When It's Cold I'd Like to Die

I love this song, its so sad, its just like....when you've given up-thats what it means, you didn't mean to, but its happened and now you can't do anything about it

Songs like this one make me feel real.

This song gives me goosebumps. It is my favorite early work from Moby. To me this song means that you have tried to reach a goal. You can't seem to achieve your end goal, so you give up. The goal fades away as the song fades too.

Who does the vocals on this? does anyone know....im thinking it sounds like annie lennox thats all

This is from the album "Everything Is Wrong"

It was also used as the ending credits soundtrack on the Sopranos episode "Join The Club" (where Tony is in the coma)

I love this song, it's full of regret. And a strong sense of resentment for what the narrator's life has become, providing an end-solution. The narrator lets the listener/reader know that they shouldn't, for a lack of a better phrase, take it personal, especially in the line: What was that my sweet sweet nothing? I can't hear you through the fog If I holler let me go If I falter let me know

The narrator has given up completely, comparing his life to an ocean, and not wanting to swim it any longer...painfully deep.

I picture this song as someone on their deathbed, like on a bed in the hospital. Not suicide. That person is talking to their loved one, sharing their last thoughts. The main theme is that this person doesnt want to fight anymore, when it gets "cold" (meaning, too hard or too painful) they would rather die.

"If I holler let me go" meaning, if you see me in too much pain, let me die (perhaps referring to not keeping my alive on life support).

"If I falter let me know" maybe meaning if i lose my nerve to end my life, help me be strong.

To me its this old guy thats dying in the hospital and his wife is standing next to his bed and hes talking to her. "what was that my sweet sweet nothing? i can't hear you through the fog" meaning hes so far gone to his illness that hes almost on his way out of this life. hes in between both worlds, and is looking back on his life and explaining to his wife that its ok, he doesnt want to go on now, hes ready to die.

I think the title and first two lines make this song's meaning clear and self-explanatory.

Where were you when I was LONESOME? + Locked away with freezing COLD? = When It's COLD I'd like to die.

Life without (reciprocated or perceived) love or humanity, in general, is therefore, not worth the struggle/ fight or will to live.

For me this song is about depression - kinda obvious but hear me out...

Extreme fatigue and hopelessness are fundamental to clinical depression and the lines "i don't wanna swim the ocean, fight the tide, swim forever" perfectly capture what I have felt when deeply depressed, i.e. just too tired and too hopeless to live life. Existential capitulation.

The first two lines make the link between cold and loneliness. So "when it's cold I'd like to die" = being alone and being depressed leads me to think of suicide.

This song makes me cry because I have felt this way so many times in my life. It makes me feel it all, every intense ache.

Love to everyone who is touched by this song x

For me this song is about depression - kinda obvious but hear me out...

Extreme fatigue and hopelessness are fundamental to clinical depression and the lines "i don't wanna swim the ocean, fight the tide, swim forever" perfectly capture what I have felt when deeply depressed, i.e. just too tired and too hopeless to live life. Existential capitulation.

The first two lines make the link between cold and loneliness. So "when it's cold I'd like to die" = being alone and being depressed leads me to think of suicide.

This song makes me cry because I have felt this way so many times in my life. It makes me feel it all, every intense ache.

Love to everyone who is touched by this song x

i agree with flick. one of Moby's best underrated works.