this song takes rather bleak view of our mortality. The song encourages us to beware that our time may come sooner than you think, that death is not something to look forward to, and all you can do is do the most with what time you have left in this existence.
"And you leave another body" initially gave me some pause. i don't think this song is about a spirit that hops from body to body, or about reincarnation. Instead, "leave" should be read in the sense of leaving this world (dying) and leaving another body (corpse) behind in your place.
What is the repeated "It" referring to? "It" is what generates life but also makes you sick, seeps inside, makes a hole, and kills you. What generates life? Water, or time, or ???. What can leave a gaping hole due to its corrosive qualities? water, or time, or ???. Looking at the broader context of the lyrics, I think it is "time" not "water".
"darker days are still to come" means the narrator doesn't believe that death is followed by a bright, pleasant afterlife, but in a nothing, abyss, nihilism.
"let us sound the alarm, let a warning rage 'fore its gone" = let's beware that our end may occur at any moment. live to the fullest before you run out of time in this existence and you leave a corpse in your place.
this song takes rather bleak view of our mortality. The song encourages us to beware that our time may come sooner than you think, that death is not something to look forward to, and all you can do is do the most with what time you have left in this existence.
"And you leave another body" initially gave me some pause. i don't think this song is about a spirit that hops from body to body, or about reincarnation. Instead, "leave" should be read in the sense of leaving this world (dying) and leaving another body (corpse) behind in your place.
What is the repeated "It" referring to? "It" is what generates life but also makes you sick, seeps inside, makes a hole, and kills you. What generates life? Water, or time, or ???. What can leave a gaping hole due to its corrosive qualities? water, or time, or ???. Looking at the broader context of the lyrics, I think it is "time" not "water".
"darker days are still to come" means the narrator doesn't believe that death is followed by a bright, pleasant afterlife, but in a nothing, abyss, nihilism.
"let us sound the alarm, let a warning rage 'fore its gone" = let's beware that our end may occur at any moment. live to the fullest before you run out of time in this existence and you leave a corpse in your place.