To me, the first verse is Lana begging for death, but she is pleading for her loved one to be there for her when she is free of all which had kept her in pain. 'Feet don't fail me now' is her way of explaining that she has managed to stay strong for so long, and now that she is finally ready to give up, she needs her strength one last time so she can finally be at peace.

The mention of 'Hot summer nights mid July' represents the feeling of numbness and reckless behavior. The summer experience is one of which is not a part of ones reality, it is a state of unconsciousness which people wish to last so that they don't have to experience anything which is real. The writer is trying to state that any feeling of which she had at this particular time were of a pulchritudinous display for her, but she knows that feeling is not real, she knows that the beauty must end with the ugly truth. The word 'Hot' is in different contexts, the heat temperature and the feeling she has as the experiences she had during this summer made her feel lost, so lost that she didn't want to turn back. The line reads that she knows the feeling is only temporary, she is aware that this experience cannot be brought into her world of reality, due to the fact that the summer feelings are too distracting to provide her with the knowledge that the unrealistic never lasts.