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.
I'd like to thank you for being
There when I needed you most
It was nice of you to stick around
I'd also like to thank you
For watching me drown
Not saving me, or bringing you down
I should have walked all the way home
Forgotten all your names
And not answered the phone
Well I guess this brings us
To where we are now
I can't stand you anymore
Can't you get that through your head?
I think it's funny that you talk
Like we are still best friends
I think I'd rather be dead
Tell me what you want
Because what I want is what you can't have
I'll take everything i'm taking it back
Call me what you want
Because I'm not calling you anymore
I'll take everything i'm taking it back
All those times I told myself I'd
Never end up all alone i guess I lied
There when I needed you most
It was nice of you to stick around
I'd also like to thank you
For watching me drown
Not saving me, or bringing you down
I should have walked all the way home
Forgotten all your names
And not answered the phone
Well I guess this brings us
To where we are now
I can't stand you anymore
Can't you get that through your head?
I think it's funny that you talk
Like we are still best friends
I think I'd rather be dead
Tell me what you want
Because what I want is what you can't have
I'll take everything i'm taking it back
Call me what you want
Because I'm not calling you anymore
I'll take everything i'm taking it back
All those times I told myself I'd
Never end up all alone i guess I lied
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"all those times i told myself, i'de never end up all alone, i guess i lied"
I can listen to this song over and over without getting tired of it. Amazing.
i think a friend of his, or theres basically backstabbed them. and not having there friends support doing a time in need really made him realize they were never a good friend, it was all a lie. but the whole "i told myself id never end up all alone" that leads to a relationship id say. maybe it was about a girlfriend