Lyrics for Skylines And Turnstiles as interpreted by MooWasHere

Skylines And Turnstiles Lyrics
You're not in this alone
Let me break this awkward silence
Let me go, go on record
Be the first to say I'm sorry
Hear me out.
when if you take me down
or would you lay me out
And if the world needs something better
Let's give them one more reason now

We walk in single file
We light up rails and punch our time
Ride escalators colder than a cell
-Chorus-

This broken city sky like butane on my skin
and stolen from my eyes
Hello Angel tell me where are you
Tell me where we go from here
(Repeat)
And in this moment we can't close the lids on burning eyes
Our memories blanket us with friends we know like fallout vapor
Steel corpses stretch out towards and ending sun scorched and black
It reaches in and rips your flesh apart
With ice cold hands and grabs a hold of your heart
That's if you've still got one that's left inside that cave you call a chest
And after seeing what we saw, can we still reclaim our innocence
And if the world needs something better
Let's give them one more reason now
-Chorus-

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~*micemroluver*~
06-18-2005

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i was just kidingg! this is my favorite song! yes i love it! and i love how this was the first song that matt ang gerard wrote! its kinda like hes confused on what to do next in life, like where to go now, as if theres nothing left to live for...

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DeathByPoison
06-29-2005

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This needs alotta corrections, so i might as well type them cuz im bored....

You're not in this alone.let me break this awkard silence.let me go.go on record.be the first to say im sorry.and hear me out.and if you take me down.would you lay me out.and if the world needs somthing better.lets give them one more reason.now.we walk in single file.we light our rails and punch our time.ride escalators colder than a cell.this broken city sky.like butane on my skin.and stolen from my eyes.hello angel.tell me where are you.tell me where we go from here.and in this moment we can't close our lids.on burning eyes.our memories blanket us with friends we know.like fallout vapor.steel corpses stretch out towards an ending sun.scorched and black.it reaches in and tears your flesh apart.as ice cold hands.rip into your heart.that's if you still got one thats left. inside that cave you call a chest.and after seeing what we saw.can we still reclaim our innocence.and if the world needs something better.lets give them one more reason.now.

you can figure out all the repreats and stuff. this song is absolutely amazing. it is definenlety insipred by September 11th. theres really no more discussion needed.

*Beer not Bombs*

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i am parker lewis
07-06-2005

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any mcr fan worth anything knows that the band formed after 9-11 when gerard realized he had to get out of the basement stop drawing cartoons and try to make a difference, and this song is about that happening

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gerdy pie
07-31-2005

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This song is definately about 9-11. ( "After seeing what we saw, can we still reclaim our innocence" and other lines about the broken city sky give it away.) I read in an interveiw or something that the band formed because Gerard's cartoon (The Breakfast Monkey) didn't make it and he felt that he had to make a difference, like " i am parker lewis" said. Then...My Chemical Romance was formed. Anyway...awesome song!

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TheDarkJay
10-12-2005

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I always thought the chorus was

This fucking city sky
You've tainted my skin
Stolen from my eyes
Hell i hate you

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Teh Pope
01-16-2006

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The first line alays does it for me. 'You're not in this alone'

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somethingliketreclo
01-20-2006

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Correction: instead of "It reaches in and rips your flesh apart" it's "It reaches in and tears your flesh apart."
It's probably really silly, but I'm kind of anal about stuff like that....
And yeah, this song is about 9/11. Gerard Way said it himself.

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music_geek17
01-30-2006

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i LOVE this song. since it's the first song Gerard ever wrote and that it had to do with September llth and how he was effected by it cause he was in new york at the time!

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megsbee
02-14-2006

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hahahaha "punkrockemokid13 "
that's hilarious.
it's funny because you're serious

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sakura-k
02-20-2006

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I worked out the 9/11 thing a few months ago, when I was reading a thing in a magazine about mcr. It said something about 9/11 being one of the reasons G. started the band - he wanted to find a bunch of guys who'd speak to people. And I started thinking "that fits with this song..."
"This broken city sky" - the skyline seemed 'broken' without the towers, for a while. And still does, to some people.
"You're not in this alone" - Not the only one who was horrified by what happened.
"And in this moment we can't close the lids on burning eyes" - When you were watching it, you couldn't look away, even though you wanted to.
"Our memories blanket us" - You couldn't help but panic about your friends & family, thinking "what if they were there?" even if you KNEW they weren't.
I love this song. It's my favourite on the Bullets album.

