this is probably a stretch, but edgar allen poe wrote a short story, "the fall of the house of usher", and in it a man unintentionally buries his twin sister, whose named is Lady Madeline, alive. but other than the name of the character and the references to the grave, i don't see many connections.
the song, to me, sounds like a boy mourning a girl he was very close to. she died, not in the sense that she is passed away or got killed, but in that something changed her and now she's not the same person to him anymore.
the reason why i agree with the vampire idea is because at the beginning, the girl is looking back upon her life as a human and reflecting upon how innocent and naive she used to be.
and then there's the line "The beating of a god
that won't let go" which implies that she can't die, even if she wanted to.
because of the contant reference to "we" as in
"we are all the same when everything
Fades" or "we're chasing ourselves beneath a stone," the boy is a vampire too.
after considering all this, and noting the song's bitter tone this is what i think happened... the boy turned into a vampire. but he didn't want to be immortal all alone, so he sought out a girl that was special to him when he was human and turns her into a vampire too.
but being immortal still wasn't great. everything was "shallow." and in the process of becoming a vampire, the girl lost her innocence. the boy hates himself for what he has done, for what he can't fix.
but they're immortal. they can't die. they only thing they can do is to continue to exist and to try to make the best of eternity, hence the line "we are joy, so take my hand."
this is probably a stretch, but edgar allen poe wrote a short story, "the fall of the house of usher", and in it a man unintentionally buries his twin sister, whose named is Lady Madeline, alive. but other than the name of the character and the references to the grave, i don't see many connections.
the song, to me, sounds like a boy mourning a girl he was very close to. she died, not in the sense that she is passed away or got killed, but in that something changed her and now she's not the same person to him anymore.
the reason why i agree with the vampire idea is because at the beginning, the girl is looking back upon her life as a human and reflecting upon how innocent and naive she used to be.
and then there's the line "The beating of a god that won't let go" which implies that she can't die, even if she wanted to.
because of the contant reference to "we" as in "we are all the same when everything Fades" or "we're chasing ourselves beneath a stone," the boy is a vampire too.
after considering all this, and noting the song's bitter tone this is what i think happened... the boy turned into a vampire. but he didn't want to be immortal all alone, so he sought out a girl that was special to him when he was human and turns her into a vampire too.
but being immortal still wasn't great. everything was "shallow." and in the process of becoming a vampire, the girl lost her innocence. the boy hates himself for what he has done, for what he can't fix.
but they're immortal. they can't die. they only thing they can do is to continue to exist and to try to make the best of eternity, hence the line "we are joy, so take my hand."
blaargh. over-analysis. :]