| A Day to Remember – End of Me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I also forgot to add that I believe the song to be a conversation between the kid and his SO, the above lyrics dividing the different people speaking perfectly. The first stanza is the boy, then the girl, then the boy, etc alternating like a conversation. | |
| A Day to Remember – End of Me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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There are so many different interpretations to this song, it hits so many deep and hard topics, there is not one correct interpretation, but many different ones for many different people. What stands out to me most is the interpretation of Depression and a lost relationship. The Music Video is powerful and really drives this home. Throughout the video the kid sees the man in his chair, who appears to be a drunk/smoker/whatever you want to interpret him as, and he never changes, he doesn't even try. My interpretation of the end of the video, where the kid and the man are shown to have the same scar, is that they are the same person, and the kid knows this. Everyday he sees the man in the chair, and knows the path he's on/what he's becoming, but no matter how hard he tries he feels like he can't change it, and it's killing him. "I know I wasn't perfect, but I kept trying" He attempts to change but at the end of the day, he always goes back to the man in the chair, and takes the cigarette from his hand to smoke it himself. This as well as the stair cleaning shows a fundamental source/feeling that comes with depression. Like you're stuck in a rut, the same routine, doing the same things, and you can't get out, and you'll always be the same: tired, miserable, and alone. Meanwhile, his significant other, the woman in the video, seems to have tried everything to help, but as she puts it "Can't help those who don't want to be helped". The line "You know me all too well" shows that his SO has tried to help him, but she's seen him day in and day out revert back to being the man in the chair. This is also evidenced by when she leaves in the video, she looks at the man with remorse, then at the kid, as if saying "I can see what you're going to become" and she's sad, but she knows she can't help. There's nothing she can do, she's tried but he's lost. Several lines reflect the kid's anger and sadness at this. "I get it, no, I get it Gave more than I took back, oh well (took back, oh well) I get it, no, I get it Can't help those who don't wanna be helped" He understands her reasons for leaving (in an angry way). She thinks he's not doing anything to help himself, while he believes he's doing everything he can. He thinks he keeps attempting to change and help himself, but she's given up on him and he's extremely angry, sad, and conflicted on this. It drives him crazy as shown in one scene in the video. This, to me, is the theme of the whole video. But as for the title and repeated line, "You'll be the end of me", with this interpretation I see two people saying this. Both the kid, and his SO. She looks at him, she's tried to help, but she knows he's never going to change and he's going to ruin his life, and she is sad, but knows if she stays he's going to be the end of her life as well. Meanwhile the kid sees the man in the chair, a kind of manifestation of his depression, and constantly becomes aggravated and upset about his depression and about how he's in a rut and nothing can change, and he hates his depression, because he knows that it will be the end of him and his life. He blames his depression for his SO leaving, and he absolutely hates it, and by extension himself. In the very end, the man wakes up in a panic, and searches the house, he knew his whole life was leading to this horrible existence, but finally he 'wakes up' from his delusion and realizes what's become of his life, but it's too late now. He's dead, and it's too late to change. His younger self approaches him and shows him their scars, while looking unsurprised at his death like this. They never properly took care of their scar (depression). They thought they were, but he only realized too late what he actually had, while in the moment he had only seen what he didn't (a choice, a chance). |
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