It's about him and his son Stephanos, and how he watched him die twice, once bringing them back and admitting he was wrong to do it, and the second when he had to let his son go // x
If it's gonna get violent tonight
( it will look like the end of the world when it does, the rivers will still, the seasons will be none but a long winter, the sun will shy away for a while, the land where his tears are shed onto will bear no life anymore, the heavens and hell will shake, disasters will spread, death will shape the world as if the reaper has walked all over the earth, a threat of the world to end for he has no world without them )
Tell me you're gonna be alright
( his eternal fear of anything bad happening to his only son, to lose them to destiny’s cruelty, be snatched away from within his warm embrace just like that )
I'm losing my mind
Don't leave me behind
We need a bit more time
'Cause I don't want the world to turn without you
And I don't want the sun to burn without you
Yeah, I don't want the world to turn without you
And I don't want the sun to burn without you
( he is literally losing his mind as he holds his son’s limp and lifeless body in his arms, a one that used to radiate with warmth, their laughter filling the air around, now utterly silent , bloodied and dirtied; no, he can’t just let them leave him like this, slip away from within his grasp like sand, he wants more time with them, please— he needs them.. he wants to live nothing without them )
You don't have to be the brave one every time
I know you wanna make it right
( this time it is his son’s words, assuring him that he doesn’t need to carry the weight of everything alone, the burdens of eternity; they are there for him, they will carry his weight along if they must, he can rest for once, and he can let go of their weight too, of the weight of being unable to let them go )
I'm losing my mind
Don't leave me behind
We need a bit more time
Can you hear my cry?
An old lullaby
Drifting through the sky
'Cause I don't want the world to turn without you
And I don't want the sun to burn without you
( again, he is at the verge of losing his son, but this time, he doesn’t get to reverse it, he doesn’t get to bury his fangs into their skin and feed them his blood, bury them in the same ground they died on like the first time, wait for them to rise from the dead, no; this time, he has to watch them take their last breath, to listen to their last wishes, and for that, he screams to the skies above, he tears, maybe cries, and oh how his agony destroys the world in its presence )
So won't you
Hold me now
Hold me like I never did anything to hurt you
Don't let go
Give me another minute to lay here in your echo
( it is his son’s final moments, and those are spoken by son and father, both wanting nothing more than to spend a few more minutes in the embrace of each other, never letting go, listening to a ragged breath of a son, to a pained silence of a father trying to stay strong until they take their last breath, and they let go, and he lets go )
I don't wanna live a life without you
I will watch the world burn without you
( for there is no life without them, there is only survival, and for who? for them, a promise he dares not break even in their absence )
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