Yeah I tend to agree with the comments before me. I think it's about love, his disease, and his wish to keep playing music.
The first verse is about the symptoms and his decision to carry on. The second verse is about the crap the doctors told him about not having a cure for his disease and his decision to just deal.
The verse is his way of saying, 'Fuck it.' He's going to do what he loves until he drops dead.
The verse could be a conversation between he and his wife with him telling her that he will come home and she doesn't want him to go so he says release me my love.
Yeah I tend to agree with the comments before me. I think it's about love, his disease, and his wish to keep playing music. The first verse is about the symptoms and his decision to carry on. The second verse is about the crap the doctors told him about not having a cure for his disease and his decision to just deal. The verse is his way of saying, 'Fuck it.' He's going to do what he loves until he drops dead. The verse could be a conversation between he and his wife with him telling her that he will come home and she doesn't want him to go so he says release me my love.