This Is Your Life

This song is beautiful. It's definitely my favourite on D&A, perhaps my favourite Killers song of all time.

Candy talks to strangers Thinks her life's in danger No one gives a damn about her hair It's lonely down on track street She used to go by Jackie The cops, they'll steal your dreams and they'll kill your prayers Take a number where the blood just barely dried

(This is the beginning of Candy/Jackie's 'career' as a prostitute. She beings talking to men she doesn't know with the job, because she has to make money and get by somehow. Her life is in danger, she has to save herself. No one cares what she looks like, she's just there for their pleasure. It might be a bit graphic, but the "Take a number where the blood just barely dried" refers to the bed(s) that she has sex on and the blood is on the sheets, or it is metaphorical for her own pain. The men are lining up to use her, taking numbers to be next. She has dreams to get out of the place she's in, praying that her prostitution will be enough money to be free again. The cops, though, bust her actions and she thinks that they're stealing her chance.)

Wait for something better No one behind you Watching your shadows This feeling won't go

(Jackie knows that something better has to come along eventually, but she has a feeling of constant hopelessness. She wants a day where people don't always see her as this terrible thing. The shadow line probably refers to her shadow at night while on the street corner or wherever she might be.)

Crooked wheels keep tuning Children, are you learning Climatize but don't you lose the plot A history of blisters Your brothers and your sisters Somewhere in the pages we forgot

(This part is Brandon/the narrator/or even a man in Jackie's life speaking, inserting his own thoughts in to Jackie's story. Her sad state keeps snowballing, nothing is getting better. He's telling us to learn from Jackie. You can focus on the place that she's gotten herself to, but you can't forget the plot. You can't ignore the chain of events that got her to this wretchedness. They are ultimately to blame for Jackie's loneliness.)

Take a number Jackie Where the blood just barely dried You know I'm on your side

(The men are the usually ones that are controlling her life, and now, she has to take her own number. She's in line behind all those men, her state has gotten so bad. Brandon/narrator/man in Jackie's life, though, is good. He wants to help her and show her the path.

Wait for something better No one behind you Watching your shadows You gotta be stronger than the story Don't let it blind you Rivers of shadow This feeling wont go

(Same as previous chorus for the most part. Jackie can't make excuses and say, "Oh, well I'm stuck here now. Look at all that I've done. I'm terrible." She has to be stronger than that, and not be overcome by her dark past.

And the sky is full of dreams But you don't know how to fly I don't have a simple answer But I know that I could answer Something better

(This is a bit self-explanatory. She sees he future and what she wants for herself. She just can't obtain it. Brandon/narrator/man in Jackie's life doesn't know how he can exactly help her, but he knows that anything would be better that the answer (prostitution) that she made for herself.

This feeling won't go

Wait for it (x4)

This might possibly be my favourite song off the new album!

i think this song is bitchin and so is the album

ok this is a random guess but i think is about this person going into witness protection here ar my clues: candy talks to strangers thinks her life's in danger it lonely down on track street she used to go by jakie the cop they''l steal your dreams and they'll kill your prayers no one behind you watchin your shadows this feeling won't go your brothers and your sisters some where in the pages we forgot srtonger than the story wait for something better

don't think it right i thats just what i think love the song anyway this album is so amazing! i love all the songs

Well this song fuckin rocks and heres my thought on it, seems to me to fit well: about a prostitute that uses the name "Candy" when doin her thing on the street (talks to strangers and no one cares about her hair, just want sex from her). she used to go by jackie, what she was known as when younger and innocent, maybe Flowers is telling about some he knew that became a hooker. then i think the rest is jsut a general life story about hookers that try to get by in las vegas.

i agree with mjrzasa, this may be my favorite song off the new album...

I think it is about a girl who was a prostitute who like many others had better dreams for herself.

honestly i think this is semi based off of lou Reeds Walk on the wild side. It goes more in depth on the character Candy/jackie in this song in what he thinks about her.

Does anyone think it might refer to a heroin addict?

Candy talks to strangers (referring to drug users or dealers) Thinks her life's in danger (obviously, from paranoia induced drug use or from the fact that she is using) No one gives a damn about her hair It's lonely down on track street (maybe the track marks on her body) She used to go by Jackie The cops, they'll steal your dreams and they'll kill your prayers (got in trouble from using) Take a number where the blood just barely dried (blood from shooting up)

Wait for something better No one behind you Watching your shadows This feeling won't go (explains she is waiting for help, but no one is behind her or supporting her, and the feeling to use drugs wont go)

nobody think that's about a pedo kids who suffer from the troubles and he want get out by growing and forgotten his crisis past (waiting for somthing better ) is when u grow up u will be strong by knowing and major in your story this (feeling wont go) means this merory of your abused times will never vanishe and the important is to see the childern learning unless to desir them .(rivers of shadow ) means rivers of love and hop . i m sure lady and gentelme, that every youth betwen 15-20 suffer from pedophile they desir the cute kids 9-14 y the killers trow this signs to reduce the yout's trouble .... thts all

This seems like a girl who prostitutes herself as a method of kinda moving up in the world, but just isn't there yet. She's doing it to make enough money and connections to get out of this life but she just hasn't yet and is looking toward a better future.

The musicality reminds me a lot of "Road to Nowhere" by the Talking Heads. Definitely some influence there...