Lyrics for To The End as interpreted by jhigday

To The End Lyrics
He calls the mansion not a house but a tomb.
He's always choking from the stench and the fume.
The wedding party all collapsed in the room.
So send my resignation to the bride and the groom.
Let's go down.
This elevator only goes up to ten.
He's not around. He's always looking at men.
Down by the pool he doesn't have many friends.
As they are face down and bloated snap a shot with the lens.
If you marry me, would you bury me?
Would you carry me to the end?

Say goodbye to the vows you take.
Say goodbye to the life you make.
Say goodbye to the heart you break.
And all the cyanide that you drank.

She keeps a picture of the body she lends.
Got nasty blisters from the money she spends.
She got a life of her own and it shows
by the Benz she drives at 90 by the Barbies and Kens.
If you ever say never too late.
I'll forget all the diamonds you ate.
Lost in coma and covered in cake.
Increase the medication.
Share the vows at the wake.
Kiss the bride.
If you marry me, would you bury me?
Would you carry me to the end?

Say goodbye to the vows you take.
Say goodbye to the life you make.
Say goodbye to the heart you break.
And all the cyanide you drank.
Say goodbye to the last parade.
Walk away from the choice you made.
Say goodnight to the heart you break.
And all the cyanide that you drank.
[Repeat]
To the end.

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rme
06-16-2004

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first of all, this is maybe the best song on three cheers...
i like the chorus So much....
i'm not shure with the meaning, but i'd say it's definitly about marrying someone / marriage. i think it's told from the point, when a marriage slowly starts to break.
the man doesn't like the life in the mansion no more ("he calles the mansion not a house but a tomb"), he thinks he's in hell or something like that...
and i think both of them, the woman and the man, start to betray each other. the man maybe even with other men ("He's not around. He's always looking at men."). well i don't know exactely but i was thinking about something like this...
and what i was thinking about, too is: "this elevator only goes up to ten" - maybe ten years of marriage?
well, just some thoughts..

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RancidSkater29
06-21-2004

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This is the best song on three cheers, no doubt about it. In the part of the song that talks about the girl to me that part sounds like she sleeps around to help achieve her goals, kind of like a corporate whore because "the body she lends" then it goes on talking about all the money she has. Also the medication that is brought up, could it be something like antidepressents, making you think everything is perfect when its really not so "increase the medication"

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Pitchfork_Red
09-21-2004

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This could be foreshadowing the end of a relationship.. i think its written before marriage, to think of possibilities of what could happen down the road.. also i tinhk its inspired by Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk,
the entire first verse at least.

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rjthebomb
10-05-2004

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When I heard the lyrics to this song I immediately thought of the short story A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner. If my memory serves me correctly, Emily falls in love with a man named Homer...however he's always looking at men, so it is assumed that he's homosexual. Anyway she ends up killing him (he won't marry her when she proposes, as I remember it) with cyanide I think, and keeps his dead body in her room, where she sleeps with it. So unless it's a coincidence I think that is what the song is about.

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from stars 2 tears
10-06-2004

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pitchfork_red i also thought it was insipred by invisivble monsters.
rjthebomb might be correct too, but it's a little bit different that a rose for emily.
i'm saying it was inspired by both, if not more, sources.

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from stars 2 tears
10-06-2004

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oh yes and i also believe she went to the drug store and asked for arsenic.

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GotYouWhereIwant
10-07-2004

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It may just be me and my stupidity, but why does the first and second verse seem like to different stories. Almost, two different point of views. Maybe the first from the woman in the relationships point of view and the second from the mans. Maybe it just is third person but it is written from a closer persons point of view.

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surfcutie1
10-10-2004

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i agree... i think the one half is about a woman who kills their husbands for thier money and keeps repeating this crime to get exactly what she wants, all the finer things in life. Yet the murder is never blamed on here. I think the first half is about a man and theres no way out. He's stuck in this "tomb" for the rest of his life and he feels all alone.. anyway great freekin song

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Pitchfork_Red
10-12-2004

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I just finished Lullaby, also by Palahniuk, and lead female is so thirsty for power and alos love from someone who can't accept her and she dies while eating diamonds: "If you ever say never too late.
I'll forget all the diamonds you ate." Its gotta be an ode to chuck

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geniegirl191
10-17-2004

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I just wanted to add that in the beggining right after he says "So send my resignation to the bride and the groom." When he says "let's go down" it really sounds like they're going down an elevator. I thought that was the coolest part of the song the way they used their instruments, but all of their songs are really kickass.

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A2theJ
12-15-2004

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The first verse is easy to figure out. It's a crime scene at a wedding in a mansion (or maybe hotel). In movies and on T.V. and stuff they show cops usually covering there nose and mouth due to the smell. Then the cop takes an elevator down to the pool area (these two details make me believe it could be a hotel and not a literal mansion), where more people have been killed and are floating in the pool and they are taking pictures of the scene.

