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Description
Love here sounds like an extreme - not about light kisses under streetlights, but about an abyss where loss equals death. Each line is like a point-blank shot: either together until the end, or darkness with no way out.
This cry of despair is an attempt to hold on to what is crumbling in one's hands. A broken heart, wet asphalt underfoot, and the feeling that without a second wind, there is nothing left to breathe.
Lyrics and translation
Original
If I lose you tonight
Take my love and hang it out to dry
If I lose you tonight
Box me up and bury me alive
Aye
If I lose you then I lose
I went by all the rules
To keep your love, so I’m confused
But yet you left me high and dry
You loosened all my screws
My heart feels so abused
She dragged it till I lost my muse
Now I'm caged in the zoo, thinkin' 'bout what I didn't do I tried to please you
I guess that wasn’t enough because you still ended up leavin'
My pops said, “Don’t give up because it’s out there keep believin’”
But it feel like I’m dreamin’
Steady fightin’ for your love, but I’m starting to feel like I’ve been feenin’
Gave up, didn’t give a reason
I think that hurt the most because now I’m just stuck here thinkin’
The image of you leavin’ in my head it keep repeating
And now I’m slowly sinkin’
Not reachin’ out for help, just slowly fallin’ to the deep end
If I lose you tonight
Take my love and hang it out to dry
If I lose you tonight
Box me up and bury me alive
Aye
If I lose you then I might just go insane
Like you might never be around
But it's your voice that's in my brain
I really gave you all my heart
You gave it back with all these stains
But I remained to keep the love I had for you, it never changed
Stuck walking in the dark, can’t miss the puddle from the rain
Still pulling stitches out my heart
You ever felt that kind of pain?
It’s time I box it up because I’ll never be the same
I’m rearranged, and at this point I’m losing more than I can gain
If we fall off the edge
And we’re no longer flesh
And the darkness comes too soon
Put a gun to my head
And then lay me next to you
'Cause all I know is
If I lose you tonight
Take my love and hang it out to dry
If I lose you tonight
Box me up and bury me alive
Box me up and bury me alive