What do you think Prayer for the Dying means?

Seal: Prayer for the Dying Meaning

Tagged: Death [suggest]
Album cover for Prayer for the Dying album cover

Song Released: 1994


Prayer for the Dying Lyrics

Fearless people, careless needle
Harsh words spoken and lives are broken
Forceful ageing, help me I'm fading
Heaven's waiting, it's time to move on

Crossing that bridge with lessons I've learned
Playing with fire and not getting burned
I...

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  1. isawuonmontel
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     Apr 21st 2012 !⃝

    this is a good song for people who have lost someone, it gives somehow a impression that there is a new life on the other side of that bridge, and that the survivor, should pick themselves up, and live their life.

  2. anonymous
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     Aug 24th 2010 !⃝

    I read somewhere that Seal wrote this song for a friend of his who was dying from AIDS, and I've listened to it as well. It's such a beautiful song, too.

    Fearless people,
    Careless needle.
    Harsh words spoken,
    And lives are broken.

    Forceful aging,
    Help me I'm fading.
    Heaven's waiting,
    It's time to move on.

    Crossing that bridge
    with lessons I've learned
    Playing with fire
    and not getting burned

    Those are such great rhymes, in the poetic sense of the word. I like how the words at the end of the second and fourth sentences rhyme like that. It's very intriguing, too.

    I may not know what you're going through.
    But time is the space,
    Between me and you.
    Life carries on... It goes on.
    Just say die,
    And that would be pessimistic.
    In your mind,
    We can walk across water.
    Please don't cry,
    It's just a prayer for the dying.
    I just don't know what's got into me.

    This is such a great song, and I will always remember it for the poetic beauty it inspires and the images it invokes, too. Kudos to Seal for writing such a great song, too. :)


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