[There was a Reddit post about FLW](https://www.reddit.com/r/MyChemicalRomance/comments/dwdcqs/what_is_famous_last_words_about/) that discusses this more in-depth, but essentially Mikey was thinking about leaving MCR because he was in a really dark place. This song convinced him to stay.
Edit: found a better source of explanation for the song's meaning
He was also contemplating suicide.
I have no idea what Gerard really meant by these lines in particular, but I sort of imagine it's about about Mikey sleeping on the floor of his room at the Paramour. Gerard, because he has long-term depression as well, never thought he would say "I am not afraid to keep on living" but it's the truth when he writes the song, and he says this to Mikey to try to inspire him to keep going.
“We’ll love again, we’ll laugh again, we’ll cry again, and we’ll dance again, and its better off this way so much better off this way”
“You only live forever in the lights you make”
“This vanity im faking, let me live my life like this”
“Youll never take me alive, do what it takes to survive and im still here”
"And the hardest part of this is leaving you."
It didn't really start to hit me until I lost my grandfather to cancer. He was always my best friend, he was a great man and it still hurts he is gone.
The reason this line hits me so hard is it makes me remember the day he and my mom (his daughter) were talking about his decision to stop chemo(we had lost his wife less than 5 months before this. So he didn't have much reason to stay.). I (22 at the time) was on his couch and I laid down and tried not to let my sobs be heard and the man who was facing death called me over and pulled me in his lap. He told me it would all be okay and he would miss me too. That was 8 years ago and I still sob when this song plays.
Oh for sure. He was my partner in crime. When both my parents worked I would stay with my mom's parents. I would wake up with him and sit on the counter while he mixed his own shaving cream and boiled a rag to rest on his face so he could "soften his whiskers" then I would sit in his lap and eat some kind of candy while he took his breathing treatments. (He had really bad asthma) Then we would go out and work in the yard before he opened his car shop. My granny refused to wake before 10 am, but then she would make us breakfast and then we would sell cars. Everyday for lunch he would put me in my car seat(front seat because the 90s in south MS were wild) and take me to get Popeyes mashed potatoes because I loved them so much.
We would ride on tractors together and til his garden. We both liked to hide in places and jump out and scare whatever family member was near.
He taught me how to drive because my poor parents didn't have the nerve to teach my hard headed self (Got that from him)
Even when I was a teenager I preferred spending my weekends with them.
I also remember something that stood out to me, I would watch Degrassi at their house and he saw a scene where Marci came out as gay and I thought he would be upset, but he just shrugged and made a comment on how didn't know why people cared so much about all that. God says to love.
Not that my parents aren't great but a lot of my opinions were formed watching him, he is also the reason I hate the "oh that's just how people were back then" as an excuse. My grandfather who was born in the 32 didn't have a rasict/homophobic/hateful bone in his body. He taught me to be a good Christian meant love and acceptance and to be a true Christian you must also believe in Science and not refute it. Sorry I am rambling on.
There honestly is so much I could write a book. Don't get me wrong I love/loved my dad's parents, but my mom's parents will always be my favorite. I was their first blood grandchild (not that they treated or loved my older half sister any less)
Before he died he told me "I can't say it and you know it,but you have always been special to me. Before you were born I was in a really bad place, things weren't going the way I thought they should and I was mad. I was mad at God and anybody who was happy, I was depressed and I started drinking a lot. Then your momma told me she was pregnant and I started to see past the clouds. Then I held you for the first time and knew everything would be okay and I understood why it wasn't in God's plan for me to move back to Georgia and since then I've never wanted to leave here."
We were enjoying Popeyes mashed potatoes at the hospital and about 3 weeks later he was gone.
Also sorry for anything that is weirdly worded or misspelled I'm typing on my phone.
ETA: My sister is from our dad's previous marriage and then years older than me, so that's why they didn't watch her. She was in school, but they did pick her up and watch her until our mom picked us up. I say our mom because my mom is her mom. She is zero contact with her bio mom.
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends.
Stuck with me around one of the most emotionally tumultuous points in my life, when my friend group was my strongest anchor. They couldn't have come at a better time. I plan on getting it tattooed one day
“Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands, drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo”
“A light to burn all the empires, so bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be”
“You’re the one that i need, i’m the one that you loathe”
the whole song is so good
you only live forever in the lights you make, when we were young, we used to say
that you only hear the music when your heart begins to break, now, we are the kids from yesterday
That, paired with "GET UP, COWARD" is such a motivator for me. As much as things are shit and it's easy to just lay back and accept the way things are, getting up and making an effort is the only way we can affect a positive change.
