Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
It aint no point to me waking up
everbodys time I'm taking up
I got nobody
it aint a shoulder near
I can't stay here and its colder there
I don't wanna look back cause its gonna hurt
I slice my wrist and its gonna squirt
For me everybody holds a hate
I get backstabbed and everybody holds the stake
its no roads to take i'm in a circle drive
bustin at myself and I'm tryna survive
I'll dissapoint you
and I will let you down
and I aint got me homeboys comin around
you don't understand so don't say you do
I swear I'll put a motherfuckin slug in you
I'm the only one
the lonely one
at home alone loadin a gun thinkin why not
I got court comin up I stole a truck
I got a bitch pregnant and I'm broke as fuck
I wanna get high but I got piss test
I'm always first name on top of shit list
get this
the witch has made my chest its permanent nightly visiting nest
it aint no clothes that I look good in
I'm the motherfuckin big red train that couldn't
I got no family I stole they shit
restraining orders and I still wont quit
I hit rock bottom and then I feel in a hole
and the I fell through the floor of that hole some more
I been missin for year nobodys lookin
I got beat down and my shit tooken
I look ahead and I see is the same
or this self inflicted bullet hole pouring my brain
I dream about cuttin heads off with a shovel
the dreams are gettin serious I think I'm in trouble
I don't hold memory for than an hour
I'm tired as fuck and I'm drained of power
I aint half way there and I'm all out of time
I'm like a crushed light bulb all out of shine
I been around the world but no place is home
I wanna see the otherside when I face the chrome
I'm butt naked I been jackin off gettin drunk
its my last hours alive who gives a fuck
it don't matter
I'm doin this shit in the garage
tryna make it easier for them to clean my head splaage
I this bitch I love, I hope she finds
stll up in the chair with my thoughts behind me
I'm about to do it can you hold for a second
everbodys time I'm taking up
I got nobody
it aint a shoulder near
I can't stay here and its colder there
I don't wanna look back cause its gonna hurt
I slice my wrist and its gonna squirt
For me everybody holds a hate
I get backstabbed and everybody holds the stake
its no roads to take i'm in a circle drive
bustin at myself and I'm tryna survive
I'll dissapoint you
and I will let you down
and I aint got me homeboys comin around
you don't understand so don't say you do
I swear I'll put a motherfuckin slug in you
I'm the only one
the lonely one
at home alone loadin a gun thinkin why not
I got court comin up I stole a truck
I got a bitch pregnant and I'm broke as fuck
I wanna get high but I got piss test
I'm always first name on top of shit list
get this
the witch has made my chest its permanent nightly visiting nest
it aint no clothes that I look good in
I'm the motherfuckin big red train that couldn't
I got no family I stole they shit
restraining orders and I still wont quit
I hit rock bottom and then I feel in a hole
and the I fell through the floor of that hole some more
I been missin for year nobodys lookin
I got beat down and my shit tooken
I look ahead and I see is the same
or this self inflicted bullet hole pouring my brain
I dream about cuttin heads off with a shovel
the dreams are gettin serious I think I'm in trouble
I don't hold memory for than an hour
I'm tired as fuck and I'm drained of power
I aint half way there and I'm all out of time
I'm like a crushed light bulb all out of shine
I been around the world but no place is home
I wanna see the otherside when I face the chrome
I'm butt naked I been jackin off gettin drunk
its my last hours alive who gives a fuck
it don't matter
I'm doin this shit in the garage
tryna make it easier for them to clean my head splaage
I this bitch I love, I hope she finds
stll up in the chair with my thoughts behind me
I'm about to do it can you hold for a second
Lyrics submitted by psychorocker89
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The lyrics pretty much speak by themsleves. =P It's a great song, in fact, all of Hell's Pit is wicked!