A Little Death Lyrics
The guests were checking in.
The concierge was cold.
The water pipes had mold all over them.
The bed was left in ruins.
The neighbor was knocking,
But no one would let him in.
I want you to touch me there.
Make me feel like i am breathing,
Feel like i am human.
A vodka and a sprite.
A glimpse of the silhouette.
A night that they'd never forget.
I want you to touch me there.
Make me feel like i am breathing,
Feel like i am human.
And he had said, "darling your looks can kill".
So now you're dead.
I want you to touch me there.
Make it feel like i am breathing,
Feel like i am human again.

I don't think it is just about sex. From the lines, "make me feel like I am breathing, make me feel like I am human.", it's releasing all your stress and care in the world into a very passionate affair. About not caring where you are, but making the best of it and ignoring all things around you. Drowning all your sorrows, cares and worries into a great orgasm. From the lines, "The neighbor was knocking, yeah. But no one would let him in" it makes it sound like it is a secrecy romance. Especially how they looked at each other before entering the room, and then how she pulled her face to her when she was worried about the knocking. Which would make complete sense considering they are lesbians, and by the way they are dressed they seem like people with big roles in a company, church, or society in general. They do NOT look at each other like they are just there to fuck, they look at each other with passion and sexual frustration as if they wanted to do this since they met or so. In French "a little death" does mean orgasm. "She sought death on a queen sized bed, he had said darling your looks can kill and now you're dead" Almost makes it sound as if one of them had been in a relationship with a man that could never make her orgasm because she didn't feel right with him as she did with a woman. So, no, I don't believe it is just about sex. I believe it is about two people expressing their love for each other in private where no one could bother them and no one was allowed to watch. That's my interpretation of the song.

Although the song is titled "A Little Death", which is referred as an orgasm by the French, it doesn't have to be only about sex. Sure you can see it that way, or you see it as an emotional craving.
When he sings the chorus, "Touch me, yeah/ I want you to touch me there/ Make me feel like I am breathing/ Feel like I am human", he sings it with a sensual and sultry voice that shows how much that person feels towards the one they're with, or the person they want to be with.
It doesn't necessarily have to mean that it's about lesbians having sex, that was only a video. Most videos are just to show some part of the song or to show an expression. The song can be about someone wanting the person so much that they're practically pleading them to "..touch me there".
Obviously part of the first verse, "The room was fit for two,/ The bed was left in ruins/ The neighbor was knocking, yeah/ But no one would let him in" means that two people were together, hence the "bed was left in ruins" and no one answered the neighbor who was knocking.
"Dancing through the night/ A vodka and a sprite/ A glimpse of the silhouettes/ A night that they never forget", both were having a good time, I guess, and it turned out to be a night they would never forget. A night of love, passion, and of course sex.
The verse, "She sought death on a queen-sized bed/ And he had said, "Darling, your looks can kill,/ So now you're dead." means that the woman "found death", or had an orgasm, on a queen-sized bed. One that was unforgettable since now she's dead.
Now on to the chorus, which is shown multiple times. It says, "Touch me, yeah/ I want you to touch me there/ Make me feel like I am breathing/ Feel like I am human". The person reveals a longing deep inside, showing their lust for that particular lover whom they're with. "Make me feel like I am breathing/ Feel like I am human", this part expresses that the person feels alive and important when they're being touched intimately by the person they love. They feel like they exist, like they're finally able to feel. Like a human should.

You're probably thinking the same thing as everyone else that's listened to this song. The title "A Little Death" has nothing to do with the lyrics, unless you know french. The French often refer to an orgasm as "Le petite mort", or in English "The Little Death." The song is obviously about sex, and if you watched the music video, it's two girls doing oral in a hotel room. So there's really no special meaning, but it's a beautiful song.

As we all know, songs can have many means to many people. Obviously the thing that's going on here are two people are having sex. No duh. But let me give you some personal background which is the reason I'm using a throw away account. I was once married. It started to fail miserably. I'd be lying if I said I had no fault in that, but I still hold that my ex partner was the root of our issues. I felt trapped. I felt like I was suffocating. I felt like I was worthless, alone and like a mindless robot going through life, unsure of what the future held or even how long I would be in it. At a time when I was separated but still technically married, I met someone. She made me feel whole, she made me feel adored and she made me feel like I had value again. And that was before sex was introduced to our friendship/relationship. And let me tell you, when it was, then this song finally made sense to me.
To me, it's about all of this. It's about being deprived all of human intimacy. Lead to believe that this is just what life is made of. And finally you have someone showing you that you indeed are worth feeling good. Not just sexually, though yes indeed sexually, but as a human again. There's a certain spark. Like an otherworldly, almost spiritual feeling of being revived again.
I no longer felt like a mindless robot, suffocating through life. I could breathe again, I felt human.

I like what some have already said in the comments, but i want to add a few relevant points based on some personal experiences, I recently added this song to a playlist I made about a girl i have a crush on, we see each other all the time and there is this special feeling I feel every time our eyes connect, and it seems we are both out there on that bike trail that stretches for miles, for reasons beyond just exercise, but to get away from the world and connect to actual life, and I have this feeling that she also feels what I feel. But so much of the essence of this song, I feel in the lines:
"Touch me, yeah I want you to touch me there Make me feel like I am breathing Feel like I am human"
We are born into this world, and the magic we feel as kids is forcefully stomped out of so many of us by the time we reach adult life, and then life becomes so mechanical, often meaningless or dull to so many compared to what it used to be. So few things give people that feeling that makes them feel alive anymore, and the way the world feels to so many of us artists feels so disconnected, makes us feel like we are no longer human, but the chase of romance is something that no matter how old I get, the meaning still gives me that same magical feeling I had as a kid, then those lines "Make me feel like I am breathing, Feel like I am human" makes so much sense to me, especially since its something very relevant to my life right now. Very few things give life that magic that romance and passionate sex does, but I would say that although the romantic overtones in the song are apparent, at its very essence its talking about the way life drains the life out of us and hangs us out to dry, or die, whether it is from a shitty marriage, a shitty job, the shittiness of life in general, and to have a little death becomes a way to be reborn, perhaps it is through the little death the French call "Le petit mort" or orgasm, since it is for a second a similar dissociation from the body and worldly concerns, but it could also apply to anything that you do for a thrill in life to make you feel more alive. Its funny, cuz today I was riding my bike and i listen to a playlist on the ride and I saw the girl and passed her right as the song said "And he had said, "Darling, your looks can kill, So now you're dead." And her looks are such, i've had many beautiful girlfriends in my life, but this girl was flawless, and had this aura to her that glows, and it is kind of intimidating to the degree that it feels paralyzing to the point of death, but then i keep going back for more because the challenge and the chase of romance makes me feel so alive in a world that seems anything but alive. The double meanings in all this echo to levels that most, including myself, can barely even comprehend....
That's my 2 cents, thanks for reading! :)