Wires

I think the song is about two people. One tries to be successful, but not in a clean way. The other tells what happened, saying that he (the other guy) was good before the wires took over him. The wires could be a metaphor for something dirty or evil that was taking over the man who tried to be successful. It also shows how his good manners and talent vanished after he did what he did. Closer analysis goes something like:

We talked about making it I’m sorry that you never made it And it pains me just to hear you have to say it

His friend, acknowledging, that he made a mistake, by doing the wrong thing. At the end he had to admit that what he did was wrong, and his friend, the narrator, feels kinda bad about it.

You knew the game and played it, it kills to know that you have been defeated I see the wires pulling while you're breathing

The narrator, his friend, saying how he was conscious of what he was doing, that it was not okay, but did it anyways. His friend explains how he has changed and how the wires ( That represent something bad, evil, dirty, etc) had taken over him. - Also talks about the consequences of what his friend did. Something like "Look at how you were before, we were in the same road, look at us now, look at you now", Like how he was talented but then he cheated or made something wrong, at the point at he was "defeated" by the actions that he performed in them past and how those bad things he did took over him.

• Also shows how disappointed and hurt his friend is (the narrator), as he is his friend, as they started the same way, as he knew what was going on and couldn't stop it. It is evidence in the "it kills to know" and " i see the wires pulling".

You knew you had a reason, It killed you like diseases, And I can hear it in your voice while you're speaking; you can't be treated.

This part has two different points to talk about. The first is the relation between "diseases" and the whole situation. Humans crave lots of things, including, of course, success, money, fame, etc. But when you crave a lots of it, you become obsessed and physically ill. Thats the situation of our guy. His friend, the narrator, notices it in his conduct, as he probably doesn't. This friend knows that this obsessions are killing him on the inside. That took over his body and mind and metaphorically "killed him". -Also when diseases have already taken over someone's body is very hard to treat them. It happens with physical diseases and mental diseases. His friend might have tried to help him, but maybe it was too late and the disease already took over him. he can see this in: "you can't be treated" -The second point is, the reason behind all the problem. When his friend says "You knew you had a reason", he tries to refer to the motivation and reason behind everything, but his tone suggests that he didn't agree with it. As he knew he had a straight reason about what was happening, he could look for another way to get it, to accomplish his goals and objectives, like in this case, to be successful. His friend (The narrator) knew it. And yet, he could be successful without having to get his hands dirty. - His friend (the narrator) knew everything,' i could see how screwed he was', he makes clear in: " i can hear it in your voice while you're speaking; you can't be treated". His friend clearly shows how bad he was, at the point, that he could not help him anymore. And also that he tried to help him and to make change, but the reason he had, was controlling his mind. The idea of being successful, which is the whole reason behind everything, took over his mind, and his friend couldn't help it, but to tell him how bad he was after what he did wrong, started showing and the consequences were obvious.

Mr. Know-it-all had his reign and his fall, At least that is what his brain is telling all

With Mr. Know-it-all, the narrator, speaks about his friend as a genius. As a talented person. That probably he was really smart and applicated before he did the wrong thing. Also Mr. Know-it-all is a kinda satirical and sarcastic way to call his friend as he knew everything but the fact that what he was doing was wrong. -Now, the second sentence is a really powerful sentence, and maybe, the most powerful sentence in the song. Saying how he pretended to be a really smart and applicated person, no matter if he really was, because at the end, he was corrupt and false. His brain tricked him, his friends, and lots of people, people who were enchanted with his character, with his intelligence, but not knowing that we was a bad, corrupt man. -The narrator uses the correct words to explain everything as if he knew all, but couldn't help it.

