This song addresses addiction and the desire to escape. The song expresses a sense of despair and hopelessness, reflecting Oli Sykes' personal struggles with mental health and addiction.

The name of the song is ‘n/A’ which means Not Available or Not Applicable, but given the introduction at the meeting and the topic of drug addiction, it could also mean Narcotics Anonymous

Bring Me The Horizon recorded this verse during NeX GEn World tour in Cardiff on 01/09/2024, in Birmingham on 01/12/2024, in Manchester on 01/13/2024, in Glasgow on 01/14/2024, in Newcastle on 01/16/2024, in Sheffield on 01/19/2024, in Dublin on 01/23/2024 and in others cities that was included in tour.

In an interview with NME lead singer Oli Sykes described the themes of this song in more detail, and he speaks about how he believes that most people who don’t suffer from an addiction, think that ‘getting on the horse’ is the hardest part. But, he goes on to say, it’s actually easy to ‘get back on the horse’, it’s ‘staying on the horse’ that is the hardest part. This is an analogy many use, with ‘the horse’ representing the journey to sobriety. Sykes goes on to explain that when you go back to being sober, ‘it’s such a rough ride’ because you feel embarrassed, ashamed, like you let everyone down, and he says that all of these things are what influenced this song to be the way it is.

So from this song begins what Sykes calls the rehab portion of the album. At the start of ‘n/A’ obviously the acronym for Narcotics Anonymous — he introduces himself to the room. A monstrous Greek chorus of fellow addicts (a live recording of fans at one of BMTH’s recent gigs) reply, “Hello, Oli, you fucking knobhead / Did you think you had us fooled?” Of this relapse song, Sykes says,

“You’d imagine that the hardest thing is getting back on that horse, but the hardest thing is staying on the horse once you’re on, because when you get back on there, it’s such a rough ride.

“You fucking hate yourself after you’ve relapsed again, when you’ve made a mistake. That feeling of, ‘Fucking hell, I’ve just let everyone down, I’m so embarrassed, everyone hates me.’ You just want to go back to whatever it was that you were doing that takes all those feelings away temporarily.”

Oliver via Rolling Stones