Lyric discussion by exodusdamage 

Cover art for Kiss Me lyrics by Wave Pictures, The

The chorus is mostly lines from various poems by Emily Dickinson - "Sweet is the swamp with its secrets" (1740), "I died for beauty ... adjusted in the tomb", "Until the moss had reached our lips, / And covered up our names". Never quite sure what to make of that - perhaps he's forced into borrowing from another poet because "you've taken everything from me I had to give"?