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anonymous April 28th, 2007 09:26AM  
This is one of my fav blink songs. Its just so beautifully composed, the words are really meaningful.

This song is about death, saying goodbye and the realisation that this death will have an impact on the ones he/she leaves behind, or rather that one person he/she can't live without that they have to leave behind. The song title in itself suggests that he/she doesn't want to go. NOT NOT anyway.

The first verse:

Come here, please hold my hand, Lord, now
Help me, I'm scared please show me how
To fight this, God has a master plan
And I guess, I am in his demand

Is about the person trying to be strong about the inevitable, they want to be strong about the situation and is asking for God's help. "God has a master plan and I guess, I am in his demand" is suggesting that God's plan is that their life will be taken. And his demand is meaning that he is needed, that it is his destiny to leave this earth and be in heaven or wherever else you go after death and his time is now.

The second verse:

Please save me, this time I cannot run
And I'll see, you when this is done
And now I, have come to realize
That you are, the one who's left behind

The person doesn't want to die but they know that they can't stop the inevitable. They can't run away from their destiny and the way their life is going to be taken away from them.
They still have faith that they will see that person who they have to leave behind, again in heaven perhaps?
But the realisation that they are still leaving back someone they hold dear hurts them.

The chorus:

Please stay until I'm gone
I'm here hold on to me
I'm right here waiting

They want that person to stay with them, in the hospital room, or in their bed at home, before they pass away and when they pass away.
But they are trying to make the most of this moment by still holding onto what they have left of life, and of love before they are taken away.'

The third verse:

I see, the light it feels good
And I'll come, back soon just like you would
It's use less, my name has made the list
And I wish, I gave you one last kiss

The person feels themselves leaving this life. But they want to see their loved one again, whether it be watching over them or visiting them in their dreams. Because they feel that if the loved one was in the same position they would do the same. That's how strongly this person feels towards the one they are leaving.
"Its useless my name has made the list" this line I'm abit confused about. I believe it could mean two things.
It could either mean that this person name has made the list in an obituary. Stating that they have died or will die. or it could mean made the list in terms of God's list as to whom he has to take away from this earth.
And they wish they had been able to give their loved one, one last kiss before they passed on.

the repetition of:

Please stay until I'm gone
I'm here hold on to me
I'm right here waiting
And take my one last breath
And don't forget
That I will be right here waiting

Is the same as what I have mentioned earlier. But the last three lines, are about living life for those brief few seconds more, to take one last breath of life and the one they love, and letting them know, they will be waiting for them, when its their time to go.

Sarah