Billie Eilish: Lovely Meaning
Song Released: 2018
Featuring: Khalid
Lovely Lyrics
Thought I found a way
Thought I found a way out (found)
But you never go away (never go away)
So I guess I gotta stay now
[Pre-Chorus: Billie Eilish & Khalid]
Oh, I hope some day I'll make it out of...
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To me, this song is kinda about suicide becuase they cant get away from he thoughts in there head. when they talk about "someday making it out of here" they mean like out of this world. And with "home welcome home" Its like they actually went through with it
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I think when she says "Heart made of glass my mind of stone" since glass breaks easily, her feelings get broken easily. And the mind made of stone means she cant think straight like their is something wrong but you can figure out like feeling "numb".
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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It’s about the isolation and loneliness of depression. Stuck inside your own head with all your insecurities, feeling like you can’t talk to anyone, but desperately wanting to fix it.
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I think this song is about a person who is trying to run away from a messy or emotional situation and no matter how hard they try they keep ending up right back at the beginning. they don't like people seeing them cry or show emotion so theyre always running away or holding it in until theyre alone and even then they don't like to cry cuz they feel weak when they do. basically when they are numb all the time and then they feel the emotions overwhelm them again its like well hey welcome back friend
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My interpretation is that it is about mental health. It is like it’s talking to depression saying “thought I found a way out, but you never go away, so I guess I gotta stay now”. It is about how Billie and khalid are both in depression and the song is explaining what it is like. Hence why the music video is being trapped in a glass box isolated from the world trying to get out and away from the thoughts and depression.
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In my eyes I feel like the song is talking about a abusive relationship. I thought of my step dad and how my mom must feel having to come home from work and have to handle getting beat
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I think this song is all about some memories. It's like the memories of someone who left them and made Thier life hell. They want to go out of the memories at any cost but they are not able to make it. They are being chained to them. Because of that person, they are not able to trust anyone else. They isolating themselves from world, they are afraid of going through the same hell. They want to live again but because of fear they don't give a second chance to life. They are just waiting for the their time of death. And till the time they will be lonely and actually they are trying to make this loneliness some easy to get through by calling it lovely. This is what song actually means. According to me.
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The song is called "lovely" since it is depressing, it is about getting out of everything horrible after feeling miserable.In my opinion , when she sings about finding a way out, it's her thinking she's found a way to get away from the depression controlling her life. Although the depression is still there, and she might as well stay like this. she begins to sing in a crescendo, showing her sense of hope that she will get out of this situation no matter the case. This really touches me because I know people who have felt this way or have been depressed. It's sad to think about all of the suicides that have happened in the world because of the depression. It is saying also that no matter who puts them down they will always keep trying and will go through another 100 years of torture and pain just to feel free again.
As at the start it says though I found a way, though I find a way yeah, but you never go away ( so the problem won’t get away from the situation) So I guess I gotta stay now ( deal with it). And after that it comes the part where she hopes someday she’ll get out of that miserable feeling, even if it takes all night or a hundred years. And she needs a place to hide but she can’t find one near, and she wants to feel alive outside but she can’t fight her fear.
And then it comes the chorus where she says: isn’t it lovely all alone? Heart made of glass my mind of stone, Tear me to pieces, skin and bone. Hello, welcome home.
After she says, walking out of town searching for a better place ( instruments play and refrains after the word ) somethings on my mind.. always in my headspace.. and what she means by that is that the situation she’s suffering from is always on her head so she’s always thinking of it. -
I have read everyone else's responses. Tbh in my mind I agree on the point that it is about a mental sickness but it is also about the depression that she feels in this sickness that she has. Another thing that I noticed is the heart made of glass, mind of stone. To me that means that even if you are headstrong that your heart can be broken easily and that it is a fragile thing that you need to make sure to be careful with because you can shatter it just as easily as glass. Another thing is the stone part. It is like that is an escape from all of the things that she has been through. This really touches me because I know people who have felt this way or have been depressed. Its sad to think about or even think about all of the suicides that have happened in the world, like it shouldn't even exist. It is saying also that no matter who puts them down they will always keep trying and will go through another 100 years of torture and pain just to feel free again. They want their worlds to go back to "normal". Its like the cloud of sadness is hanging over them because they cannot escape their feelings.
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she’s in an abusive relationship “thought i found a way out but you never go away so i guess i gotta stay now” means she can’t get out, “i hope someday i’ll make it out of here” she wants to get out but can’t. “heart made of glass my mind of stone” she’s growing from this relationship and becoming stronger. “need a place to hide but i can’t fight my fear” she fears the guy in the relationship. the meaning is in the video too she’s in a box with khalid and he walks in the background in the beginning now he’s there they look at eachother and give a certain look then get physical towards the end they fall apart from eachother and the camera zooms out of the box showing the relationship is over
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I don't consider myself mentally ill, just a bit of an introvert, but this song really got to me because of my current situation. I was supposed to move away for college, but after a lot of persuasions to stay home for college, I rationalized it for myself. It really is a better option for an introvert and besides, I want to make money to move abroad in a few years and I wouldn't really make it if I tried to make ends meet in another town. So I picked a less ineteresting, bit not too boring of an option here. But a lot of my friends are going away and one moment I'm handling it well thinking of all the benefits and privileges staying home would bring me (I'm also an aspiring actor and I can go around different places for auditions this way), but the other I'm devestated and terrified I will be stuck in the loop forever, which I won't let happen, but still. I feel like everyone will live a life while I'm stuck, always the one left behind. And there is another HUGE problem. I'm in the closet. And one of the biggest benefits of moving was finally coming out. It's too risky to do that here. I guess I'll kinda lead a secret sex life here, but I won't be as free. I'll get to travel a lot and I'll visit my friends in different towns often, especially my BFF, but I can't help but feel trapped right now. With that context in mind, I think it's clear why this song got to me so much. It's great because it can mean so many things to many different people.
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idk it's hard to describe like I was talking to other about what they thought it meant and it like an cry for an escape, trying to get out or fight something that's there or isn't there, to me it's a mind game, like being trapped in a clear box filling up with water and there's no way out but you can see the people on the outside, there's putting paper and things to cover the glass, so you're not seen because they say you're ok when they know you're not and the song say 100 years because they have hope it's gets better but it's that one part ” Isn't it lovely, all alone?
Heart made of glass, my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin and bone
Hello, welcome home” its like saying here's how it is, f hope, welcome home but it's what you've been trying to get away from -
It is a soundtrack for 13 reasons why and it relates to Hannah’s death and the funeral that’s why it plays in that bit. It makes me so emotional
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