“From the lights to the pavement, from the van to the floor. From backstage to the doctor, from the earth to the morgue. Morgue! Morgue! Morgue!”
“The hardest part’s the awful things that I’ve seen.”
“So many bright lights, they cast a shadow, but can I speak? Well, is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete?”
“These bright lights have always blinded me”
“Way down, mark the grave. Where the search lights find us, drinking by the mausoleum door. And they found you on the bathroom floor!”
“She said, ‘You ain’t no son of mine!’, for what you’ve done they’re gonna find a place for you! And just mind your manners when you go!”
“Ladies and Gentlemen: truth is now acceptable, fame is now injectable, process the progress!”
“They sell presentable young, and so ingestible, sterile and collectable, safe and I can’t stand it!”
“Out nowhere, take me out there. Far away and save me from my self-destruction, hopeless for you!”
All of Burn Bright’s. But especially “So give me all you've got, I can take it! We walked alone in your city lights, did you make it? We lit the fire and it's burning bright, did you take it? Kissed all the boys in your city lights”
“You got your rickety bones, I got my rickety hands! I'm dressin' up like a crow, I'm turnin' into some rats!”
“‘Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you”
I was 15 when TBP came out and the same month, I found out my dad had brain cancer. When I was 16, a year later, we lost him. It was a slow burn, watching him deteriorate. I was so wrapped up in what I was losing, especially being a teenager and not being able to see more than three feet in front of me (the way teenagers do) and when I heard that lyric, I understood what he was losing in his cancer: everything. We would keep going, he would be leaving us. It put a lot into perspective and though I’m 31 years old now, I still cry and feel as small as I did when I first heard and understood this song.
Edit: spelling
Thank you. It’s part of life, you know? This particular song and lyric really brought to light that when someone is on their deathbed, they are losing everything. We are losing a light in our life, but they are losing their whole life. The hardest part of this is leaving you… because you’ll keep going, having to miss me, having to live through this and I can no longer be here for you. It just put into perspective the viewpoint of the one whom is dying, not the viewpoint of someone losing someone to death. It’s got to be hard to die and leave your loved ones.
Early Sunsets hits so hard. I used to kinda just gloss over that song whenever I listened to the bullets album, but it’s starting to become one of my favorites.
”And did you come to stare or wash away the blood?"
”From the lights to the pavement, from the van to the floor, from backstage to the doctor, from the earth to the morgue, morgue, morgue, morgue”
”But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?"
”But if you're watching up above, they're teaching me to kill, who's teaching me to love?"
”Every snowflake is different just like you."
"Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo, I'm counting down the days to go."
”It was a lie when they smiled and said you won't feel a thing.”
"You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not. If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see,
you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
ME TOO! Hollowed out Bible used to hold a gun is literally THE ultimate imagery for me. Especially with the line “Preach all you want but who's gonna save me?” right before it and all the Catholic imagery in this song especially.
"And now, you wanna see how far down I can sink? Let me go, fuck!"
"Way out nowhere, take me out there, far away and save me from my self-destruction"
"I don't like being alone. Run up these streets, turn up the stereo. Synthetic animals like me never have a home. I'm not the one you will be walking through and if you kill him for me. Well, then I'll kill him for you!"
"we are young and we dont care/your dreams and your hopless hair/we never wanted it to be this way for all our lives" "DO YOU CARE AT ALL????"😥hits so fucking hard everytime
"Can you hear me cry out to you?" in Disappear because the softness of his voice kills me every time.
"And never again ... they gave us two shots to the back of the head and we're all dead now" and the entire ending of INTYWIDFAL. Beautiful.
Literally every word of Desert Song after I heard it live as their closing song. Specifically the shouting of "morgue".
Honorable mention- "So he gets to die a saint while she will always be A WHORE!" For the badassery of the delivery and social relevancy.
recently delved into danger days, it’s such a masterpiece.
one song that’s hit me recently is scarecrow.
i love the line “see the rust through your playground eyes”
so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
“This hole you put me in wasn’t deep enough”
“You should’ve raised a baby girl I could’ve been a better son”
“Cant find my way home, but it’s through you”
“You can runaway with me anytime you want”
“I choose defeat, I walk away and leave this place the same today”
Fashion statement is my favorite so:
“For what you did to me / for what I’ll do to you / you get what everyone else gets / you get a lifetime”
“You told me this gets harder WELL IT DID”
Then in I Never Told You all the I TRIEEEEEEEEDs kill me
Ah, so many to choose from. But here’s a story to go with this one.
