Well it rains and it pours when you're out on your own
If I crash on the couch, can I sleep in my clothes
'Cause I spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose
If it looks like I'm laughing
I'm really just asking to leave this alone
You're in time for the show
You're the one that I need

I'm the one that you loathe
You can watch me corrode
Like a beast in repose
'Cause I love all the poison away with the boys in the band

I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me
A kiss before she goes

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
Your kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane, abandon me

There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo

I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me
A kiss before she goes

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
Your kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane, abandon me

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
Your kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane, abandon me


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The Sharpest Lives Lyrics as written by Frank Iero Bob Bryar

Lyrics © BLOW THE DOORS OFF CHICAGO, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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    i see a multilayered, three fold meaning here.

    1-gerard's alcahol abuse is at the core of this song, and the entire first verse and chorus heaviuly supports that imo. thats actually what the song is about, imo. Gerards own "sickness", with minor refferences to it's prominance within the band dynamic. he talks abut being in love with vampires, the very things that would such the life from him. thats a raor sharp double edged sword.

    the second layer of meaning though... thats the patient, and his own sickness that rules his life. "shot", well, give me some drugs to numb the pain. it also serves as a nice refference in the context of "how i disapear"--he is losing the woman he loves during all of this. so, blow me a kiss before she leaves-"let me get fucked up before she leaves, cause i cant handle it otherwise"

    i dunno, i cant get teh rest thuogh.. the animal/cannibal line is awesome but i cant figure that out-thats some billy corgan imagery right there, and that shit can be hard to decipher.

    ColdTruthon November 10, 2006   Link

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