#wessa

lyrics // commentary

I found God // jem!! this verse is in tessa’s pov

I found him in a lover

When his hair falls in his face // imagining jem and tessa’s meeting, jem’s hair in his face as he plays violin

And his hands so cold they shake

I found the Devil // will!! who is described as having “the face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in hell” and also is said to “smile lie Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven”

I found him in a lover

And his lips like tangerine // smth about herondales having mouths like a woman’s

In his color coded speak // will switching between being nice and being awful when he remembers he needs to protect people from loving him

Now we're lost somewhere in outer space

In a hotel room where demons play // or clockwork monsters

They run around beneath our feet

We roll around beneath these sheets // the pre-chorus is about wessa in mortmain’s….idek how to describe it. villain lair? in clockwork princess

I've got a lover a love like religion // “jem is my great sin” “you are the first dream of my soul” and that bit where jem says tessa is his humanity and how he came back from being a silent brother

I'm such a fool for sacrifice

It's coming down, down, I'm coming down

It's coming down, down, I'm coming down

I've got a lover and I'm unforgiven // will and his curse ofc

I'm such a fool to pay this price // the price of love is loss

It's coming down, down, I'm coming down

It's coming down, down, I'm coming down

I found a martyr // jem and will for each other but specifically here i think it’s will talking about jem

He told me that I'd never // jem being the only one will let believe he was good

With his educated eyes

And his head between my thighs

I found a savior // will and jem both try to save each other but here i’m thinking of will shoving his hands into the fire for jem’s drugs and rescuing tessa for jem etc

I don't think he remembers

'Cause he's off to pay his crimes

And he's got no time for mine // will trying to break his curse with magnus/doing demon drugs in clockwork prince

(pre-chorus/chorus repeats)

Every single night pray the sun will rise

Every single time make a compromise // will makes a sort of compromise with his curse when he decides to let jem in because he’s already dying, jem makes the compromise between living a short life but being stronger for tessa when he start taking larger doses of his drugs, etc