Beføre I'm Dead Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Tamsim 

Cover art for Beføre I'm Dead lyrics by Kidneythieves

I heard this the first time when I watched "Queen of the Damned". It was the first song of the Kidneythieves I heard, in fact. And I started to look for more songs afterwards, which probably says enough about my reaction.

When I cut it loose from the movie, it could be about someone that is life threatening ill, whose life is fading away, a teenager probably. He/She looks out of the window of the hospital at night and dreams of all the things he/she wants to do before he/she is dead. All the things he/she is missing. The hospital picture comes from "Oceans wide of salted red", which means blood, I think. Desert skies, well, desert skies are known for their beautiful stars. Like I said, at night. The sun reclines, metaphor for life fading away? Then, there is of course the mention of the lover. Perhaps someone he/she loves but never had the chance to tell?

But I can couple it to the movie really good. Becoming a vampire, being bound to the night, the blood referring to the new life, the lover of the reason why she "chose" this life. Great choice for the soundtrack.