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Listen as the wind blows
From across the great divide
Voices trapped in yearning
Memories trapped in time
The night is my companion
And solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here
And not be satisfied
[Chorus]
And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd, wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear
Through this world I've stumbled
So many times betrayed,
Trying to find an honest word,
To find the truth enslaved,
Oh you speak to me in riddles and
You speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath,
Your words keep me alive
[Chorus]
Into this night I wander,
It's morning that I dread,
Another day of knowing of
The path I fear to tread,
Oh, into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride,
Nothing stands between us here
And I won't be denied
[Chorus]
I'll hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes
From across the great divide
Voices trapped in yearning
Memories trapped in time
The night is my companion
And solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here
And not be satisfied
[Chorus]
And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd, wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear
Through this world I've stumbled
So many times betrayed,
Trying to find an honest word,
To find the truth enslaved,
Oh you speak to me in riddles and
You speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath,
Your words keep me alive
[Chorus]
Into this night I wander,
It's morning that I dread,
Another day of knowing of
The path I fear to tread,
Oh, into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride,
Nothing stands between us here
And I won't be denied
[Chorus]
I'll hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes
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"And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard"
....he's talking about physically forcing her down against her will and violently kissing her
"I'll take your breath away
and after, I'd wipe away the tears
just close your eyes dear"
....he says ill take your breath away as in i will literally take your breath away by killing you. this whole verse is about him killing her.
"Through this world I've stumbled
so many times betrayed"
in this verse it means he feels like nobody has understood him his whole life, remember he is a mentally ill stalker, people like him feel like nobody understands them and that they are all alone in the world
"Trying to find an honest word
To find the truth enslaved"
this means he is paranoid
"Oh you speak to me in riddles and
You speak to me in rhymes"
in this line, it is explaing that he "knows" she is "speaking" to him through songs and other things, even though she really is not. he imagines her trying to speak to him because in his mind he thinks she is in love with him. he is obsessed with her.
"My body aches to breathe your breath
You words keep me alive"
he is obsessed with her and truely thinks he would be nothing without her. he wants to steal her breath as in kill her
"Into this night I wander
It’s morning that I dread
Another day of knowing of
The path I fear to tread"
he stalks her, he watches her in the night
"Oh into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride
Nothing stands between us here
And I won’t be denied"
he is saying there is nothing that will stop him from having her and he wont let her deny him no matter what it takes.
i agree that this is a beautiful song, but after you really understand the meaning of the lyrics and know the fact that this was written by an obviously mentally ill person it no longer is a love song or anything romantic. it is her stalker threatening her and talking about killing her. its not romantic, its just creepy
There are no words that can possibly discribe what is felt in my heart to know that this woman of strength and endless beauty of inner deep true soul, was left to be set free by a worldly marriage vow by a single soul of foolish lost endeavours.
I would give my soul, my possession, leave my dreams behind, breath life only to have one moment that Ashwin Sood had let go free.
Sarah, if you ever set eyes on this message entwined in this bottle, suspended in the vast sea of comments and wishes, remember it is only a possession that turns into sand in our hand.
The song to me is about a love that could never happen and the singer of the believes that the two of them uniting would make them both whole people to the point of where they soul mates. And the singer dreads the morning because that when he awakes to reality which is they not together and he or she is alone. Personally I like the song the symbolism is nice not to complicated and deep you have to dig to get the meaning. Anyone got a reason for the title: Possesion ? Is the stalker the possession or the stalkee would love to hear your thoughts k !
M.
I also agree with some of the other posters that it does sound like a woman's point of view. Perhaps the letter from the real-life stalker awakened an "inner stalker" in Sarah, which obviously is under control and channeled into her music and her healthy relationships, but which nonetheless may exist and have a voice.
The production has a wonderful way of creating that murky, dreamlike quality that accomapnies such feelings and experiences. I especially have to say the bass does an amazing job of being compelling, driving and accurately played, yet elusive, muddy and indistinct at the same time.