Living To Die Lyrics
You better lock up the door.
I'm hated, i'm rated, I know i've been wasted.
Misguided, cold hearted,
I know i'm the liar.
What's the sense there's only sorrow.
Sew up my eyes.
What's the chance of no tomorrow.
When you're living to die.
I've been turning to stone.
Ill fated, B rated,
I know i'm all jaded.
Been tired, got wired.
Now i'm uninspired.
What's the sense there's only sorrow.
Sew up my eyes.
What's the chance of no tomorrow.
When you're living to die.
A bitter happiness before you hit the ground.
It's just a matter of time before you lose your mind.
Just a little kiss before I leave you blind.
Your nervousness eats you up inside.
Now you know how it feels to be alive.
Couch burning mother-fucker
What's the sense there's only sorrow.
Sew up my eyes.
What's the chance of no tomorrow.
When you're living to die.
Shortness of breath bring on the flatline.
i compleately relate to this song. Vision of Disorder is one of my favorite bands and this is by far by favorite song by them. i think that sometimes everyone feels what the lyrics in this song describe.
Nah, it's more than that. Its about drug addiction and the hopelessness that comes with it. You began the habit to mask suffering or feel alive or whatever and now you're hooked. You're aware you're walking a fine line that will kill you eventually...you're Living to Die. Read the lyrics from this perspective and see if you agree.
@carmelchameleon to me it definitely comes across as a song about someone with a drug addiction "A bitter happiness before you hit the ground" (highs and lows of drug abuse), "been wasted" etc. etc.
@carmelchameleon to me it definitely comes across as a song about someone with a drug addiction "A bitter happiness before you hit the ground" (highs and lows of drug abuse), "been wasted" etc. etc.
okay i totally connect with it i just kinda figured it out by lookin at the words,"What's the sense there's only sorrow. Sew up my eyes. What's the chance of no tomorrow. When you're living to die. " that part, yah its like every day ppl r just like yah i live again, and as the days go by its like more and more we live until we die, like living to die...think bout it....
I love this song...I can really relate to the lyrics.
@LittleMissScareAll how do you relate to the lyrics?
@LittleMissScareAll how do you relate to the lyrics?
It is OBVIOUSLY drugs.
"What's the chance of no tomorrow. When you're living to die." Addicts don't care about the possibility that he may not wake up tomorrow due to overdosing. It's a hopeless venture when under the influence.
"I've been walking a fine line. I've been turning to stone." "fine line" is referring to how close he gets to dying every time he uses. "turning to stone" maybe refer to turning to drugs, "stone" as in being a "stoner"? Maybe it even refers to how he becomes a lifeless statue when under the influence?
"A bitter happiness before you hit the ground. It's just a matter of time before you lose your mind." The high of drugs bringing a bittersweet joy to a broken mind? As the addiction progresses, you only become more crazy?
"Your nervousness eats you up inside. Now you know how it feels to be alive." Nervousness/Anxiety/Paranoia are very common symptoms of drugs. "How it feels to be alive" maybe be referring to how he feels as if the only time he is alive is during drugs. The entire meaning of the title might actually be "taking drugs (feeling alive) only to die right after" instead of some sort of cynical view on how life with this addiction is impossible, and your life is on some sort of clock that won't last forever. I personally would like to think that this song is anti-drugs and recommends against them instead of just giving up and claiming that once drug addiction-hits, death is only a matter of time.
"Revolution is your question Couch burning mother-fucker" Revolution.. against drugs? Couch-burning is a common sports thing where winners burn couches in celebration. Maybe the singer is jealous of people who managed to over-come their addiction?
"The scene of death is the decay of time." (This line is actually, from what I hear in the song: "the scent of death is the (decaying/decay in) time.") Decay in time, as in, as time progresses, options become more complicated and less valuable. Scent of death, as in, a substance-abuser who KNOWS and can feel the harmful affects, yet ignores them. As they ignore these issues, their time to make a decision and change their life decays away. If the lyric is actually "scene of death", then it may refer to a substance-abuser seeing relatable characters die, and ignoring the obvious risks of their addiction.
"Shortness of breath bring on the flatline." I'm not entirely sure, but with my interpretation of this song, I think that the song-writer is urging addicts to either fix their problem, or just give up. If you feel the shortness of breath from drugs, just bring on the flatline, and get it over. I think that this song is actually encouraging the addict to quit, but I'm not entirely sure.
It could be a long shot, but with the weird "plot-holes" in the lyrics that I sense.. this song may be from the perspective OF the drugs? Like.. weed telling you that this is stupid, and that you should either revolt against your addiction (which it seemed unhappy with, calling the listening a "motherfucker") or just give up. I would say that it's a person telling them this, but why would the person go on about being a bad, hated person at the beginning if they're the type of person to advise addicts?
TL;DR - My personal interpretation is that this song is from the perspective of a drug (odd, I know) mocking the substance-abuser by telling them that them should either revolt and burn some couches in victory, or give up and let the flat-line take them, since "living" life as an addict is just feeling dead and empty without drugs, or living so high that they're close to death every time you use them. Addicts die an addict, or their addiction dies. I dunno, it's along-shot, but I personally would like to imagine it as a song full of advice instead of just "addicts should just give up". (I know that I wrote a lot of these examples talking about the addict himself, but I think it's just the drugs mocking him by talking in first person as if he were the abuser, whom the substance views as stupid.)
[Edit: Attempt to fix paragraph structure]