A speaker explores obsessive love through dark imagery of ghosts and murder, arguing a lover would kill to keep their beloved's haunting presence. Drawing on Shakespeare's sonnets, they describe preferring misery with someone over emptiness without them, equating life itself with the loved one's presence.
And he says, I believe I know that ghosts have wandered on the earth. Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you. Oh, God. It is unutterable. I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul. I want to back it up a little bit, too, because I feel it's very important, if you don't mind. I know you highlighted it, but what leads into that is when he says, you said I killed you because she dies of, you know, him torturing her. Not physically, but, you know, haunt me. Then the murdered do haunt their murderers. So he's willing to take responsibility for her dying if she will just haunt him. If it takes him saying, and this goes a little bit back to. And it's obsessive, but it goes back to the Shakespeare, to me, the sonnet, where he says, I will take your side against mine. He says, if I have. Have to be your murderer so that you will haunt me for revenge. I don't care why you come back. Just be here. If you make me miserable, it's better than being without you. That gives me chills.
