Can You Feel My Heart?

First comment?

Anyways, while hipsters thing the lyrics "The higher I get the lower I sink" meaning getting literally high, I believe it means that quote that everyone just loves "Step forward 5 times, jump back 8." Which is basically saying every time you make it some where you end up being worse than you were the first time.

The way I take the whole song (which is pretty self explanatory). Is that you're alone, you like peoples company but when you get close to someone, it ends up making you feel worse.

I honestly think this song is about depression.

Can you hear the silence

He is so depressed he's drowning in his own thoughts and can't mentally hear anything

Can you see the dark?

He's surrounded by darkness

Can you fix the broken?

He has become a broken person

Can you feel my heart?

It feels to him like his heart stopped beating

Can you help the hopeless? Well, I'm begging on my knees.

He feels hopeless because he can't get out of his downward spiral, and is begging someone to help him

Can you save my bastard soul?

He feels like his soul has been deformed by his depression

Will you wait for me?

He asks someone to wait 'till he comes out of that state of mind

I'm sorry brothers, so sorry lover, forgive me father, I love you mother

He's asking for their forgiveness because he has done, or is about to do, something terrible

I'm scared to get close, and I hate being alone

He's afraid that, if he gets close, he'll be hurt by that person, but he doesn't like to be alone

I long for that feeling to not feel at all

He wants to stop feeling and forget about everything

The higher I get, the lower I'll sink

If he has a peak in his recovery, he'll have a bigger fall

I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim

He's talking about his thoughts, and how he has tried to shut them up, but they always come back

I actually think this song means much more than only drugs and alcohol. It's like a shout from the inside trying to escape from oneself. "Forgive me father. I love you mother" Is like a state trying to say that (s)he regrets all the bad decisions made that hurt others (something quite common when we feel we're a failure) I think the lyrics are asking for help, asking for a route of escape, a way of change. Also: "I'm scared to get close and I hate being alone I long for that feeling to not feel at all The higher I get, the lower I'll sink I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim" That part I think it's more about the fact that we feel hopeless and helpless and without strength, meaning at the end that our mind - the negative thoughts and the demons we rise - are, usually, way more powerful than our will to change because they are scary and unknown. It's like a way of saying that we he prefers to feel numb, but that also means he will stay alone with the demons inside his mind.

The whole song is basically about him trying to find different ways to escape his problems through drugs, alcohol, or people.

All the questions he asks are directed at someone. He’s trying to fins someone who will fix him.

He’s talking about how he tried using drugs and alcohol to get rid of his ‘demons’

The higher I get, the lower I'll sink- (when he’s high he thinks too much which brings him down)

I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim- (Trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol doesn’t work because even while drunk they still come to him)

I love this song so much! Bit off topic, but has anyone heard of the band FROM INSIDE?? Well I read on Twitter that Oli Sykes and Jordan Fish have written all the music for them cos they are good friends in the UK. Check out their music video for their single BE YOURSELF - FROM INSIDE by searching on Youtube, it sounds very BMTH but still its ridiculous good obviously. Mad that they are doing this too for friends bands now, really love them :D

Here's what I feel.

The song "Can You Feel My Heart" by Bring Me the Horizon is a song representing the common inner turmoils of juvenile criminals influenced by the culture of alcohol, drugs, smoking, gambling and the like. These themes are presented through the song lyrics accompanied by a compelling melody.

The lyrics uses juxtaposition to bring about the idea of inner conflict within youth facing the same addicitions as the singer, who represents an anonymous youth estimated to be around his teenage years.

The first line, "Can you hear the silence", presents the idea of hearing nothing. The use of juxtaposition here shows how a teenager is trying to seek advice but receives nothing. It can also represent how the teenager is drowning in his own thoughts, unable to hear the outside world, his mother's ranting, his dog's barking and normal, everyday noises. "Silence" in this line represents the absence of sound rather than the presence of peace as the youth presented in this song is facing inner turmoil instead of finding inner peace. This could show how the world is silent and empty towards the teenager rather than the teenager being unwilling to hear the world.

The second line states "Can you see the dark", which is another use of juxtaposition in the song's lyrics. Although it is understood that light is needed for one to see, and darkness is the absence of light, the lyrics present this individual as trying to "see" even though there is nothing to see, or nothing to enable him to see. This could also mean his vision is blurred by the fog ahead. This can possibly be depicting his future if he continues with his addictions, and can also recognise how these youths are blindly following these bad examples and falling into the pit of depression.

The next line is "Can you fix the broken". Once an object is broken, it is understood that it is beyond repair and can no longer be fixed, yet this youth is trying to fix the broken despite it being impossible. This could present the youth's future too, which has been broken to the extent where it is unfixable.

These few lines present the idea of doing the impossible through the use of juxtaposition, yet it also shows that the teenager still has hope in doing so. It also appears that he is apparently talking to someone, asking him if he can "hear the silence... fix the broken". The person he is talking to will be explained later on in this analysis.

