WatchTower lyrics - analysis

The Watch Tower – Analysis

Verse 1

I'm sick of myself, blood drips down my foundations – scene of death

I have to watch their bodies fold, under the pressure – suicide (because of stress/anxiety)

a shattered spine a broken skull, the least of my expectations – emotionally, physically and mentally

if I had a pound for each one id be made of gold, of f'ing gold – many people commit suicide

Pre chorus 1

the elevator goes up, but only bodies fall down – no one comes down it (watchtower) alive

they're falling off my head, and losing theirs on the ground – jumping from the tower - dieing at the bottom

Chorus

I am, I am the watch tower – States who the watchtower/singer is

I watch, but I only watch them die – can only watch (can't move/inaminate)

the irony is that i'm suicidal – The tower want to commit suicide, would stop others from doing so, can't

but I cant jump off myself – another reference to 'his' fixed state

Verse 2

I'm sick of plain corpses crash and burn, no face no recognition – once dead, un-recognisable

just empty eyes and clotted blood, with no expression – no soul, they're not human anymore

from new born child to rotting man, to just conceived make the incision – any form of person commits suicide

sign here to have your name engraved in bold, in f'ing bold – its making a statement

Pre chorus 2

the elevator goes up, but only bodies fall down – no one comes down it (watchtower) alive

they're falling off my head, and losing theirs on the ground – jumping from the tower - dieing at the bottom

Chorus

I am, I am the watch tower – States who the watchtower/singer is

I watch, but I only watch them die – can only watch (can't move/inaminate)

the irony is that i'm suicidal – The tower want to commit suicide, would stop others from doing so, can't

but I cant jump off myself – another reference to 'his' fixed state

Bridge

This is: manslaughter, mass murder – the suicide is caused by those who put the people in that situation

you're not a f'ing martyr – there is nothing noble about committing suicide

constrain you, i'd brain you – would stop them, but can't

but I don't have limbs and neither – would stop them but can't

will you when you hit the floor – when they hit the ground, they will also be inaminate

Fake gods won't save you anymore – what they previously believed in (religion etc) is of no help anymore

Chorus

I am, I am the watch tower – States who the watchtower/singer is

I watch, but I only watch them die – can only watch (can't move/inaminate)

the irony is that i'm suicidal – The tower want to commit suicide, would stop others from doing so, can't

but I cant jump off myself – another reference to 'his' fixed state