At the Bottom Lyrics

Lyric discussion by neonskyy3 

Cover art for At the Bottom lyrics by Brand New

"I watched you throw out your bouquet Now i think about you everyday"

---Might be about a rejected marraige proposal,which didn't jesse have? Or simply an ex getting married,quickly. ---

"And at the bottom you'll find all our friends They don't swim cause they're all dead We never are what we intend, or invent 'Cause I make little lies and then I pull them apart Think something dark's living down in my heart"

--Basically saying that his friends don't matter if he can't even trust the supposed love of his life,they might as well be dead to him,he's numb,the lies would be him hanging out with him and acting as though everything is fine---

"Well I carry this box to the proper place And when I lower it down I let it you fade away I hope that you would do this for me I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate If I thought it would help you get away"

--morning the death of a relationship..lowering it down..possibly meaning casket. he's saying he hopes she would respect what that had enough to do the same. As for feeding her drugs on a silver plate,he means if she was in this much pain (as he's in because of her) he'd do anything to take it away--

"A deer that a hunter shot in the heart Some dogs that got hit by cars All came to spill their guts

And we spoke About the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost And which songs we had loved the most And then we all turned to dirt And dust Some men die under the mountain just looking for gold Some die looking for a hand to hold"

--perhaps saying that animals have more compassion and honesty then some humans,and die with grace and sincerity--

"I'm slowly bringing you down from the Heavenly gates Now I'm drowning in the flood I made Well explain myself to me on the other side I'll watch from Heaven when I die"

I think this is implying his ex is going to hell "i'll watch from heaven when I die" he was nothing but honest,she wasnt so.

@ neonsky , i really like what you said about

"I'd serve you drugs on a silver plate If I thought it would help you get away"

as in, if you were in as much pain as I am, I'd do anything to take it away from you.

But when it comes to

"I'm slowly bringing you down from the Heavenly gates Now I'm drowning in the flood I made Well explain myself to me on the other side I'll watch from Heaven when I die"

I'm thinking "slowly bringing you down" is more like realizing she is...

@ztszts

I completely agree with you on the lyrics:

"and at the bottom you'll find all our friends They don't swim cause they're all dead We never are what we intend, or invent"

Mostly because the writer could have chosen the words "my" friends instead of "our" friends. Which implies that he is talking about the friends he shared with the girl he was talking about in the paragraph above.

I like how you interpret this song... I had two conflicting ideas about it...one was his relationship (which is apparent in the beginning of the song) but the rest (to me) seems like he's just depressed...with life and not directly because of the relationship but that's just the feeling that I got