The Big Gloom

From my understanding of this song, it's describing the death of Jean-Paul Marat (also on the album cover). It's probably using his death as a metaphor, but I'm not going to get in to that because it's mostly all subjective. Here's a line-by-line interpretation of how I see it relating to JPM:

/ / Sleeping in and out of an ice bath / / No warmth, no life without

JPM had a deliberating skin condition for the three years leading up to his assassination. He spent the majority of this time in an ice bath as it was the only thing that would soothe his condition.

/ / It's too much. My arms, my legs are wood / / unconscious trees with roots deep in the ground

Once again describing the skin condition and how, being confined to the tub, his diseased limbs "rooted" him to where he was.

/ / We will all be out, soon, an ocean ringed with tile. / / I know that's not your style but it certainly will be mine if I can't make this right.

/ / So please, please, please, release me.

Ocean ringed with tile = obviously bathtub. The other lines could have a lot of different meanings so I'm not going to attempt it.

/ / Can you hear my faintest breath, is it amplified? / / The number that I've become will put you inside.

At this point in the song the assassination has already taken place and Marat is dying. The amplification of his final words ("Help me, my dear friend!") could either refer to the reverberating effect of screaming in a bathroom, or rather something that would be amplified through history (they're pretty famous last words).

"The number that I've become will put you inside" could refer to his assassin's quote "I killed one man to save 100,000." The rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory; it's describing how it must have felt to bleed to death in a friends arms on your bathroom floor, something I think we can all relate to.

I won't rest until I hear this loud enough to induce seizures.

Have A Nice Life's Frontman, Dan Barrett, actually revealed the meaning of this song in a Q&A shortly after Deathconsciousness's viral success. The Big Gloom tells the story of a male protagonist who has lost all hope and has gone into a state of crippling depression. In the song, we are inside the protagonist's head as he lies in an ice bath, contemplating suicide. We see his thoughts as he debates whether life is worth living or not, while also reflecting on his life. It is not made perfectly clear, but it seems that at the end of the song, the man commits suicide while submerged in the icebath. Throughout the man's thought processes, we see several callbacks to the Deathconsciousness booklet. Using the booklet, we can make sense of most of the more cryptic lyrics. Examples of some of the cryptic lyrics are "Oh please, please, please release me." Turning to the booklet, we see a brief segment that has this same quote. In the context of the booklet, we see that the line "Oh Please, Please, Please Release Me" refers to feeling hopeless and seeing your existence as pointless due to knowing that your time is limited and you, along with everyone else, will die someday. "The number that I've become, does it put you inside?" This refers to a quote very early on in the booklet "The realization that you are not a person, but a statistic." (Once again, a callback to the album's overarching concept of feeling hopeless at the sudden realization that your time with everyone is very limited.) "Just Open Up Your Eyes, You Dead Ones (All your ashes on the floor)" "Just open up your eyes, you dead ones" is a feeling of grief and missing someone that's passed away, crying out to no one and begging them to just open up their eyes. "All Your Ashes On The Floor" is another reference to the booklet. In the booklet, there is a story of a fictional cultist named Antiochus who is burned at the stake for organizing a mass murder. As he is being burned, a massive wave of wind blows over him and all his ashes started to blow, and they burned all the nearby observer's eyes and mouths. Most of the members of Antiochus' cult saw this as a miracle.

Not exactly sure about the exact meaning (but it definitely is about death in some way)- one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

From my understanding of this song, it's describing the death of Jean-Paul Marat (also on the album cover). It's probably using his death as a metaphor, but I'm not going to get in to that because it's mostly all subjective. Here's a line-by-line interpretation of how I see it relating to JPM:

/ / Sleeping in and out of an ice bath / / No warmth, no life without

JPM had a deliberating skin condition for the three years leading up to his assassination. He spent the majority of this time in an ice bath as it was the only thing that would soothe his condition.

/ / It's too much. My arms, my legs are wood / / unconscious trees with roots deep in the ground

Once again describing the skin condition and how, being confined to the tub, his diseased limbs "rooted" him to where he was.

/ / We will all be out, soon, an ocean ringed with tile. / / I know that's not your style but it certainly will be mine if I can't make this right.

/ / So please, please, please, release me.

Ocean ringed with tile = obviously bathtub. The other lines could have a lot of different meanings so I'm not going to attempt it.

/ / Can you hear my faintest breath, is it amplified? / / The number that I've become will put you inside.

At this point in the song the assassination has already taken place and Marat is dying. The amplification of his final words ("Help me, my dear friend!") could either refer to the reverberating effect of screaming in a bathroom, or rather something that would be amplified through history (they're pretty famous last words).

"The number that I've become will put you inside" could refer to his assassin's quote "I killed one man to save 100,000." The rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory; it's describing how it must have felt to bleed to death in a friends arms on your bathroom floor, something I think we can all relate to.

From my understanding of this song, it's describing the death of Jean-Paul Marat (also on the album cover). It's probably using his death as a metaphor, but I'm not going to get in to that because it's mostly all subjective. Here's a line-by-line interpretation of how I see it relating to JPM:

/ / Sleeping in and out of an ice bath / / No warmth, no life without

JPM had a deliberating skin condition for the three years leading up to his assassination. He spent the majority of this time in an ice bath as it was the only thing that would soothe his condition.

/ / It's too much. My arms, my legs are wood / / unconscious trees with roots deep in the ground

Once again describing the skin condition and how, being confined to the tub, his diseased limbs "rooted" him to where he was.

/ / We will all be out, soon, an ocean ringed with tile. / / I know that's not your style but it certainly will be mine if I can't make this right.

/ / So please, please, please, release me.

Ocean ringed with tile = obviously bathtub. The other lines could have a lot of different meanings so I'm not going to attempt it.

/ / Can you hear my faintest breath, is it amplified? / / The number that I've become will put you inside.

At this point in the song the assassination has already taken place and Marat is dying. The amplification of his final words ("Help me, my dear friend!") could either refer to the reverberating effect of screaming in a bathroom, or rather something that would be amplified through history (they're pretty famous last words).

"The number that I've become will put you inside" could refer to his assassin's quote "I killed one man to save 100,000." The rest of the song is pretty self-explanatory; it's describing how it must have felt to bleed to death in a friends arms on your bathroom floor, something I think we can all relate to.

it's a BREAKUP SONG AND HE'S GOING TO KILL HIMSELF.

i love it.