This song is about self-destruction and the will to hurt forever, instead of being freed of your pain and burden, because that very same agony defines who you are. If you take the pain and the sadness away, you are left with nothing and you are a stranger even to yourself. It's better to suffer than not be who you are, or at least who you think you should be. In the end, all these things will just leave you with the taste of ashes in your mouth, so you (at least temporarily) cast away all the memories, thoughts and truths you held within and you succumb to total darkness and chaos, maybe to emerge from it as a new man. Or not emerge at all, which is also just as fine.
This song is about self-destruction and the will to hurt forever, instead of being freed of your pain and burden, because that very same agony defines who you are. If you take the pain and the sadness away, you are left with nothing and you are a stranger even to yourself. It's better to suffer than not be who you are, or at least who you think you should be. In the end, all these things will just leave you with the taste of ashes in your mouth, so you (at least temporarily) cast away all the memories, thoughts and truths you held within and you succumb to total darkness and chaos, maybe to emerge from it as a new man. Or not emerge at all, which is also just as fine.