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Asleep in the Chapel Lyrics
three chalk outlines sleep in the dirty street
and in our beds, under the sheets,
they're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck,
next to the rosary you count, falling asleep
and we're praying
to treat the symptoms of letting go of all our hope.
since we can't compete with martyred saints,
we'll douse ourselves in gasoline
and hang our bodies from the lampposts so that our shadows turn into bright lights
"white light, white heat" we'll make
as we're blacking out in the center lane,
we swerve to the beat, spill all the ink no revisions
do you hear the church bells ringing?
wake up!! wake up in an outline and try to speak
with the shattered voice of the lives we lead...
have we slept too long
between the bullet holes in a stained-glass window state?
when we repent,
we fall on the page
(read, in the margins)
we are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope.
someday we'll be complete like modern saints,
baptize our kids in gasoline
and hang our doubts up in cathedrals
so that they turn to faith in the colored sunlight.
"red rain, red rain" we'll make
as we're blacking out in the center lane...
do you hear the church bells ringing?
they ring for you.
we woke up this morning to a street are filled with a thousand burning crosses
and what we thought was the sunrise, just passing headlights
still the choir girls sing,
"oh lord, can you save us?
oh lord, sing hallelujah"
they are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope...
we're falling asleep with open eyes
falling asleep inside the chapel
falling asleep in chalk outlines
falling asleep as the headlights pass us by...
and in our beds, under the sheets,
they're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck,
next to the rosary you count, falling asleep
to treat the symptoms of letting go of all our hope.
we'll douse ourselves in gasoline
and hang our bodies from the lampposts so that our shadows turn into bright lights
"white light, white heat" we'll make
as we're blacking out in the center lane,
we swerve to the beat, spill all the ink no revisions
do you hear the church bells ringing?
with the shattered voice of the lives we lead...
have we slept too long
between the bullet holes in a stained-glass window state?
we fall on the page
(read, in the margins)
we are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope.
baptize our kids in gasoline
and hang our doubts up in cathedrals
so that they turn to faith in the colored sunlight.
"red rain, red rain" we'll make
as we're blacking out in the center lane...
do you hear the church bells ringing?
they ring for you.
and what we thought was the sunrise, just passing headlights
"oh lord, can you save us?
oh lord, sing hallelujah"
we're falling asleep with open eyes
falling asleep inside the chapel
falling asleep in chalk outlines
falling asleep as the headlights pass us by...
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i like life and religion. yay for Thursday!
Geoff said on their website that the song was about being at home all alone with no power and wondering if perhaps there really was no god. He was hesitant to give up his faith altogether because he knew he could never get it back. Just before he abandoned everything, the power came back on and the clock was blinking. He said that at this point he stopped truly believing in god but will never stop hoping that there is something in the world beyond chemical reactions and pheremones.
Awesome lyrics, neither promoting or speaking out against religion, but just being able to get the point where you can question your own beliefs.
this is song means to me that at a certain point. The glass that embodies ur religious beliefs are shattered. Life begins to make less sense when religion is not the reason for life. This is how i felt for a long time, and when i heard this song, and Before rupture and rapture, i didnt feel so alone anymore in my pain.
I think this song is more about how people aren't willing to invest any real devotion in their religion. They put blind faith in it and expect God to save them no matter what they do. Nobody takes the time to question why they believe what they do, they just take ot for granted. I think this is especially clear in the lines about the choir girls asking Lord to save us. Side note, is it supposed to be a sky with no erring, or a sky with no air in it? The CD insert doesn't say and I can't tell for sure.
their latest album is all abot war... i think this song about a war and what they see in it... just listen to the lyrics and try to understand...maybe you get it...
you're an idiot. the album may have war like images and yes maybe some songs are subtley touching on current issues but the majority of the album is nothign to do with war. war all the time is simply tackling the issue of the conflicts we face everyday in our lives. geoff has said this in many interviews. and this song clearly isn't about war, it's about religion. it's critique of people who blindly follow religion without any true thought into the matter.
the only songs on the album that could possibly have anything to do with a war are marches and maneuvers and war all the time but they still only really use that imagery to convey a far more social message.
Actually Marches & Maneuvers is about abortion(administer the pill, before the cell divides; threats and picket lines are forming around our beds). Although you are correct that it uses images of war to convey their message. You're also right that evilclown is an idiot :)
hmm, interesting. i guessed it had something to do with abortion or somekind of medical topic, that seemed obvious, but it was never confirmed. is geoff pro-life or is he in favour of abortion?
its all about war! hallelujah