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My Heart Has a Halo
03-06-2006

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Ya I heard it's like all about 911 also on the unoffical biography it has alot of other crap about their other fantasticly grotesque songs. The way the song is performed on the album is so cool I wish I could squelch chest like them it's a rally cool song I agree

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Emo:Tears
03-25-2006

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yeah in a rececnt interview in Kerrang! Gerard says he was working right in the city on cartoons when it happened and he got so shocked about it the only way he could express how he felt was by writing a song, he didnt know how else to express how he felt so he wrote a song... and an amazing song can iadd xD

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B12
04-18-2006

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From what I know, his cartoon was called the swedish breakfast monkey or something, anybody got some additional info on that?

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xdani961
04-30-2006

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yes the breakfast monkey!thats awesome. look it up on youtube. gereards amazing at cartoons :)

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xdani961
04-30-2006

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yes the breakfast monkey!thats awesome. look it up on youtube. gereards amazing at cartoons :)

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tick_tock_bang
05-12-2006

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i really like this song. this and honey this mirror... are probably my favorite mcr songs ever.

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patriciaxsiva
07-20-2006

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"Hello Angel tell me where are you
Tell me where we go from here "
it explains a tragedy; definately about 911

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M_C_R_5_5_5
08-05-2006

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this my chem's first song, it's a great song...

i am in looove with gerard way, and i looove my chemical romance!!!

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LifesTwist210
09-30-2006

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This song is about September 11th. Gerard saw it happen, he was meeting in New York with Cartoon Network pitching an idea for one of his cartoons, "Breakfast Monkey." Witnessing the event changed his life. After the event he and Matt wrote the song.

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Wackus
12-24-2006

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This broken city sky like butane on my skin.
Although I think you can interpret it how you want, this song clearly isn't about lots of stupid americans blown up in some towers by some guys who know how to make a cool scene.
I presume it's about vampirism, and I like to think it's personal, rather than about a major, over-publicised, albeit very cool event.

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WeAllLoveThem_MCR
01-01-2007

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I hope you feel really good about yourself after writing that wackus. Hope you meant it, that it wasn't meant to sound as idiotiq as it did to the rest of us. You shouldn't feel like you're welcome to make this song about something it's not. Everybody here knows it's about 9-11, dude. Gerard has said it. There's no doubt. Got it?

On the other hand, I believe we find some of My Chem's all-time most amazing lyrics on this song, and it's their first one!! That is almost hard to believe if you are a random person, but Gerard is such and admirable human being.
"It reaches in and tears your flesh apart
like ice cold hands rip into your heart!
That's if you still got one that's left inside that cave you call a chest"
Those three lines. After my opinion the best lines MCR has ever done, maybe next to Gerard's own favourites which are from Out lady of sorrows.
"Oh how wrong we were to think that immortality meant never dying"
Also amazing. It feels like he's almost making up new words. He's giving them a whole new meaning. They make sense.
Love it with all of my body.

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IF_ing love MCR
01-17-2007

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Duh.. Every MCR fan knows that Gerard was on a Fairy boat going to New Jersy from New York on September 11 and saw the 2 Twin Towers burn to the ground & Was said to have seen the people jumping out the windows!

*so sad :'[ Hence the Verse "THIS BROKEN CITY SKY, LIKE BUTANE ON MY SKIN".

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Sadex
01-17-2007

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maybe if you condescend some more people won't think you're such a dickhead

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5thgair
03-03-2007

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this song is my favourite from my chemical romance (lyrically), this is going to sound so lame, but after i read all this stuff on this site, i listened to the song again, and it made me cry!!
i relised it was september 11 but i hadnt really thought about it while i listened!! its such a thougthful song and makes me think about like how sort of desensitised our society is becoming.. its sad!

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5thgair
03-03-2007

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this song is my favourite from my chemical romance (lyrically), this is going to sound so lame, but after i read all this stuff on this site, i listened to the song again, and it made me cry!!
i relised it was september 11 but i hadnt really thought about it while i listened!! its such a thougthful song and makes me think about like how sort of desensitised our society is becoming.. its sad!

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