Lyric Analysis Billy Talent

Bullying is something that affects many people in the world today. Children are the most likely targets of such indecent and often fatal situations. Many of them go unheard and end up suffering through a lifetime of agony and distress but in the case of the narrator in Billy Talent’s “Nothing to lose”, he/she goes through school being bullied and eventually kills his self/her self because of the agony he/she went through. The band uses many images, symbols, and figurative language to depict the events of the narrator’s life. There are many images in the song that would create a picture of what the narrator is going through in life. The band uses the image of the narrator looking in the mirror to see if he’s still there as an example of a person trying to find his or her self because he/she have been bullied so often. Many struggle with finding a self-image after being abused so much, these people lack self-confidence and the courage to stand up to the bullies, which causes them to be more susceptible to being bullied. “Kids just love to tease, who’d know it put me underground at seventeen”. This line depicts the narrator being teased so much and the kids that did it not caring, that it put he/she in the ground at the young age of seventeen. Parents should never have to bury their children, but when kids that love to be bullies continuously scrutinize the innocent kids it causes the kids that are being bullied to react to the way they feel about themselves, this often leads to suicide. The narrator says “my parents had no clue that I ate my lunches alone in the bathroom”, this shows that that the only place he/she felt safe was in the bathroom alone. He/she did not have the strength to tell his/her parents because of how insecure they felt. Depression caused by bullying often goes unnoticed out of fear of what may come next if people speak their minds to others. Another image that could often be looked over is the image of the days not changing. The narrator