Time for the chorus. If he said "Help me kill the president" I’d say he needs medicine, Sick of screaming, let us in Wires got the best of him All that he invested in, goes Straight to hell Straight to hell

The lyrics are the part of the song where we can find much more information that in the other parts. The chorus is key part for the understanding of the song. "If he said 'Help me kill the president' i'd say he needs medicine" In this part the narrator wants to tell us a couple of things. the first one is that his friend was expecting such thing to come out of his mouth. Help me kill the president. It shows a lot about his personality. It tell us that he was capable of doing such thing and suggesting it. It shows how mad he was. It shows how the idea of being successful completely destroyed his whole self and his friends too. It shows what he was capable of killing someone for his own good. His friend's response (the narrator) , shows his own personality. How wouldn't do such thing, How bad and mad was it. But mainly it shows that the narrator was always there to help him. To tell him how bad he was. The part "needs medicine" helps us understand that his friend was literally telling him "you're crazy, you're bad" and secretly telling him "stop it for your own health".

"Sick of screaming, let us in"

Here he see how desperate he was for fame, success. The whole reason behind all the problem is that he was thirsty for success. that he was literally going crazy for it. But then he is getting tired of trying. trying to get in, to become it, everything he dreamed about. The "let us in" sounds particularly special to me. Like is is begging for it because the whole success thing has become a part of him or at least the idea of being successful.

"Wires got the best of him All that he invested in, goes Straight to hell Straight to hell"

This part is more like, 'oh oh too late'. as the narrator is his friend, clearly makes us see how screwed his friend was. The narrator explains that the wires (which, as i said before, represent devil, bad, corrupt, etc) took all of him, all of what his friend was proud of, his talent, his kindness, his personality, his intelligence, and he was left with nothing. Not his friend. Not his "fans" ,nothing. All his effort, all his work, and all his talent disappeared and as the lyrics say "went straight to hell".-Knowing that hell is bad place where the sinners go, but the fact that we was still there, is like a consequence, because he had to face the situation and pay for what he did, that could be actually going to jail, or just people judging and harassing him or his own thoughts consuming his mind and driving him crazy up to the point where we could kill himself. He was screwed mainly because he lost all the special and good things about himself. He WAS talented.

Now, everything changes form here. The narrator starts feeling kinda bad and sorry for him. Tries to explain, what was going through his mind.

He told me I should take it in Listen to every word he’s speaking

The narrator a this point, struggles in the position of friend. He always helped him and it goes down from here. His friend is like 'do i believe him?'. He asked him to believe and to trust. And as a friend, the narrator knows that he can't let him down, but also knows that he did the wrong thing. So the narrator tries to believe in that old friend he had. Tries to remember the talented friend he knew.

The wires getting older I can hear the way their creaking As their holding him Well I could see it in his jaw That all he ever wanted was a job

The bad and the evil inside of him was still there. time has passed, and he's still the same, But this bad things inside of him are still affecting him. are still making him bad, someone you cannot trust. a corrupt person. He is barely living with those wires controlling him. He is barely the same. For the narrator (his friend) He is barely the person he was before but still has something he had before. There was hope. The narrator sees the possibility of getting him back, and tries to explain to himself what the hell was going on. He sees a tiny little bit of innocence in his eyes. He hears a tiny little bit of innocence in his voice. At the end the whole reason behind the problem was being successful, and the narrator tries to explain that to himself. "all he ever wanted was a job".

He tells me to be raw Admits to every little flaw That never let him sit upon the top

Won’t tell me to stop Thinks that I should be a little cautious Well I can tell the wires pulled

The narrator still sees the good in him. His talent. The things he said to his friend, were the things that convinced the narrator that his friend was a victim. But the narrator went to the past. He was remembering his old self. When he was good. His friend was remembering his friend- who used to be the perfect leader . Who was conscious of his flaws but also conscious of the good things that made him who he was. The narrator returns to the present. His friend is screwed. And his selfishness stopped him from changing to good. The narrator realises that he is a monster and that there is nothing to do about it. "well i can tell the wires pulled": Who he is now is a monster, there isn't a single doubt about it. He is done.

Chorus again

I'm having trouble in believing And I just started seeing Light at the beginning of the tunnel but he tells me that I'm dreaming When he talks I hear his ghosts every word they say to me I just pray the wires aren't coming

-PLOT TWIST- The narrator goes crazy for him. His friends problems affected him (The narrator). The narrator struggles because he feels like it is his fault, maybe he didn't help him enough or maybe he feels like a complice for trusting him, listening to him, and continuing to be his friend. He thinks the wires are coming for him. Afterall, the two people i talked about could be just on person- along with its thoughts. Or the alternative end could be, he dies, he goes crazy for his friend's problems, or his own problems. The light at the tunnel, the ghosts chasing him .

