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1. Romance
2. Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us
3. Vampires Will Never Hurt You
4. Drowning Lessons
5. Our Lady of Sorrows
6. Headfirst for Halos
7. Skylines and Turnstiles
8. Early Sunsets Over Monroeville
9. This is the Best Day Ever
10. Cubicles
11. Demolition Lovers
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Song Meanings:
Helena
This song is about Gerard's grandmother,
Elena Lee Rush. She taught him how to sing, paint and perform. Everyone called her Helen and he always thought of her as 'Helena.'
Give Em Hell Kid
Gerard said this song is about 'Getting
knocked up' and teenage pregnancy.
To the End
This song is about marriage and commitment.
You Know What they do to Guys Like us in Prison
This song is about Gerard's experience
with homosexuality, where, in a game of Truth or Dare, he kissed Bert McCracken.
I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
This song is about Gerard in highschool. There was a girl he really
liked, and she took sleazy photographs with her boyfriend and that upset him.
The Ghost of You
This song is about loss and fear of loosing people.
The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You
This song is about drugs. 'Gaze into her killing jar...' as in a jar
of pills. 'She even poked the holes so I can breathe...' Hotel Bella Muerte means 'Hotel of Beautiful Death.'
Thank you for the Venom
This song is talking about Missionaries.
Or just people who come to your door and try to give you information about God, when all you want them to do is leave you
alone. "Give me a reason to believe"
Hang Em High
Someone asking if you love them and would you die for them.
It's Not a Fashion Statement, it's a Deathwish
This song is about your friend betraying you and you want to punish
them, yet still be with them because you love them.
Cemetery Drive
Someone who had an affair dies.
I Never told you what I do for a Living
About a man who goes around selecting murder victims.
Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us
This song is about a girlfriend who dosen't want him to do drugs and
he's telling her to fuck off and then she goes after his brother/friends.
Vampires Will Never Hurt You
This song is about not wanting to be as ignorant and heartless as
society.
Drowning Lessons
About a relationship that kept going up and down.
Our Lady of Sorrows
This is about friendship and you will be okay as long as you have
friends.
Headfirst for Halos
This song is about suicide. DON'T DO IT. :)
Skylines and Turnstiles
About the September 11th attack. This was the first song MCR wrote.
Early Sunsets Over Monroeville
This is about the dawn of the dead.
This is the Best Day Ever
This song is about Gerard's trips to
hospital whilst writing the album. It's also about his longing to get out and the day he got out of the hospital would be
the best day ever.
Cubicles
This is about rejection and obsession. Gerard said that MCR will never
play this song again because it had nothing to do with the album and it was 'an embarrassment.'
Demolition Lovers
About dying for the one you love, going to the end together.
Shut Up and Play
About loosing faith in someone you thought you loved and could trust.
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Lyrics:
Helena
Long ago
Just like the hearse you die to
get in again
We are so far from you
Burning on just like a match you strike to incinerate
The lives of everyone
you know
And what's the worst you take (worst you take)
from every heart you break (heart you break)
And like the
blade you stain (blade you stain)
Well I've been holding on tonight
[Chorus]
What's the worst that I can
say?
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight
Came a time
When
every star fall brought you to tears again
We are the very hurt you sold
And what's the worst you take (worst you
take)
from every heart you break (heart you break)
And like the blade you stain (blade you stain)
Well I've been
holding on tonight
[Chorus]
What's the worst that I can say?
Things are better if I stay
So long
and goodnight
So long and goodnight
And if you carry on this way
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight
Can you hear me?
Are you near me?
Can we pretend to leave and then
We'll
meet again
When both our cars collide?
[Chorus]
What's the worst that I can say?
Things are better
if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long not goodnight
And if you carry on this way
Things are better if I
stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight
Give Em Hell Kid
Oh baby here comes the sound!
I took a train
outta New Orleans and they shot me full of ephedrine.
This is how we like to do it in the murder scene.
Can we settle
up the score?
[Chorus]
If you were here I'd never have a fear.
So go on live your life.
But I miss
you more than I did yesterday.
You're beautiful!
Well I'm a total wreck and almost every day.
Like the firing
squad or the mess you made.
Well don't I look pretty walking down the street.
In the best damn dress I own?
[Chorus]
If
you were here I'd never have a fear.
So go on live your life.
But I miss you more than I did yesterday.
You're so
far away.
