I've always thought of this song, as if I were the words of someone suffering from depression. He's looking something out there that will make things fine again...a woman. When your depressed you don't feel scared of death, to you it seems as the only way out. The part "this mortal soil around me, mortal feeling I have found, surrounded by your glory, hold me now so that I never drown." to me means that now he has found someone that is worth living for, he feels mortal now, and he wants her to hold on to him so that he'll never feel that way again, because next time he will die. This song hold alot of personal feelings in it and I just think it's an amazing song.
I've always thought of this song, as if I were the words of someone suffering from depression. He's looking something out there that will make things fine again...a woman. When your depressed you don't feel scared of death, to you it seems as the only way out. The part "this mortal soil around me, mortal feeling I have found, surrounded by your glory, hold me now so that I never drown." to me means that now he has found someone that is worth living for, he feels mortal now, and he wants her to hold on to him so that he'll never feel that way again, because next time he will die. This song hold alot of personal feelings in it and I just think it's an amazing song.