Just Kill Me Now

The first time I listened to "Deathbed" by Relient K I totally hated it. I thought it was the worst song Relient K had ever made, and everytime it came up on my iPod I skipped it. Well there was a problem with this. When I ripped the CD onto my iPod it got messed up and cut off towards the end. That's why I hated the song. I thought it was sad, depressing, and pointless. What is Relient K doing? Trying to make me suicidal or something?

The song talked about this man, the speaker, who lived his life in a pretty sucky state. He started off with sad stories of war that he found out very young were untrue, and that his father died at an early age. Then he says that he got addicted to alcohol and cigarettes for this whole life and never stopped until now. Now is during the chorus when he is in bed and he knows that he will die that night, and he can't believe that was his life.

Then the second verse comes by and he talks about how he got married at 21 because he got his girlfriend pregnant and her dad forced them, at the barrel of a gun, to get marrried, and then she would run off with some other man, took the kid, and he would realize he had never been loved. So he spent the rest of this life as a lazy bum, bowling and drinking his life away. And the chorus comes out again and he is dying. Whopee, what a great image.

And that is where my iPod cut it off. Yeah, wouldn't that sound great, to listen how this guy had a degrading life and that was it. WHERE IS THE MESSAGE IN THAT?!?!???! Lucky for me I decided to listen to the CD one day and I forgot to skip this song because I was busy doing something, and then it got to the third verse. And my whole idea about this song changed.

In the third verse he says that as he is dying that night Jesus stopped by and talked to him. He said He was there to carry him home and that he was going to go somewhere where he could live a better life, but He wanted him to think about his life before he left. He wanted to emphasize the point where the speaker accepted Christ and all those bad things he did were now forgiven because Jesus had died for him, and Jesus understands his pain. After that he he realizes that he was dead and looking back at his deathbed, and then Jesus carried him home and he was the happiest man ever.