Dehumanized – English Lyrics

• By: Bring Me The Horizon
• Album: Count Your Blessings | Repented

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the world of Bring Me The Horizon with 'Dehumanized' to master modern English idioms and emotive vocabulary. This track is special for its unique blend of electronic textures and powerful, contemporary lyrical themes that reflect today's social complexities.

[English]

You were born to suffer

You were bred to bleed

Scraped from your mother's womb

Meat for the machine

Fat on milk and honey

Lulled by a gilded lie

We are becoming

Dehumanized

Some of us are butchers

Some of us are lambs

Send me to the abattoir

Let's find out which I am

Set your heart to safety

Or face the guillotine

For empathy is heresy

And hope is a disease

Dissociating, the blister grows within

How can you escape that which lives under your skin?

Defiled by darkness, our souls sodomized

We are becoming dehumanized

Dehumanized

Rotting beneath the madness

Dehumanized

Rotting beneath the madness

Who will survive

And what will be left of them?

Who will survive

And what will be left of them?

The sky is falling, it's falling

There's nothing we can do

You will pay the price

Time to fucking die

You will pay the price (kill me quick)

Time to fucking die

Who will survive

And what will be left of them?

You were bred to suffer

You were born to bleed

Scraped from your mother's womb

We have become

Dehumanized

Dehumanized

Rotting beneath the madness

We have become

Dehumanized

Kill each other

An infestation

Braindead at birth

Disciples of desire

Virulent

Scum of the earth

Scum of the earth

Scum of the earth

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Dehumanized /diːhjuːmənaɪzd/ C2	verb/adjective - Deprived of positive human qualities.
Suffer /ˈsʌfər/ B1	verb - To experience or be subjected to something bad or painful.
Abattoir /ˈæbətwɑːr/ C2	noun - A slaughterhouse.
Guillotine /ˈɡɪlətiːn/ C2	noun - A machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading.
Empathy /ˈɛmpəθi/ B2	noun - The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Heresy /ˈhɛrəsi/ C2	noun - Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine.
Dissociating /dɪˈsoʊʃieɪtɪŋ/ C1	verb - Disconnecting or separating from one's surroundings or reality.
Defiled /dɪˈfaɪld/ C2	verb/adjective - Sulled, marred, or spoiled.
Sodomised /ˈsɒdəmaɪzd/ C2	verb - Subjected to anal intercourse; violated.
Rotting /ˈrɒtɪŋ/ B2	verb - Decaying or decomposing.
Infestation /ˌɪnfɛˈsteɪʃən/ C1	noun - The presence of an unusually large number of insects or pests in a place.
Braindead /ˈbreɪndɛd/ C1	adjective - Lacking intelligence; clinically dead brain function.
Disciples /dɪˈsaɪpəlz/ B2	noun - Followers or students of a teacher or philosophy.
Virulent /ˈvɪrjʊlənt/ C2	adjective - Extremely severe or harmful in its effects.
Desire /dɪˈzaɪər/ A2	noun - A strong feeling of wanting to have something.

Key Grammar Structures

• You were born to suffer

  ➔ Passive Voice (Past Simple)

  ➔ The structure 'be + past participle' ("were born") is used to describe an event that happened to the subject.

• We are becoming dehumanized

  ➔ Present Continuous for changing states

  ➔ The continuous form "are becoming" indicates a progressive transition from one state to another.

• Some of us are butchers

  ➔ Partitive expression (Quantifier + of + pronoun)

  ➔ "Some of" acts as a quantifier to select a portion from the larger group ("us").

• How can you escape that which lives under your skin?

  ➔ Relative clause with 'that which'

  ➔ "That which" acts as a formal relative pronoun meaning "the thing that".

• Set your heart to safety

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ The verb "Set" is used without a subject to give an instruction or command.

• Who will survive and what will be left of them?

  ➔ Future Simple (Interrogative)

  ➔ The auxiliary verb "will" is used to express future prediction or questions about the future.

• There's nothing we can do

  ➔ Relative clause with omitted relative pronoun

  ➔ The sentence implies "There's nothing [that] we can do". The relative pronoun "that" is omitted.

• Braindead at birth

  ➔ Adjectival phrase modifying the subject

  ➔ The adjective "Braindead" acts as a modifier describing the state of the subject at a specific time.