While we were all resting after the New Year holidays and trying to get back to our old working track, Billie Eilish was creating and creating a new track, and not even one. In the near future, we should expect a whole album from the performer called When we all fall asleep, where do we go? (When we all fall asleep, where do we go?). Probably, as always, the singer will surprise fans by immersing herself in the mysterious other world of the subconscious and the inner voice, which does not always say the same thing as the person himself thinks. The song “bury a friend” was released on January 30, 2019. The track was released simultaneously with the clip, and probably not by chance, because the atmosphere of the composition is sustained in the video, moreover, the clip to some extent answers the questions that arose after listening to the composition, in particular, what is the meaning of the song Bury a friend – Billie Eilish. So, let’s figure it out today
This is not the first time that the singer uses the effect of superimposing her voice on her own voice to create an unusual sound of her voice, thus creating the effect of choral singing, for which no other performers had to be invited. Throughout the song, the heroine turns to an invisible “friend”, but is he her friend, because he torments her, calls her somewhere, makes her do unpleasant things.
A lot of questions seem to be asked by a girl into the void, because there are no answers to them. She generally knows little about her interlocutor, he sometimes calls her by name, asks her to come up, but more often his voice sounds only in the head of the performer, and not in reality. Why does her interlocutor know so much about her, why does not leave, does not run away, even worries. Apparently, the voice with which she is talking belongs to someone who is very close, even too close.
She clearly wants to get rid of the intrusive voice in her head, but she does not understand how to do it. The girl comes to such despair that she seeks peace in the arms of her own tormentor. He pays her to be there, but his presence makes the heroine think about death, this relationship literally sucks the life juices out of her. This ends the first verse and the chorus begins.
In the chorus, an evil voice makes the heroine do something unpleasant and painful, at his direction she walks on glass and feels like killing herself. But where did the friend go, why is his girlfriend already burying him, is the demon in the girl’s head involved in this misfortune? Is it not by chance that the mention of cannibals here, those who eat their own kind, can we talk about the fact that the heroine eats herself from the inside?
In the second verse, the girl does not speak on her own behalf, so the monologue sounds more like a dialogue in which two people argue. The girl is already waiting for death to get rid of the obsessive voice, finally, she understands that the interlocutor exists only in her head. She realizes that only she herself is holding back the interlocutor in the dark, a real war is unfolding between them, but the heroine is not ready to fight in it, it’s easier for her to die, because her tormentor will die like that. She finds the answer to the question of who he is – this is herself.
The meaning of the song bury a friend billie eilish is about the girl’s fear of diving too deep into a relationship with her inner monster that kills her. Only we ourselves know the most terrible things about ourselves, and therefore we should be wary of the subconscious, which one day can play a cruel joke with its owner and come to the fore.
Write in the comments your meaning of the song Bury a friend – Billie Eilish. We look forward to waiting!
Bury a Friend Lyrics
What do you want from me? Why don’t you run from me?
What are you wondering? What do you know?
Why aren’t you scared of me? Why do you care for me?
When we all fall asleep, where do we go?Come here
Say it, spit it out, what is it exactly
You’re payin’? Is the amount cleanin’ you out, am I satisfactory?
Today, I’m thinkin’ about the things that are deadly
The way I’m drinkin’ you down
Like I wanna drown, like I wanna end meStep on the glass, staple your tongue (ahh)
Bury a friend, try to wake up (ah ahh)
Cannibal class, killing the son (ahh)
Bury a friend, I wanna end meI wanna end me
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna end me
I wanna, I wanna, I wannaWhat do you want from me? Why don’t you run from me?
What are you wondering? What do you know?
Why aren’t you scared of me? Why do you care for me?
When we all fall asleep, where do we go?Listen
Keep you in the dark, what had you expected?
Me to make you my art and make you a star
And get you connected?
I’ll meet you in the park, I’ll be calm and collected
But we knew right from the start that you’d fall apart
‘Cause I’m too expensive
Your talk’ll be somethin’ that shouldn’t be said out loud
honestly, I thought that I would be dead by now (Wow)
Calling security, keepin’ my head held down
Bury the hatchet or bury your friend right nowFor the debt I owe, gotta sell my soul
‘Cause I can’t say no, no, I can’t say no
Then my limbs all froze and my eyes won’t close
And I can’t say no, I can’ t say no
CarefulStep on the glass, staple your tongue (ahh)
Bury a friend, try to wake up (ah ahh)
Cannibal class, killing the son (ahh)
Bury a friend, I wanna end meI wanna end me
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna end me
I wanna, I wanna, I wannaWhat do you want from me? Why don’t you run from me?
What are you wondering? What do you know?
Why aren’t you scared of me? Why do you care for me?
When we all fall asleep, where do we go?
