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| Escape the Fate – Not Good Enough for Truth In Cliché Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The first stanza is basically just saying that she is cold and cruel like all the "enemies of the last five years" combined. The chorus suggests that he is sitting in a room with a gun to his head (russian roulette) with "Juliet" on his mind, not literally with the gun to juliet's head. The second verse is saying that the idea he had to get her back- the idea portrayed in the chorus- is to dramatic, as he says "take this down a notch." He suggests crashing his car into her window, which may or may not literally mean that he wants to crash his car into her window. It probably represents making a big scene so she will recognize him again. Once he gains her attention, he will "kill her," not literally I presume, but just make her life miserable. How he continues to repeat the chorus, however, implies that he has decided on that route. When he says "I can't take this anymore..I cannot feel what you've done to me" he is saying that he is pretty much numb from everything she has done to him and has decided to kill himself. |
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| Escape the Fate – Chariot of Fire Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think that he's trying to confess something in this song, like he had something to do with the downfall of "her." He refers to himself as being a "ghost at the scene" which implies that he knew "he" was going to try and bring her down. When he says "I was there at the scene" kinda says that he was there when it happened, and that his hands "smelled like gasoline" implies that he feels like it was his fault, like he figuratively started the fire that led to her downfall. He says that the "headlights murdered my thoughts," suggesting that he saw it happen, but was frozen and couldn't do anything, kind of like a deer in the headlights. The "ghost that remains" is his guilt of feeling that it was his fault. The pre-chorus, I believe, is suggsting that she was innocent and didn't deserve whatever happened to her. In the chorus, he is really just expressing the guilt that is tearing him apart. He wants his "casket closed" so that no one has to look at him, and "your heart beats under the floor" is most likely a reference to Edgar Allan Poes' poem "The Tell-Tale Heart" in which the narrator kills an old man and buries him under the floors of his house. He narrator, in his mind, hears the beating of the old man's heart and it serves as a constant reminder of what he had done, until he confessed to it. When he says "nothing's as it seems" he is recognizing the fact that his guilt is just an imagination. The verse that begins "hallelujah", is kind of a resolution to undo what he has done. When he says "tried so hard to heal the scars..."etc, he is explaining that he tried apologizing to her for what he had done,which was nothing really, but it came out sounding like he had purposefully done everything that happened to her, so she did not forgive him. The stanza beginning with "you say there's no..", explains how harsh she was in rejecting his apology. In the following stanza, beginning with "what did you expect...", he kind of rethinks their friendship and how much it really means to him. He rethinks if it was really worth it to feel so guilty and to try to make it up to her. The stanza "down below.." he comes to terms with the fact that he won't get her back and that the only thing he has left is her "ghost" which is the remenants of his guilt and their past relationship. |
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