The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined

This is just my interpretation. I just found this site and I had some time so I went through each line (yer… lol). Most people are looking at this song as about his love for a bestfriend, something romantic that cannot be. I agree completely.

Sorry for the typos and bad grammar. It’s kinda late.

“I've been hiding in this bed for weeks from this”

He has been trying to avoid his feelings for her in his “bed”. The bed represents a safe house because a lot of people feel that their bed is a place of rest and peace, it’s a place to hide from the events of the world around you, a place to escape when you dream. So his use of the bed as a symbol of a sanctuary to hide is perfect in portraying just how detrimental the emotions are – he has to try and block them out along with the world.

“Throats raw from screaming and I haven't said a word”

He’s completely frustrated and what ever emotions he was feeling before are being blocked out by a scream from the inside, that is its not so much an actual scream, but more of a psychological plateau that he can’t get past and is “screaming” so hard and trying to force through it that its starting to have a physical effect on his body. This makes sense because when you are mentally under stress, your body deteriorates as well.

”The sky is calling, and the stars they point to this” “The sky is calling” at him. This could be a reference to death but could also be about searching for an answer to his frustrations. The “sky” is seen as an infinite (I realise the sky isn’t infinite lol) escape – unlike the bed of course – and its calling him to look through its endless distances to search for an answer. If we take this notion of the sky being another “escape” and a “search for an answer”, and think about “sky” as a representation of his mind, he is telling himself to find an answer, because everyone “the stars” around him are pointing and noticing whats happening to him, (not him individually but the events because he says “this”) and its embarrassing.

”To a chair we see your breath in the air, but only for a little while”

This “we” that he keeps referring to may not actually be appointed to a group of people, and not even him and the “friend” that he’s in love with (im taking that assumption). It could just be him and his mind if we look at “this” as his affections for his friend. Its his love and him staring at a “chair” that represents being settled down (when you sit), being settled down with him. She however, isn’t sitting on the chair, but because “we see your breath in the air”, she must have been there at one point in time and spoke something (“breath”) that ended whatever they were talking about. Perhaps he was confronting her about his feelings and it wasn’t received well by her and shes gone now?

”Your cold pale skin and tainted purple lips”

This line, he’s just uglifying her because immediately after she dropped him (in the previous line), he’s now hurt and angry at her. Shes “cold” and “pale”, he feels she is a heartless bitch with these “tainted” lips that made him fall in love with her. “Lips” of course would be a metaphor for her actions, maybe she led him on?

”Let me embrace you with this kiss”

But despite his hate for her at the moment, he still loves her and he wants to “embrace” her.

”And together we'll float like angels” He’s just dreaming now. “Float”ing like “angels”. “Float” in the “sky”. Looking back at the stanza before, if “sky” represents his mind, he is seriously just day dreaming now because they are “together” floating in the sky, “together” in his mind.

”Together ... together we will float, like angels”

Ditto

”Higher than the heavens the clouds part ways”

He day dreams so much that in his dreams they eventually reach the heavens. He might be suggesting that he wants to die in his dreams due to the reference to “heaven”, seeking refuge and comfort in the eternal bliss after death.

”'Promise me to never look down!' and we'll stay like this forever”

His mind is telling him to not “look down” because that would wake him and bring him back to “earth” and “reality” – he is not with her. As a result, the day dream continues “forever”.

”If your stomach feels weak than my work here is done”

Possibly something he feels that she would say to him because she is such a “cold” bitch. He’s looking at it like she played him as a fool and the “stomach” being weak is evident of this because our stomachs are central to our body. The weak feeling that is being described could be a mix of a stomach ache, or something like heartburn where the vomit and bile may come back up and burn your throat. “throat raw”????

”To hide from our twisted ways, I've been hiding in this bed” ”Been hiding in this bed for weeks”