Lyric discussion by hiddenmeaningz 

Cover art for Bury Me Alive lyrics by Breaking Benjamin

Their lyrics can be interpreted in all kinds of scenarios. I saw this as a man who goes on a power trip and his victim is his ex-girlfriend. He wants her crawling and on her knees. When he’s attacking her he says feed the hate and start the lies. I pictured her saying she always loved him, not to kill her, and that she never meant to hurt him sort of thing. He yells control! And I pictured him trying not to kill her, but she’s all bloody and lying to him about how much she cared.

I keep falling out of line (I think he keeps slipping up from what’s right and what’s considered wrong) I was drained and left behind (He gave a lot of himself to her, even doing what was wrong to keep her satisfied but it was all for nothing. She left him behind; broke up with him) All will fade and petrify (I think this is where he turns into slim shady and he wants to kill her) Feed the hate and start the lies (He’ll feed into his hate for her and she can tell him all the lies like how she always loved him and didn’t mean to leave) Falling in between, I am caught beneath (He falls in between his own emotions and gets caught up in them)

Light the way and let me go (suffocate inside) (I think he wants to see her messed up) I will break and watch you crawl (He’ll break and give into his hate and wants to see her crawl as she suffers through his verbal and physical torment) Bury me alive! (Buried in all his emotions he’s alive but very dead to everyone and everything)

I keep falling out of time (Him slipping up in life) I was blamed and cauterized (People blame him and burn him with their words for what he’s done) All will change and calcify (He might have feelings now about it but he’ll calcify and not feel anything about it soon) Feed the hate and start the lies (see above for interpretation) Falling in between, I am caught beneath (see above for interpretation)

Control! (He loses it and becomes extremely violent) Lies inside, lies inside (He has to live with so many lies that she fed him)

My Interpretation