So c'mon show me how.
'Cause I mean this more than words can ever say.
Some might say we are made from
the sharpest things you say
We are young and we don't care.
Your dreams and your hopeless hair.
We never wanted
it to be this way.
For all our lives.
Do you care at all?
[Chorus]
If you were here I'd never have
a fear.
So go on live your life.
But I miss you more than I did yesterday.
You're so far away.
So c'mon show me
how.
'Cause I mean this more than words can ever say.
(Won't you tell me?)
(Well, there's no way I'm kissing
that guy)
To The End
He calls the mansion not a house but a tomb.
He's
always choking from the stench and the fume.
The wedding party all collapsed in the room.
So send my resignation to
the bride and the groom.
Let's go down!
This elevator only goes up to ten.
He's not around.
He's always looking
at men
Down by the pool.
He doesn't have many friends.
As they are
Face down and bloated snap a shot with the
lens.
If you marry me,
Would you bury me?
Would you carry me to the end?
(So say goodbye) to the vows
you take
(And say goodbye) to the life you make
(And say goodbye) to the heart you break
And all the cyanide you
drank.
She keeps a picture of the body she lends.
Got nasty blisters from the money she spends.
She's got a life
of her own and it shows by the Benz
She drives at 90 by the Barbies and Kens.
If you ever say never too late.
I'll
forget all the diamonds you ate.
Lost in coma and covered in cake.
Increase the medication.
Share the vows at the
wake.
(Kiss the bride)
If you marry me,
Would you bury me?
Would you carry me to the end?
(So say goodbye)
to the vows you take
(And say goodbye) to the life you make
(And say goodbye) to the heart you break
And all the
cyanide you drank.
(And say goodbye) to the last parade
(And walk away) from the choice you made
(And say goodnight)
to the hearts you break
And all the cyanide you drank.
(So say goodbye) to the vows you take
(And say goodbye)
to the life you make
(And say goodbye) to the hearts you break
And all the cyanide you drank.
(And say goodbye)
to the last parade
(And walk away) from the choice you made
(And say goodnight) to the hearts you break
And all
the cyanide you drank.
You Know What they do to Guys Like us
in Prison
In the middle of a gun fight...
In the center
of a restaurant...
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
Well, they're never gonna get me,
And like a bullet
through a flock of doves...
To wage this war against your faith in me,
Your life...will never be the same.
On
your mother's eyes, say a prayer...say a prayer!
[Chorus]
Now, but I can't
And I don't know
How
we're just two men as God had made us,
Well, I can't...well, I can!
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
I'll kiss your lips again.
They all cheat at cards and the checkers
are lost,
My cellmate's a killer, they made me do push-ups (in drag)
But nobody cares if you're losing yourself...am
I losing myself?!
Well, I miss my mom,
Will they give me the chair,
Or lethal injection, or swing from a rope
if you dare;
Ah, nobody knows...all the trouble I've seen!
[Chorus]
To your room...
What they
ask of you
Will make you want to say, "So long..."
Well, I don't remember,
Why remember...YOU?!
Do you
have the keys to the hotel?!
'Cause I'm gonna string this motherfucker on fire! (FIRE!!)
Life is but a dream for
the dead,
And well I, I won't go down by myself,
But I'll go down with my friends.
Now now now now... (I can't
explain)
Now now now... (I can't complain)
Now now now, yeah!
Im Not Okay (I Promise)
Well if you wanted honesty, that's all you had
to say.
I never want to let you down or have you go, it's better off this way.
For all the dirty looks, the photographs
your boyfriend took,
Remember when you broke your foot from jumping out the second floor?
I'm not okay
I'm not
okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out
What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems?
(I'm not
okay)
I told you time and time again you sing the words but don't know what it means
(I'm not okay)
To be a joke
and look, another line without a hook
I held you close as we both shook for the last time take a good hard look!
I'm
not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out
Forget about the dirty looks
The photographs your boyfriend
took
You said you read me like a book, but the pages are all torn and frayed
I'm okay
I'm okay!
I'm okay,
now
(I'm okay, now)
But you really need to listen to me
Because I'm telling you the truth
I mean this, I'm
okay!
(Trust Me)
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
Well, I'm not okay
I'm not o-fucking-kay
I'm not okay
I'm
not okay
(Okay)
The Ghost of You
I never said I'd lie and wait forever
If I
died, we'd be together
I can't always just forget her
But she could try
At the end of the world
Or the last
thing I see
You are
Never coming home
Never coming home
Could I? Should I?
