Bring Me The Horizon - Sleepwalking;
Within sleepwalking the story and visual narrative is unclear to start, however once the music video progresses it relates to a dream-like state with parts directly being illustrated/amplified by the lyrics, or vice versa. I believe this song is about being stuck within the cycle of depression. At first he's so emotionally troubled, his body starts physically reacting to his stress (i.e. 'bones catch a fever). And if I am not mistaken I believe that most of Bring me the horizon's (BMTH) work is centred around health issues and difficulties in life.
Bring Me The Horizon - Shadow Moses;
Once again, here's another song about a mysterious character that shared a rather "cold romance" with Oli (the lead singer of the band). Unlike many songs about convincing people to let go of her, "shadow Moses" contains abstract impressions of anguish and resentment. "I thought I buried you covered the tracks" states the metaphorical terms of forgetting or letting her go. Oli claims "she has cold-dead hands", "she clamped to his shirt when slipping through the cracks" and that method or place he buried her was where "sin could never die", or the pain she gave him was unforgivable. He further exclaims that he doesn't "want to rise from the dead", he doesn't want to deal with her ever again; it seems there is no peace in his life with her' it's just sempiternal.
Once again, here's another song about a mysterious character that shared a rather "cold romance" with Oli (the lead singer of the band). Unlike many songs about convincing people to let go of her, "shadow Moses" contains abstract impressions of anguish and resentment. "I thought I buried you covered the tracks" states the metaphorical terms of forgetting or letting her go. Oli claims "she has cold-dead hands", "she clamped to his shirt when slipping through the cracks" and that method or place he buried her was where "sin could never die", or the pain she gave him was unforgivable. He further exclaims that he doesn't "want to rise from the dead", he doesn't want to deal with her ever again; it seems there is no peace in his life with her' it's just sempiternal.
Bring Me The Horizon - Go To Hell For Heaven's Sake;
Personally my interpretation of this song (although there could be many more reasons) is that Oli is talking about a person he once may have loved yet had his heart broken by them. For example: " I'm burning down every bridge we made" = the memories they have he's going to forget them. "I'll watch you choke on the hearts you break" - saying that its the first time said person has broken his heart. "I'm bleeding out every word you said" = Which could imply that he's self harming every word they have said because it felt like a lie, and he felt lied to. "So desperate and pathetic" = could relate to said person who hurt him. "Go to hell for heaven's sake" = he's broken and mad until the point where he wishes said person to go to hell. However I looked up the meaning of this song and read an article on how Oli wrote this himself, trying to distance himself from the other sides of his personality/self. The line "its moments like this where silence is golden, and then you speak" is about how Oli had been argumentative and outspoken, then later voicing those issues when all it will do is make things worse. "I'm burning down every bridge we made" could correlate or translate as Oli saying everything good that he has accomplished or worked hard to make progress on, just gets destroyed.
Personally my interpretation of this song (although there could be many more reasons) is that Oli is talking about a person he once may have loved yet had his heart broken by them. For example: " I'm burning down every bridge we made" = the memories they have he's going to forget them. "I'll watch you choke on the hearts you break" - saying that its the first time said person has broken his heart. "I'm bleeding out every word you said" = Which could imply that he's self harming every word they have said because it felt like a lie, and he felt lied to. "So desperate and pathetic" = could relate to said person who hurt him. "Go to hell for heaven's sake" = he's broken and mad until the point where he wishes said person to go to hell. However I looked up the meaning of this song and read an article on how Oli wrote this himself, trying to distance himself from the other sides of his personality/self. The line "its moments like this where silence is golden, and then you speak" is about how Oli had been argumentative and outspoken, then later voicing those issues when all it will do is make things worse. "I'm burning down every bridge we made" could correlate or translate as Oli saying everything good that he has accomplished or worked hard to make progress on, just gets destroyed.
Although all three music videos are made by bring me the horizon they have a similar emotional story of which i would like to replicate within my own music video.
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