I'm not too sure about the second verse.

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skawt
12-20-2004

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This song is about A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner... check out the story its good

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Sockks
12-23-2004

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Great song, although I don't really know the real meaning.

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chemicalnova
12-26-2004

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I think this song is about a marriage coming to an end and the relationship breaking up. It's also one of the best songs on the album. :D

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anathematic
12-28-2004

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I heard once from someone that this entire album is about a man falling in love with a woman who dies, so the man makes a deal with the devil to get him the souls of 1000 evil men in return for the woman's life. If you listen close in the solo on The prison song you hear someone scream "did you get the keys to the hotel you mother******" or something very similar.

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x0Fantasia
12-31-2004

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anathematic, at the end he says he's going to "string this mother****** on fire", out of anger I presume. To me, it seems like it's about the ending of a relationship.

I also agree with it being one of the best songs on Three Cheers. This band is amazing <3

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edwardismyhero7
01-04-2005

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this is one of my favorite songs on this whole f*ing album. MCR is amazing. One of my favorite bands of all time. This was one of the songs that i didn't already hear that got me addicted. way to go guys!

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Freak x Out 41
01-16-2005

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this is an amazing song. i love the lyrics.

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allscooped_up
01-23-2005

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well im not too sure about this song. it could be an arranged marriage. his heart not in it coz he loves other men and the only way she is happy is by spending money from prostitution perhaps(the body she lends) and when she finds him with another men she kills his friends and at the wedding he finds out and there's a big fight one of them ends up in a coma and the other on medication. and before the wedding he was always thinking if she married him would she kill him or would she carry on with this relationship till the end.

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cannoodle
01-24-2005

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yeah i just wanted to say that the line "Walk away from the choice you made" is actually "and walk away as the parties fade." just thought i would be helpful.. but anyway. this is a kick ass song and i agree with whoever said it that it's about 2 people about to get married but the song is saying that this is whats eventually gonna happen. ruined marriage. anyway to whoever said that whole "this elevator only goes up to ten" thing was about how the marriage only lasts 10 years.. well thats actually interesting i like that. never thought of it that way. so yeah. and when the say "to the end" at the very end it's almost like they're giving a sarcastic toast. as if it was a toast to the end when they're just at the beginning. MCR kicks ass!

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dragonchaser
01-25-2005

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i think this song is about a rich dude who marries woman and kills them.
"he calls the mansion not a house but a tomb" because there are so many dead bodies scattered about inside. "hes always choking from the stench and the fume" because of all those bodies. "down by the pool he doesnt have many friends cuz theyre all face down and bloated" (more people hes killed).
the lines "say goodbye to the vows you take, to the life you make" along with "share the vows at the wake" are refering to all of the woman and how theres no point in taking those vows. they might as well take them at their funerals.

the second verse is about one of the many woman in particular. she is just marrying him for his money and has no idea whats comign to her.

-thats just my interpretation although ive heard some other pretty good ones

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redcherries
01-28-2005

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This songs is about a woman a man who on their wedding, she finds out that he is gay. she poisons him with cyanide and drowns him. and then she's goes aruond spending his money like crazy. and in the end she kills herself (swallowing diamonds) and they get married in the afterlife.
pixiepunk

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redcherries
01-28-2005

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'she takes a picture of the body she lends', i took that to mean that she takes a picture of the body she kills and 'lends' to the afterlife/heaven/hell/???.
-pixiepunk

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redcherries
01-28-2005

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the 1 st verse is basically saying that a man a woman are at their wedding party. but they never get married b/c she finds out that he's gay and is pissed the fuck off!!! and she kills all of his friends who knew about it. she poisons him with cyanide. and she keeps pics. of all the dead bodies.
the second vese is her spending all of his money. and then killing herself b/c she knows she's wrong. 'share the vows at the wake' makes it seem that maybe after they both died that got maried to each other in the after life.Say goodbye to the vows you take.

Say goodbye to the life you make. (any children they could have had)
Say goodbye to the heart you break. (he broke her heart by being homosexual. she broke his by killing her)
And all the cyanide you drank. (she poisoned him with cyanide)
Say goodbye to the last parade. (it's the last good thing they'll see b/c they both die)
Walk away from the choice you made. (killing your fiance and engaging a woman when youre gay, are choices they can't take back so they might as well just walk away_Say goodbye to the vows you take.
Say goodbye to the life you make.
Say goodbye to the heart you break.
And all the cyanide you drank.
Say goodbye to the last parade.
Walk away from the choice you made.
Say goodnight to the heart you break.
And all the cyanide that you drank. )
- *pixie*punk*

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MCRGoddess
01-31-2005

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redcherries, that's a really good outlook on the song. the only thing i don't understand though, is why does gerard keep talking about being gay? i just don't get it.....

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