Picking lyrics apart

Possession

By Sarah McLachlan


 Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide
Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time
The night is my companion and solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?

 And I would be the one to hold you down
Kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes, dear

Through this world I've stumbled so many times betrayed
Trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved
Oh, you speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive

 And I would be the one to hold you down
Kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes, dear

 Into this night I wander, it's morning that I dread
Another day of knowing of the path I fear to tread
Oh, into the sea of waking dreams, I follow without pride
'Cause nothing stands between us here and I won't be denied


And I would be the one to hold you down
Kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes, dear
I'll hold you down
Kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away
And after I'd wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes
 
Now to break certain parts down that I think either sound creepy, or I can see an obsessed fan saying something like that.
 
As far as the chorus goes, I'm wondering if this is what she means:  I'm thinking what she's referring to is the guy holds a woman down, and kisses her to suffocate her, and all through it, she's crying while he's doing this. And then when he finally does wipe away her tears, she's already dead, so he's wiping away her tears, and then closing her eyes, because maybe in the song he's not telling her to close her eyes and she's not closing her eyes after he kisses her and wipes her tears away. 
 
As for part of the first verse: "The night is my companion and solitude my guide".
I can see that being something someone would say who might be a loner.
 
 "Oh, you speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhymes
My body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive"
 
Maybe this stalker of hers thinks that from her past songs, that this might have been her way of speaking to him through some of her past songs before she ever came up with this song. And maybe this guy thinks her words keep him alive. I can kind of see that. 
 
"Into this night I wander, it's morning that I dread
Another day of knowing of the path I fear to tread"
 
Yeah, probably because this person just killed someone or attacked someone, and eventually they know within the next day or so, or some other time in the future, other people are going to find out about what it was this person did.
 
 ".....nothing stands between us here and I won't be denied"

That last verse right here, definitely sounds like someone who is abusive, and controlling and can't take no for an answer.

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