At 17 years old, Billie Eilish has taken over the industry. Her first EP titled “Don’t Smile At Me” dropped back in August 2017 and she has been nonstop since then. Her growing fanbase has been anticipating her first album set to drop March 29th, but she has released some singles people have been going crazy over. Some have been quite strange singles and a little more confusing than others.

Eilish’s latest song, “Bury A Friend” had some fans scratching their heads. The lyrics are pretty dark and don’t make much sense. It takes a some analyzing to figure out what these twisted lyrics mean.

Based on my interpretation of the song and what I know about it, it starts with the chorus, “What do you want from me? Why don’t you run from me? What are you wondering? What do you know? Why aren’t you scared of me? Why do you care for me? When we all fall asleep, where do we go?”

Eilish said in an interview that she wrote from the perspective of a monster under her bed. From this chorus, I think she’s talking to that monster, but the monster is also her. She’s asking why isn’t she personally scared of herself, why isn’t she running away from her demon, her inner demon?

The song moves on to the first verse, “Say it, spit it out, what is it exactly? You’re payin’? Is the amount cleanin’ you out? Am I satisfactory? Today, I’m thinkin’ about the things that are deadly. The way I’m drinkin’ you down. Like I wanna drown, like I wanna end me.” This verse is a bit confusing. From the lines “The way I’m drinkin’ you down. Like I wanna drown, like I wanna end me.” I get the feeling that she’s drowning in all these scary, negative thoughts. She’s being consumed by this monster.

She goes onto her refrain, “Step on the glass, staple your tongue, bury a friend, try to wake up

cannibal class, killing the son, bury a friend, I wanna end me.” This part plays into the creepy horror story effect. The music video she recently made for this song takes place in an abandoned hotel where she gets possessed. It looks like a trailer for a horror movie. These lyrics add the extra fear factor to the song about monsters. It then goes into the pre-chorus where she repeats, “I wanna end me.” This part is just sad. Eilish has said on countless accounts that she’s her worst enemy. These lyrics have an intensity behind them that’s pretty dark.

In the second verse, I get the most confused. “Keep you in the dark, what had you expected?

Me to make you my art and make you a star and get you connected? I’ll meet you in the park, I’ll be calm and collected but we knew right from the start that you’d fall apart ’cause I’m too expensive. It’s probably somethin’ that shouldn’t be said out loud. Honestly, I thought that I would be dead by now. Calling security, keepin’ my head held down bury the hatchet or bury a friend right now.” I see this as Eilish talking to the monster saying, what did you expect? For me, she doesn’t want to glorify this monster that she is. She doesn’t want to turn it into art, she wants to keep in the dark and basically said she thought she’d be dead right now because of this monster. I’m still unclear what the lines “bury a friend” mean exactly. It could be bury an old friend, or bury the hatchet, the thing that doesn’t make them a good friend and forget about it, but that wouldn’t go with the rest of the song.

Eilish then goes to the bridge, “For the debt I owe, gotta sell my soul ’cause I can’t say no, no, I can’t say no then my limbs all froze and my eyes won’t close and I can’t say no, I can’t say no.” These lyrics are about how her fame came so quickly that it affected her mental health. She can’t say no, to sell her soul is the price you pay for fame. These are the last new lyrics in the song then she repeats the chorus.

This song is all over the place. Eilish has always had cryptic lyrics, but this one takes a little more time to understand. This was what I took away from the song, but who knows what exactly was going through Eilish’s mind while writing this one? Either way, her album is much anticipated. I’m expecting it to be full of confusing, beautiful songs.