Somebody's go to see this through.....

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Lori40

All I remember him saying about BTLH is that it was written over a number of years, and that part of the song was written at the beginning of a relationship, and part of it was written at the end of a relationship. I could be entirely wrong, and BTLH is really about a woman and not his band.

Here are a couple of LB comments about it.

Bleed to Love Her: "It does have the element of having to sacrifice your blood in order to get back what is sometimes worthwhile and the elusiveness of it. I mean the verses, that was written over a period of years actually, that song, and the verses were much later. In other words, the chorus, "bleed to love her," was written at the top of a new relationship and the verses, "pretending that she's not there," you know, the elusiveness of all of that, was written near the end."

More BTLH: "That song actually sort of evolved over about a two year period and when I wrote the chorus in which that appears - "bleed to love her" - uh, I had just entered into a relationship with someone and I really felt that I, you know, would be willing to bleed in order to make that work. And then of course maybe two years later, uh, things had kind of, um, drifted a little bit and the verses in there are talking about how elusive someone can be, ah, which I guess is the other side of the coin."