Do You Want To Die Together

Getting over a pretty bad break-up, the second I heard this song while we were trying to end off on a good note with each other, I immediately teared up. Love the lyrics, great song.

My take on it is a man who truly falls in love with this woman, so much that he believes he can't live without her. They eventually end up breaking it off and he doesn't want to live without her; she sounds like she's trying to convince him against ending his life. It's a bittersweet ending, in which they decide they want to die together.

This song freaking rules. There should be a million comments on it.

Such a bad-ass song, so catchy, makes me wanna sing along every time! It should have two millions comments on it.

My interpretation is that this is about a manipulative relationship. The man might not be emotionally manipulative on purpose, but he keeps telling the woman how he loves her so much that he would see no point in living if she were to leave him. At first, the woman comforts him ("please don't die today," "stop your crying now"), but she slowly starts to realize that he's being manipulative. She tries to leave, but she's either afraid that he'll hurt her or hurt himself, so she continues to appease him but without meaning it. Eventually she calls his bluff ("I may look alive, but inside I'm dead" --> "so let's make it true").

I think the chorus "do you want to die together? Yes I do" can have a double meaning from the woman's perspective. She might have genuinely meant it at first, but as the relationship runs its course, she's only agreeing to appease him or to call his bluff.

Maybe I'm cynical and the intended meaning is closer to the other commenter's, but I see some of one of my past relationships in this song. My partner would always tell me how much they missed me every time I went out somewhere or did errands, how they wished I could just stay beside them forever, how I was their reason to live, and how I was the one thing that kept them happy. I thought it was sweet at first (I was young), but eventually I realized I had become a recluse because of them. I would go straight to them after school / work and would only go out with my friends a couple of times a year. I felt pressured to agree whenever they said we were each other's reasons to live, and it took me years to realize that I was lying to myself by agreeing. I didn't realize that my feelings were no longer as strong as their feelings for me, but eventually we broke up. Even though my partner always went on and on about how I was their reason to live and we were together for nearly a decade, we moved on from the breakup within just a couple of days as if we had never been together. It was a huge relief for me.