Interesting takes on this song, all with valid points.
I think the song covers both sides of the love issue - falling in love and then losing that love - as forms of suicide. In the first verse we have someone falling in love and in the process giving up what it means to be themselves and taking on the life of their partner. Casting away their "simple life of need" and placing their partner's burdens on their shoulders ("of the sights you have been shown / of the hurt you call your own"). I've known many people who seem to lose their identity when they fall in love. Forgetting all their friends and pursuits to live for this one person they love deeply. In this case, love is indeed suicide.
In the second verse the person loses his/her love. Or maybe they are just falling out of love as they come to terms with the pain that they tried to take on in the first verse and realize the conflicts are pushing the couple apart. But despite all that, the singer remembers that no one felt like this love it's killing him to be apart from it.
Interesting takes on this song, all with valid points.
I think the song covers both sides of the love issue - falling in love and then losing that love - as forms of suicide. In the first verse we have someone falling in love and in the process giving up what it means to be themselves and taking on the life of their partner. Casting away their "simple life of need" and placing their partner's burdens on their shoulders ("of the sights you have been shown / of the hurt you call your own"). I've known many people who seem to lose their identity when they fall in love. Forgetting all their friends and pursuits to live for this one person they love deeply. In this case, love is indeed suicide.
In the second verse the person loses his/her love. Or maybe they are just falling out of love as they come to terms with the pain that they tried to take on in the first verse and realize the conflicts are pushing the couple apart. But despite all that, the singer remembers that no one felt like this love it's killing him to be apart from it.
But perhaps I'm being too literal...