This song is about how people go to Hollywood with big dreams, only to have them be crushed by the nightmare that follows.
Some of the lyrics in this song make me think that their profane party songs songs like "everywhere I Go", "Comin' in Hot", and "No. 5" are meant to be sarcastic, or at least the band doesn't see them as a good way to live.
"Hollywood is your friend, and the undead are your family
We'll take you to the edge, and turn your regret into agony
And I'll never let you go, cuz I know you'll come back to me
I'm the reason you came here...
...I'm the American tragedy"
He's saying that it's the American Tragedy to be trapped in Hollywood with the undead.
"Now you're stuck in this place you hate,
And you came here so happily
Then it made you lose your faith,
And that's what fucked with your sanity"
Almost seems like they're saying that losing your faith(I'm assuming it primarily means christian faith based on them mentioning Christianity in songs such as Paradise Lost) is a bad thing that messes with your sanity while you hate where you're at in life.
Altogether, whether their party songs are sarcastic or not, this song make it very obvious that the partying is not worth how crappy it is to lose your soul, lose your faith, and live in streets that are dirty and dark.
This song is about how people go to Hollywood with big dreams, only to have them be crushed by the nightmare that follows.
Some of the lyrics in this song make me think that their profane party songs songs like "everywhere I Go", "Comin' in Hot", and "No. 5" are meant to be sarcastic, or at least the band doesn't see them as a good way to live.
"Hollywood is your friend, and the undead are your family We'll take you to the edge, and turn your regret into agony And I'll never let you go, cuz I know you'll come back to me I'm the reason you came here... ...I'm the American tragedy"
He's saying that it's the American Tragedy to be trapped in Hollywood with the undead.
"Now you're stuck in this place you hate, And you came here so happily Then it made you lose your faith, And that's what fucked with your sanity"
Almost seems like they're saying that losing your faith(I'm assuming it primarily means christian faith based on them mentioning Christianity in songs such as Paradise Lost) is a bad thing that messes with your sanity while you hate where you're at in life.
Altogether, whether their party songs are sarcastic or not, this song make it very obvious that the partying is not worth how crappy it is to lose your soul, lose your faith, and live in streets that are dirty and dark.