Bury Me Alive

**BURY ME ALIVE** is the fifth single and sixth track on Neoni's Extended Play, *"All My Favorite Monsters"* It was released on October 7, 2022.

Listen to **BURY ME ALIVE**

## Theme

The song is about depression and empty feelings, and about doing meaningless things to escape those feelings.

BURY ME ALIVE is about feeling hollow and when you're living every day like you're not even alive. It's about not feeling necessarily sad, it's just feeling empty. It's that emptiness that comes with depression and with these dark moments in our lives. They aren't always a super sad moment when you're sobbing - sometimes it's scrolling on your phone for hours through meaningless things because you're just trying to escape what feels so empty.

It's an emotionally heavy one and we got to get through this together, and it's so much better when you can come together as a group of people who have lived the same experience and you can be like "We're gonna get through this, we're gonna see the other side of this".

## Background

* A snippet is teased via Neoni's TikTok on October 3, 2022
* A short acoustic version was posted on October 11, 2022
* The album art was made by Simon R Mulligan.

## Lyrics

[Verse]

One foot in the grave

One hand gripping faith

Feeling catatonic if I’m honest I think that I might break

I just need some quiet

Shine some ultraviolet

Exposing all the dead and rotting flesh that sits inside my brain

[Pre Chorus]

I can’t take it

No I can’t take it

[Chorus]

Bury me alive

Cause I’m living like I’m living like I already died

Bury me alive

I’m begging for a feeling but I’m hollow inside

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me alive

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me alive

[Verse]

Vultures circling

Like thoughts that never end

Round and round and I fall down into the darkness again

Maybe I’m just haunted

And the ghosts leave me exhausted

I ask them all to quiet down but they never listen

[Pre Chorus]

I can’t take it

No I can’t take it

[Chorus]

Bury me alive

Cause I’m living like I’m living like I already died

Bury me alive

I’m begging for a feeling but I’m hollow inside

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me alive

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me alive

[Bridge]

Going insane yeah I’m begging and I’m pleading just to get free

But I’m so empty

Oxygen is running low no I can’t breathe

Would somebody save me

Save me

Please save me

Clawing at my coffin

Yeah I’m screaming I can feel I’m suffocating

No escaping

I feel like I’m wasting

Would somebody save me

Save me

Please save me

Going insane yeah I’m begging and I’m pleading just to get free

But I’m so empty

Oxygen is running low and I can’t breathe

Would somebody save me

Save me

Please save me

Clawing at my coffin

Yeah I’m screaming I can feel I’m suffocating

No escaping

I feel like I’m wasting

Would somebody save me

Save me

Please save me

[Chorus]

Bury me alive

Cause I’m living like I’m living like I already died

Bury me alive

I’m begging for a feeling but I’m hollow inside

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me alive

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me

Bury me alive

## Trivia

* One clip from the lyric video was also used in the lyric video for "Back From The Dead"
* They wanted BURY ME ALIVE to feel like they buried the two characters, and replace them with superhero versions of them. There are two characters, representing Neoni, and bring out two more characters that look a lot more like them, symbolising them becoming realer versions of themselves.
* When asked about number of drafts when writings songs in a LIVE, Sidney said that they got to mix 11 with **BURY ME ALIVE.**
* Sidney revelaed on Discord that **BURY ME ALIVE** was one of the first raps they did.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OyYP356fM&list=PL7d0Faz2YhP2Dp52eXMZRaxRXlafEDTs6&index=5&t=97s
2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7150320737495108910?is\_copy\_url=1&is\_from\_webapp=v1
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjlGHvPj6d4/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link
4. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjbCj8xqOJa/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link
5. ↑ https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ITsCADZgKUnoDyxS9wHkm?si=ed474dc8841d46d8&nd=1
6. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1007820518973509784/1007820519434878996/1035589203951620126