The last line is the most powerful of all. After all the juxtaposition being used, the lyrics goes on to describe feeling "my" heart as impossible, like all the previous situations in the first four lines of the song lyrics. The youth's heart is now unable to be contacted with. This can show, as the heart symbolises love and feelings, how the teenager is now emotionless, unable to feel love. It can also describe how the teenager is slowly dying, as the heart is considered one of the most important organs needed for survival. As it is now impossible to feel his heart, this can present him dying on the hospital bed, his heart slowly slowing, becoming numb and useless to him as his hearing and vision - both important senses - fade away, along with his character, which is broken, and his feels for emotion.

The next four lines consists of three questions, one of which was further elaborated in a separate line. It also uses juxtaposition, though now straight to the point and describing the teenager instead of abstract ideas.

The first line in this group, "Can you help the helpless", presents the idea of saving someone who is on the edge of dying already. This line is followed by the line "Well, I'm begging on my knees". The teenager is like a helpless soul who desparately needs help, yet cannot be helped.

The next line, "Well, I'm begging on my knees", breaks the sequence of questions that start with "Can you". It is also the first line in the first six lines of the lyrics that consists of a comma and a contraction. This shows the teenager is speaking slowly with someone. It can also be inferred that the person he is conversing with has a lot of patience to hear all of his inner thoughts he pours out one by one. The use of the contraction shows closeness between the teenager and the person he is talking to, which leads us to more ideas as to who he is having a conversation with. This closeness is also presented by the usage of "Well" and "I'm", which are rather casual expressions to use.

The third line is "Can you save my bastard soul". This again shows uses juxtaposition and also represents the closeness the teenager has with the person he is talking to. The usage of a rather rude word, "bastard", can show how close the teenager is to him.

The last line is "Will you wait for me", which shows how the person he is talking to is slowly losing patience with him, yet he is still desparate and needs someone to talk to. It can also represent how the world is moving so quickly, leaving him stranded and unsure of what to do next, helpless. This is backed by the first two lines of the seond group of lyrics.

These four lines shows how the teenager trusts this person in saving him, despited his wretched and apparently unfixable position. From the first eight lines, we can then infer so far that this teenager is on the brink of suicide and depression. He needs desperate help and has only one person to talk to, and even he, who was previously so patient, is starting to grow impatient. This shows the wrath of such addicted teenagers, specifically those who know what they have done were sins and wish to go back, yet is rendered unable to as a result of their current situation.

The next four lines show the teenager's relationships in life as simple, unlike what many happy teenagers have today, often having many friends and relatives. These lines also show how broken these relationships are as a result of the teenager's addictions.

The first line is "I'm sorry brother". It is a simple three words and contains a single contraction which represents his closeness to his brother. He places his brother first as it could be that his brother was also influenced by him and has already died due to depression. It could also be that his brother has died of other complications, and the last sight of this teenager was a depressed and addicted brother who no longer has emotions anymore.

The second line, "So sorry lover", shows that the teenager has actually been in a relationship before, and that he was a normal teenager who did attract someone to him. This also shows the extent of destruction drugs, gambling, smoking and alcohol had on the teenager. It has destroyed his love life and also his girlfriend. It is possible that his girlfriend was aggrieved at the teenager and have left him, yet has continued to receive prejudice as a result of the teenager's sinful acts, which makes him sorry for her.

The third line is "Forgive me father". This shows how his father was angry at the teenager for being such a let-down. His father, having raised him for all his life, had to see both his sons fall to these addictions. Although one can never be clear whether oneself is really blamed, the teenager still believes that his father blames him and begs for his forgiveness, showing how he knows his actions were sinful. It also shows how he accepts the blame to such extent.

The last line in this third group is "I love you mother". It could be that his mother no longer feels the teenager cared for her as a mother anymore, as he lacks the capability to feel and express emotion.

Thus, these four lines show how he has let down all four people he had ever come to know in his life. His friends had probably left him by now and nobody wants to be related to him except for those already dragged into the same hole. It is possible that his mother is the only one left alive, as the first three lines show how he is sorry and begs for forgiveness, whilst the last line states his love for his mother. It could be that his mother had migrated elsewhere, leaving him with the person he is currently talking to, and the teenager has no other way to express his love than to say it out loud when his emotions overflow. This also contributes to his depression and a possible cause for his suicidal thoughts.

The next group of lyrics are the same four lyrics as the first group with a reiteration of the fourth line (Can you feel my heart) three more times (making a total of four times it is sung). This reiteration represents he is already desprate and screaming for help again and again, yet receiving none.

The fifth group of lyrics consists of four lines repeated thrice. It shows massive contradicition within himself.

