Bring Me The Horizon

Released: September 11, 2015

Songwriter: Oliver Sykes

Producer: Spotify

Track two: "Happy Song." The phrase "that's the spirit" came to me when I heard it being used, probably on TV or a movie or summat, and I thought about how ironically bleak that sentiment is. It's really only used by people when they have no idea what to say - there's no answer, no solution. The only thing you can say is just get on with it, and that's what "Happy Song" is all about. It's about making light out of a shitty situation. I reckon we all get the impression to some extent, I'm pretty confident in saying, that we all have so many problems in the world, so many problems, and we really need to, probably, address them, and be honest about them but instead we choose to ignore them, [?] trivial or superficial. [?] in that, myself included. And how I see it is if we don't laugh we'll cry, so let's have some fun at the fact that we're all fucked.

Bring Me The Horizon are a British alternative rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire—often stylised as simply “BMTH” or shortened to “Bring Me.” Formed in 2003, the group currently consists of lead vocalist Oliver “Oli” Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls, and keyboardist Jordan Fish.

The name of the band was taken from Captain Jack Sparrow’s line in the first Pirates of the Caribbean which he “Bring me that horizon.” Oli stated in an interview with Spin how the name connects with his vision of the

Right at the end of the film—it might even be the very last line—Johnny Depp says, “Bring me that horizon.” That was really inspiring. I was still living with my parents in Sheffield, England, when the movie came out [in 2003]. For me and the band, playing music was always wrapped up with the idea of touring and traveling and seeing the rest of England and the rest of the world. We never thought doing that was possible, but that’s what we wanted to do. So that quote sort of stands in for our feeling of wanting to see what the planet had to offer.

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