Have A Nice Life's Frontman, Dan Barrett, actually revealed the meaning of this song in a Q&A shortly after Deathconsciousness's viral success.
The Big Gloom tells the story of a male protagonist who has lost all hope and has gone into a state of crippling depression. In the song, we are inside the protagonist's head as he lies in an ice bath, contemplating suicide. We see his thoughts as he debates whether life is worth living or not, while also reflecting on his life. It is not made perfectly clear, but it seems that at the end of the song, the man commits suicide while submerged in the icebath.
Throughout the man's thought processes, we see several callbacks to the Deathconsciousness booklet. Using the booklet, we can make sense of most of the more cryptic lyrics.
Examples of some of the cryptic lyrics are "Oh please, please, please release me." Turning to the booklet, we see a brief segment that has this same quote. In the context of the booklet, we see that the line "Oh Please, Please, Please Release Me" refers to feeling hopeless and seeing your existence as pointless due to knowing that your time is limited and you, along with everyone else, will die someday.
"The number that I've become, does it put you inside?"
This refers to a quote very early on in the booklet "The realization that you are not a person, but a statistic." (Once again, a callback to the album's overarching concept of feeling hopeless at the sudden realization that your time with everyone is very limited.)
"Just Open Up Your Eyes, You Dead Ones (All your ashes on the floor)"
"Just open up your eyes, you dead ones" is a feeling of grief and missing someone that's passed away, crying out to no one and begging them to just open up their eyes. "All Your Ashes On The Floor" is another reference to the booklet. In the booklet, there is a story of a fictional cultist named Antiochus who is burned at the stake for organizing a mass murder. As he is being burned, a massive wave of wind blows over him and all his ashes started to blow, and they burned all the nearby observer's eyes and mouths. Most of the members of Antiochus' cult saw this as a miracle.
Have A Nice Life's Frontman, Dan Barrett, actually revealed the meaning of this song in a Q&A shortly after Deathconsciousness's viral success. The Big Gloom tells the story of a male protagonist who has lost all hope and has gone into a state of crippling depression. In the song, we are inside the protagonist's head as he lies in an ice bath, contemplating suicide. We see his thoughts as he debates whether life is worth living or not, while also reflecting on his life. It is not made perfectly clear, but it seems that at the end of the song, the man commits suicide while submerged in the icebath. Throughout the man's thought processes, we see several callbacks to the Deathconsciousness booklet. Using the booklet, we can make sense of most of the more cryptic lyrics. Examples of some of the cryptic lyrics are "Oh please, please, please release me." Turning to the booklet, we see a brief segment that has this same quote. In the context of the booklet, we see that the line "Oh Please, Please, Please Release Me" refers to feeling hopeless and seeing your existence as pointless due to knowing that your time is limited and you, along with everyone else, will die someday. "The number that I've become, does it put you inside?" This refers to a quote very early on in the booklet "The realization that you are not a person, but a statistic." (Once again, a callback to the album's overarching concept of feeling hopeless at the sudden realization that your time with everyone is very limited.) "Just Open Up Your Eyes, You Dead Ones (All your ashes on the floor)" "Just open up your eyes, you dead ones" is a feeling of grief and missing someone that's passed away, crying out to no one and begging them to just open up their eyes. "All Your Ashes On The Floor" is another reference to the booklet. In the booklet, there is a story of a fictional cultist named Antiochus who is burned at the stake for organizing a mass murder. As he is being burned, a massive wave of wind blows over him and all his ashes started to blow, and they burned all the nearby observer's eyes and mouths. Most of the members of Antiochus' cult saw this as a miracle.