This song is just made for Sam! His rejection of his perscribed fate, opposing both Heaven and Hell, truly makes him the strongest character on the show!
That memory of childhood & that line “I’m not clean” broke my heart. Because I know child abuse survivors watching this know exactly the feeling he’s talking about. Really powerful.
You've captured their codependency so well! They love each other so much, but they absolutely are locked in a pattern (from what I remember of the show), and no one can fully break them out of that cycle. They're like twin planets orbiting each other, never fully able to move on from their past, inching forward into the future.