Heaven
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The lyrics move from a difficult or uncertain moment toward intense joy and renewal. At first, the speaker waits through the dark until morning; later, someoneโs love helps them feel lifted after being โbeaten and broken up.โ The repeated claim of having died and gone to Heaven expresses a powerful emotional high, as if happiness has transformed the speaker completely.
Several images make that feeling vivid. โYou come to raise me upโ suggests giving someone support and hope, not physically lifting them. Feeling โlike youโve just been bornโ implies a fresh start. The images of becoming birds and flying suggest freedom, while โset the world alightโ can mean bringing excitement or energy into the night.
The language is deliberately dramatic, so โdiedโ and โHeavenโ are best read as figurative rather than literal: the speaker feels overwhelmed by love, beauty, or pleasure. โHit by your love and drugโ compares love to an intoxicating substance, suggesting both its intensity and its power to change oneโs state of mind. The lyrics do not specify exactly who the other person is or what caused the speakerโs earlier pain, leaving room for the feeling to be understood as romantic, spiritual, or simply euphoric.