in a video on youtube, m. shadows and johnny christ say that synyster gates wrote this whole song by himself after jimmy died. this was syn's way of saying goodbye to his friend. the video is right here
He originally wrote it about his grandfather, and they had a demo done while Jimmy was still alive. I'm pretty sure that I heard Syn say something about getting drunk with The Rev and crying listening to the demo version of this song. When The Rev died, it became about him, with some slightly different lyrics, and Syn said that it was amazing that Jimmy was able to hear his own tribute song, and like the song so much. It's like people always say with tributes- "He/she would be proud if they could see this now", well he was proud,...
He originally wrote it about his grandfather, and they had a demo done while Jimmy was still alive. I'm pretty sure that I heard Syn say something about getting drunk with The Rev and crying listening to the demo version of this song. When The Rev died, it became about him, with some slightly different lyrics, and Syn said that it was amazing that Jimmy was able to hear his own tribute song, and like the song so much. It's like people always say with tributes- "He/she would be proud if they could see this now", well he was proud, we know this :)
in a video on youtube, m. shadows and johnny christ say that synyster gates wrote this whole song by himself after jimmy died. this was syn's way of saying goodbye to his friend. the video is right here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMaw837aBTA
He originally wrote it about his grandfather, and they had a demo done while Jimmy was still alive. I'm pretty sure that I heard Syn say something about getting drunk with The Rev and crying listening to the demo version of this song. When The Rev died, it became about him, with some slightly different lyrics, and Syn said that it was amazing that Jimmy was able to hear his own tribute song, and like the song so much. It's like people always say with tributes- "He/she would be proud if they could see this now", well he was proud,...
He originally wrote it about his grandfather, and they had a demo done while Jimmy was still alive. I'm pretty sure that I heard Syn say something about getting drunk with The Rev and crying listening to the demo version of this song. When The Rev died, it became about him, with some slightly different lyrics, and Syn said that it was amazing that Jimmy was able to hear his own tribute song, and like the song so much. It's like people always say with tributes- "He/she would be proud if they could see this now", well he was proud, we know this :)