These Fevered Times

there is no damned way this song is about coke. you're on coke. song's about anxiety and overcoming it, like some of his other songs.

anyway, John Henry is brilliant with his couplets: i'll make light of this night, and night of this day, it's what i tell myself to sleep, when i dream myself awake.

seriously, they don't come any better than that. i like that damned near enough to get it tattooed on myself.

no ones commented? what the fuck? this is my favorite darkest hour song...I think that John Henry(bad ass name) is talking about anxiety and maybe panic attacks like "when it hits like a ton of bricks to the chest out of breath on the bathroom floor" thats exactly what it feels like to have anxiety and panic attacks.

I think they might mean basically going crazy and thinking really fucked up things, evident in lines such as: "My heart's been racing with my mind to the finish line of these fevered times" "Confusion replaces clarity, a neurotic rearrangement You know the feeling when down feels u" Etc "These thoughts I can't control and shooting through my veins these heightened senses overwhelming"

i take from it a song about human addiction and how many in our culture who suffer from it feel.

whoops wrong song lol. yeah this one is anxiety and depression explained o so perfectly.

those lines "I'll make light of this night of this day It's what I tell myself to sleep when I dream myself awake" love them they are brilliant...i think this song is about anxiety and overcoming it aswell...

"when it hits like a ton of bricks to the chest out of breath on the bathroom floor and I’ll make light of this night and night of this day it’s what I tell myself to sleep when I dream myself awake"

goddamn! talk about giving me the chills!

I think this line is so clever: You know the feeling when down feels up to its old tricks again? It's so misleading. This song is overall just, HEAVY. Those lyrics, that's heavy. That's what I love about John Henry's lyrics, he knows how to put intensity and heart into everything, so much so that I can hardly handle it sometimes.

Probably not John Henry's intention, but the section

"I'll make light of this night and night of this day//It's what I tell myself to sleep when I dream myself awake"

took on personal significance to me. In the past 2 years I started having night-time hallucinations due to REM disturbances pretty regularly. I literally "dream myself awake," and I sit there all night thinking about the "turbulence" of the waking nightmares. The whole experience is rather disturbing, so I "make light" of it and have to sleep in the next day.

In other words, John Henry is my prophet.

I think I could try and explain what i believe he's saying with the whole song if i took enough time (that would also involve me taking the time to analyze every line)... but I'm just going to give my interpretation of the chorus:

When it hits like a ton of bricks to the chest Out of breath on the bathroom floor and I'll make light of this night and night of this day It's what I tell myself to sleep when I dream myself awake

After he has a sudden/shocking realization of how badly a certain event could effect him... he tells himself that he will be strong enough to force himself to see this event for the good in it, although he truly can't prevent himself from seeing the bad. And when his bad dreams of this event wake him, he reminds himself that he is going to focus on/find the good. This is what he tells himself so that he won't worry about the bad event/let thoughts of it pester him. That is what allows him to fall back asleep.

If anyone wants i can explain what parts of my explanation were interpreted from what parts of the chorus... but if you can understand where i got it then i won't bother giving you more to read.