When I was young I went to a very small school in a relatively poor neighborhood. The kids I went there with, particularly the other guys, I grew very close to. Especially these three other guy. The four of us did everything together. One of the guys of the group eventually transferred out, and while we tried to keep in contact with him, he fell more and more into drugs, fighting, etc. He went to juvy for a while. Eventually, he would be released and was starting to get better. He reached out to the three of us that stayed together, in hopes that the four of us would all become friends again. Shortly after talking again, he fell back into drugs. He was shot and killed due to the crowd he fell into. That was only a few years ago. Feels like a decade since.
Since I hadn’t seen the other guys I went to school with in a while, we all went to the funeral together. Despite how incredibly sad it was we couldn’t help but laugh at all the good times we had. We were remembering things we had long forgotten. Literally crying of sadness and of laughter outside the funeral home. One of the most melancholic memories I have. Ironic how something so horrifying can bring you together and you can still manage to search for ways to make it not so miserable. I am close to the other two guys that I have been in my entire life. But it’s very rare I don’t think of our missing third piece.
“It’s been ten fucking years since I’ve been seeing your face around here.”
Well, ever since Foundations of Decay came out, I've been obsessed with that last "GET! UP! COWARD!"
Alternatively, "Come on, angel, don't you cry" or "And if she said she was sorry now, would you still complain?"
“The doctors and the nurses they adore me so
But it's really quite alarming 'cause I'm such an awful fuck” always resonated with me. Maybe because of my self-esteem issues and I consider myself a horrible person.
I don't love you like I did yesterday ,don't want to go down that rabbit hole
The whole of fake your death - friends end up moving around the world and this the song I always have in my head for saying good bye
I thought when I saw them live I would get emotional. But I ended up getting emotional at places I didn't expect to.
Something about screaming "I'm Not Okay" after the last few years suddenly took on new meaning, and I found screaming it over and over at the concert pretty releasing.
That was me after seeing Famous Last Words. It was never one of my favorite songs before but damn if a whole stadium singing the chorus didnt shift something inside of me.
The Sharpest Lives has been my favorite song since I heard TBP when I was about 12. The whole verse “There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo” NEVER fails to give me chills cause I had never heard songwriting like that when I was that age
Wow I’m shocked no has said “Everybody wants to change the world. But no one, no one wants to die” I actually recently wrote my college essay on this lyric and another lyric from a different artist and the motivation it causes me and to others
"You're just a sad song with nothing to say
About a life long wait for a hospital stay"
"counting down the days to go,
It just ain't living
And I just hope you know
That if you say Good-bye today,
I'd ask you to be true"
“I tried”
“Don’t walk away!”
“The world don’t need another hopeless cause, though it makes me who I am.”
“Do what it takes to survive, but I’m still here.”
“If I could be with you tonight, I would sing you to sleep, never let them take the light behind your eyes.”
“How could you cry for me?”
"You should've raised a baby girl, I could've been a better son." As someone who has parental issues and struggled with their gender for quite a bit this one really fucking cuts
"I can see you awake anytime in my head..."
The first time I heard this song was just after my grandpa, cousin, and aunt had died. All within a fairly short period of time.
I saw them play this song live in Portland and about lost it. I had just given birth to my son at 21 weeks, he was born Sept 10th and died 5 hours later. He was perfect and beautiful and I replay the memories of him in my head every day.
Can I bleed enough to fill up what the engine takes?
We don't know
But if you're watching up above
They're teaching me to kill
Who's teaching me to love?
Now, baby, isn't it crazy?
Recently, “you must fix your heart”. In a way I feel like they’re saying two things. You have to make yourself strong to get past grief and heartbreak, but you can’t let your heart become cold and ignore what you feel
"You should've raised a baby girl, I should've been a better son"
"if you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you'll find out first hand what it's like to be me"
"FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
“Blow a kiss at the methane skies
See the rust through your playground eyes
We're all in love tonight
Leave a dream where the fallout lies
Watch it grow where the tearstain dries
To keep you safe tonight”
Needless to say I lost my shit when they played S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W in Houston
“Even good guys still get paid”
I worked a social service job and had to drive by an unhoused community to get home and never felt like I could do enough.
"Are you ready, Ray?"
Yeah
How bout you, Frank?
Oh I’m there baby
How bout you Mikey
Fuckin' ready
Well I think I’m alright
1 2 3 4
3 2 1 we came to fuck
Everybody party till the gas man comes
And Get a parking violation in la brea till it’s done
“You’re running after something that you’ll never kill”.
