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”

I think he is trying to say he has done something wrong to hurt someone and is "hiding in his bed" to get away, but really hasn't done anything.....a marytyr. But I'm probobly wrong.... ... ... Ahhhh...No one leaves comments on this band. Such a good thing

it seems to me that this song is about someone who has fallen in love with their best friend and is confused about his/her feelings they are in love but do not know how the other person will act. they can not bear to live without them and just the sight of this friend, brings ideas of what could be.

I am leaning towards kisstokill's definition. Hey everyone: IT'S SCREAMO! Think about it literally for a second. This is a sick depiction of his dead lover, obviously kept there for a bit too long ('your cold pale skin, tainted purple lips') and he STILL doesn't want to let go. Freakin' weird.

Rated 0 i think this song is about a girl, something is tying her down (maybe someone, or something someone did to her)and she is dying inside. which is why they see her breath in the air to a chair, her cold pale skin and tainted purple lips.

this guy, has know of it. i think he is a vampire, but doesnt want to take the lifes of humans anymore. so hes been hiding in his bed from this. hes screaming inside his head. (but he hasnt said a word)

he has fallen in love with this girl, and wants to take her away from all her pain. so if he embraces her with his kiss, she can become one of them. (the sky is calling and the stars the point to this) after he gives her "the kiss" they together float like angels. !!!!!!!listen to the change in the music after that line.....i can see them just embracing and swirling up into the air.

they go higher than the heavens, and he tells her to promise to never look down, and we'll stay like this forever. ( in other words, never look back at her life as it was before)

if your stomach feels weak than my work here is done. self explanitory.

i friggen love this song!!!!! some days i wish someone would take me a way from it all......

i was thinking something along the lines of this (To a chair we see your breath in the air)i think of this as hanging yourself and but (only for a little while) helps me in thnking that when you hang yourself you will stop breathing i think he did someting wrong to cause her to kkill herself and he finds her note ( in this bed for weeks) but there are more lyrics to say im wrong on his sorrow

Basically He Did Something Terrible To A Girl Most Likely, And Nows He's Ashamed. There's Something Else To It That I Can't Really Figure Out Maybe The Person He Hurt Was Vulnerable At The Time And He Too kaDvantage....IDK

I dont see the whole falling in love with the best friend. But i agree that he has doen something wrong because he says "To hide from our twisted ways, I've been hiding in this bed". But this song is great, i love the part where it says "If your stomach feels week then my work here is DONE!!" Awesome stuff

I totally love this band. I'm pretty glad it's not totally known to the world (=

About the lyrics? I totally agree with aimstrious.

When you've lost someone like really lost someone barely talk to them anymore you don't want to do anything, so thats what its about him just isolating himself from getting hurt again. She's falling apart and so is he. And if they had one more chance, he'd turn it all around. He just needs her trust.