Rotted out vs blotted out

[MILKISMURDER]

The official lyrics for My Love I’d do Anything for You have it wrong surely.

 

[DaggerDave]

What's the official lyric? Blotted out is what I have always heard...

 

[They Say He's Mental]

I’ve always heard rotted, and thought it may be a shortening of garrotted.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

The official lyrics for My Love I’d do Anything for You have it wrong surely.

blotted out to escape the awareness of pain.

blot out​

verb​

blotted out; blotting out; blots out
Synonyms of blot out
transitive verb
1
: to make obscure, insignificant, or inconsequential

2
: WIPE OUT, DESTROY

 

[Famous when dead]

Um...
There are (non-Japanese translated) liner lyrics for this song.

Insert it in to your reality however you wish...
FWD.

 

[Ryan]

you were gooth in your time

 

[Society's Hell]

All the lyrics online say rotted but I could never hear it.

 

[Anonymous]

Official lyric sheets are no guarantee that's what he's actually singing (just look at how completely off 'What Kind of People Live in These Houses' is, for example). However in this instance it does sound like 'blotted' to me, and 'rotted' wouldn't make a huge amount of sense.