The conflicting tense in these two lines ,from past to current, also reaffirms the being almost alive and not quite dead or having physically died but still existing. The second line refers to the crowd and their expectations, whether the crowd references to the two other people in the video (the gent smoking the cigarette and the woman with the blonde, who seem oblivious to the bleeding people beside them), or the audience of the song, or some other implicit crowd, I am not sure. The protagonists appear to be dead, and yet the woman is singing and you can't sing when you are dead. The first two lines match very well with the video, where the protagonists are lying bleeding on the floor. Sense the crowd expecting something more. I think this song is about The space in between Life and Death, whether Life and Death are literal or metaphors / concepts. I haven't heard any NiN, so I don't have the same comparison base as most of you. Either that or some variation of Joe K's comment is right. Your past may be dead to you in that it may no longer bother you, but you can never escape it when you are re-creating it again and again every night. "The things we couldn't kill" refers to the content of the actual song/art, because often times it is about something hurtful from your past, sometimes things which you have overcame or moved on from, and you are re-opening the wounds of you past. Those moments can begin to be less fulfilling and empty. The spaces in between are all the moments not onstage. It's like your dying on stage every night, but this is precisely what you live for. yet, the crowd/audience/fans still want more. You open up your personal inner world "proudly on display." It's about how you can create something so meaningful and personal that perfectly expresses your emotions/thoughts/etc. Performing art is a very vulnerable thing. I think this song is about being a musician/artist and being onstage.
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