| Bring Me the Horizon – The Comedown Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Here’s my interpretation (: “Here I am, once again. just like a pack of wolves. The skies were once paved with gold, now they rain on us all.” - Perhaps he’s talking about falling back in to some sort of mental illness. Possibly depression and feeing suicidal. He was doing fine, being happy and all. Something happened so now he’s back where he started. “I've made my bed so I'll lie in it. I've dug my grave so I'll die in it. Tell all my friends I said goodbye, clenched teeth and fluttering eyes I cant go on like this“ - I sense a feeling of frustration and anger hence “clenched teeth”. It’s getting harder to deal with the looming thoughts in his head. He’s at his wits end and contemplates suicide. Or perhaps already made the choice to do so. Clenched teeth and fluttering eyes sounds like he’s ODing which can explain the “tell my friends I said goodbye”. “Just like the living dead, I've got a taste for something. And I dont want it, I just need it, And I cant believe that its getting harder just to feel alive, Its getting harder just to feel alive.” - Likening himself to the living dead is not only a way to explain his level of urge to end everything(zombies no nothing other than their need to eat the living, maybe just like how he feels the need to commit suicide) it’s synonymous with his feelings of feeling dead inside, as he repeats multiple times in the song “it’s getting harder to feel alive”. The line “Ive made my bed, so I’ll lie in it” could be a way that the singer is hinting that’s where his final resting place will be by following it up with “Ive dug my grave, so I’ll die in it” (dug my grave = made my bed i.e he’s making his bed, or preparing his grave, for the final time.) “Curtains close- take a bow. I think we fooled all of them now. Who you are, what you say, what you do each and every single day.” - the first line could be referring to the way he’s acting fine. Everything he is now is merely an act. Referring to curtains closing could be a way to depict that he is alone now, none of his friends are around he is just at home talking to himself in his head I.e “I think WE fooled all of them now” (him talking to himself). The second line continues the scene of him talking to himself, admitting that everything he presents to the outside world is a lie/facade, “who you are, what you say, what you do each and every day”. “I've made my bed so I'll lie in it. I've dug my grave so god help me die in it.” - referring to the previous line and how every day he puts on an act that presents something other than what he truly feels, the repetition of the bed/grave analogy illustrates his absolute exhaustion from having to do the act over and over again. With the added lyric “god help me” magnifies his increasing desperation and hopelessness about the unshakable feeling of utter pain and thoughts of suicide. It is a cry for help as nothing seems to be getting better. He is literally begging god to let him die. “Just like the living dead, I've got a taste for something. And I don't want it, I just need it, and I cant believe that” - The repetition of the first bridge but excluding “it’s getting harder just to feel alive” could signify he made his choice about dying/ is dying . He might be thinking about this as he’s dying, he just can’t believe it’s come to this point. He’s way past his breaking point and reminiscing on how’s he’s been feeling for said amount of time. There’s a sense of defeat, he tried so long to keep moving but his need to end the pain was stronger. “And I dug my grave, so ill lie in it. I've made my bed so ill die in it, die in it. And I dug my grave, and I dug my grave. I'd rather live, than live forever!” - I like how he switched the lyrics around. It’s very clever. Now he is literally dying, and feels a sense of comfort in doing so. Because laying is comfortable, he is comfortable in his bed as he dies. The repetition of I dug my grave twice could signify him fading out as he thinks this. And realizing it maybe he feels regretful by going through with it because there is no going back. Which is why he says “I’d rather live than live forever” (living forever= death). But it’s too late. “I'm knocking on deaths door, but your already dead. Its either now or fucking never. And that night, we meant every word we said. all I can say, All I can say for sure is, were coming out tonight All I can say for sure is, were coming up tonight” - could be his conscience talking to him again and he’s reminiscing on how bad he wanted to kill himself. Before he was standing outside the door of death, wanting him to opening up. Now he is literally dying. “It’s either now or fucking never” he’s reminiscing to the point where he made the choice to go through with suicide. “That night we meant every word we said” what he said this time was no lie. There was no facade. Everything he said and did was finally true and real. He’s finally sure about one thing. The fact he reached the point of no return. “ Just like the living dead Just like the living dead Just like the living dead, I've got a taste for something, I don't want it, I just need it, and I cant believe that. Just like the living dead, I've got a taste for something. And I don't want it, I just need it, And I cant believe that [Repeat: x2] Its getting harder just to feel alive, Its getting harder just to feel alive.” - at this point he might be mocking himself. He’s taking his final breath and that is signified at the end when he says “it’s getting harder just to feel alive[x2]” literally because he’s feeling himself slip away. Idk if it’s right it’s just my interpretation. A story About a man who in the end loses to suicide. It’s quite deep. |
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