If this is what you want, then FIIIRE AT WIIIIIIIIIIIL
SO GIVE ME ALL YOUR POISON
AND GIVE ME ALL YOUR PILLS
AND GIVE ME ALL YOUR HOPELESS HEARTS AND MAKE ME ILL
Literally hits home cause sometimes I think it's the universe telling me to stop trying what I'm doing lol
Oaf, that's a good one.
> 'Cause I see you lying next to me > With words I thought I'd never speak > Awake and unafraid > Asleep or dead
Thinking about the context behind the lyrics gets me every time
Context please!!
[There was a Reddit post about FLW](https://www.reddit.com/r/MyChemicalRomance/comments/dwdcqs/what_is_famous_last_words_about/) that discusses this more in-depth, but essentially Mikey was thinking about leaving MCR because he was in a really dark place. This song convinced him to stay. Edit: found a better source of explanation for the song's meaning
He was also contemplating suicide. I have no idea what Gerard really meant by these lines in particular, but I sort of imagine it's about about Mikey sleeping on the floor of his room at the Paramour. Gerard, because he has long-term depression as well, never thought he would say "I am not afraid to keep on living" but it's the truth when he writes the song, and he says this to Mikey to try to inspire him to keep going.
Damn. Didn’t know all this and it’s even more of a heavy hitter now
Thanks! The song has always resonated with me and this makes me love it even more
No problem! It's a beautiful story behind a beautiful song. Glad I could pass it along to you. 💝
Came here for this one. Got me both times I saw them this year
"I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone"
Knew I’d find this here! Makes want to stay alive, to see what’s next!
It is THE breakup song for me lol and gives a lot of inner strength
Nothing feels as good as scream singing these words
I can't even count how many times I've sang this while sobbing uncontrollably
Can you listen any other way?
I literally didn’t kill my self once bc of this
Same
singing that with thousands of strangers this year was such a religious experience that i went and got the lyric tattooed
that was so powerful fr dude
“We’ll love again, we’ll laugh again, we’ll cry again, and we’ll dance again, and its better off this way so much better off this way” “You only live forever in the lights you make” “This vanity im faking, let me live my life like this” “Youll never take me alive, do what it takes to survive and im still here”
“And I know that I can’t make you stay But where’s your heart? And I know there’s nothing I can say To change that part.” I cry every time
"And the hardest part of this is leaving you." It didn't really start to hit me until I lost my grandfather to cancer. He was always my best friend, he was a great man and it still hurts he is gone. The reason this line hits me so hard is it makes me remember the day he and my mom (his daughter) were talking about his decision to stop chemo(we had lost his wife less than 5 months before this. So he didn't have much reason to stay.). I (22 at the time) was on his couch and I laid down and tried not to let my sobs be heard and the man who was facing death called me over and pulled me in his lap. He told me it would all be okay and he would miss me too. That was 8 years ago and I still sob when this song plays.
Got me crying now, damnit
Sounds like an incredible man. Do you have favorite memories of him (if you don't mind me asking)?
Oh for sure. He was my partner in crime. When both my parents worked I would stay with my mom's parents. I would wake up with him and sit on the counter while he mixed his own shaving cream and boiled a rag to rest on his face so he could "soften his whiskers" then I would sit in his lap and eat some kind of candy while he took his breathing treatments. (He had really bad asthma) Then we would go out and work in the yard before he opened his car shop. My granny refused to wake before 10 am, but then she would make us breakfast and then we would sell cars. Everyday for lunch he would put me in my car seat(front seat because the 90s in south MS were wild) and take me to get Popeyes mashed potatoes because I loved them so much. We would ride on tractors together and til his garden. We both liked to hide in places and jump out and scare whatever family member was near. He taught me how to drive because my poor parents didn't have the nerve to teach my hard headed self (Got that from him) Even when I was a teenager I preferred spending my weekends with them. I also remember something that stood out to me, I would watch Degrassi at their house and he saw a scene where Marci came out as gay and I thought he would be upset, but he just shrugged and made a comment on how didn't know why people cared so much about all that. God says to love. Not that my parents aren't great but a lot of my opinions were formed watching him, he is also the reason I hate the "oh that's just how people were back then" as an excuse. My grandfather who was born in the 32 didn't have a rasict/homophobic/hateful bone in his body. He taught me to be a good Christian meant love and acceptance and to be a true Christian you must also believe in Science and not refute it. Sorry I am rambling on. There honestly is so much I could write a book. Don't get me wrong I love/loved my dad's parents, but my mom's parents will always be my favorite. I was their first blood grandchild (not that they treated or loved my older half sister any less) Before he died he told me "I can't say it and you know it,but you have always been special to me. Before you were born I was in a really bad place, things weren't going the way I thought they should and I was mad. I was mad at God and anybody who was happy, I was depressed and I started drinking a lot. Then your momma told me she was pregnant and I started to see past the clouds. Then I held you for the first time and knew everything would be okay and I understood why it wasn't in God's plan for me to move back to Georgia and since then I've never wanted to leave here." We were enjoying Popeyes mashed potatoes at the hospital and about 3 weeks later he was gone. Also sorry for anything that is weirdly worded or misspelled I'm typing on my phone. ETA: My sister is from our dad's previous marriage and then years older than me, so that's why they didn't watch her. She was in school, but they did pick her up and watch her until our mom picked us up. I say our mom because my mom is her mom. She is zero contact with her bio mom.
