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Surrender the Night Lyrics
Everyone's a passenger tonight
Just another accident
Along the freeway of this life
We drive on and on and on and on
We drive on and on and on
Remember this night when you're gone
Please surrender your heart
I'll surrender every dream
Every weapon you've got
Every secret that I keep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to -
Just another surgery tonight
Well if you amputate the loneliness
Anesthesia dims the lights
So dream on and on and on and on
So dream on and on and on
Remember your eyes when you're gone
You surrender your heart
I surrender every dream
Every weapon you've got
Every secret that I keep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to me
And I’ll watch you in your sleep
'Cause tonight belongs to me
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to
Sparks against the railing
Distant phantoms wailing
Through the windshield, sailing
With these airbags failing
Now you surrender your heart
I surrender every dream
Every weapon you've got
Every secret that I keep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to me
And I’ll watch you in your sleep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to me
But tonight belongs to me
But tonight belongs to me
Just another accident
Along the freeway of this life
We drive on and on and on
Remember this night when you're gone
I'll surrender every dream
Every weapon you've got
Every secret that I keep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to -
Well if you amputate the loneliness
Anesthesia dims the lights
So dream on and on and on
Remember your eyes when you're gone
I surrender every dream
Every weapon you've got
Every secret that I keep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to me
'Cause tonight belongs to me
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to
Distant phantoms wailing
Through the windshield, sailing
With these airbags failing
I surrender every dream
Every weapon you've got
Every secret that I keep
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to me
You can fight this all you want
But tonight belongs to me
But tonight belongs to me
But tonight belongs to me
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Some of the lyrics above are incorrect, but from the actual lyrics, I think this song is about the struggle to find happiness. "We'll drive on and on and on and on" is a metaphor to keep going, and the "accident on the freeway of this life" is all of the problems or possibly depression. The chorus explains how you just need to let go of everything, and how you might "fight this all you want" because lets face it, letting go is hard and terrifying, but is also the only way to cure the issues. "Well if you amputate the loneliness, let anesthesia dim the lights" I really love this line. He has said the same thing that he's been saying for the whole song, to let go. As I listen to it more and more, it sounds like he's singing about depression. I've felt what mild depression feels like and it is absolutley excruciating, and this song helped a lot.
I agree, I feel that Gerard's perspective of life was dirrerent on Conventional Weapons. The whole tone feels like he has said all he wanted to say in the previous 3 albums, and he is now writing in the past tense. This song seems to be saying, this is where i was, but im here now, and as you said, letting go is what got me here.
I agree, I feel that Gerard's perspective of life was dirrerent on Conventional Weapons. The whole tone feels like he has said all he wanted to say in the previous 3 albums, and he is now writing in the past tense. This song seems to be saying, this is where i was, but im here now, and as you said, letting go is what got me here.
Everyone's a passenger tonight Just another accident Along the freeway of this life
We drive on and on and on and on We drive on and on and on Remember this night when you're gone
These lines really highlight the meaning of the song to me. I feel it's about he fight for attention but mostly about how people will watch a person self destruct slowly or what not and not do a thing and and how people dont really care about that until your dead (scuicide). In freeway accidents, everyone drives a little slower to take a look at the damage but they dont stop, they dont pull over (mostly b/c they cant but also b/c they dont care enough). People just "drive on" away, uncaring.
the chorus is about at the moment of death, how you become nothing. "Just another surgery tonight Well if you amputate the loneliness Anesthesia dims the lights' is about the trying to get attention. Constant reconstruction of your self or lies and tweaks about your life to get attention and that the only way to get rid of the lonliness is drugs (which leads to eventual scucide/death (od))
yeah and the lyrics are seriously inaccurate