Breaking Benjamin: Failure Meaning
Song Released: 2015
Failure Lyrics
It has only just begun.
The world will die alone
The frail will fall below.
Time will take our place.
We return it back to one
The calm before the cold,
The long and lonely road.
Look for the light...
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Honestly I think Failure is Speaking about Tearing the whole world down by the devil And Gods trying to take us home because of you listen to the line "look for the light that leads me home" it very clearly talks About going home to Heaven, and gods will to protect our souls! But, That's only my theory...stay safe out there whoever reads this :D
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I love this song,he talking about starting over and getting a second chance. For me i know ive had many secind chances as a kid i was sexualy abused and physicaly abused i felt like the world was against me like i was the faulire and the part we burry the sunlight means forgetting oir past and moviing on.
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It means to start over again. I know that I have always wanted nothing more in my heart than just peace and love but it's harder than it sounds to find in a world that is shrouded in secrecy and riddled with lies. I feel like it is ok to sometimes let go and it's always scary to embrace change, but if you just give it just one more try you might just make the difference your whole life has been fighting for. I gave up in the past few years about 5 ago to be exact, and I couldn't understand how to want to try anymore, in a life that never even felt like mine. But if we don't accept who we are, at the core of our hearts, than we embrace nothing more than the traps that the world has already descided to set for us. It's about doing the right thing, and that's not always popular, and the people around you l, who have preyed upon the fact that they know you have trouble making sense of it all, are blackening the roots of yourself, regressing your spiritual growth. But, if you can somehow reward your sacrifices with something as small as a deep breath, you might be able to finally just stop, and take a step back and give to yourself and to your sometimes broken heart, the love you have hooelessly lost or even thought you just never had, and conserving just enough to keep on reserve and try to remember to not always have just an over abundance of compassion for others without giving a chunk of it to yourself so you can shine to those around you even when you're all that's left, with nobody to share it with, it will be the light that was always waiting for me or you or for all of us stuck on the other side of ourselves, that we will finally for the first time ever, give god a chance, and love ourselves enough to risk our comfort and truly face the fears of the unknown, to be the closure to the life that has become at times, your own nightmare, and tear down the walls and those who seek to keep you inside and no longer allow the child that you once were to be used against you to remind you of your biggest loss, the love you thought you never had, was ALWAYS there inside of you to rescue yourself from the social diseases we once allowed to keep us paralyzed in fear. You are the one that god sometimes needs to be the hope we all sometimes lose, and if someone doesn't do it for you, ask god to reach inside of you one more time and promise you, and only you as that child, that this time you won't ever let go, and walk straight ahead, turn your back on those who contaminate you, feel the air you breathe, the sorrow that's now gone, and be confident that today you all will try to progress by living for this exact moment, allowing yourself to smile again and I will make a promise to you if nobody else does, everything is going to be ok. Tear the whole worls down, stay true to yourself and god will take care of the rest, as he always and forever has, because he will never let you go either.
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Personally, I took it as the nice guy being angry about always being the bigger person. Always letting things go, and getting to the point of not knowing what to do about it. It’s hard to always be the person keeping peace, and it makes it even harder when you let it go and waste your breath, but things still stay messed up. It makes you so angry that you want to tear the world down sometimes.
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Life is happening and more to come
We all will die alone, weak first
In time all will be forgotten
As we age we are less active, much like a toddler
As we age we understand the inevitable
I keep thinking of good times in my life
Chased the last of my dreams away
We all will die
The darkness after is absolutely nothing
People will continue to believe
I keep thinking of good times in my life
But it's useless, tear it all down.
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It is important to note the key of the music and everything about the song when interpreting lyrics. The happy tone contradicts the sad theme of failure, shedding light to the fact that failure is inevitable. The message is taking failure to tear down the whole of his life (tear the whole world down) which has been failure, then building a foundation for a successful life. He also describes looking for a light to lead him home. This light is the foil to failure, as failure is a darkness that keeps him from home. The light is different among people. I find that light in God. Maybe he did too.
The whole of this song is overall about change. Whatever was occurring in this person's life was failure, and the tearing of that world down is change.
Failure is inevitable, defeat is optional. A single failure doesn't constitute defeat. if this wasn't applied, Thomas Edison never would have invented the lightbulb.
Take this as you will, and I wish you all well in the name of Jesus. -
I think this is a positive song that justifies failure in a way. Some of the most famous and successful people in life often have been though the lowest of lows.
[Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go.
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down.
Tired of wasting breath, tired of nothing left.
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down.
Failure.]
When you reach the bottom, you eventually get tired of being depressed (feeling lost)and tired of doing nothing (wasting breath) and then you get tired of the failure and rectify the situation by doing something to get out of that mess you initially fell into.
I think I might be wrong about my interpretation but that's honestly how I perceived the song. -
My interpretation is that he's talking to God, telling God to tear the world down, it's a failure.
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Life will come our way > we can make it...
It has only just began > ...but we must fight, and this awareness has just begun
The world wil die alonr > world can die alone, we have our bisiness to take care of
The frail will fall below > same
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Time'll take our place > time will eat us alive though
We return it back to one > we'll try to fight it til the end
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Look for the light that leads me home > Trying to find myself
Tired of feeling Lost, tired of letting go > Had enough of all of this shit I live everyday
Tear the whole world down > and that's why I'll rip my own life apart
Failure > I'm a useless human being, a failure... -
I think the message is saying that it's okay to fail in life.
"Life will come our way,
It has only just begun."
And that life for them (being the one he loves or cares about) will work itself out and become better. It's only just begun... it gets dark before it gets better. -
I really don't know what the song means to Breaking Benjamin, but I can relate what it means to me through personal experience. Life can be a juggling act sometimes with work, relationships , and financial responsibilities and we can create impossible obligations for ourselves. I was working three jobs to meet my financial obligations to live in a nicer house, drive a nicer car, and pay for things that I thought were important. I was slowly killing myself as my youth was fleeting. I had everything I thought I could want but happiness and serenity. I lost my job, and struggled to hang onto the things I possessed. Sometimes it's better to let things fall instead of carrying the load and burden of what we have. I failed and had to start over from the beginning. I carried myself through the dark days only to find light at the end of the tunnel. It got worse before it got better, but it was the best thing I ever done. I have much less than I did, but I have serenity and no amount of possessions can pay for that.
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Humanity is a failure, a wasted breath. We are destroying ourselves and burying ourselves.
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