Lyrics for I Never Told You What I Do For a Living as interpreted by adrianelee

I Never Told You What I Do For a Living Lyrics
Stay out of the light.
All the photographs that I gave you
you could say a prayer for me too.
But just get in line and I'll grieve you
Can i meet you, alone?
Another night and ill see you.
Another night and ill be you.
Some other way to continue.

To hide my face.

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 to bury them
So deep and down we go

Touched by angels so I fall out of grace
I did it all so maybe I'd live this every day

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 to 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

[screaming]
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.

I tried, one more night, one more night
Well, I'm laughin', cryin', laughin' out loud
I tried,
Well i tried,
Well i tried,

'Cause i tried
but i lied

I tried
I tried
I tried

And we'll love again and we'll laugh again
We'll try 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

Never again, and never again
They gave us two shots to the back of the head
and we're all dead now.

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xSkellingtonDollx27
03-10-2005

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ergh edit::

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w1kd
03-11-2005

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by ChildOfTheNight on 02-28-2005 @ 09:41:11 PM
alright, i'm soooo excited! i figured out the entire album it's awesome, the 'helena' video really did it. the whole problem is that gerard said that not all the songs are from the concept album, so it was kind of confusing, but i think this is it:
helena- the girlfriend dies, the guy's damn sad.

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I just wanted to correct you on that statement you made.... Helena was not his girlfiend, it was his grandmother that was named Elena everyone called her Helen. She passed away and it affected him drastically. Hes a brillient poet, all his songs involve death & so much emotion, i herd in a interview that he stated that he was death obbsessed, he understands the meaning of death ever since she passed on.

The songs "Helena & I never told you what I do for a living", in my opinion are so powerful. Every time i listen to them I start to cry, I know it sounds stupid but him exxpressing himself in his music , screaming in sadness is gut renching and breaks my heart and its like you can feel his pain through his words. I have never had an artist ever effect me emotionally, till i herd this album. I thought it was only me that had a fucked up child while going to school an getting bullied caz i was different, reashuring to know I can relate to someone.

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hyperdeedee911
03-11-2005

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i love this song so much...i'm kind of thinking that its about a hit-man, because "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 to bury them
So deep in town we go."
made me think of someone who was hired to kill people...i love the guitar in this song, its so good!

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w1kd
03-11-2005

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Actually its about his relationships, the souls he had taken, then lost (Broken up w/ each other)

Clean me off, I'm so dirty babee, the kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes.

Theres 2 ways to be dirty, psychially dirty, and dirty in a naughty way.... When alot of people mention blood, like the way he does in this song, physically using a blade on each other till they bleed, its almost like a sexual pleasure without actually having sex.

Ive done it a couple times. Might be what hes talking about... in my opinion. I think he likes the fans to be curious... and we are ALOT lol.... amazing artist that i will forever adore.

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RomeosNotDead
03-12-2005

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To xSkellingtonDollx27... Yeah it makes sense with a hitman, but I still suppose Gerard would end the album with something about the concept story

To w1kd... Dude how is cutting each other til you bleed sexually arousing?
...Maybe it's just me but I stick to sex...

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xSkellingtonDollx27
03-12-2005

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ok so maybe ,thinking about the title, he combined both. he gets the bodies/souls by being a hitman.

gerard is amazing. his emotion that he puts forward in the helena video is effing wonderful .. .. .. i've read some of his quotes, is he gay ?? i have no problemw/it but i think he might be. i think it is awesome how he used to be all drunk and stuff and then he just quit cold turkey. amazing.
frank is better, but they all really deserve the hype they're getting. i am having a hard time finding ' i brought you my bullets ..' any places that will have it for sure??
someone email me i am effing bored!!!!!

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w1kd
03-13-2005

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Its hard to explain, the thrill.. Pain of pleasure. Very intiment, you are in a vulnarable state you an that person is in. Rush.. More spirtual then anyone can imagine. Very personal connection with each other.

No hes not gay, but he has kissed guys which he stated in an artical. But honestly I dont think its any of our business, no offense.

Hes like 2 months sober now, awesome. Hes just a chain smoker now hehe. Ive got both Cd's, which are amazing. I cant wait for the warp tour this year, I saw them lastyear. I have never had a group, emotionaly drain me (in a good way) his life i can relate too. When i found out his GF had taken her life, my bestfriend a month later had done the same. Till this day i havent spoke a verble word to anyone outside of my house. I honestly dont know how he moves on after that, plus his grandmother dying the next day he got back from the global tour. I guess I just dont fully understand death yet, I dont know what I am going to do when my parents pass on, i think about every single day, its takin so much control of my life. Where I dont do anything anymore. where I go to work then come home and hide in my room.

Sorry if this depresses anyone, its kinda a release if i talk about stuff. After my friend died i thought I never wanted to go on. I have never felt so alone in my entire life. I just wish I knew how to help myself from getting depressed.

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xSkellingtonDollx27
03-13-2005

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i think that SOMEONE needs to stop trying so hard

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RomeosNotDead
03-13-2005

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Yeah i still really dont approve that cutting shit man... a little fucked up to me. But i feel bad about your friend. Not the greatest place to talk about it though, but "Just think happy thoughts and we'll all fly home" [headfirst for halos] right?

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w1kd
03-14-2005

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What the hell is that supposed to me, "I think SOMEONE is tring so hard.

What? i cant express myself?

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xSkellingtonDollx27
03-14-2005

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you arent expressing yourself- you're puttig your 'depression' on display.

people dont go around telling everyone they kno about their depression ..

