Lost It All - Commentary

"Lost It All" is, is one of the songs that I'm most proud of
Uh, that Black Veil Brides have ever been involved in
Um, it's a very strange song in terms of where it goes
I mean, it's a song that starts out in this very dark low place
And by the end of the song, it's you know, trumpets and horns and gospel singers
And this whole kind of "November Rain", "Hey Jude", kinda thing happening at the end
And um, it's really cool and exciting

It was a song that lyrically I think is incredibly important to the story
So sonically, it was very important that it fit with that lyrical content
And so we spent a lot of time on the song
Probably more so than anything, really crafting how the song would sound
And how, where it would go, where the crescendo moment would be
To where it was this big kinda moment

Um, lyrically it's a bit ambiguous
Um, it's sort of about the idea that
Everybody feels these moments of sadness and moments of loss
And sometimes I think everybody can relate to sitting alone and feeling like crap
And a friend of yours comes up and starts like, you know
"Come on, get fl-" and you don't want that
Sometimes it's alright to let yourself live in a moment
And let yourself be upset about something
In so that you can show yourself that regardless of how low you feel
You can always rise out of it, but not in that moment

And so the song ends with the lyric "I believe we all fall down"
But I don't say "but we get back up"
It's just sometimes you fall down, and sometimes you feel low, and that's okay
And I think that that's an important notion, and something I've never really written about
Is the idea of just feeling that sense of, kind of loss for a moment
And just letting yourself feel that way and not letting outside influence affect you
And just really, not necessarily wallowing, but focusing your attention on that sadness
So that you can rise yourself out of it but on your own terms