My Last Breath Lyrics Meaning

Hold on to me love
You know I can't stay long
All I wanted to say was
I love you and I'm not afraid

••It's about someone dying in the arms of someone they love, they are asking their loved one to stay with them as they die, they know they are going to die any minute now and they want to die in a happy state of mind.
As she (Im using *She* as the artist, Amy Lee, is female) is dying she reminds her loved one that she loves them and that they don't need to worry as she isn't afraid to die.••

Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?
Holding my last breath?
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you

••she is no longer able to perceive if she is conscious or not. So she's asking if her loved one is able to hear her still,
She's asking if she us still alive and in the arms of her loved one,
She is taking her last breaths-if she is still alive. But she at least knows she is now safe from everything that was killing her.
And she is finally saying that she will always remember them. ••

Sweet raptured light
It ends here tonight.

••Sweet raptured light Is obviously referring to the myth of seeing a bright light as you are dying.
She also knows she is going to die tonight. She knows it's the end.••

I'll miss the winter
A world of fragile things
Look for me in the white forest
Hiding in a hollow tree

••She is thinking/stating the things that she will miss when she has passed.
In this Verse, the white forest could be a metaphor for a Cemetery as its Like a forest of graves and white as in the color of the tombs.
Hiding in a hallow tree could be a metaphor for a grave, as it is in the "Forest"••

I know you hear me,
I can taste it in your tears.
Holding my last breath
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you.

••As the last bridge referred to, this is saying that she knows that she is still alive and still can be heard, she can taste the tear drops which have been shed from her loved one.
She knows she is close to her last breath. She knows she is safe from all the pain she was in, she is also clarifying that she won't forget her loved one.••

Sweet raptured light
It ends here tonight.

••See above••

Closing your eyes to disappear
You pray your dreams will leave you here,
But still you wake and know the truth -
No one's there.

••she is now telling the story if her loved one, they try to wish it all away, they dream of her to be alive again every night but as morning approaches they awake to realize it was just a dream. They realize they no one is there. ••

Say goodnight, don't be afraid
Calling me, holding me, as you fade to black.

••she has finally died, she said her final goodnight (Symbolizing that death is a never ending slumber) and stating that death isn't something to fear,
Her loved one is calling her name to stay with them, they are holding her tight, not wanting then to leave which is the last thing that happens before she dies. (Fades to black meaning her sight is gone and she's passed)

(Say goodnight) Holding my last breath
(Don't be afraid) Safe inside myself
(Holding me) Are my thoughts of you
Sweet raptured light
It ends here tonight.

••Same as above••