Breathe in right away.
Nothing seems to fill this place.
I need this every time
So take your lies, get off my case.
Someday I will find
A love that flows through me like this
This will fall away, this will fall away.

[Chorus]
You're getting closer
To pushing me off of life's little edge
'Cause I'm a loser
And sooner or later you know I'll be dead
You're getting closer
You're holding the rope and I'm taking the fall
'Cause I'm a loser, I'm a loser, yeah.

This is getting old.
I can't break these chains that I hold
My body's growing cold
There's nothing left of this mind or my soul.
Addiction needs a pacifier, the buzz of this poison is taking me higher.
This will fall away, this will fall away.

[Chorus: x3]



Lyrics submitted by Nelly

Track duration: 04:25

"Loser" as written by Bradley Kirk Arnold, Robert Todd Harrell, Matthew Darrick Roberts

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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  • 0
    General Comment:This song is clearly about substance abuse.
    "Nothing seems to fill this place,
    I need this every time
    So take your lies get off my case
    Someday I will find a love that floats through me like this"
    He's talking about the dependancy to a drug probablly heroin and the denial to friends and family, it
    It reffers to people being pushed to use drugs because of the shit treatment they recieve from others
    Flag thebigjmanon June 16, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I'm 29 and feel like a loser in this so-called "real world"
    Money seems to be everything in this real world,
    and people are competing against each other
    I don't feel like I belong here in this world
    hence, I'm probably a "loser" in the eyes of 'normal' society..

    this world (& humanity) aren’t supposed to be like this…
    it could really be much much more…

    but humans are ignorant,.and their ignorance is what’s causing all of these problems we’re seeing everyday around us.
    Flag dinkoton March 25, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I'm pretty sure this song is about drugs.

    "Breathe in right away,
    Nothing seems to fill this place
    I need this every time,
    Take your lies get off my case"
    People use drugs to fill an emptiness and for who this song is about, nothing seems to fill the place. The subject of the song needs it every time and wants people off his case about the drugs.

    "You're getting closer to pushing me
    Off of life's little edge
    Cause I'm a loser
    And sooner or later
    You know I'll be dead"
    The drugs are pushing the subject off of "life's little edge" and sooner or later he/she will be dead.

    "Addiction needs a pacifier,
    The buzz of this poison is taking me higher"
    When you're addicted you need help, "a pacifier" and the buzz of the poison (the drug) is getting him higher.

    I had a hunch about the song being about drugs when I listened to it over and over again. It was bothering me so I looked it up, and found that Brad Arnold wrote the song about a childhood friend who became addicted to cocaine. The song is about a drug addiction.
    Flag Sokriticalon January 17, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:It's about getting bullied and pushed around. At first he has hope that it'll end soon and he'll get passed it but then he turns to narcotics to dull the pain. The whole time he's warning the bullies that he's close to losing it and they'll realize it's their fault a little too late.
    Flag babyghostrogueon September 28, 2010   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:To me this song is about somebody losing hope in a world that is always unfairly kicking his azz. No matter how hard he tries there is always one more extra unpredictable struggle in this persons life that provides just enough weight to hold him/her down from being able to break free. The person does drugs as a temporary escape. When the drugs wear off he snaps back to a reality he just cannot take anymore and does not want anymore.
    Flag WilliamTheThirdon September 23, 2010   Link
  • +3
    General Comment:I read on wikipedia that it's about a friend of his that was addicted to cocaine, and it's ironic to me because as I was listening to the lyrics it's exactly what I felt the song was about addiction, and specifically cocaine. Growing up I became a very depressed and withdrawn person, and turned to smoking pot which labeled me as a stoner and I hung out with complete potheads, and I guess that wasn't as bad but still looking back it was destructive, but at the same time it did help me deal with being such a loser and a loner as now I hung out with pretty much other losers, but at least I had friends who I could identify with through Marijuana.

    But eventually I graduated to hard drugs by the time I was in high school and my drug of choice was cocaine, it was so expensive and really turned me into an even bigger loser. When I was a pothead I was pretty generous and peaceful for the most part, but on cocaine I became extremely selfish for the first time although for a coke head I was still pretty generous (and in turn got used frequently) and it was like this whole new clique that I surrounded myself with as some of the potheads advanced with me to the all star team of drug losers per-say.

    Not that anybody reading this probably cares, I'm really just using this as an outlet to express my thoughts.....kind of like a journal, sometimes I read those on this site and it's something I can relate to so it's not completely worthless but for the most part is usually is if I'm being honest instead of just giving the non personal meaning of the song (Which is what I'm going to be doing for the songs I comment on for the most part.) I don't know, there's just something about this song that made me want to share that I suppose, with at the very least myself.

    Flag AbsentMindedon June 11, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i read an article on Wikipedia it's an old freind Brad Arnold had who became addicted to Cocaine.
    that's kinda the way it struck me, basically some dude who's an absolute loser. no one cares for him, so channels frustration inward becoming a drug adict. and in the song he's expressing shame at this,
    "Breathe in right away, Nothing seems to fill this place, I need this every time" and people are noticing, so they're thinking he's doing this just for the heck of it. but he's saying step off.
    "So take your lies get off my case" and thinking to himself that someday he'll find the one he's dreaming of, and the feeling she gives him will overpower his desire for the drug. and he'll be able to leave that crap he went through behind. "Someday I will find a love That flows through me like this This will fall away" and he's also thinking that what drove him to the drugs in the first place were those people who despise him. "You're getting closer to pushing me Off of life's little edge Cause I'm a loser And sooner or later You know I'll be dead You�re getting closer, You're holding the rope, I'm taking the fall Cause I'm a loser, I'm a loser, yeah"
    either way terrific song
    Flag musicfan1968on June 04, 2010   Link
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    Memory:Well, I'm the loser in school. I'm clumsy and a nerd. No one wants to really talk to me except the other losers in the school. Sometimes I think if anyone at school would care if I die. I don't want to commit suicide and never will.
    Flag Falcon4on February 04, 2010   Link
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    My Opinion:I think this song speaks about the frustrations that you have when you realize that your addiction to drugs is getting you no where, making you lose yourself but yet still not being able to quit because your body starts depending on it. This song writes out word for word a way to understand how addiction makes you feel. Speaking for myself, it is the exact way i feel about my addiction.

    Breathe in right away,
    Nothing seems to fill this place
    I need this every time,
    Take your lies get off my case
    Someday I will find a love
    That flows through me like this
    This is getting old,
    I can�t break these chains that I hold
    My body�s growing cold,
    There�s nothin left of this mind
    Or my soul
    Addiction needs a pacifier,
    The buzz of this poison is taking me higher
    You�re getting closer,
    You�re holding the rope
    And I�m taking the fall
    Cause I�m a loser

    Flag Labrujitamexon January 01, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This song is about suicide. He believes that if he dies, no one will miss him. Ever seen the video?




    YES I'M A CONSPIRACY THEORIST
    Flag FYKxG3N0C1D3on December 03, 2009   Link

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