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| My Chemical Romance – To The End Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song was based on a short story by William Faulkner, "A Rose For Emily." Emily falls in love with a man named Homer... however he's always looking at men, so it is assumed that he's homosexual. Anyway she ends up killing him (he won't marry her when she proposes) with cyanide, and keeps his dead body in her room, where she sleeps with it. So unless it's a coincidence I think that is what the song is about. |
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| My Chemical Romance – This Is The Best Day Ever Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about Gerard Way's trips to the hospital whilst writing the album. It refers to what it's like at night, and how it plays tricks on your mind. It's also about his longing to get out and the day he got out of the hospital would be the best day ever. |
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| My Chemical Romance – The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I believe this song is most likely about addiction and suicide. What, with constant talks of "holding on", "the last night" and "when the cops come". Plus and this "Jetset lifestyle" is a drug reference I believe, not being able to keep up with everything around you. Hotel Bella Muerte means the "Hotel of beautiful death". Hotel could be referring to a place that the mind goes temporarily. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Thank You For The Venom Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is talking about missionaries. Or just people who come to your door and try to give you information about God, when all you want them to do is leave you alone. "Give me a reason to believe" and "Preach all you want but who's gonna save me?", are lines that come to mind when you want people to get off your back about Christianity. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Skylines And Turnstiles Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about September 11th. Gerard saw it happen, he was meeting in New York with Cartoon Network pitching an idea for one of his cartoons, "Breakfast Monkey." Witnessing the event changed his life. After the event he and Matt wrote the song. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Our Lady Of Sorrows Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about friendship. "Stand up fucking tall, don't let them see your back/And take my fucking hand and never be afraid again." That's obviously about all the assholes that are out to get you, but if you have your friends and stuff, you'll be alright and get through whatever is vexing you. There is a live version of this song, and Gerard says something like: "You probably came with your best friend, or one of your best friends... I want you to turn to that motherfucker, grab him by the throat and say "You're my best fucking friend, and I would die for you!" |
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| My Chemical Romance – Jack the Ripper (Morrissey cover) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This was originally sung by Morrissey. True background story to the song - Jack the Ripper was a man in the 20th century who went around murdering prostitutes. Nobody knows the real reason why but many theories have been thrown around. "Oh, you look so tired/Mouth slack and wide/Ill-housed and ill-advised/Your face is as mean/As your life has been". Describing the prostitute and her hard life, whatever it was it's driven her to prostitution. "Crash into my arms/I want you/You don't agree/But you don't refuse/I know you." She doesn't agree or refuse, she doesn't really want to but she has to. The "I want you" part is possibly more sinister than it seems. I don't know about "I know you." Maybe he thinks he's inside their heads. "And I know a place/Where no one is likely to pass/Oh, you don't care if it's late/And you don't care if you're lost/And oh, you look so tired." Gonna fuck her. He's telling her he knows a place they can go (duh). "You look so tired" -- he's sympathizing with her, making her think he's not out to get her. "(But tonight you presume too much)/Too much, too much/And if it's the last/Thing I ever do/I'm gonna get you." He's gonna kill her and she doesn't know it. He is determined. |
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| My Chemical Romance – It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Fucking Deathwish Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is saying that he has a friend and they are really close and his friend betrays him and he dies (emotionally or physically). Basically he is coming back to life (or out of a depression state) and he's gonna get revenge and bring his friend down the way his friend did to him. But he seems to love his friend because he wants to be with him but at the same time he has to be punished. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Interlude Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Angels of unknown are Satan's angels. Satan's angels are coming to try and stop him from finishing his job in claiming 1000 lives. |
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| My Chemical Romance – I'm Not Okay (I Promise) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The song's about how Gerard felt when he was in high school. He only had one real friend and he was really in love with this girl, and she took very skanky pictures with her boyfriend and he got really upset. |
