Give 'Em Hell Kid

My Chemical Romance

Oh baby here comes the sound
I took a train outta New Orleans and they shot me full of ephedrine
This is how we like to do it in the murder scene
Can we settle up the score?

If you were here,
I'd never have a fear
So go on live your life
But I miss you more than I did yesterday
(You're beautiful)

Well I'm a total wreck and almost every day
Like the firing squad or the mess you made
Well don't I look pretty walking down the street
In the best damn dress I own?

If you were here,
I'd never have a fear
So go on live your life
But I miss you more than I did yesterday
You're so far away
So c'mon show me how
'Cause I mean this more than words can ever say

We are, made from the sharpest things you'd say
We are young and we don't care
Your dreams and your hopeless hair
We never wanted it to be this way
For all our lives
Do you care at all?

If you were here,
I'd never have a fear
So go on live your life
But I miss you more than I did yesterday
You're so far away
So c'mon show me how
'Cause I mean this more than words can ever say

(What'd you call me?)
(Well, there's no way I'm kissing that guy)


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    This song is most definitely about teenage pregnancy.

    "I took a train outta New Orleans and they shot me full of ephedrine. This is how we like to do it in the murder scene"

    ...... ephedrine is a drug used as a diet pill and bronchodilator and when it is taken in excess, it can kill a woman's baby. I'm guessing she either had an actual abortion, killed her baby on purpose with her drug, or definitely thought about it.

    "If you were here, I'd never have a fear. So go on live your life. But I miss you more than I did yesterday."

    ..... basically, the guy left. She wants him to live his life normally, but she still misses him like hell.

    "(you're beautiful!)"

    ..... she's remembering what the guy told her. He tells her she's beautiful, and it's probably an empty statement and she knows it, but she can't help but love and miss him.

    "Well I'm a total wreck and almost every day. Like the firing squad or the mess you made."

    ...... she's saying that because she's pregnant, she's a total wreck like "the mess you [the guy she's talking to] made"- the mess is getting her knocked up.

    "Well don't I look pretty walking down the street in the best damn dress I own?"

    ...... she's probably saying here that she can no longer fit in her best dresses, that she's so broke from the baby needing care that she can't afford a nice one, or that because she (a)either had an abortion or (b) killed her child with an overdose of ephedrine, so she still is thin and as pretty as she was before this whole mess.

    "We are made from the sharpest things you say. We are young and we don't care. Your dreams and your hopeless hair. We never wanted it to be this way. For all our lives. Do you care at all?"

    ..... She's saying that they're both young and that if they had the baby, they would have to give up their dreams and their childish worries like "your hopeless hair." Neither of them wanted her to become pregnant. Now that the guy left, she's doubting he even cares.

    Just wanted to add my theories.

    Cheers! ~ just_another_cog (in the murder machine)

    just_another_cogon June 18, 2008   Link

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