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i've had this dream before, i know just how it ends. our eyes will fill with flame. our hearts will swell & explode. woodlawn is a place of abandoned hopes & dreams, of always wilting flowers & letters never read. but there is life here. you can hear it in the soil. you can see it in the shadows, etched in stone: "there is life here." so we're three years removed, and the earth around us has set. though the gears have stopped turning, the engine still hums. rewind, repeat, i see you there. you're alive on every page of every book. i hear your voice in echoes, in every line. this doesn't get any easier. this is a wound that time can't heal. it leaves a scar.
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it reads like a continuation of Woodlawn to me. Woodlawn is about the loss of someone close to them. "radiation" kind of suggests that this is the consequences of the same event. "woodlawn is a place of abandoned hopes & dreams, of always wilting flowers & letters never read"... the "woodlawn" is seemingly a personal image that they connect with the loss of this person, this suggests unreciprocated communication i.e. they desperately want to speak to this person again, but they're gone forever. they are "three years removed" from the loss, and life goes on, and they have managed to at very least regain composure and carry on with their life (the engine still hums), but they still haven't recovered from the trauma of the loss. the last three lines say it all really.
"i've had this dream before, i know just how it ends" - recurring dream of the incident in the line "It replays everyday and every time I yell the warning, 'please turn back!' " possibly?