*"The Wires" as metaphor. Wires in this song relates to the bad the evil. The bad things that pulled him and manipulated him like a puppet. Wires that trapped and tied him. There are many ways to see the wires and this element is the most important element in the song.

*Yes this song is about someone who's politically incorrect. Yes is about a corrupt politician. Yes is about a corrupt leader. This song fits perfectly for corrupt leaders, as we can evidence in different parts of the song, when the narrator portraits his friend as someone smart who "speaks" to people.

*Diseases are natural and you can not stop them. You can easily frame our character into one. Maybe he couldn't stop it, he should have been treated as he couldn't.

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This song strangely relates to the poem "Telephone Repairman" by Joseph Millar. I feel like the man being talked about in the song is the telephone repairman and the 'I' is one of his loved ones.

I've always thought that he's talking about his father who has schizophrenia or some other illness, like alzheimer's. The song's about the fathers hallucinations and how the singer can see him slowly disappearing.

When he says "I just pray the wires aren't coming", he means he's seeing some symptoms in himself and hopes the illness doesn't get him as well.

This song is about 2 people with 2 different perspectives one believed he wasnt free and we needed to fight leave this "prison" which is our political world and the other person saw life as to simply enjoy it and help eachother...in the end also told in the beginning the person who was full of fighting died first and he dies for no reason because his fighting went on unknown. We all have that one friend that believes hardcore in fighting and being cautios about theories going on in our society.

My take on this song is that his friend tried to succeed, but eventually the stress of not being successful drove him to use illicit substances to which he became addicted. The addiction and the cravings are represented by the 'wires' pulling him, and the line, "If he said help me kill the president" shows possible delusions, hallucinations, or warped perception due to drug use.

I think this song is about Jesse (the singer) and a friend of his who wanted to be successful in the music industry as Jesse and the rest of The Neighbourhood are now. I saw in a interview with The NBHD that Jesse writes all the songs in the moment about whatever he is feeling lately. So i don't think there is a super deep meaning behind it relating to another story or people, but that's just my opinion. I'll try to explain my views with every couple lines of the song.

"We talked about making it I’m sorry that you never made it And it pains me just to hear you have to say it" ^ I think this part obviously relates to him and his friends day dreaming before The NBHD's success and how they wanted to make it in the music industry. Then Jesse states how he feels bad that his friend didn't make it and become successful like they both planned.

"You knew the game and played it, it kills to know that you have been defeated" ^ I think he's saying how his friend knew what to do for his aspirations but he didn't get to reach his goal and failed.

"I see the wires pulling while you’re breathing You knew you had a reason, It killed you like diseases," ^ He sees his friend kind of going crazy or out of his mind. He says "you knew you had a reason" meaning his friend knew he was meant to make music, and it didn't literally kill him but drove him crazy because he couldn't reach his potential.

"And I can hear it in your voice while your speaking; you can’t be treated. Mr. Know-it-all had his reign and his fall, At least that is what his brain is telling all" ^ He can hear in his friends voice that its killing him inside. Referring to his friend as a "Mr. Know-it-all" meaning his friend acted like he knew all about the industry or just making music in general and even he who knew failed at it, and that people could tell he failed by the way he acts now.

"If he said "Help me kill the president" I’d say he needs medicine," ^ Saying that his friend is obviously out of his mind now so if he were to say something abnormal, Jesse and others would just reply saying he needs help and not think too much into it.

"Sick of screaming, let us in Wires got the best of him All that he invested in, goes Straight to hell" ^ In my opinion i think the line "sick of screaming let us in" is Jesse and the rest of the NBHD saying they're getting tired of this friend asking to maybe join them or asking for their help to get to where he wants to be. I think "wires" is just a metaphor to what's making him go crazy; a word to simplify the situation. And everything he does to try to reach his goal is just going bad because he's too far into his own thoughts now trying to become this automatic star in his mind.

