Coming Down By Five Finger Death Punch: Song Analysis

The song “Coming Down” by Five Finger Death Punch uses ethos to appeal to its audience. Both the lyrics and the video use an abundance of emotions but you cannot understand one without the other. My first thought when hearing this song was that it was about one of two things, saving a life or ending one. These things very heavily contrast but the video confirmed my thoughts to be both true and false. The video begins with no music and very little sound. It starts off with a half naked girl in heels standing in her doorway staring at her reflection. Soon after she looks down and closes the door quietly not wanting to draw attention to herself. It then cuts to show a boy opening a door but quickly goes back to give us a glimpse of what the girl is doing. She gets a pill bottle and a …show more content…
Then to the boy's parents who are crying and screaming their son’s name. It shows the parents of the boy and the girl finding their suicide letters and soon after the lyrics begin. This gives us a sense of sympathy towards the parents losing their children. The song opens up with the lyrics, “It's caving in around me what I thought was solid ground. I tried to look the other way but I couldn't turn around.” This gives us an idea of how the characters felt trapped. It continues on to say, “It's okay for you to hate me for all the things I've done. I've made a few mistakes but I'm not the only one.” People make mistakes we are only human. Through these lyrics the video shows what the boy and the girl did in the moments before their death. The video reveals that these actions were thought out beforehand by showing the girl laying out her pills in a line then taking them one by one, The boy polishes his gun and lays out the bullets but only puts one in the chamber, the one that ultimately ends his life. This foreshadows their death and we are only introduced to it after the