thefirethatfreezesme:

“The song’s concept of constraint and tension is particularly evident in the line, “I’ll wrap my hands around your neck so tight. With love, love, love.” Leto said that as well as the idea of erotic asphyxiation, the lyric has a parallel meaning. “It does play on two different levels; there’s an obvious sexual connotation to the line… But it’s also about power, it’s about control, and the song is about that,” he explained to MTV News. “It’s about getting to a point in your life where you’re ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself, the self-actualized version of yourself. So I’m curious to see what responses to that are going to be; it’s interesting to be asked about it.”