"He told me I should take it in Listen to every word he’s speaking The wires getting older I can hear the way their creaking As their holding him" ^ His friend is telling him to just listen to everything he's saying and try to understand where he is coming from. The way his friend is speaking, Jesse can tell that its getting worse. Like a desperation.

"Well I could see it in his jaw That all he ever wanted was a job" ^ He can tell by the way his friend speaks that all he wants to do is have that career.

"He tells me to be raw Admits to every little flaw That never let him sit upon the top Won’t tell me to stop Thinks that I should be a little cautious Well I can tell the wires pulled" ^ His friend is telling him to just be open to him and his friend admits everything bad about himself. The friend tells Jesse not to stop but to be careful, maybe about the industry. Because his friend knows from failure how hard it is. Now Jesse can clearly see once more that his friend is agitated by his failure and possibly Jesse's success.

"I’m having trouble in believing And I just started seeing Light at the beginning of the tunnel but he tells me that I’m dreaming When he talks I hear his ghosts every word they say to me I just pray the wires aren't coming" ^ Jesse's not fully trusting what his friend is saying and at the time Jesse is just starting to experience the new fame and glory of being successful with the rest of his band but his friend is telling him that it might just be a "15 minutes of fame" kind of thing. When Jesse's friend talks, Jesse can "hear his ghosts" i think he's saying how he can hear his old friend there but he hopes the new out of his mind friend won't return.

Well that's just my interpretation of the whole song. Take it how you will. It's a damn great song though

I think this is about an addict. The wires representing veins with drugs taking over. I do think it may be about a father or someone that he really respects highly.

Well, in the lyrics were said “The wires got the best of him” and “The wires getting older I can hear the way their creaking, as their holding him, I could see it in his jaw” at the first listening and knowing The NBHD and some of the dark lyrics they're used to write, automatically, sends me to an suicidal scenario, where the protagonist of the song killed himself.

Then, why he killed himself? Because of the things he made in the past. We can see it in the part where says “All that he invested in goes, straight to hell” another POV we can interpret when he said «he invested» if those “things” were totally fine, right, but, why it all has to go to hell?

A lot of people would assume that, those things will go straight to hell because the president is no more alive. But, if you see that lyric like the POV of the other paragraph, then, you have another story to tell.

In the other lyrics were said “Light at the beginning of the tunnel but he tells me that I'm dreaming, when he talks I hear his ghosts every word they say to me” you would have two hints, knowing the first POV, you can assure it was suicide but you now have another hint, the deceased was close to Jesse. Where we can find out more of that? On top lines “We talked about making it” they talked about those things, they were close enough.

Afterwards, you have the question what were those things they made, the things he was apologizing about. If he was asking for forgiveness means he made something wrong. The lyrics “That all he ever wanted was a job, he tells me to be raw” in the worst way of view I can imagine that the reason why he killed himself was because he was a hitman. And that is how everything connects.

Clarifying why I think those lyrics were said by the suicidal is this, in the song “Scary Love” you can hear or read a change in the subject that sings the song. They probably did the same in this song.

These lyrics “We talked about making it, I’m sorry that you never made it, and it pains me just to hear you have to say it” ensures the paragraph where I typed that who’s saying that is the deceased. My theory is that the suicidal tried to convince Jesse to kill the President with him, because he was too sick of killing people at that level, and he needed his friend (?) but Jesse wouldn’t accept that, and the protagonist of the song (the deceased) not knowing how to not accept that job preferred to kill himself.

Going back to these lyrics “We talked about making it, I’m sorry that you never made it, and it pains me just to hear you have to say it” with the theory above you can conclusion, those lyrics were perfectly said by the two of the men involved in the plot.

I guess I forgot something, but that’s all for today.

I think the 'I' in this song, had a friend who was psychotic or otherwise psychologically sick, and tried to make his life as normal as possible, but eventually failed, and killed himself or got killed. And this is the story being told by the 'I' in this song.

I think he's calling conspiracy theorists nutjobs. And I think he's wrong.