You Win You Lose You Sing the Blues Theres No Point in Buying Concrete Shoes

Song writers: Adam Brian Thomas Hann / George Bedford Daniel / Matthew Timothy Healy / Ross Stewart MacDonald

By The 1975:

I bet you thought your life would change
But you're sat on a train again

Your memories are sceneries

For things you said but never really meant

You build it too high to say goodbye
Because you're not the same as them

But your death, it won't happen to you

It happens to your family and your friends,

I pretend

And I always wanna die sometimes

I always wanna die sometimes

You win, you lose, you sing the blues
There's no point in buying concrete shoes, I refuse

And I always wanna die sometimes

I always wanna die sometimes
I always wanna die

Am I me through geography?
A face collapsed through entropy
I can hardly speak

And when I try, it's nothing but a squeak
On the video, living room for small
If you can't survive, just try

And I always wanna die sometimes
I always wanna die
Always wanna die
Always wanna die
Always wanna die

And I always wanna die
Always wanna die
Always wanna die sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes

I sometimes always wanna die
Always wanna die
Always wanna die
Always wanna
Sometimes

The Title/ Chorus:

The title "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" strikes my attention because it is an oxymoron. The words "always" and "sometimes" contradict themselves in meaning. The purpose of the oxymoronic lyrics is to highlight the truth the words hold. In today's American culture  people falsely claim to feel depressed and suicidal when it is beneficial to them. In order to gain attention people throw themselves a pity party, but when help is offered it is denied. Matty, the lead singer of the british band,  points out the idea of pretending to need help for attention. Another way this is simply promoted is by placing parentheses around "sometimes" in the title. By putting "sometimes" in parentheses separates it from the other words and deems the "sometimes" as less important. When people fake their depression, they do not want you to focus on the fact that it is not real, they do not want you to focus on the "sometimes." This touches on a bigger issue at hand with a society where everyone competes for attention using social media. Everyone goes through hardships, but now with the ability to share those hardships with anyone competition begins.

The phrase "I always wanna die sometimes" on a more personal level means how someone feels when sadness settles in. When I feel sad, it feels as if I only know this emotion. Sadness in general feels like it lasts an eternity rather than the actual amount of time your mind in is in that state of melancholy. The lyrics also mean when you feel sad it feels like you have always felt that way. But in reality, one knows that one only feels that way sometimes. The oxymoron of always and sometimes indicates the truth in how we feel, the truth in the reality around us, and how they conflict.

I bet you thought your life would change
But you're sat on a train again:

Trains are a way of transportation from destination to destination. People organization sections of their life, like childhood and adulthood, as different destinations. But in reality, childhood and adulthood are experiences rather than tangible location.

Your memories are sceneries

For things you said but never really meant:

Throughout life it is difficult to constantly be sincere, because one must subject themselves to vulnerability in order to do so. since it is a challenge to always be sincere, lying becomes the easiet solution, and it is hard to forget what lies one said when one feel guilt.

You build it too high to say goodbye
Because you're not the same as them

But your death, it won't happen to you

It happens to your family and your friends:

Humanity will always be afraid of death, because no one knows what happens once you die. From a nonreligious perspective, dying is simply not existing. With that definition, death effects the living that care about the person that died. The living are the people that are forced to grieve and feel their emotions, rather than the person that died is numb.

You win, you lose, you sing the blues
There's no point in buying concrete shoes, I refuse:

No one knows what the future holds so "there's no point in buying concrete shoes," meaning no one stays in one place or one state of mind; things will and are always changing.

Am I me through geography?
A face collapsed through entropy
I can hardly speak

And when I try, it's nothing but a squeak
On the video, living room for small
If you can't survive, just try:

"Am I me through geography" questions whether someone's beliefs and values are based on culture. The questions raises awareness for the harm in identifying with a geographical location. People's differences stem from conflicting morals and those morals can be tied to a location.

The next lines mean that if you decide to give up at life you should not take everyone down with you. For the sake of everyone else that your life effects, it is best to jive on. It is wrong to put the blame on other people for your success.

Overall the song lyrics illustrate how people have grown up constantly competing for attention as a form of affection. This has resulted in people falsely claiming to have mental disorders as a way of gaining more attention. The lyrics also demonstrate how someone feels when sadness strikes. It feels like an eternity no matter the actual time you have felt that way. Thought provoking and sadly relatable songs like this one are currently seldom. We should appreciate and analyze lyrics in order to get the full effect of what the artist intended.

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