Sleep

Actually, The song was written for Frank by Gerard. The whole hotel thing is true. It is actually Frank talking in the beggining, If you listen closely. Frank was having nightmares of people he loved dying, and he felt things at his thoat. Gerard wrote the song for him to help him go to sleep. How sweet XD

To me this song seems to be comparing real life to the horrors of Sleep Paralysis, which is probably what Frank was experiencing at night in the hotels. When in sleep paralysis you experience horrible things because your body begins to get scared and starts to make things appear in front of you while you are awake that should be in your dreams. Sometimes it can feel like you are dying because it is painful at times and other times you see horrible and disturbing things. Sometimes when you hear a loud noise or somebody moves your body you can wake up from sleep paralysis, thats what I picture the WAKE UP at the end being.

I dunno if I am right but that's what it seems like to me.

Is it possible that the lyrics are from the perspective of what he dreams of, from the terrors themselves? Just an idea.

I tried my best, anyway it's a good song from the new album.

I always thought that this song had to do with the war or wars in general. If you imagine that he's talking about being drafted off into you know, WWII or Vietnam and knows he's going to die, or "sleep" forever. I always interpreted the voice on the tape recorder a soldier talking about being attacked by a terrorist and seeing people attacked and killed, maybe being terrified by it. I like the song better if I imagine it's about war. It's got a great meaning if you read the lyrics thinking about war. Try it.

there are several songs on this album relating to being in a hospital, on his deathbed. sleep, dead, the end, cancer. last night i watched a rerun of thier preformance of the black parade in mexico. he said it was the last preformance of the black parade they were ever gonna do. after the last song he shouted 'the black parade is dead!' that saddened me. ive heard haters say that but hearing gererd say is crushingly saddening....

This song and Famous Last words are my favorite songs on the album

When the band was recording this album at The Paramour in...Los Angeles, I believe, Gerard would have these night terrors when he was trying to sleep. The band also said that they felt like dark spirits in the house were trying to stop them. The voice at the beginning is Gerard's, discussing exaclt what would happen to him when he had the night terrors.

Night terrors makes me think of that Simpsons episode... "SNAKES!!! THE SNAKES!!!" cough But yeah, I agree with katiekutthroat89, that's basically what it's about. I don't see how it fits into the whole concept of The Patient going on that journey thing, though.

Gaz, that made me laugh really hard. Just putting that out there.

I guess I could kinda see how this would fit in with a patient journey...but...eh...it's still kinda hard. I agree with B12, and besides, I think it's kinda best for us to leave it up to our imaginations. I love the parts with Gerard talking about the night terrors (SNAKES! SNAKES! AH!) at the beginning.

You know at first I thought this song was about terrorISM- I have no clue how I got that but I did.