Dear Tragedy Lyrics

Lyric discussion by believe13 

Cover art for Dear Tragedy lyrics by Bayside

'I'd grab your head by your hair and I'd hack it off. And put it on display at the front of the yard on a stick that's decorated with a little pink bow and a sign that says "Her friends and family should have taught her more about love."'

Is a dark line in the song, but for some reason it's one of my favourites. I think the song is about a guy who is obessed with a girl who obviously doesn't care about him, leads him on, and treats him like crap:

Dear Tragedy, I never had anybody. But being alone wasn't half as bad as being obsessed with a breath taker, a smile faker. But these years alone have eaten me alive.

So one day or gradually he relizes that she was useing him:

'I'm never waking up again so I'll never have to find out what you did. Each day it's harder to pretend. That your eyes aren't lying as much as your mouth did.'

I think that these pair of verses mean that, he didn't want to open up to her to let him know how he felt or else she would abuse it:

'Recounting pages in a book. That I'd torn out ashamed that one day you'd look. Afraid that once you did you'd really know how it felt to be a sucker on a string that you dragged around wherever you'd go.

I'm running around, around and it hurts. Tempted to tape up the pages I'd ripped. And although I recognize that we're attached at the lips, you're the one in charge and that the captain's gotta sink with the ship.'

And wants to go out and kill her, and seek revenge:

'You're the one in charge and that the captain's gotta sink with the ship...(You'll pay for what you did to me, you'll pay for you what did to me)'

That's what I'm guessing the song is about, other than that Bayside Rox My Ipod!