science | March 22, 2026

Pierce the Veil - Besitos Lyrics Meaning

Besitos, spanish for kisses, tells a story. The characters a boy and a girl, a pair of opposites. He is organized and unadventurous, and she is quite the opposite. She lives in the fast lane, addicted to drugs and constantly showing up at his place unexpected. He is living a horrible reality that is induced by her fake reality that is her guilty pleasure - her drugs - and while she is happy he has to deal with it. And although she is tearing apart his life, and she is constantly using him for both sex, money, and a place to stay, he loves her, and continues to try to help her and love her the best he can. He is constantly having dreams about her and her prefection, and he is constantly worrying that something will go wrong. So he does what any worried friend would do - he warns her that her drug addictions would kill her in the long run. She doens't listen to him, and soon after, dies of a drug overdoes. He, upset and confused, begins to use the very drugs that killed her. After Vic (the singer) screams red roses, the song takes a turn to two different places. The drugs begin to make drive the man to insanity, and he doesn't know where he started and where he began, and he can't tell what's real or fake. He knows not whether the girl was either a real song or a figment of his imagination; all he knows is his own bedroom, which he realized through his drug induced dream coming to an end, that all may have been a dream- but his drugs are killing him.