Lyrics for You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In... as interpreted by Mike NJSS

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In... Lyrics
in the middle of a gunfight
in the center of a restaurant
they say come with your arms raised high
well they're never gonna get me
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
:chorus-

they all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost
my cellmate's a killer
they make me do pushups in drag
but nobody cares if you're losing yourself
am i losing myself?

and well i miss my mom
will they give me the chair?
or lethal injection?
or swing from a rope if you dare
oh nobody knows all the trouble i seen

-chorus-

to your room
what they ask of you
they make you want to see(?)
how long
well i dont remember
i remember
do you have the keys to the hotel?

life is but a dream for the dead
and well i can't go down by myself
but i'll go down with my friends
take it like a man

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blametheposers
02-25-2005

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This song is my favorite song to sing to...well one of them. yay.

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GeraldWayObsessed
03-02-2005

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you do pushups in drag....losing urself...if you dare....ive seen....thats the parts berts in then hes screaming and laughing with his cute laugh and bert said in a interview "gerald wrote this song about when night when we were making out so long that it wasnt even funny anymore although it still was whether he wants to admit it at all" i wish i could see them make out but pics of bert and quinn(the used guitarist) making out are hot too! Gerald and bert are the hottest guys in the world though cant wait to see them at the taste of chaos!!neway i love this song and the concept

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i caught firexxx
03-03-2005

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Gerard....his name....is Gerard....not Gerald....lol....anyway yes this song is so good...especially with Bert....i just saw them at Taste Of chaos...and at the end of the show the used and Gerard came out and did a version of Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie...it was amazing....the second verse of this song is so great....i really like the way he says the lines "they make me do pushups in drag"
"and well i miss my mom" and "oh nobody knows, all the trouble ive seen"

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i caught firexxx
03-03-2005

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oh...dont ask why i started talking about under pressure....umm i guess because it had to do with the used and mcr....sorry about that lol

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ILoveGerardWay
03-03-2005

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Sorry about the typos with Gerards name

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ILoveGerardWay
03-03-2005

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**previously GeraldWayObsessed** srry bout the typos with his name

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fire_at_will_xx
03-04-2005

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This song is clearly about the old 'Don't drop the soap' joke.
I listened to the live recording of this on MCR's myspace and in the beginning Gerard goes "THIS SONG IS ABOUT BEING SODOMIZED IN JAIL!" So...there you have it.

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MeandmyStar
03-05-2005

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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!

I always followed this as the man in the goes to prison and says he can't do it with the other men cuz its wrong but someother dude says 'well i can!" and does it. thats what i thought

>> my cellmate's a killer
In the Thank u part of the CD thingy gerard says thank u to bert for being his cell mate. hah. bert sang in this song. derrr lol

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scarletdawn
03-14-2005

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hahaha this song is so greta. sooo great. i went to taste of chaos on saturday...i was hoping they'd sing this one together...they didnt, but my chemical romance did it alone and that was pretty great anyways....under pressure was awesome though! the used/mcr on one stage. pretty fucking real.

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americanmusic
03-18-2005

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This is what made me fall in love with MCR.

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new_english_classic
03-20-2005

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Some of you have come close but others have totally forgotten that it's a concept album .the concept is That gerard nd mikeys grandma elena(who the albums deciated 2 )also know as helena in the 1st song is dead.he makes a deal with the devil that if he kills 1000 men she can come back to life.Here's my intrepretaion -

In the song before(to the end)he kills people at a stag party.


"in the middle of a gunfight
in the center of a restaurant
they say come with your arms raised high"-the cops have finally caught up with him

"well they're never gonna get me
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"-He won't let them take him to jail.A so called friend shopped him in so he's gonna kill him too.

"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 "-As much as he wants elena back he likes his friend too,but in the end he realises he wants his gran back more.

"too much too late
or just not enough of this
pain in my heart for your dying wish
i'll kiss your lips again "-he feels he shouldn't hav e had second thoughts about killing the guy.he think's he's not hurting enough.I think the kissing bit might be mixed up with this.its probs bout the kissing bert thing.

"they all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost
my cellmate's a killer
they make me do pushups in drag
but nobody cares if you're losing yourself
am i losing myself?"-he's speculating about what prisons like and he wondering if he's going insane from all of this.

"and well i miss my mom
will they give me the chair?
or lethal injection?
or swing from a rope if you dare
oh nobody knows all the trouble i seen "-more specualtion then he saying that he think's no one undestands what he's going through.

"to your room
what they ask of you
they make you want to see(?)
how long
well i dont remember
i remember
do you have the keys to the hotel? "-This could be more speculation.or the police are interviewing him .But the stag party in the previous song was possibly at a hotel.Im kinda confused about tht bit.

"life is but a dream for the dead
and well i can't go down by myself
but i'll go down with my friends
take it like a man "-He's gonna blame it on his friends.
sorry if thats wrong bt thts wat i fink its bout.

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xxxdaniellexxx
03-21-2005

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I read somewhere that they will be making a video for this, I dont think it's going to be released as a single though.

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bubblebabe09
03-26-2005

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i think this is about two men who are gay (of course) that do a crime and then they get the death penalty and then they die and the part where it goes "ill kiss you lips again" is talking about how he will be with his boyfriend again

but i have a question...the part where it goes "where it will want to make you say "so long..."" are they talking about helena (the part where they go "so long and goodnight")

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Homepie
03-26-2005

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i love this song. but, where does bert sing in this song? did he just giggle at the end of the song cause he does crazyshit liek that on 'The Used' CD. i have the my chemical romance cd, but yet to get the used one.

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Homepie
03-26-2005

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and, oh yeah, is gerard bisexual? if he is, i don;t really care. he still the hottest guyon the fucking earth

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Rocklovinggirl
03-27-2005

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MCR are great guys and awesome live! I am going to see them for the second time at Warped Tour this year...i can't wait.

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lilsarah
03-30-2005

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This song is great. By far my favorite on the entire album. I want to see them at Warped Tour this year also. Can't wait for it!! It bothers me how people label this band and others as emo. How can you put your heart and soul into something you create and it not be emo?? Just something to wonder about.

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rasberryblitz
03-31-2005

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umm..could someone clear this up for me? who's bert and what's up with the making out thing? by the way, awesome song! can't stop listening to the whole cd! it's just so good!

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Sad_Little_Emo
03-31-2005

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Bert= lead singer of The Used. and he was making out with Gerard when they were both drunk, thus he came up with this twisted, but smooth and exhilarating...sound i guess. Anyway, did that help clear it up?

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SNEAKSCOPE
04-02-2005

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This song is about many things. It's about being in a band, being on tour, prison, rape, homosexuality, and hell.

But the way it fits in with the story is- this is after To The End, where The Man finds out how his beloved 'died.' So he meets up with her kilelr, and they have a gunfight. But after that, the songs' meaning isn't as obvious as you'd think. He actually dies in the gunfight, and goes down to hell, and the rest of the song is actually about hell.

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Black Mariah
04-04-2005

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wow... SNEAKSCOPE i never thought about it that way...that makes loadsa sence now bout the gunfight thing cuz he thought his g/f was dead and made a deal with the devil.. that really fits YAY..... sorry about the YAY.....

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rasberryblitz
04-04-2005

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Thanks a lot Sad Little Emo. It all makes sense now!

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Sad_Little_Emo
04-04-2005

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Awsome.

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Rollingstonesrock
04-07-2005

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I

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NoSecondKnife
04-07-2005

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This song is about Bert and Gerard kissing. I would totally pay to see them mke out. I read this in a Mag.

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