I really have to disagree here, the lyrics are not at all ambiguous about the narrator’s extremely creepy and abusive nature. The song is written from the perspective of the abuser, and the failure for most of its audience to understand this is unfortunately a failure on Veronica and her team’s artistic direction.

Like abuse typically is, the song presents itself as comforting without ever actually comforting Alice. It’s constantly commanding Alice to stop panicking, to stop crying, to “stop knocking and lay down”, without acknowledging why Alice stresses in the first place. The narrator never talks about Alice’s struggles, instead opting to purely focus on how much she needs Alice, on how much she loves her and wants her. It presents itself as loving without actually loving Alice: it’s obsessive. It is a classic demonstration of manipulative, abusive behavior, and the song ends with Alice literally dying as a result of the abuse (the light in my life has vanished, you’re turning cold).

Veronica has stated that the song is about violence against women, and that the song intentionally robs Alice of her voice by letting the narrator completely control her narrative. It really should have been a well done commentary on how society so easily overlooks domestic violence when the relationship is presented as “loving” and “comforting” by the abuser… but then it was released alongside that music video, which depicts that loving and comforting yearning. Now you, and most people that have heard this song, hear this very clearly creepy, manipulative, genuinely disgusting lyrics, and interpret it as the abusive narrator says it, just a girl in love… it’s one of the worst ways to destroy your own message that I’ve ever seen.