20 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A

Black Tangled Heart Lyrics

Maybe your luck has changed
Settle down
Maybe I'm just deranged
And on the rebound
Maybe love was the thing
Holding me back from all
Maybe I'm just the thing
To break my own fall

Take the rope to my heart and fall
You may just be the last before you
See the black tangled heart fall

Maybe departure's good
Makes room for more
Start to mass produce
For a chance to ignore
Maybe you'll kill yourself
Before I get a turn
Maybe I'll fall in love
And never learn

Take the rope to my heart and fall
You may just be the last before you
See the black tangled heart fall

Take the rope to my heart and fall
You may just be the last before you
See the black tangled heart fall
20 Meanings

Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.

Add your thoughts...
Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

This song is really dark to me. More about suicide than love...

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

I like this song, but its very depressing.

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

"Maybe I'm just the thing To break my own fall " hes the only one who can stop this pain hes going through...

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

i really love the first verse, i don't know, but i think it might be about being suicidal after going through a break up. especillay withthe line "maybe i'm just deranged and on the rebound"

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

Their best song imho...

I always thought that this was the opposite of a love song a hate song maybe?

The lyrics are very bitter and directed towards someone in particular.

Funny i never saw the suicidal references before an simply thought the image Daniel was after was the idea of someone messing with his heart, puling his heartstrings or something...

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

i always thought it was about being depressed, and bringing people that love you down with you, or something.

but yeah, that makes sense.

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

This song is about suicide and the letdown that comes along with suicide and/or slow death (you know you're on the path to killing yourself, you're just not there yet).

"you may just be the last BEFORE YOU"

Add on the next line.
"You may just be the last before you see the black tangled heart fall" makes more sense.

The receiver is the last person to be let down, to be loved/in the relationship, before he kills himself.

there´s no sign of being about sucide, being a sad, depressed song doesn´t mean that it´s about suicide

nevermind what I said, I understand your point now and it makes perfect sense, I was killing my head in the "before you" line, great interpretation

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

I agree with rimiska that this song is about the path to suicide, but I always thought of the heart as in "the heart of the manner", as the core of someone's life, rotting from the inside out. maybe not. Still a beautiful, sad song.

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

I always flet, that hes dividing up his self into different layers in this song, like his normal self ("heard"?) is bound by the anorexic self, which controlls everything and takes it whith it to the ground. Like he becomes a "thing", his body wont allow as much weight loss as the anorexic self would want and so it "breaks" his "fall" somehow. And on the other hand at the point he wrote this song the falling hat its attractions like "maybe departure`s good / Makes room for more"....... I dont know, but i dont think the "love" hes speaking about is love to another person..... but i don know, might be all rubbish.

Cover art for Black Tangled Heart lyrics by Silverchair

oh well. the last comment was made 1 or 2 weeks ago? it's a really old CD, but anyway... i think it's about being sucidal and falling in love. like all listeners, the lyrics of a song won't mean as much to you as Daniel Johns himself.

 
Questions and Answers

Ask specific questions and get answers to unlock more indepth meanings & facts.

Ask a question...