"Love Murder One"

Album Art by Chase Stone.

**"Love Murder One"** is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the sixth song on their 2022 album *Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind*.

## Lyrics

**[Chorus]**

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone

Don't want you in my world throwing stones

This glass house isn't yours to call home

So we're done... game's over

Love Murder One

**[Verse 1]**

Have we come to an understanding

Let's agree to disagree

Circumventing resolutions

And all they seem to lack, yet keep us coming back

Oh, when I drink from your cauldron

I see through your witching eyes

The more it reveals that we're broken

In a love not meant to last, it only lives to die

**[Chorus]**

If you see me bleeding, leavе me alone

Don't want you in my world throwing stones

This glass housе isn't yours to call home

So we're done... game's over

Love Murder One

**[Verse 2]**

I'll confess what your heart is feeling

In a Hallmark card of your fears

Tonight, you'll make a toast

Oh, to better days when all had seem so right

I hear your heartbeat thumping

Screaming "Honey, don't let me go"

I know you're up to something

I know you want to stay but I'm already gone

**[Chorus]**

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone

Don't want you in my world throwing stones

This glass house isn't yours to call home

So we're done... game's over

Love Murder One

If you see me, believe me, it's killing me slow

Don't care to live in this world anymore

Lights out, how do you call this fun?

Oh, we're done, game over... Love Murder One

**[Bridge]**

I don't know how to tell you we're done

I don't know how to tell you it's over

But things have got to change

You must believe it

Oh, are you blind, do you, do you not see it?

**[Chorus]**

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone

Don't want you in my world throwing stones

This glass house isn't yours to call home

Oh, we're done... the game's over

Love Murder One

If you see me, believe me, it's killing me slow

Don't wanna live in this world anymore

Lights out, how do you call this fun?

Oh, we're done, game over... Love Murder One

Game's over... Love Murder One

## Story Context

If "Comatose" is the actual, out-loud fight that occurs between Nia and Nos after Chapter 3, but before Chapter 4, this song is the quiet part... the internal part, and bits are described in Chapter 5. The chorus is just how we can sometimes feel when we're hurting: sometimes we don't want to be comforted or told we're wrong, sometimes, we just want to be left alone. In fact, the line "If you see me bleeding, leave me alone" is essentially echoed by Nos in Chapter 5 as he says, "When he saw her bleeding, he left her alone..." The first verse depicts how this need to be alone can also sometimes make our partners feel like the relationship is in trouble because they aren't needed or even wanted in these situations. In the context of Vaxis, the parents are fighting for their son, the embodiment of their love. Not getting the solution they feel they need feels like it will mean the death of their son, their love.

The second verse shows the reluctance to talk about difficult feelings: sometimes it's easier to assume the other's feelings and ignore our own; act like everything's okay but continue to hold some resentment. This can boil up into the feeling that we're better off alone; that we should end the relationship. The bridge supports this, but also gives us the sense that sometimes this feeling is one-sided. One person might feel this conflict and feel like it's a huge weight, but the other might understand that this the weight is affected by the gravity of the situation, not by the feelings.

## Background

Sanchez and his wife have been together a total of 20 years (though, not married for the entirety of that time). Despite having a strong foundation he has, at times, struggled with emotions raised when they’ve had disagreements (this was especially apparent during quarantine when they were more or less confined together). This song provided him an opportunity to explore those feelings and “leave [them] in the song”.

## Trivia

* Sanchez plays an 8-string guitar on this track.
	+ Stever admitted to channeling Steve Lukather on "Beat It" for this track.

## References

1. ↑ https://genius.com/Coheed-and-cambria-love-murder-one-lyrics
2. ↑ Coheed and Cambria. Booklet. *Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind*, Roadrunner Records, 2022.
3. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFence/comments/vklxyl/claudios\_trackbytrack\_descriptions\_from\_allmusic/
4. ↑ Adams, Gregory. "TUNE-UPS: Return of the Jedis" Guitar World (July 2022), 17 May 2022, pp. 17-18.