Notice how the singer continues singer, and the flames that would burn her don't seem to anything. In the music video, I believe the light is symbolized or supplemented with fire. But instead of being in enveloped in it and ceasing to exist, the protagonists remain, as this light tries to fill the space in between life and death, like it would only fully permeate people that are dead and ready (or not in limbo) or something similar. The next two lines refer to the blinding light that we believe we see at the end of the tunnel or in near death experiences. These two lines could refer to many things, but I they refer to the nature of their lives (secrets of dying / dead) and their vulnerability as human beings in this limbo state (weakness of mortality, weakness of their existence / souls etc). Also if the space between life and death is spirit like, then crowds expect certain behavior from spirits rather than actions and sense data they can't perceive. When crowds encounter people dying, they either expect the people to die or expect the people to live. The conflicting tense in these two lines ,from past to current, also reaffirms the being almost alive and not quite dead or having physically died but still existing. The second line refers to the crowd and their expectations, whether the crowd references to the two other people in the video (the gent smoking the cigarette and the woman with the blonde, who seem oblivious to the bleeding people beside them), or the audience of the song, or some other implicit crowd, I am not sure. The protagonists appear to be dead, and yet the woman is singing and you can't sing when you are dead. The first two lines match very well with the video, where the protagonists are lying bleeding on the floor. Sense the crowd expecting something more. I think this song is about The space in between Life and Death, whether Life and Death are literal or metaphors / concepts. My InterpretationI haven't heard any NiN, so I don't have the same comparison base as most of you. Either that or some variation of Joe K's comment is right. Your past may be dead to you in that it may no longer bother you, but you can never escape it when you are re-creating it again and again every night. "The things we couldn't kill" refers to the content of the actual song/art, because often times it is about something hurtful from your past, sometimes things which you have overcame or moved on from, and you are re-opening the wounds of you past. Those moments can begin to be less fulfilling and empty. The spaces in between are all the moments not onstage. It's like your dying on stage every night, but this is precisely what you live for. yet, the crowd/audience/fans still want more. You open up your personal inner world "proudly on display." It's about how you can create something so meaningful and personal that perfectly expresses your emotions/thoughts/etc. Performing art is a very vulnerable thing. General CommentI think this song is about being a musician/artist and being onstage.
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