Cold Is the Night

I really created a whole account and then typed out an entire comment, just to accidently drop my phone and lose the entire thing, but I really really wanted to say something about this song, here of all places, in hopes of finding someone like me who is scouring the internet searching for some meaningful commentary on piece of art. But because I deleted a really long comment, now I'm dictating to my phone because I don't want to write the whole thing out. So if some parts sound weird, blame my phone.

Cold is the night isn't a spectacular musical piece, and neither is it meant to be. It's a simple, comfortable song, with more of an emphasis on the lyrics of the song which connects to deep feelings that are often very hard to communicate. Don't get me wrong, I love the music, and it's an amazing song. One more thing before I start explaining the lyrics, I'm very deeply religious person, and I care very much about my face. I'm a born again christian, and I think the Christian themes and biblical Illusions in the oh hello songs are amazing.

For people who are non-religious, this song is about loneliness, and emptiness it makes you feel. Loneliness can often be burdensome to the point where it's unbearable, which is why you get lines like "many are the days I've wanted to cease " or lines about the loneliness being a burden that will bury you. It's deeply relatable, but it's also a feeling that is so isolating that it's hard for people to understand how difficult it is. There's also a deep longing in this song for a companion, for someone who will walk with you and understand you. But this feels impossible sometimes, which is reflected in the lines "bitter is the thought of all that time spent searching for something I'll never find." This song is so sorrowful, and the narrator is desperate for her pain to end.

That brings me to my biblical interpretation of the song, which kind of reads into it a little bit more, and I'm sort of inserting it into my experience. I think this song is a prayer of sorts. "Take away this burden." There's a plea for relief, to be saved from the heaviness of our loneliness and emptiness. One of my favorite lines, and something I find myself praying when I listen to this song, is "Take away this apathy and bury it before it buries me." This was something that I had been unconsciously praying for a long time, but now this song has given me the words for it and knowing how it feels is so much more relieving. As a believer, we spend a lot of time just waiting and hoping to be in heaven. Our lives here are difficult, lonely, and exhausting. But we are able to look to someone who can resolve all of that for us, and we get to walk with him forever in heaven at the end of time. Lord of this road is meant for two, so I am waiting here for you. We can't do life alone, and we're not meant to. As christians, we get to walk with Jesus, who's a better friend than anyone in this world. In a way, this song is hopeful and reassuring to us but it is still a reminder of the heavy burdens we Face everyday as a normal human in this world. "Without the bad, the good disappears." If we didn't have this life now, we would never get to know him.

This might have been very long and I might have over interpreted the message a little. The bit at the end there was mostly just relating it to my experience, I'm not saying that was necessarily in the song, although a lot of the ideas were there. If someone else is looking for a similar interpretation of this song and wants to talk about it, I'd love to talk. That's all I have to say now.