(Don't Fear) The Reaper lyrics

Feb 3rd 2012 5:23 pm

It simply means that death is not the end of living, or of being. We, just move to a different plane and existence, where truth can lived out freely without shame, or fear of reprisal, so what do we have fear?

Dec 20th 2011 10:22 am

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Dec 2nd 2011 5:12 pm

Very well thought out lyrics to a song. Probably some of the best i've ever heard. The song is abviously about death and not fearing it, but the first verse kind of makes me think of reincarnation. Just good poetry.

Hootshot112 · Aug 23rd 2009 4:39 pm

I thought that the "singer" of the song is actually the reaper. It's not about suicide for me. He's just saying: don't be scared to die, because everybody will one day, and it can be beautiful (romeo and juliet) and that it's not over after... There's still more...

dethklokr · May 5th 2009 11:40 am

I am the reaper and u shall all fear me (send me a message and i will tell u how u will die ansd when and if u can bargain for longer) muah.. A

leot · Dec 18th 2008 6:47 pm

Come on folks it's very simple. The composer said he wrote it about eternal love!!! Not suicide. The 14 year girls is the closest to being right. More like the book "the note book"

cocktailsandapplesauce · Dec 9th 2008 2:41 am

I think its about a man seducing a woman to kill herself for him. I see manipulation when i read the lyrics and listen to the song. I tend to think its more or less how far someone will go to stop time and stay as they are.

DontFearTheReaper · Nov 30th 2008 3:46 am

This song has many different meanings,the writer of the song (buck dharma) once said it was about iternal everlasting love,some say it is about suicide and deah,but what it really is, is life. Its what happens in life,you love someone,then death is an obsticle that spilts the lover sup,but they will get through it and live and love though eternity,and that the "reaper" may take away the life,but not the love

pm2379 · Sep 22nd 2008 6:28 pm

My 14 yr old daughter heard this song on her brother's ipod and has fallen in love with the words. I remember liking the song and just thought it was basically about not fearing death. Though i didnt really know most of the words to it. Well, because she got so into it and plays it in the car all the time now i started paying more attention to the words. Tonite while driving her to her dad's house i asked her if she thought it was about suicide and she thinks its about a guy watching his wife or girlfriend dying of something and being afraid to go. He tells her not to be afraid and that they will be together again one day. So when the "last night of sadness came" the night she dies, she is able to leave pain behind and die easily. When i came home i started looking up the words and read some things about what others think... I kinda like my daughter's interpretation of the song the best.

Garrett · Sep 20th 2008 6:00 pm

Apparently, a woman's boyfriend has died or committed suicide. She's despondent and "he's "speaking" to her in her head. (she could be drunk or high) she is contemplating "joining" him. The window is open and she jumps; killing herself and reuniting with her love. In the larger sense, don't be afraid of death... Especially if you're so sad you can't go on.

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