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| My Chemical Romance – I Never Told You What I Do For a Living Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this is about a man who goes around and murders select victims. With the lines "Another night and I'll see you/One other night and I'll be you/Some other way to continue to hide my face." To me it seemed to be about the man's struggle to continue hiding and killing people and then living their lives for a short while. And in the man's opinion he's doing them a favor in a way and feels that "It's better off this way... And we'll love again and we'll laugh again/We'll try again and we'll dance again/And it's better off this way/So much better off this way." I'm guessing the victims he's choosing lead lives without anyone close to them so he's taking their lives and doing what he can in the short amount of time to make "their" lives better. And in the end of the song when he is shot and he says "We're all dead now" he's referring to the fact that all of the people he has killed are all really, truly dying at that moment. When he himself is killed all the people whose lives he has taken over are ending. Or it ties in with the story about the man and Satan and all that jazz. It's about the guy killing all of the people that he had to but I'm still trying to figure out how it's supposed to end. "And we're all dead now" this line makes me think that maybe after he killed all 1000 people he found his girlfriend but she ended up being in Hell with him? I'm not sure if someone was supposed to have killed her or the Devil just played a trick on the guy and ended up having both of them dead. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Okay now you see the title is "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us" and as you all must not know mirrors are quite often referred to by cocaine use such as eating breakfast on a mirror. So anyway this song is about drugs and a controlling girlfriend that didn't want Gerard to do drugs. He's basically telling her to fuck off and then she's going after his brother and friends. He's been quoted at a concert before he sang this - "This song is about a big fat whore" |
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| My Chemical Romance – Helena Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is a tribute to Gerard and Mikey's late grandmother. Her name was really Elena but they always thought of her as a Helena. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Headfirst For Halos Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's about when you're depressed enough that you are right on that brink of suicide and how you should think about the good things in your life and not always the bad, the pills he's talking about are anti-depressants. "Think happy thoughts?" They said they wrote this for all the people out there who are just so down on themselves, that they want to end their lives and that they wanted to make people happy, hence the upbeat tempo and the "Think happy thoughts." |
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| My Chemical Romance – Hang 'Em High Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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A girl doesn't believe her boyfriend loves her. So she keeps asking him if he would die for her and if he would lie to her. They are trying to kill the bad guys together. And is telling her if he dies to carry on, and keep going. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Drowning Lessons Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Who needs drowning lessons right? When all you do is sink and drown and that's it? Yet, some of us endure so much that we can drown over and over. It's about a relationship that was always on the rocks. They were always fighting, and, as said, he was killing her little by little. She wanted it to work, which is what the imaginary wedding gown, swallowed engagement ring, and rice grains/roses symbolize. He's saying it isn't going to work out, asking for "A thousand bodies piled up" if she chooses to stay, which still wouldn't be enough for him. The engagement ring, or potential future relationship, is poisoned and destroyed. He is ending the relationship and isn't too remorseful about it -- "And we'll celebrate the end of things... Without a sound I wish you away." Also this has been said to be a reference to "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge." In "Demolition Lovers", they both get blown apart. Second album, he's resurrected to kill a thousand evil men. Then he'll be able to bring her back to life. So they can get married and all that shit. It's about keeping his woman's corpse in a well, waiting for the day he kills that 1000th guy. Biggest reference = "A thousand bodies piled up, I never thought would be enough to show you just what I've been thinking." |
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| My Chemical Romance – Demolition Lovers Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Obviously, on the surface this song is about loving someone to death but the background to this track is a story that Gerard has conceived about two characters, he and his partner. They are both killed but he ends up in purgatory and the only way that he can get to her is if he kills 1000 evil men. This is the story of how they died. Part of "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" follows up the song, and also part of the "Demolition Lovers" epic is the song "Drowning Lessons" as it touched upon "1,000 bodies piled up". But of course, there are imagery ties to "Natural Born Killers." Also it's about how Gerard would die for the one he loves. In the inlay of the album it says "To K: I'm sorry I write all these songs about killing you, I hope the last track makes up for it." The last track is "Demolition Lovers." "I'd end my days with you in a hail of bullets." |
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| My Chemical Romance – Cubicles Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about obsession and rejection. He used cubicles as a metaphor to any situation where every day you see the same girl and fall in love with her. "It's the tearing sound of love notes/Casting out the gray stained windows" means that he writes love notes to her, but never has the nerve to give them to her, so he throws them out a window. Basically the song is about loving someone who you see every day but doesn't even notice you exist. |
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