What's The Real Meaning Of Maybe By Machine Gun Kelly And Bring Me The Horizon? Here's What We Think

Publish date: 2024-05-03

The lyrics to "maybe" by Machine Gun Kelly and Bring Me the Horizon are clearly referencing a breakup, and not a very amicable one at that. While MGK sings about his missing soul, shadows, and needing to get away in the first verse, Bring Me the Horizon's vocalist, Oli Sykes, references regrets and heartbreak in the second. "I don't want to spend another day / Looking for somebody that I know I can't replace / My tears fall, you don't miss me / Put me out my misery / Think my heart is history / I think I'm broke and nothing can fix me," Sykes sings.

Since Machine Gun Kelly is very obviously in love with his fiancée Megan Fox, we have to assume he's not referring to her in the lyrics to "maybe." Sykes, however, appears to be still married to his wife Alissa Salls, though we know he's written about his emotional and difficult breakup with his ex-wife Hannah Pixie Snowdon in his music before, per The Independent. The searing lyrics to "maybe" do feel similar to some of Sykes' earlier lyrics.

"I always knew this was gonna end in tears / Didn't think your wrists would keep a souvenir ... I know I said I was under your spell / But this hex is on another level," Sykes vocalized on BMTH's "ouch" — referencing his failed relationship with Snowdon.

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