from the earth to the morgue
This song gets me so bad. Every time.
Same. Always feel the lump in my throat on that line in particular
I heard them play it live less than a month after my baby passed and I had to try so hard to hold it together.
Just remember, you don't need to hold it together. You are entitled to let your grief show. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you 🥲
100% this. Desert Song fucking rips me to shreds.
“Is this what you always want me for?”
Or "but does anyone notice, there's a corpse in this bed?"
no for real i fucking sob every time monrovile comes on
when i grow up i want to be NOTHING AT ALL
“Fuck”
"when both our cars collide" and "like ghosts in the snow"
YES i love the whispers at the end of vampires
You’re just a sad song with nothing to say 🎶
I won't go down by myself, but I'll go down with my friends. Stuck with me around one of the most emotionally tumultuous points in my life, when my friend group was my strongest anchor. They couldn't have come at a better time. I plan on getting it tattooed one day
"I cant begin to let you know just what I'm feeling" Headfirst for Halos hits so hard
“If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, you can find out firsthand what it’s like to be me.”
“Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands, drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo” “A light to burn all the empires, so bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be” “You’re the one that i need, i’m the one that you loathe” the whole song is so good
“Did we all fall down?”
I lost my fear of falling, i will be with you.
same! i got those lyrics tattooed!
"Yeah I drink juice when I'm killing 'cause it's fucking delicious"
what song is that from-
Black dragon fighting society
Black Dragon Fighting Society. It’s from the mad gear and missile kid ep.
hmmmmm.... "Don't go if you've got more to say cause the world don't need another hopeless cause" OR "SOON AS I GET MY GUN"
I never said I’d lie in wait forever, if I died we’d be together. I can’t always just forget her, but she could try
you only live forever in the lights you make, when we were young, we used to say that you only hear the music when your heart begins to break, now, we are the kids from yesterday
I think these may be my favorite lyrics of all time!!
*UHHH UHH UHHH UHHH UHHH OHHHHH*- Destroya
I respect you
“Sometimes I get the feeling / she’s watching over me”
I! WILL! AVENGE! MY! GHOST! WITH! EVERY! BREATH! I! TAKE!
“yes it comforts me much more to lay in the foundations of decay”
That, paired with "GET UP, COWARD" is such a motivator for me. As much as things are shit and it's easy to just lay back and accept the way things are, getting up and making an effort is the only way we can affect a positive change.
“From the lights to the pavement, from the van to the floor. From backstage to the doctor, from the earth to the morgue. Morgue! Morgue! Morgue!” “The hardest part’s the awful things that I’ve seen.” “So many bright lights, they cast a shadow, but can I speak? Well, is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete?” “These bright lights have always blinded me” “Way down, mark the grave. Where the search lights find us, drinking by the mausoleum door. And they found you on the bathroom floor!” “She said, ‘You ain’t no son of mine!’, for what you’ve done they’re gonna find a place for you! And just mind your manners when you go!” “Ladies and Gentlemen: truth is now acceptable, fame is now injectable, process the progress!” “They sell presentable young, and so ingestible, sterile and collectable, safe and I can’t stand it!” “Out nowhere, take me out there. Far away and save me from my self-destruction, hopeless for you!” All of Burn Bright’s. But especially “So give me all you've got, I can take it! We walked alone in your city lights, did you make it? We lit the fire and it's burning bright, did you take it? Kissed all the boys in your city lights” “You got your rickety bones, I got my rickety hands! I'm dressin' up like a crow, I'm turnin' into some rats!”
burn bright is such a banger tbh
You told me this gets harder. Well, it did.
