What Lies Beneath Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Fyodorov 

Cover art for What Lies Beneath lyrics by Breaking Benjamin

This song is about fighting a demon (YOUR DEMON) your good side trying to fight away the evil side so you dont get consumed into evil. Or fighting the possession of a demon thats trying to control you, demons are described as having sick twisted smiles and jaded eyes.

In the song it appears that both sides the demon/angel(you) are talking to each other.

Put it this way. In some times when you're supposed to grieve, but you don't you may have just ignored it like it was nothing "you don't cry, like you should" Thats your demonic side. You've become soulless and hardened when you would cry from loss, but you dont.

That is when your demon is trying to "start a fight" that you(the angel) usually doesn't win and a majority of the time the demon forces you to do things that you dont want to do.

He's "no good" and refuses to "let it go" He wont let go of you until you've finally became him, "when love dies, in the end"

Thats your demon saying "When your love finally dies in the end. I win"

But you refuse to become him, you're going to look deep inside yourself and find the source to his "sick twisted smile" so you can finally win a fight against him.

At some points in your life he will "turn the tide" on your good thoughts and make them evil thoughts, why? Because he's "so unkind"

now this next part the demon is talking and taunting you. "here we go" we're going to do it again "does it hurt?" If not the demon is going to make it so much worse. "Say goodbye, to this world" Whatever happy world you have right now. He's going to take it all away, so you may as well say goodbye

"I will not be undone, come to life it gets worse" He's trying to break your will saying you cant defeat him come to me or it will get worse.

However you still refuse, when the demon falls you'll be long gone. His sad pathetic life trying to force people to become him.

At times your actions are the "devil in disguise" you dont want to be carried under to his level

As he asks god for help he realizes he was left behind from god

For the rest of your life you will always be here(like this) For the rest of your life. Fighting your inner demon.

The point of the song is to encourage people to never become evil, no matter how bad it becomes

Do not lose sight of who you really are. Do not let those inner demons change you.

Even when it feels like god has left you behind.

My Interpretation

@Fyodorov Yes, I think you're right about the perspective - not necessarily directed at someone else, but looking at yourself, your own actions.