Hard To Kill Lyrics - Bleached

Song Facts:

Annotations and Meaning:

In this song, the group speaks of that line, the balanced line towards trust and vulnerability, the one that means fighting and never giving up. The song couples themes of danger and love into some sort of tale that speaks to the ultimate resolve of humanity versus all odds.
The lines "Place the gun to my heart / I don't care 'cause Friday I'm in love" offer the sort of contrast that includes something dangerous, such as a gun being put to the speaker's heart, with the carefree notion of being in love. Juxtaposing these sets puts up the mood for a song that sets out to explore human experience caught in duality, how times of vulnerability are coexistent with deep emotional links.
In the pre-chorus, "I'm looking for a place to breathe, drain me of my everything," it presents an attempt to seek freedom in not getting suffocated under chains of different expectations life throws at one. The repetition of the phrase "Don't go" reflects the ultimate depths of great and deep desire for stable trust that is revealed by the relationship.

The chorus "All the cities that we burned down / Turns out I'm not very hard to kill" would be very declarative of resilience. This metaphor of burning cities could point to adversities that life may bring, against which one takes a stand, even if it results in chaos and destruction, but does not actually break the spirit.

The second stanza, with the lines "You're so cool, you hate yourself / You're lying on the floor of a stranger's house," describes a feeling of getting used to self-destructing habits and eventually starts searching for one's identity, trying to fit in. The image of lying on the floor in a stranger's house just seems to underline points of existential crisis, searching for a sense of belonging, or maybe self-acceptance.

The bridge, with the line "So come and catch me if you can," throws a challenge and puts an invitational note to play a game of resilience and survival. It reaffirms the theme "hard to kill," projecting not only physical but also emotional and spiritual unbroken will.