Send The Pain Below lyrics by Chevelle

I can relate to this song because by saying "send the pain below", he's saying that he's pushing the fact that he's so hurt away. He's hiding it from everyone, and trying to keep it from himself. And the "much like suffocating" is saying, it's like he can't breathe anymore, when he has to face this pain. I do this a lot, and it IS like suffocating. You can't brethe, and no matter what, tears come, and you're lost. There's nothing there to save you, not in the darkness that's surrounding every thought and action.

whoa thank you all for the meanings, I never thought about the song that way ... really helped! Love that song!

Obviously like everyone said its about pain. The guy is obviously going through some pain but is trying to push it away. Everytime it gets brought up he feels like hes being sufficated.. Looks like he can't stand the pain no more... This song helped me out sophmore year when i couldnt handle the pain...BADASS SONG!!! i love it..

The singer has deep pain, from childhood i'm guessing. He learned how to push that pain down in order to be strong. Could have been his father causing mental/physical pain. Such repetition caused him to accept that pain as a way of life and welcomed it because he knew it well and began to like it because he knew he could deal with it, by pushing it down, because initially that kind of pain chokes us as children, thinking you will die. He welcomes it as an adult because its familiar to him and he can push it down where he knows he can handle it and go on. sadly, he can never get rid of that "pain below".

I think that that the one singing the song is talking to himself, or thinking, because his love or lover has left a note saying possibly something along like lines of her leaving. His sister must have called and told him that the girl is coming, or came. The note obviusly says so, also. Possibly, they had sex on his bed, and she left before he woke up. He's sad because she left? And he can't breathe because of that? Hey, I'm just guessing on what I think it is. Anyways, the man knows he can't look at the chick the same anymore, because of whatever it is she did. He wants to "wake up", or in other words, see the sun, you could say. He also wants to take away the feelings he had for her, trash those, and the depressing ones, too. Seems good to him, right? He's gonna break down (that was easy to tell), and he does not care if she shows up and sees him crying, etc.. And he's gonna keep screaming, asking, saying, thinking, etc. "Am I alone in here?" That's what I think anyways...