And all the things that you never
ever told me
And all the smiles that are ever ever...
Ever...
Get the feeling that you're never
All alone
and I remember now
At the top of my lungs in my arms she dies
She dies
At the end of the world
Or the last
thing I see
You are
Never coming home
Never coming home
Could I? should I?
And all the things that you never
ever told me
And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me
Never coming home
Never coming home
Could I? Should
I?
And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me
For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me
If I fall
If
I fall (down)
At the end of the world
Or the last thing I see
You are
Never coming home
Never coming home
Never
coming home
Never coming home
And all the things that you never ever told me
And all the smiles that are ever gonna
haunt me
Never coming home
Never coming home
Could I? Should I?
And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me
For
all the ghosts that are never gonna...
The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You
Gaze into her killing jar I'd sometimes stare
for hours (sometimes stare for hours).
She even poked the holes so I can breathe.
She bought the last line.
I'm just
the worst kind.
Of guy to argue.
With what you might find.
And for the last night I lie.
Could I lie with you?
[Chorus:]
Alright
Give
up
Get down. It's just the hardest part of living.
Alright
She wants
It all to come down this time.
Lost
in the prescription she's got something else in mind (something else in mind).
Check into the Hotel Bella Muerte.
It
gives the weak flight.
It gives the blind sight.
Until the cops come.
Or by the last light.
And for the last night
I lie.
Could I lie next to you?
[Chorus x2]
Pull the plug.
But I'd like to learn your name.
When
holding on.
Well I hope you do the same.
Awww sugar.
Slip into this tragedy you've spun this chamber dry.
[Chorus
x2]
Pull the plug.
But I'd like to learn your name.
And holding on.
Well I hope you do the same.
Awww
sugar.
Thankyou For the Venom
Sister, I'm not much a poet, but a criminal
And
you never had a chance
Love it, or leave it, you can't understand
A pretty face, but you do so carry on,
and on,
and on
I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me
I'm just the way that the doctor made me, on,
and on,
and on,
and on
Love is the red of the rose on your coffin door
What's life like, bleeding on the floor,
the
floor,
the floor
You'll never make me leave
I wear this on my sleeve
Give me a reason to believe
[Chorus]
So
give me all your poison
And give me all your pills
And give me all your hopeless hearts
And make me ill
You're
running after something
That you'll never kill
If this is what you want
Then fire at will
Preach all you
want but who's gonna save me?
I keep a gun on the book you gave me, hallelujah, lock and load
Black is the kiss, the
touch of the serpent son
It ain't the mark or the scar that makes you one,
and one,
and one,
and one
You'll
never make me leave
I wear this on my sleeve
Give me a reason to believe
[Chorus]
So give me all
your poison
And give me all your pills
And give me all your hopeless hearts
And make me ill
You're running
after something
That you'll never kill
If this is what you want
Then fire at will
You'll never make me
leave
I wear this on my sleeve
You wanna follow something
Give me a better cause to lead
Just give me what
I need
Give me a reason to believe
[Chorus x2]
So give me all your poison
And give me all your pills
And give me all your hopeless hearts
And make me ill
You're running after something
That you'll never kill
If this is what you want
Then fire at will
Hang Em High
Wait until it fades to black
Ride into
the sunset
Would I lie to you?
Well, I've got something to say
Grab your six-gun from your back
Throttle the ignition
Would
I die for you?
Well here's your answer in spades
Shotgun sinners
Wild eyed jokers
Got you in my sights
Gun
it while i'm holding on
After all is said and done
Climb out from the pine box
Well I'm asking you
'Cause
she's got nothing to say
The angels just cut out her tongue
Call her black Mariah
Would I lie to you?
That girl's
not right in the brain
Mass convulsions
Strike the choir
By the grace of God
Gun it while I'm holding on
But
don't stop if I fall
And don't look back
Oh baby don't stop
Bury me and fade to black
She won't stop me put
it down
She won't stop me put it down
She won't stop me put it down
So get your gun and meet me by the door
[x3]
She
won't stop me put it down
She won't stop me put it down
She won't stop me put it down
So baby...
Don't stop
if I fall
And don't look back
Oh baby don't stop
Bury me and fade to black
[x2]
Its Not a Fashion Statement, Its a Deathwish
For what you did to me,
and what I'll do to
you,
you get, what everyone else gets,
you get a lifetime!
