Breaking Benjamin: Cold Meaning
Cold Lyrics
One by One
Hollow heroes separate
As they run
You're so cold
Keep your hand in mine
Wise men wonder while
Strong men die
[Chorus]
Show me how it ends it's alright
Show me how defenseless you really...
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I thought the song had something to do with nazis clearing the streets of Jews, but that's just me and you could take it in many different ways,
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Omg every person can have their own interpretation...let them believe what they want to believe the song is about... and no mr thirteen yr old its not about the salem witch trials..who in the hell wants to write about that..it happened in the friggin 1600's trust me bud its not about that..and please stop researching this and finding shit on wikipedia..anybody can go on there and put definitions and labels on something that really isn't true
that site is a buynch of flying bullshit -
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It is amazing how this one song can be interpreted in so many ways. When I first watched the videos and then listened to the lyrics I couldn't figure out what it meant because they seemed so different. When I first heard the drug thing I automatically thought it was wrong. But also the same with everything everyone has said. Now I am still no sure what this song truly means. But that is what makes it an amazing song. It all depends on the person and what they have gone through.
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It makes me think of 9/11 the most, but the Witch Trials theory hits home as well. Either way, it's a damn sad song.
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To add to the person talking about the wiccan symbol and such. and about how Benjamin Millers wife was named Jane......would also make sense about the song "Diary of Jane"
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I love this song, because it can be interpreted in a million ways.
I like to think the song has to do with fighting.
I am a karate student myself, and the song really helps me when I fight, I hum it in my mind.
Its probably got nothing to do with fighting at all, but it can still be interpreted that way.
Heres and example:
Crowded streets are cleared away, one by one
(People make space for the fight. The fight starts)
Hollow hero’s separate, as they run
(Hollow meaning no heart, ergo, no courage to fight, so they separate from those who are ready to fight)
You’re so cold keep your hand in mine
(Fighters become cold when fighting; they don’t recognize each other in the ring, all that matters now is fighting, so they become cold. Keep your hand in mine, could symbolise… ehm, well fighting is like a dance, keep your hand in mine, as to keep your head in the fight…. Or something… :-P)
Wise men wonder while, strong men die.
(Wise men could be a metaphor for the brain, the wise man.
While the strong man, is the body taking the punches. While the brain is wondering what the opponent will do next, the body takes the load, takes the punches and kicks.)
Show me how it ends it’s alright
(The person wondering I he’ll win, how it will end. And while he is losing, he’s telling himself its alright)
Show me how defenceless you really are
(After having convinced himself it’s alright, he now convinces himself the opponent also is badly hurt, but hiding it under a facade. Show me how defenceless you REALLY are. Trying to find a way through his defence)
Satisfied and empty inside
(Satisfied with the fight, because the fight is challenging. And empty inside, cold, emotionless, until the fight is over)
Well that’s alright, lets give this another try.
(The person fighting is going down, but gets back up, and tells himself its alright, lets gie this another try)
If you find your family don’t you cry
(If you see your family in the crowed of people and you know they are watching you lose, don’t think of what they think about you, don’t you cry….or… something:-P)
In this land of make believe, dead and dry
(When you are exhausted, the room seems to turn, it sort of become a land of make believe, you want to give up. Your eyes and mouth is dry, and your body won’t respond to what your mind says, so in a way, you body is dead)
You’re so cold but you, feel alive
(You’re still emotionless, the fight has not ended, and though you are exhausted, the fight has been great, and it makes you feel alive)
Lay your hand on me, one last time
(Lay your hand on me, as in hit me, one last time. Imagine two people fighting, and they both are to exhausted to continue. Hit me one more time, give me a reason to hit back. Hit me one last time, let’s fight, one last time)
Yes I know it’s a bit ridiculous, but that's what I like to think.... -
I agree with the recovering addict because I am one myself not form something as heavy as heroin but a addict at that!
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It's about heroin. That's just a strong opinion though from a strong intuition. I am a Heroin addict in recovery and even thou they don't say it blatantly, as an addict I can feel his pain from an addict point of view. even though it sounds like he's talking to a person we try to give a face to our drug of choice because we are in a love/hate relationship with it and sometimes it feels like heroin has a sole and a personality. and that's the way Breaking Benjamin address the drug in words, like its a person.
"Crowded streets are cleared away
One by One"(people get taken down one by one from the disease of addiction)
"Hollow heroes separate
As they run"(by the word "hereos" he means family members that are loved and there familys whole world like an older bro/sis or mom/dad. and they are running from life by getting high.
"Wise men wonder while
Strong men die"( "wise men" being people that are smart enogh not to try heroin can only wonder what its like, while strong struggling addicts die fighting the disease.
"Show me how it ends it's alright"(he is being confident that he knows that he will be alright)
"Show me how defenseless you really are"(are you really defensless and just letting the disease take you or are you trying to fight it.(usaully it looks like you want to get high all the time when inside your fighting it and don't know how to stop)
"satisfied and empty inside"(ur high and you feel good but its a fake satisfied that's why he says but empty inside.)
"Well, that's alright, let's give this another try"( that's alright you failed again lets keep fighting and give this another try)
"If you find your family, don't you cry" (if your family sees this happening to you don't cry in shame and hopelessness)
"In this land of make-believe, dead and dry" (being addicted to drugs feels like a make believe world that's dead and dry). I have a lot more to back all this up but half of you prob won't give it a chance and read it. I love those guys -
Well, to me when I listen to this song I always picture an empty world. Possibly telling a story about zombies, or the dead coming to life.
"Wise men wonder, while strong men die."
Baffling the scientists as to how this happened, people die.
"In this land of make believe, dead and dry."
Referring to of course the living dead.
Of course this isn't a very deep interpretation but that's my idea at least. This would fit along with the people saying it's about 28 days later. -
This song is based on the movie 28 Days Later.
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I took the meaning mostly from the video, but I think that the song mostly has to do with drugs. You see the guy carrying a huge weight and walking off to his own death of his own will (although he's chained, no one is forcing him to walk). The weight would be symbolic of the addiction he has, and he can let it go if he wants to but chooses to keep it with him. At the end, he can't let go of it to save himself. Also, the lyrics say stuff like "you're so cold put your hands in mine" meaning that he knows the addiction is wrong but he wants it anyway.
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LOL, that thirteen-year-old got owned.
This song isn't about the Salem Witch Trials, it's an extended metaphor. -
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