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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, someoneโ€™s love helps them feel lifted after being โ€œbeaten 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. โ€œYou come to raise me upโ€ suggests giving someone support and hope, not physically lifting them. Feeling โ€œlike youโ€™ve just been bornโ€ implies a fresh start. The images of becoming birds and flying suggest freedom, while โ€œset the world alightโ€ can mean bringing excitement or energy into the night.

The language is deliberately dramatic, so โ€œdiedโ€ and โ€œHeavenโ€ are best read as figurative rather than literal: the speaker feels overwhelmed by love, beauty, or pleasure. โ€œHit by your love and drugโ€ compares love to an intoxicating substance, suggesting both its intensity and its power to change oneโ€™s state of mind. The lyrics do not specify exactly who the other person is or what caused the speakerโ€™s earlier pain, leaving room for the feeling to be understood as romantic, spiritual, or simply euphoric.