Blood and Tears has been my favorite Danzig song since I first began listening to them which was years and years ago. I like this song because it's one of the only Danzig songs that seems filled with purely human emotion. I do not think this song is about a breakup. It has always seemed to me that the message it is sending is that the lyricist has died or moved on and he is singing this to his love who remains alive and in tremendous pain over his death. I don't think it has much to do with her cutting herself or simply being depressed or anything like that.
There's an element of sadness that almost seems to transcend life in "Blood and Tears". He is sort of looking down on this woman whom in life he was madly in love with and he's witnessing the great deal of pain his death has brought upon her, hence the "blood" and "tears"...she is crying because his blood was spilt. The way Glenn switches between "Since I've been gone" and "since you've been gone" leads me to believe that he's in a place where life and time have moved on, he has lost her and she has lost him so they are both in a limbo because of how strong their love was and how great their pain is.
This song is sad because by the end, both of them seem to hauntingly realize that neither of them, alive or dead, will ever truly be able to move on from one another.
Blood and Tears has been my favorite Danzig song since I first began listening to them which was years and years ago. I like this song because it's one of the only Danzig songs that seems filled with purely human emotion. I do not think this song is about a breakup. It has always seemed to me that the message it is sending is that the lyricist has died or moved on and he is singing this to his love who remains alive and in tremendous pain over his death. I don't think it has much to do with her cutting herself or simply being depressed or anything like that.
There's an element of sadness that almost seems to transcend life in "Blood and Tears". He is sort of looking down on this woman whom in life he was madly in love with and he's witnessing the great deal of pain his death has brought upon her, hence the "blood" and "tears"...she is crying because his blood was spilt. The way Glenn switches between "Since I've been gone" and "since you've been gone" leads me to believe that he's in a place where life and time have moved on, he has lost her and she has lost him so they are both in a limbo because of how strong their love was and how great their pain is.
This song is sad because by the end, both of them seem to hauntingly realize that neither of them, alive or dead, will ever truly be able to move on from one another.