xX...I think this song is about being obsessed or infatuated with someone who you'll never be with... and leaving to get away from it all and try to forget that you ever knew them... but you can't. And I think "I'm taking back the life you stole" is the person saying they will get over them and get on with life, but in their head the one they love is saying "This hole you put me in wasn't deep enough...", reminding them that they still exist and will always be in their head no matter how hard they try to forget them. This song means a lot to me... and I think Gerard possibly wrote it from personal experience... and the one he loved was Helena...Xx

Im not sure if someone else has written this already! There are so many i couldnt read through them all! lol!

I personally think that this song is about coming out of the depression that someone else has put you in, be it a friendship or love relationship. I think the 'Im coming back from the dead' is a metaphor for depression and also the 'This hole you put me in, wasnt deep enough' is also a metaphor for that fact that although this person has threw the character into depression they didnt completetly destroy this person and they are coming back to get revenge as it were. But then at the end it twists to the fact that the character realises that he still cares for this person but accepts that even if they could be together it would never work out hence the 'but in the end we'll fall apart like the leaves change in colour' line.

mmm hope this makes sense, there are so many metaphores that i could explain but i hope that this gives you the gist of what i think the song is about.

Having been depressed and suffering a mental disorder called BPD, its a real uplifting song about being able to 'come back from the dead'.

Only discovered MCR about 2 months ago and i absolutely adore them...they are real unlike a lot of the manufactured shite thats around these days! lol!!

I think this song sucks and the band is lame ass, tame ass. They only out for the money!!!!!For your money

I think MCR is going to come to your house and suck your blood.

Catch my drift?

People, what is your obssession with bashing MCR? Actually, bashing any band is wrong. You don't like them? Then don't comment. Especially if you're going to be rude about it. I myself don't like country music very much, but do you see me on someone who does country music's lyric page and bashing them? No, so please quit the bashing. :)

Honestly, I don't think making music is easy. Try doing it yourself, and after that, think twice before bashing a band.

MyChemicalNothing, I agree completely with your interpretation. And this song rocks. One of my favourites on this CD of theirs along with I Never Told You What I Do For a Living and To the End. :)

And lol, Scorch.

I want to put a simple interpretation of this song, which is one of my favorites from MCR!!

I feel stupid for not realizing this sooner. MCR's albums are like movies or really good books. This is another chapter of a book. Right?

xD OMFG!!! I feel like a retard. Sorry for my last post... xD Wow... My brain cells must be depleting from lack of sleep or something!! :P

...But I thought I put an actual interpretation... Hmm... :/
Oh well! :D

Hrmm... *clueless*

Best song on the album. LOOOVE it.

I think chino69's take on the first half of the song, way back on the first page of comments was dead on!

But also songs can sometimes speak to you and mean something intensely personal to you based on your experience. Parts of this song do that to me. AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!! The first time I heard this song it just blew me away. I had recently came out of a 10 year abusive marriage and only a few days before the first time I heard this song I wrote a poem that started out "Climbing from beneath your grave. Forgetting how to be a slave."

Anyway, here is what touched me about this song

"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 always wondered if he would hurt me THAT bad. Back then I thought if he did then it would be kind of a relief.

"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"

Pretty self explanatory. I really did feel like I was coming back to life from the dead when I was first on my own. I am very happy to say that I have taken my life.

"THIS HOLE YOU PUT ME IN
WASN'T DEEP ENOUGH
AND I'M CLIMBING OUT RIGHT NOW"

Oh hell F-inf yeah! If you wanted me to stay down you should have done a better job of putting me down because I am climbing back out right now! But it wouldn't have mattered anyway because you were always too weak to beat me.


"you're running out of places
to hide from me"

In your mind I am going to haunt you. You will remember me and wish you had another who tried so hard to make you happy. But most of all, you are going to miss your son.


"I'VE LOST MY FEAR OF FALLING"

For me, that is a metaphor for being alone, being a single mom and having no $$. Losing my fear of that is what it took for me to get away from him. That might sound crazy. Some one on the out side would say "I'd never put up with that. Why don't you just leave?" But abuse and losing your self esteem go slowly and by degrees and their are always the constant promises that things will get better. He may ever go to therapy but if he is not ready to change then therapy won't even fix it. You wake up on your 5th wedding anniversary just a shell of who you used to be and you are so full of fear. On your 7th, 8th, 9th it is progressively worse but you don't see the progression while you are in the middle of the storm. I had to lose my fear of being alone, being a single mom. So I totally get the line, "I lost my fear of falling". And I absolutely love it! It might sound silly but so many MCR songs in my early days of being alone helped empower me so much and helped keep me brave and carrying on. I'm glad I discovered them.

Go Gee!!! Write some more magic for us!!!!


PS: An MCR fan old enough to have been married 10 yrs? Yes! MCR has lots older fans. Buzznet and Myspace even has groups for us :) That's another thing that I think is so great about MCR is that they appeal to such a wide range of people. But what I have noticed about most true MCR fans esp the older ones, is that they are real, genuine, open people.

Ha, ha, another thing, while I was married I was a Baptist Sunday School teacher because my husband wanted me to be. Nothing against God or Baptists I just think its funny. I was raised very fundamentalist Baptist but came out of it just a very liberal spiritual person (whew!) but he had to go to church with my mom one day and he had this big conversion. After that he wouldn't let me listen to Pearl Jam anymore because Eddie Vedder is Pro Choice and then the Sunday School thing happened, and then the abuse started. Now I love, in addition to MCR, Anti-Flag and MSI just to name a few, "Oh how a mighty one has fallen" they'd say but I'd say "Oh how the mealy mouthed piss ant has risen!!! Oh and I especially love the MSI song and video for "Shut Me Up" and "Never Wanted to Dance". And MCR"S "Thank You For The Venom" also but if I explained why I'd be here a whole 'nother week. I was just here killing time 'til I had to go and it's time to go now so bye!

This song has to be one of the best ones they've ever done.
I love gerard ways voice.

I've listened to these since Bullets came out in teh UK and i still haven't been to see these yet. it's a hell of a wounder.

This band inspire me so much when i write my stories and this album is definately the best one.
The black parade is decent but you cant beat Three Cheers...

I think this song is talking about 'gerard' coming back from the 'dead' and taking revenge on all the poeple that wronged him during his life because he cant rest peacefully if he doesn't.
Also, i may be wrong but, i think at the end, "i've lost my fear of falling i will be with you" means since he's done all he needs to do he's not afraid to die anymore to see someone he loves.

xox

I don't listen to a whole lot of MCR, but I do love this song.

I'm sure the song has a deeper story to it, but I think maybe the title says it all. I think maybe it talks about how people hurt themselves or kill themselves because they think it must be a cool thing to do - ie, thinking self-injury is a "fashion statement" or thinking that suicide is a cool way to go out. (Yeah, right.) But yeah, I think that's pretty much what it sort of says...."It's not a fashion statement, it's a fucking deathwish!"

favourite song from three cheers
revenge is a really good concept to work with and this is probably one of the tracks that has the most revenge-suited lyrics in it.

"Starless eyes"... simply because he/she is dead.

i love how he says, "I've lost my fear of falling, I will be with you, I will be WITH YOU."

For some reason, the intro reminds me of a wedding. Anyone else feel the same? SO I thought this song was about a wedding, LMFAO. I'm confused now... STOP IT! STOP! Gosh! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Boo.

Yeah, I know I'm weird. So SHUSH NOW.