Let's go!
Do you remember that day when we
met
you told me this gets harder
well it did!
been holding on forever,
promise me that when I'm gone you'll
kill my enemies,
the damage you've inflicted temporary wounds
I'm coming back from the dead and I'll take you home with
me
I'm taking back the life you stole
We never got that far,
this helps me to think all through the night
bright
lights that, won't kill me now, or tell me how
just you and I, your starless eyes remain.
Hip Hip Hooray for me,
you talk to me, but would you kill me in my sleep
lay still like the dead
from the razor to the rosary
we could
lose ourselves
and paint these walls in pitchfork red
I will avenge my ghost with every breath I take
I'm coming
back from the dead and I'll take you home with me
I'm taking back the life you stole
This hole that you put me in
wasn't deep enough
and I'm climbing out right now
you're running out of places to hide from me
when you go
just
know that I will remember you
if living was the hardest part
we'll then one day be together
and in the end we'll
fall apart
just as the leaves changing colors
and then I will be with you
I will be there one last time now
when
you go
just know that I will remember you
I lost my fear of falling
I will be with you
I will be with you
Cemetery Drive
this night, walk the dead
in a solitary style
and
crash the cemetery gates.
in the dress your husband hates
way down, mark the grave
where the search lights find
us
drinking by the mausoleum door
and they found you on the bathroom floor
i miss you, i miss you so far
and
the collision of your kiss that made it so hard
back home, off the run
singing songs that make you slit your wrists
it
isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun
so i won't stop dying, won't stop lying
if you want i'll keep on crying
did
you get what you deserve?
is this what you always want me for?
i miss you, i miss you so far
and the collision
of your kiss that made it so hard
way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way
down
i miss you, i miss you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard
i miss you, i miss
you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard
made it so hard
way down, way down
way down,
way down
way down, way down
way down, way down
way down
I Never Told You What I do for a Living
Stay out of the light
Or the photographs that
I gave you
You can say a prayer if you need to
Or just get in line and I'll grieve you
Can I meet you, alone
Another
night and I'll see you
Another night and I'll be you
Some other way to continue
To hide my face
[Chorus:]
Another
knife in my hands
A stain that never comes off the sheets
Clean me off
I'm so dirty babe
The kind of dirty where
the water never cleans off the clothes
I keep a book of the names and those
Only goes so far 'til you bury them
So
deep and down we go
Touched by angels, though I fall out of grace
I did it all so maybe I'd live this every day
[Chorus:]
Another
knife in my hands
A stain that never comes off the sheets
Clean me off
I'm so dirty babe
It ain't the money and
it sure as hell ain't just for the fame
It's for the bodies I claim and lose
Only goes so far 'til you bury them
So
deep and down we go
Down
And down we go
And down we go
And down we go
And we all fall down
I
tried
I tried
And we'll all dance alone to the tune of your death
We'll love again, we'll laugh again
And
it's better off this way
And never again, and never again
They gave us two shots to the back of the head
And
we're all dead now.
Well never again,and never again
They gave us two shots to the back of the head
And we're
all dead now.
Well I tried
One more night
One more night
well I'm laughin', cryin', laughin'
I tried,
well I tried, well I tried,
'Cause I tried, but I lied
I lied
I tried
I tried
I tried
And we'll
love again and we'll laugh again
We'll cry again and we'll dance again
And it's better off this way
So much better
off this way
I can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed
And never again, and never again
They gave us
two shots to the back of the head
And we're all dead now
Bury Me in Black
I said, we'll drown ourselves in misery tonight
I
lied, you've worn out all your dancing shoes this time
Just give us war, worn lipstick by the door if I inflame
These
eyes have had too much to drink again tonight
Black skies, we'll douse ourselves in high explosive light
Just give
us war, I've been calling you all week
for my shotgun
Pick up the phone
Pick up the phone fucker
I wanna
see what you're insides look like
I bet you're not fucking pretty on the inside
I wanna see what you're insides look
like
I wanna see em
Well you don't say
And well I can explain what happened to my face
late last night
I'm
sleeping in empty pools and vacant alleyways
And what I'm going through, shot lipgloss through my veins
And when I can't
complain
With the falling rain
C'mon
I wanna save your heart
I wanna see what your insides may be
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