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I'm so sorry I keep going back to this... I love the attention to detail in the sense of the lyrics. "But we all have no choice to keep on living," signifying that there is no other drive to them living but for other people, like the Sinners, as well as the Contract. In some certain aspects you can say they're living too just to figure out who they once were before the memory loss, before their own creation deteriorated who they thought they were. "I'm sorry I decieved you, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you" also heavily refers to what the people who DO know about Dante's past or who they once were are not, in fact, allowed to tell them. "Because suffering is the only bond we share," can also reference so, so many things. The first reference could be their Contract toward the Sinners, how the bond from their soul to Dante's is in fact, them consuming the pain THEY have to keep going further. The second reference can be of from The Divine Comedy—between Dante and Vergilius. How the only reason their bond had properly existed in the first place was because of Vergilius' guidance of Dante through Inferno and Purgatorio itself—being a treacherous, painful hike of nothing but suffering. When that was over, when Purgatorio was finally over, only then did Vergilius disappear. The same parallel can be placed into Limbus Company's Dante and Vergilius. Even there are not much canon sightings of what could've been their relationship before, I feel like it was, in fact, the closest... and Gehenna was the perfect song to portray it.
2026-06-23 00:43:17