Elvis Depressedly stares straight into the void and airs their own blunt pe… Read Full Bio ↴Elvis Depressedly stares straight into the void and airs their own blunt perceptions about it through their music, but it’s never been the band’s intentions to bring you down even if it says so right there in their name. Mathew Lee Cothran of Coma Cinema and Delaney Mills -- alongside a revolving cast of friends and collaborators -- have been taking the monoculture’s obsession with a dystopian world and turning it into their own wry joke in their homespun quarters of South Carolina from the very beginning. Since 2011, EPs and singles built with a bare necessity of instruments and production tools have recorded a memory box of self-healing guitar-pop laced with an Ambien trance. But with Cothran quitting his day job and resettling in Asheville, NC with Mills after the release of 2013’s Holo Pleasures to focus his efforts on their latest full-length on Run for Cover Records New Alhambra, an increased currency in time has resulted in Elvis Depressedly’s most definitive listen yet.

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Bodil
Elvis Depressedly Lyrics

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Hell has grown up
With you to become
A quiet place

Eyeliner bleeding down your smiling face

I've been awake in this world for too long
I've been awake in this world for too long

I've been awake in this world for too long
I've been awake in this world for too long

Feel everything
Open your heart to abuse

Live long enough
Your love will
Punish you

I've been awake in this world for too long
I've been awake in this world for too long

I've been awake in this world for too long
I've been awake in this world for too long

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Elvis Depressedly's song "Bodil" are a reflection on the harsh realities of life and the inevitable consequences of living a long time. The opening lines "Hell has grown up with you to become a quiet place" suggest a sense of desolation and a world which has lost its vibrancy. This is further emphasized with the image of "eyeliner bleeding down your smiling face" which illustrates a sense of decay and sadness.

The chorus "I've been awake in this world for too long" is a recurring theme throughout the song and highlights the tiredness and despair that comes with living too long in a difficult world. The lines "Feel everything, open your heart to abuse" suggest that to truly live, one must be willing to experience pain and heartache. The idea that love will eventually punish you is a sobering reminder of the risks involved in letting others into your life.

Overall, "Bodil" is a melancholic but honest portrayal of the harsh realities of life, and the emotional toll that living can take on someone.

Line by Line Meaning

Hell has grown up
The world has become an unpleasant place

With you to become
You have contributed to its unpleasantness

A quiet place
A place where nothing good happens

Eyeliner bleeding down your smiling face
You are trying to hide your pain by putting on a happy face, but it's not working

I've been awake in this world for too long
I have been alive for too long and seen too much of the world's ugliness

Feel everything
Be sensitive and open to your emotions

Open your heart to abuse
Being vulnerable can lead to getting hurt

Live long enough
If you live for a long time

Your love will
Your capacity for love will

Punish you
Cause you pain and suffering