| A Day to Remember – You Should Have Killed Me When You Had the Chance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You're all kind of wrong. It's about all the familiar people (in Ocala?) that used to ignore them and now "this has made them change" their attitude. They all act like they "all call [them]selves [their] friends" even though they were barely so before they got famous. I'm sure everyone has had people tell them after school is over that they'll keep in touch and it's all just words. It's like that, but now these people come running back to congratulate them and act like they are close. However, he's leaving a girl behind and he's "meddling in an anger [he] can't control" (frustration of long distance relationship, jealousy to who he's talking to, etc.) but he's gonna "rewrite" all the stories about them and make it work. And if she needs him to be there, he will be, as fast as he can. When he says "This is where I'm meant to be, please don't leave me", he means he belongs on stage but he loves her, so he asks her to bare it. "She means the world to me, so hold your serpent tongue". "Why cant you look me in the eye one last time?" Everyone is being fake and can't conjure up enough courage to do so, or probably in the girl's case, she's really upset he's going. She might be cheating, but I don't see too many signs of that. The whole "I walked into your house this morning" sequence is probably a metaphor for the fact that when you get famous, it's like a rolling ball of power over other people. Like a monster, it grows and grows and grows til it can't be stopped and everyone is dead. Same with fame, it can change a person and make them do something they normally wouldn't do (such as shoot your pseudo-friends.) "You should have killed me when you had the chance" means someone should have stopped them in their tracks before they got all this power and unleashed it. |
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