A lady being a metaphor for death. When you think of Death as a character, its the grim reaper with the hood and scythe. We can see death as the calm and beautifully simple way to end pain under the light of this song. I get the essence that he is romanticized to ending his pain by being taken away by "Lady death" : My main belief is that the narrator is contemplating suicide, and is finding comfort in death by the traits she is showing as opposed to that fucking frightning grim reaper. The metaphor that death is a lady attributes a maternal meaning also. A feeling that your gonna be looked after no matter what, maybe.
I think of Lady death here as a character that visits us when were thinking, or unconscious.
At the end, Lady death has either 1: bought the narrator to his senses by showing that finding comfort in death is the same as finding it in life, except that you get to live. Making the narrator think it over, death has taken him on a trip through memories to help talk him out of it... or 2: left the narrator as he is having his pain relieved ie by way of surgery perhaps. He is thinking about the life he has lived, and how he has to overcome the pain to live another day. (I saw he cause Burton C Bell does have quite the dude voice.) By letting go of his hand, perhaps he hasnt sustained enough injury to be dead, or the mental capacity hes exhibited in handling pain has helped him pull through.
Love this song though. I think of it as the coming round from thoughts of suicide. I feel the song is very uplifting.
A lady being a metaphor for death. When you think of Death as a character, its the grim reaper with the hood and scythe. We can see death as the calm and beautifully simple way to end pain under the light of this song. I get the essence that he is romanticized to ending his pain by being taken away by "Lady death" : My main belief is that the narrator is contemplating suicide, and is finding comfort in death by the traits she is showing as opposed to that fucking frightning grim reaper. The metaphor that death is a lady attributes a maternal meaning also. A feeling that your gonna be looked after no matter what, maybe.
I think of Lady death here as a character that visits us when were thinking, or unconscious.
At the end, Lady death has either 1: bought the narrator to his senses by showing that finding comfort in death is the same as finding it in life, except that you get to live. Making the narrator think it over, death has taken him on a trip through memories to help talk him out of it... or 2: left the narrator as he is having his pain relieved ie by way of surgery perhaps. He is thinking about the life he has lived, and how he has to overcome the pain to live another day. (I saw he cause Burton C Bell does have quite the dude voice.) By letting go of his hand, perhaps he hasnt sustained enough injury to be dead, or the mental capacity hes exhibited in handling pain has helped him pull through.
Love this song though. I think of it as the coming round from thoughts of suicide. I feel the song is very uplifting.