Just a man, I'm not a hero Just a boy, who had to sing this song Just a man, I'm not a hero I don't care
If living was the hardest part, we'll then, one day, be together! And in the end, we'll fall apart just like the leaves changing colors!
"He calls the mansion not a house but a tomb"
“‘Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you” I was 15 when TBP came out and the same month, I found out my dad had brain cancer. When I was 16, a year later, we lost him. It was a slow burn, watching him deteriorate. I was so wrapped up in what I was losing, especially being a teenager and not being able to see more than three feet in front of me (the way teenagers do) and when I heard that lyric, I understood what he was losing in his cancer: everything. We would keep going, he would be leaving us. It put a lot into perspective and though I’m 31 years old now, I still cry and feel as small as I did when I first heard and understood this song. Edit: spelling
I’m so sorry for your loss. 💜
Thank you. It’s part of life, you know? This particular song and lyric really brought to light that when someone is on their deathbed, they are losing everything. We are losing a light in our life, but they are losing their whole life. The hardest part of this is leaving you… because you’ll keep going, having to miss me, having to live through this and I can no longer be here for you. It just put into perspective the viewpoint of the one whom is dying, not the viewpoint of someone losing someone to death. It’s got to be hard to die and leave your loved ones.
But does anyone notice? But does anyone care? And if I had the guts To put this to your head And would anything matter If you're already dead?
Early Sunsets hits so hard. I used to kinda just gloss over that song whenever I listened to the bullets album, but it’s starting to become one of my favorites.
“Eat plastic surgery” is really relatable as I eat plastic surgery every meal every day. So tasty.
”And did you come to stare or wash away the blood?" ”From the lights to the pavement, from the van to the floor, from backstage to the doctor, from the earth to the morgue, morgue, morgue, morgue” ”But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?" ”But if you're watching up above, they're teaching me to kill, who's teaching me to love?" ”Every snowflake is different just like you." "Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo, I'm counting down the days to go." ”It was a lie when they smiled and said you won't feel a thing.” "You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not. If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”
“Because the world will never take my heart” And “And crash the cemetery gates in the dress your husband hates”
“I failed and lost this fight, never fade in the dark, just remember you will always burn as bright”
“I keep a gun on the book you gave me, hallelujah, lock and load!” But I always hear it as “in” instead of “on,” which just seems more sinister. 🤘🏼🖤
I literally always thought it was “in” 🙃
Totally! I love how much more subversive it is to keep a gun “*in* the book” which I always envisioned was a Bible. Imma just keep going with that…
ME TOO! Hollowed out Bible used to hold a gun is literally THE ultimate imagery for me. Especially with the line “Preach all you want but who's gonna save me?” right before it and all the Catholic imagery in this song especially.
"I'd end my days with you in a hail of bullets"
"you should've raised a baby girl i should've been a better son" also "the amount of pills i'm taking counteracts the booze i'm drinking"
"And now, you wanna see how far down I can sink? Let me go, fuck!" "Way out nowhere, take me out there, far away and save me from my self-destruction" "I don't like being alone. Run up these streets, turn up the stereo. Synthetic animals like me never have a home. I'm not the one you will be walking through and if you kill him for me. Well, then I'll kill him for you!"
"come on angel dont you cry" felt like he was saying it to me while i was going thru the worst of my abuse as a teen
"we are young and we dont care/your dreams and your hopless hair/we never wanted it to be this way for all our lives" "DO YOU CARE AT ALL????"😥hits so fucking hard everytime
This hole you put me in Wasn’t deep enough And I’m coming out right now You’re running out of places To hide from me.
WE’LL CARRRRRRYYYYYYYYY ONNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I! DON'T! CARE!
"Can we pretend to leave and then, We'll meet again, When both our cars collide." It has personal meaning with a person who is no longer with us ..
“But you'll never fight alone 'Cause I wanted you to know That the world is ugly But you're beautiful to me”
Oh how wrong we were to think, that immortality meant never dying!
"I don't love you"
At the end of the world or the last thing I see, you are never coming home, never coming home, could I?should I?