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w1kd
03-14-2005

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ok first of all... talking about it MAKES YOU FEEL ALOT BETTER then keeping it inside. People dont talk about it enough.....if they did, they would know that there not the only one and there is hope for anyone. YOu have any idea how many people that have commited suicide do to keeping stuff to themselves and not getting help. You obviously havent been depressed, or ever been on edge of saying "FUCK EVERYTHING" there are so many people out there agree and know exactly where im coming from. Coming on here and talking about it on here with people that are in my shoes, an talking about someone that has influenced me in a postive manner through there lyrical poetry that has changed alot of shit in my life. Im sorry if you think otherwise.

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w1kd
03-14-2005

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I just realized that Im almost a decade older then you, so im not going stress about it and let something get to me when someone hasent lived long enough to understand. Once you loose someone really close to you, I want you to come back on here an tell me that you dont agree with myself and everyone else on this board. I do express my depression alot differently then some people. Angers me that people dont except ppl for who they are an leave rude comments.

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xSkellingtonDollx27
03-15-2005

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look, i know how it is to lose something to love and never get ti back. i've been depressed. my best friend tried to kill herself ok so i kno about depression, but maybe not in the same way as you.
sorry about any confusion. yes i was trying to be rude, but i guess youre right its nto worht anyone's stress or time

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w1kd
03-16-2005

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I apologise aswell, I just got upset when i read that, caz everything was coming from the heart.

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xSkellingtonDollx27
03-16-2005

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ok well .. yeah ..

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ChildOfTheNight
03-21-2005

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w1kd: I think that helena was dedicated to his grandmother, but not necessarily about her. in the video, the dead woman is clearly not a grandmother, that's why i said the music video cleared all that up.

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MJKs_nino
03-24-2005

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I've just expanded my narrow-minded view of the wordls' music from Tool, Deftones, APC and a few astd others to MCR, and it's like I've been seeing black and white my whole life and they've made me see colour. maybe a little more red and black than I'd like, but wow, it's stunning. These guys aren't a band, they're a fucking religion, and that's coming from a Maynard James Keenan idoliser, the man with the lyrics to every question ever asked in life. Holy shit, Gerard Way is a prodigy that should be worshipped by the whole world... But kept a secret from them, too. Does that make sense, or am I just completely greedy? PS Thank you Morgan H from Texas for introducing me, some no one little aussie chick to a new way of wow. you gave me a secret because you trusted me with this dangerous knowledge, the knowledge of a band so fucking awesome my hands are shaking.

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giveemhellkid
03-24-2005

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about th helena video....it's not supposed to be his grandmother in this video ofcourse...it's supposed to be a girl in her young twenties that died a tragic death...the video is like a 'thank you'...or 'tribute' more, to his grandmother, for always being there for him and helping him...and making him beleive in himself.


and not to bring back an arguement that's now water under the bridge....but if people don't feel like they can tell absolutely anyone about their problems...i think that an internet site should be the perfect solution. ofcourse it's not going to solve their problems or anything...but atleast you're getting some things off of your chest...with people who don't personally know you...on a grounds to judge you. and if you can't at the least get things off of your chest on the internet...where else is left for you to go?

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GothGuy
03-25-2005

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I'm alittle confoosed on the whole subject. As i understand it the entire album is about a man and a woman in a gun fight. The man dies and goes to hell, but the women is still alive. The devil hands him a gun and says you can be with her again if you bring me the souls of a thousand evil men, and he said he'd do it. so, if the entire album is based on that subject, then shouldnt the posts be some what tied into that?

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poserboarder
03-26-2005

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This song is about a man trying to bring his girlfriend back from the dead... for those of you who don't know, his girlfriend died, he makes a pact with the devil, and the devil tells the man to bring him the corpses of 1,000 evil men to resurrect his girlfriend.

Now from what I understand of this song, he kills the 1,000 people and finally is able to see his girlfriend again. They love again, laugh again, and they dance together... but as they dance together, authorities arrive, because the man is wanted for 1,000 murders. The authorities fire two shots, striking each of them in the back of their head and they both die together... and to the man, it's better of that way.

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The title kind of gives me another perspective, perhaps the man has started another relationship with another girl, just for the sake of adding another name to his 1,000. He never told her what he does for a living, so he intends on killing this girl. He tells her it isn't for money or fame, it's only for the bodies that he claims. And he could only go so far with this girl until it was time to bury her. Before he plans the muder of this girl, he spends one fine evening with her and dances, but unexpectedly, authorities arrive and just fire at anything that moves and ended up killing the two. The man then says it's better of this way, because he can finally see his girlfriend in the afterlife.

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markappleyard_07
03-26-2005

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this song is unbelievably good

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ChildOfTheNight
03-29-2005

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i wish i still had the alternative press with the gerard way interview which baiscally said the plot. both the man and the woman die, they both go to hell, and they both make a pact with the devil to kill 1000 evil to redeem both their souls, and go to heaven. i'd quote it if i still had the article, but that's what he said. congradulations, MJKs_nino on your new life as an MCR fan. i still stand firm about my helena interpretation.

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markappleyard_07
04-01-2005

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this is by far my favourite song on the album, although the eintire album is amazing
i love how intense it is when he screams "i can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed"
i think it had duel meanings of the literal with reference to the murders he has committed and to the figurative which reminds me of the shakespearean play Macbeth where Macbeth & Lady cant clean the blood off their hands(sheets in his bed) and although the blood may be real its refering to their(his) concience which cannot be cleared

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Infamous Cliche
04-03-2005

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"So deep in town we go." Those aren't the right lyrics. It's "so deep and down we go." It makes more sense that way, doesn't it?

Fucking awesome song. All of you who thought this wasn't good enough to finish the album are crazy haha

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