I think this is about losing love and hating the idea of being in love, then realizing that you need love.
Losing love makes you feel "lost" and "hurt," and like you're "swimming in circles of circles in the last place (you) wanted to be," or not being able to escape the lost and lonesome feelings. You thought love was keeping you up, but then came to believe that it was strangling you, relating it to death, as the opposite of live in "love or live".
"I walked in the dark..." is about being lost without love and feeling hatred. Then you realize that the hate was only hurting you, and you have to learn to let the hate go, realizing that you actually do need love, this time relating it to life.
I think this is about losing love and hating the idea of being in love, then realizing that you need love. Losing love makes you feel "lost" and "hurt," and like you're "swimming in circles of circles in the last place (you) wanted to be," or not being able to escape the lost and lonesome feelings. You thought love was keeping you up, but then came to believe that it was strangling you, relating it to death, as the opposite of live in "love or live".
"I walked in the dark..." is about being lost without love and feeling hatred. Then you realize that the hate was only hurting you, and you have to learn to let the hate go, realizing that you actually do need love, this time relating it to life.