I understand this song to be an ode to a specific woman's beauty and radiance.
For the first verse, the lyrics "I wanted that heat so bad" and "I wanted in your storm so bad" speak to his desire, but also the knowledge that the woman means certain trouble, hence "the lightning" and "the fire". An alternate interpretation is that the lightning and the fire may instead refer to the songwriter's expectations of what an intimate experience with this woman would be like.
The lyrics around holding the sun and watching him bleed to death I interpret as a metaphor representing how stunning the songwriter feels the woman is. Should she hold the sun in her arms it would be outshone by her and simply bleed to death, her radiance makes even the sun seem "pale next to you". In addition the world also pales in comparison.
An alternate, and somewhat more reality-based interpretation here, could be that the songwriter is picturing this woman at dawn or sunset and feeling that she is more radiant than the sun or earth in his sight -- as the sun grows pale at dusk perhaps.
The chorus, to me, is a more literal description of the woman's appearance her hair red and dark eyes.
The second verse, as it states, is something the songwriter recalls this radiant woman saying.
I understand this song to be an ode to a specific woman's beauty and radiance.
For the first verse, the lyrics "I wanted that heat so bad" and "I wanted in your storm so bad" speak to his desire, but also the knowledge that the woman means certain trouble, hence "the lightning" and "the fire". An alternate interpretation is that the lightning and the fire may instead refer to the songwriter's expectations of what an intimate experience with this woman would be like.
The lyrics around holding the sun and watching him bleed to death I interpret as a metaphor representing how stunning the songwriter feels the woman is. Should she hold the sun in her arms it would be outshone by her and simply bleed to death, her radiance makes even the sun seem "pale next to you". In addition the world also pales in comparison.
An alternate, and somewhat more reality-based interpretation here, could be that the songwriter is picturing this woman at dawn or sunset and feeling that she is more radiant than the sun or earth in his sight -- as the sun grows pale at dusk perhaps.
The chorus, to me, is a more literal description of the woman's appearance her hair red and dark eyes.
The second verse, as it states, is something the songwriter recalls this radiant woman saying.
[Edit: Further thoughts.]