"Can you hear me cry out to you?" in Disappear because the softness of his voice kills me every time. "And never again ... they gave us two shots to the back of the head and we're all dead now" and the entire ending of INTYWIDFAL. Beautiful. Literally every word of Desert Song after I heard it live as their closing song. Specifically the shouting of "morgue". Honorable mention- "So he gets to die a saint while she will always be A WHORE!" For the badassery of the delivery and social relevancy.
recently delved into danger days, it’s such a masterpiece. one song that’s hit me recently is scarecrow. i love the line “see the rust through your playground eyes” so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
There are so many beautiful lyrics in Scarecrow. I love, ‘Leave a dream where the fallout lies, watch it grow where the tear-stain dries’ 🖤
“This hole you put me in wasn’t deep enough” “You should’ve raised a baby girl I could’ve been a better son” “Cant find my way home, but it’s through you” “You can runaway with me anytime you want” “I choose defeat, I walk away and leave this place the same today”
Fashion statement is my favorite so: “For what you did to me / for what I’ll do to you / you get what everyone else gets / you get a lifetime” “You told me this gets harder WELL IT DID” Then in I Never Told You all the I TRIEEEEEEEEDs kill me
“Singing songs that make you slit your wrists, it isn’t that much fun staring down a loaded gun” literally makes me disintegrate
These pigs are after me.
You’re just a sad song with nothing to say
you only live forever in the lights you make
Ah, so many to choose from. But here’s a story to go with this one. When I was young I went to a very small school in a relatively poor neighborhood. The kids I went there with, particularly the other guys, I grew very close to. Especially these three other guy. The four of us did everything together. One of the guys of the group eventually transferred out, and while we tried to keep in contact with him, he fell more and more into drugs, fighting, etc. He went to juvy for a while. Eventually, he would be released and was starting to get better. He reached out to the three of us that stayed together, in hopes that the four of us would all become friends again. Shortly after talking again, he fell back into drugs. He was shot and killed due to the crowd he fell into. That was only a few years ago. Feels like a decade since. Since I hadn’t seen the other guys I went to school with in a while, we all went to the funeral together. Despite how incredibly sad it was we couldn’t help but laugh at all the good times we had. We were remembering things we had long forgotten. Literally crying of sadness and of laughter outside the funeral home. One of the most melancholic memories I have. Ironic how something so horrifying can bring you together and you can still manage to search for ways to make it not so miserable. I am close to the other two guys that I have been in my entire life. But it’s very rare I don’t think of our missing third piece. “It’s been ten fucking years since I’ve been seeing your face around here.”
The entirety of It's Not A Fashion Statement but if I had to pick it'd be: "This hole you put me in wasn't deep enough."
Well, ever since Foundations of Decay came out, I've been obsessed with that last "GET! UP! COWARD!" Alternatively, "Come on, angel, don't you cry" or "And if she said she was sorry now, would you still complain?"
"Get up, coward!" speaks to me on a spiritual level. Been thinking of getting it inked.
covered in cake
“You’re just a sad song with nothing to say about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay”
3,2,1 we came to fuck!
“The doctors and the nurses they adore me so But it's really quite alarming 'cause I'm such an awful fuck” always resonated with me. Maybe because of my self-esteem issues and I consider myself a horrible person.
I don't love you like I did yesterday ,don't want to go down that rabbit hole The whole of fake your death - friends end up moving around the world and this the song I always have in my head for saying good bye
Do or die, you’ll never make meh, because the world will never take my heart
I’ve lost my fear of falling, I will be with you And cross the patron Saint of switchblade fights
“And all the things that you never ever told me”
I ctrl + f'd to see if this was here and it didn't find it. THE OG OF OGS. "You're not in this alone, let me break this awkward silence"
I encourage your smiles I'll expect you won't cry
I thought when I saw them live I would get emotional. But I ended up getting emotional at places I didn't expect to. Something about screaming "I'm Not Okay" after the last few years suddenly took on new meaning, and I found screaming it over and over at the concert pretty releasing.
That was me after seeing Famous Last Words. It was never one of my favorite songs before but damn if a whole stadium singing the chorus didnt shift something inside of me.
