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Jesus Of Suburbia
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[Part I: Jesus of Suburbia ]

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of
Soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

But there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

Get my television fix
Sitting on my crucifix
The living room of my private womb
While the moms and Brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes
And Mary Jane to keep me insane
And doing someone else's cocaine

[Part II: City Of The Damned]

At the center of the Earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 were I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says "home is were your heart is"
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
We're beating out of time

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

[Part III: I don't care]

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care [x5]

Everyone is so full of shit
Burn and raised by hipocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
From Anaheim to the middle east
We are the stories and disciples
Of the Jesus of Suburbia
Land of make believe
And it don't believe in me
Land of make believe
And I don't believe
And I don't care!

[Part IV: Dearly beloved]

Dearly beloved are you listening?
I can't remember a word that you were saying
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in between insane and insecure
Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

[Part V: Tales of another broken home]

To live and not to breathe
Is to die in tragedy
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
I lost my faith to this
This town that don't exist

So I run
I run away
To the light of masochists
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line
A million and one fucking times
But not this time

I don't feel any shame
I wont apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain
When you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home

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deadlyxtrends
02-13-2006

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Great song. Freakin' kick ass. ^^
Anywho.

Jesus of Suburbia;
I think this part of the song is about who he is. Where he's from. His /life/. "Rage and love" speaks of his parents. His father's rage and his mother's love. His creation. Who he is.
His life that's just... crappy. He wants out.
No one believes in him and he hates it.

City of the Damned;
"The center of the earth" is his hometown. (Jingletown) When it says "The center of the earth is the end of the world" it means that Jingletown is an ending. Whether it be of his spirit, himself, his views, whatever. It's the end.
Pretty much, if he stays there, he's damned.

I Don't Care;
He's fed up. He's tired of everyone's crap. He knows there's got to be something better somewhere, and he wants to find it. That's pretty much all I'm getting from that segment. ^^;

Dearly Beloved;
I think this part is about... He's trying to understand what he wants and where he is. He wants to know where he stands and he wants to know what's wrong with him. Everyone else gets on with life in Jingletown, so why can't he?

Tales From Another Broken Home;
He's done. Totally done.
He's living, but he's not really living. "To live and not to breathe is to die in tragedy". It won't end well if things keep up like this.
So, he "leaves behind this hurricane of fucking lies". His whole life has been one huge lie and he's fed up with it.
He's "walked this line one million and one fucking times, but not this time". His life has been the same thing, day after day, year after monotonous year. He's not going to walk that same line again.
He's leaving and he's not ashamed because that's all there is left for him to do.