The first line is "I'm scared to get close and I hate being alone". The choice for "and" instead of "yet" shows how two contrasting things are happening at the same time, like two opposing forces slowly ripping him apart. He is afraid to get close, fearing the social consequences and all the critisicm he will receive, representing his personality type as more of an introvert. However, he does not like to be alone. This does not show his personality, but it shows that he has been alone ofr a long time and is already tired of it.

The second line, "I long for that feeling not to feel at all", represents the idea of suicide. When one does not feel anything at all, it can be inferred as death, as death is the absence of the human soul within the human body, thus it cannot feel anything without a body. It shows how badly he wishes to be euthanized. The fact that he wants to be killed painlessly shows how he wants a final moment that is painless, contrary to the constant pain he has been feeling all along.

The third line is "The higher I get, the lower I sink". The literal meaning could be taking drugs to get high, and it could also show external help trying to pull him up, but only resulting in his speedier death. The irony in this statement is that one can expect to recover well once one gets on the right tracks, yet this teenager sinks even lower despite getting help.

The fourth line, "I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim", shows how the teenager is being controlled by his addictions, as if they were demons. No matter how hard he tries to fight his addictions, they will always come back to him over time, similar to the image of demons drowning as they sink to the bottom of the river, yet slowly swimming up again and getting back to the shore.

These four lines show how the teenager is losing hope too. It also drops the conversation style of words, transforming instead into a narration styled sentence structure. It consists of contractions in each of the lines, which could also show that the teenager is now speaking through the singer to the song listeners, begging them to help others who still have hope, and prevent them from ending up in a simlar situation as his.

In conclusion, this song depicts a troubled teenager, both depressed and suicidal, looking for help in hopes of finally fighting his addiction, yet failing yet again. It could also be aimed to help spread awareness of underage gambling, smoking, drug intake and alcohol drinking. The use of juxtaposition also presents inner turmoil and massive contradiction with oneself. It is an extremely powerful song with deep meaning and warns teenagers not to follow in this virtual teenager's footsteps.

The song leads with frontman Oliver Sykes’ depression. "The first track, 'Can You Feel My Heart' is all about admittance," Sykes says, "admitting you have a problem, and admitting something's wrong. That's the first step. In my life, I had to admit certain things to go further."

I Think this is directed in general to the people around him. To me it is definitely a song about addiction. "Can you see the dark, can you fix the broken, Can you help the hopeless"- are all lines implying the life of an addict asking for help. "Will you wait for me?"- He's asking anybody to stick by him until he can get clean and sort out the never ending problems of addiction. "I'm sorry brothers, so sorry lover, forgive me father, I love you mother"- he's saying to the important people in his life "I'm sorry that is is where my addiction took me, and Ive done the the horrible things, youve tried to help me and I love you but I'm still me. " I'm scared to get close, and I hate being alone"- correlates to the issue of having so many problems and character defects of an addict which prevents one from perusing an intemet relationship but still wanting and needing affection, as well as addiction being a lonely disease. "I long for that feeling to not feel at all"- obviously speaking of being high, hiding his feelings within the drug, making himself numb to his problems. "The higher I get, the lower I sink"- the higher he gets and The more he uses, the lower he goes into the depths of his addiction, the worse he gets over time of getting high. "I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim"- he can't stop using, he has tried and the addict inside has over powered all his attempts to stay clean. And finally " can you feel my heart?"- he's asking "can you sympathize for me? Can you see that I can't help it? My demons can swim for god sake, I can't do this alone, feel for me. Please" that's just my take on the song. Im a heroin addict and it completely speaks to me

Well, this is what I think. At beggining, he want to say it is impossible to feel his heart - as impossible as hearing the silence or seeing the dark. He is begging for a savior and also he apologiez his family - I think he basically thinks about all the bad stuff he have done and because of that, he begins to feel like completely bad person. He have no idea what to do with that feeling, as he is not able to control it. He simply feels hopeless. He wants to find new friends, he want new beggining but he is too scared to even try. He wish to delete his feeling, I guess many teenagers want this too sometimes. Again he feels hopeless, like a bad person, it is impossible to drown his demons. Sometimes something good happens but after that his situation only get worse and worse and he doesnt know what to do. I might be wrong but this is what it means to me.

to understand my i interpretation you’ll have to read the lyrics as i write each sentence it all alines. This song is about how he feels like there is no hope and no human could help him. He wants to apologize to anyone he has harmed and for letting them down, but it doesn’t change anything. He feels that when he tries to fix himself and change his lifestyle everything just pulls him back to the same or even worse place, so why even try. He wants to know if God can help him and if he can see and feel what he is going through, he is not sure he understands , but is desperate. He wants to be able to rely on him and to be good but he is scared of all the possibilities and commitments, then again without him he is alone and lonely. He wants to feel that peace everyone feels with his presence . He feels he will never get rid of the voices in his head because they’ll come crawling back to haunt him. He wants God to fix his soul. What do y’all think ?