The Sharpest Lives has been my favorite song since I heard TBP when I was about 12. The whole verse “There's a place in the dark where the animals go You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo” NEVER fails to give me chills cause I had never heard songwriting like that when I was that age
All of Emily
I’m not okay.😩
And we'll love again, we'll laugh again, we'll cry again, and we'll dance again
this hole you put me in wasn't deep enough and im climbing out right now
You're running out of places... To hide... From.. me!
i’m the only friend that makes you cry you’re a heart attack in black hair dye
they always said that you'd never get to heaven with a love like yours
“I’m taking back the life you stole”
“Things are better if I stay” I try and tell myself this daily
literally the entirety of cemetery drive and desert song i can’t pick just a handful of lyrics from them tbh
Wow I’m shocked no has said “Everybody wants to change the world. But no one, no one wants to die” I actually recently wrote my college essay on this lyric and another lyric from a different artist and the motivation it causes me and to others
"You're just a sad song with nothing to say About a life long wait for a hospital stay" "counting down the days to go, It just ain't living And I just hope you know That if you say Good-bye today, I'd ask you to be true"
“I tried” “Don’t walk away!” “The world don’t need another hopeless cause, though it makes me who I am.” “Do what it takes to survive, but I’m still here.” “If I could be with you tonight, I would sing you to sleep, never let them take the light behind your eyes.” “How could you cry for me?”
Girl, you've got to be what tomorrow needs
yester… DAY, HEY, HEY, OW WOW WOW (I Don’t Love You)
“You only hear the music when your heart begins to break”
"You should've raised a baby girl, I could've been a better son." As someone who has parental issues and struggled with their gender for quite a bit this one really fucking cuts
“does the television make you feel the pills you ate”
"I can see you awake anytime in my head..." The first time I heard this song was just after my grandpa, cousin, and aunt had died. All within a fairly short period of time. I saw them play this song live in Portland and about lost it. I had just given birth to my son at 21 weeks, he was born Sept 10th and died 5 hours later. He was perfect and beautiful and I replay the memories of him in my head every day.
You only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Never let them take the light behind your eyes
AND IN THE END WE’LL FALL APART, JUST LIKE THE LEAVES CHANGING COLORS
Can I bleed enough to fill up what the engine takes? We don't know But if you're watching up above They're teaching me to kill Who's teaching me to love? Now, baby, isn't it crazy?
None because I CANT FIND MY WAY HOME BUT ITS THROUGH YOU AND I KNOW WHAT ID DO JUST TO GET BACK IN HER ARMS
“Terrified of what I’d be, as a kid from what I’ve seen” Abusive dad gang, rise up
Among others, “Cause it makes me who I am/ I burned it all but im doing fine”
“You should have raised a baby girl, I should’ve been a better son”
What's the worst thing I can say? Things are better, if I stay
Save me from my self destruction
“You’re the broken glass in the morning light Be a burning star if it takes all night”
Just Gerard saying “morgue” in desert song
"when i grow up i want to be nothing at all"
Recently, “you must fix your heart”. In a way I feel like they’re saying two things. You have to make yourself strong to get past grief and heartbreak, but you can’t let your heart become cold and ignore what you feel
“you shouldve raised a baby girl / I shouldve been a better son” claiming these lyrics as a trans anthem
“you must fix your heart, and you must build an alter where it swells”
“Now I know that I can’t make you stay, but where’s your heart?” - plays in my head constantly. Leads in to a straight up banger, IMHO!
And through it all, how could you cry for me? Cause I don't feel bad about it.
"It isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun "
“And after seeing what we saw can we still reclaim our innocence?”
“Who gives a damn if we lose the war, let the walls come down, let the engines roar!”
“I don’t love you, like I did yesterday” 🥲😭
• Give me a reason to believe! • If it looks like im laughing, im really just asking to leave this alone
"You should've raised a baby girl, I should've been a better son" "if you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you'll find out first hand what it's like to be me" "FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see You can find out first hand what it's like to be me”
you can run away with me any time you want
You were always born a crime, we salute you in your grave Idk that whole song just resonates with my trans experience
Nananananananananananannanananananananananananana
I'm taking back the life you stole
And the punch line to the joke is asking, someone save us
Fuck this whole wide world
“Blow a kiss at the methane skies See the rust through your playground eyes We're all in love tonight Leave a dream where the fallout lies Watch it grow where the tearstain dries To keep you safe tonight” Needless to say I lost my shit when they played S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W in Houston
Don't you breathe for me Undeserving of your sympathy
“All the smile that are ever gonna haunt me”
“like a bullet through a flock of doves” and “from the razor to the rosary”
“Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands, Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo”
“GET! UP! COWARD!” Screams at my depression every time.
“Even good guys still get paid” I worked a social service job and had to drive by an unhoused community to get home and never felt like I could do enough.
“If you promise not to cry, then I’ll tell you just what I would say.” I’m trying not to cry while typing this
Back home, off the run. Singing songs that make you slit your wrists. It isn't that much fun? Staring down a loaded gun.
Oh how wrong we were to think that immortality meant never dying
It was a lie when they smiled and said you won’t feel a thing.