It's rather cliche' for the audience to assume that anyone singing a song is singing about him or herself as "I" and the other person as "you". He may be singing about how he feels being beaten by something. So what ever "doubt" is in the song is the thing that is murdering him again and again. This could be something like addiction. It can often drain a person and leave them with pain when the person gives it up. The part about flesh and such could be perhaps needle injections. "Throw myself in fury over the edge And into your blood" could be something that's got under his skin either literally or metaphorically (not necessarily drugs or alcohol). Of course there is the age old perception that all songs about a boyfriend abusing a girlfriend and that all songs are in the 1st person perspective. However this could be a 2nd person narrative OR a 3rd person narrative about a 2nd narratives perspective (unsure). The Cure / Robert have been known to sing not just poetically but in a sort of story-writing sense (eg Charlotte Sometimes and A strange Day). However I believe that the poetic license here is that Robert is refereeing to both himself and what ever the problem is as "I" and "myself". References to cutting could be cutting lines of cocaine etc etc etc. - HOWEVER a totally different view could be that he's singing about someone that is a cutter but is too scared to commit suicide. Hence the word "again". Doubt could be a good thing in this song. Doubt (in Faith) shows that perhaps he has doubts about going through with it. Anyway, my point is that too many people take lyrics literally. That this song is something more than a cliche' "Lifetime Movie of the Week" in which an angry boyfriend punches his girlfriend. A giveaway that it's a metaphor is he murders this person again and again..
It's rather cliche' for the audience to assume that anyone singing a song is singing about him or herself as "I" and the other person as "you". He may be singing about how he feels being beaten by something. So what ever "doubt" is in the song is the thing that is murdering him again and again. This could be something like addiction. It can often drain a person and leave them with pain when the person gives it up. The part about flesh and such could be perhaps needle injections. "Throw myself in fury over the edge And into your blood" could be something that's got under his skin either literally or metaphorically (not necessarily drugs or alcohol). Of course there is the age old perception that all songs about a boyfriend abusing a girlfriend and that all songs are in the 1st person perspective. However this could be a 2nd person narrative OR a 3rd person narrative about a 2nd narratives perspective (unsure). The Cure / Robert have been known to sing not just poetically but in a sort of story-writing sense (eg Charlotte Sometimes and A strange Day). However I believe that the poetic license here is that Robert is refereeing to both himself and what ever the problem is as "I" and "myself". References to cutting could be cutting lines of cocaine etc etc etc. - HOWEVER a totally different view could be that he's singing about someone that is a cutter but is too scared to commit suicide. Hence the word "again". Doubt could be a good thing in this song. Doubt (in Faith) shows that perhaps he has doubts about going through with it. Anyway, my point is that too many people take lyrics literally. That this song is something more than a cliche' "Lifetime Movie of the Week" in which an angry boyfriend punches his girlfriend. A giveaway that it's a metaphor is he murders this person again and again..