talking to God. Looking to move on to what's next (afterlife) and try to understand all the stuff God has withheld from us.
"We'll meet the ones we had to leave behind" - meeting people in the afterlife that has previously died.
Given the content of many other Mercenary songs, I don't actually feel like the writer believes in God. This just feels like a desperate plea to one if he exists. In a way that makes his "secret window" - speaking privately to a God he publicly doesn't believe in.