Dear Sergio

Tremendous song. One of my favourites. Especially lyrically.

I think it's about a kid who found something he loved. Later lost it, and has sunk into great depression. He tries to find love in fake friends. No one really means anything to him and he means nothing to them. He feels ostracized by society and everything encompassing it.

The friends aren't friends. They're just people he can escape to when he's feeling down. They don't help him sort things out, he doesn't talk to them, he simply tries to mesh with the crowd. But they don't see him, don't realise he's there and needs help.

"So you act so free, you act so free, everybody's happy because you act so free." Simply put, he's a crowd pleaser. He's putting on a front to make himself feel better and try to earn his respect in the world so he can forget about whatever he lost. Kalnoky sees this and tries to get him to snap out of it ("Hey Sergio, you've gotta get us out of here" and "Well you might fool them, but you can't fool me with your mindless chatter...").

Those last lines, "'I don't need them, I don't need help. I don't even need to see the end,'" explain his eventual fall into seclusion from society. Fed up with everyone and all of his problems once and for all, he's probably going to commit suicide (I don't even need to see the end).

One of Kalnoky's biggest themes when he writes his music is anti-suicide. I think, in essence, this is what the song's about. That and what led up to it, all of the problems surrounding him. What is it that he lost that he'll never have again, I don't know.

On a side note, the new CD is out on the net and open for free download by someone that had somehow got a copy of the mp3's. Why do people insist on ruining things for the band? Shame on them.