“The Him” explores themes related to self-alienation and depression, the narrator practically doesn’t recognize himself in reality, hence the song name so appropriate.
[Verse 1]
Some days you waste your life away
These times I find no words to say
A crime I once committed failed me
Too much of heaven's eyes I saw through
Only when meanings have no reason
They're taken beyond your sense of right (And wrong)
[Verse 2]
Small boy kneels humble in a great hall
He placed hands to the air above him
White circles, black lines surround me
Reborn, so plain my eyes see
This is the reason that I came here
To be so near to such a person
[Outro]
I'm so tired, I'm so tired
The Him was written by New Order & Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert & Bernard Sumner & Peter Hook.
The Him was produced by Martin Hannett.