Overburdened by Disturbed - the Meaning Behind It

Disturbed's song, Overburdened, to me signifies one's struggle in life to be happy within the soul, yet feeling the opposite from different situations that happen in life. Realizing there is no escape.....

Overburdened by Disturbed lyrics:

Hell is still Overburdened, I must stand and wait in line
I may never know for certain when will be my time
How was I considered Evil? Pleasures taken in this life
Someone granted me reprieval, decades spent in strife

Led to Nothing, repeated in my mind, Led to nothing, If only I was born another time

Hell is still Overburdened, I must stand and wait in line
Hell is still Overburdened, how have I been so determined malign?

It's the closing of the curtain, in the play that was my life
Countless chapters left unopened, tragedies inside
I was fighting for a reason, Holy blessed homicide
Seems I have committed treason, all I've sacrificed

Led to Nothing, repeated in my mind, Led to nothing, if only I was born another time

Hell is still Overburdened.....

Fate is so unkind, now I should have known,
Blind leading the blind, reaping what I've sown
If it all amounts to nothing, why then am I standing in this line?

Hell is still Overburdened....

It isn't quite clear but I would assume from early on, perhaps during childhood years, there was hardship, kept inside, hurting, the feeling there is no way out.
Living with guilt, although not to be blamed, one lives with it waiting for his life to be over. Not knowing how to deal with it, he lives on, feeling of being alive in hell but yet his time is not now, so he waits in misery.

Struggling through life he wonders what has he done to feel so miserable. And the joys and accomplishments he has seen is weighted down by inner guilt, being belittled from his past. Why was there guilt from feeling pleasure? Even when others tried to convince him otherwise. Having felt happiness is only adding to his own misery, as it is only a temporary state. Even the good seems to fall apart. "Seems I have committed treason, all I've sacrificed led to nothing" to me is trying to move on, trying to release inner evil, trying to convince oneself that life is good, it wasn't his fault, but in the end, it was a waste of time, as the past still eats him up inside. A life lived wasted through guilt by someone else.

Not wanting to end his life, yet not wanting to live, is a battle inside. A burden hard to cope with. Knowing the future will have no difference, all hopes and dreams crushed by despair, he compares his life as living a lying nightmare with no escape, no love, joy, emotion. If he could have turned back time, done something different in his passed, he may have found peace but all he feels is his life was lived wasted, living a hell on earth and its all for nothing, as when you die, its all gone anyway.

David Draiman of Disturbed sings Overburdened with dedicated passion and feeling. It's a sad song, moving, but relates to many situations this world has put upon us.

M.Soozan