This song is about death, most specifically suicide. I'm sure it has double meanings though, I can already see a few through the way Chris portrays this rather crappy topic.
The setting is a backyard, at night. Lots of people choose to do it in their backyards. In the lines, 'A flash of light followed by silence' I assume the writer is speaking about how after the initial gun blast, that the next thing is silence/death. The line 'dust my chin a finer ash' relates to the feint remnants of a gun blast that exits out the chamber with the firing of a bullet.
Followed by the lines: I kissed your lips with the safety off; lips are the chamber of the gun and safety off is the simple reminder he's putting a gun to his/her head.
The final end of the verse represents the final moments to me, the person of importance is fading and dies.
This song is about death, most specifically suicide. I'm sure it has double meanings though, I can already see a few through the way Chris portrays this rather crappy topic.
The setting is a backyard, at night. Lots of people choose to do it in their backyards. In the lines, 'A flash of light followed by silence' I assume the writer is speaking about how after the initial gun blast, that the next thing is silence/death. The line 'dust my chin a finer ash' relates to the feint remnants of a gun blast that exits out the chamber with the firing of a bullet.
Followed by the lines: I kissed your lips with the safety off; lips are the chamber of the gun and safety off is the simple reminder he's putting a gun to his/her head.
The final end of the verse represents the final moments to me, the person of importance is fading and dies.