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If we cut out the bad
Well then we'd have nothing left
Like I cut up your mouth
The night I stuffed it all in
And you lied to the angels
Said I stabbed you to death
If we go at the same time
They'll clean up the mess
I lost my head
You couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
Watched you bite into the bottle
Watched me kick out the chair
Let you chew up the glass
And laughed at you just hung there
I have thought of rose petals mostly perfect and pure
Then I thought of your petals
And the abuse they've been through
I lost my head
You couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
You lost your head
I couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
Whoa whoa
I told the angels
Can't stay in heaven
I asked the devil
If we cut out the bad well then we'd have nothing left
Like I cut up your angels
Yeah you stabbed me to death
I lost my head
You couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
You lost your head
I couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels just like a gun
Well then we'd have nothing left
Like I cut up your mouth
The night I stuffed it all in
And you lied to the angels
Said I stabbed you to death
If we go at the same time
They'll clean up the mess
I lost my head
You couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
Watched you bite into the bottle
Watched me kick out the chair
Let you chew up the glass
And laughed at you just hung there
I have thought of rose petals mostly perfect and pure
Then I thought of your petals
And the abuse they've been through
I lost my head
You couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
You lost your head
I couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
Whoa whoa
I told the angels
Can't stay in heaven
I asked the devil
If we cut out the bad well then we'd have nothing left
Like I cut up your angels
Yeah you stabbed me to death
I lost my head
You couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels like a gun
You lost your head
I couldn't come
This loss to my brain almost feels just like a gun
Lyrics submitted by jsparisinflames
Track duration: 03:47
"Cut Up Angels" as written by Robert C./steineckert Mccracken
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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What Bert said about "a relationship with someone you love so much that you could absolutely kill them" and "Being a part of someone's life means you get to know everything you can't stand about that person" makes me relate it to 'loving someone so much you've ended up destroying [parts of] them.'
The first few years I listened to it, I thought about committing suicide, but having gone back it sounds more like watching someone else do it/helping them. The petals part got me thinking about anatomy - the abuse of sex (and as another commenter said, rape) and passion all rolled into what essentially means to transform something beautiful into something awful.
Maybe this song is about two people just hurting each other in grotesque ways, trying to find compromise, since "most of the time, those [the things you can' stand] are the things you end up loving the most" - so 'if we cut out the bad then we'd have nothing left' of the relationship.
Then perhaps "losing [whoever's] head" is a metaphor for changing, leaving the other behind ('couldn't come').
Great song, those are just my stupid ideas.
There is much sadistic/masochistic imagery in the song. Whether it is literal or not... there are sexual overtones (This is an objective statement, as evidenced by "lust" being likened to a gun). Whether it's about lovers, or rape, or an abusive relationship... that's up to the listener of the song to decide. All we can know is what the writer has to say about the song in interviews and I'm not enough of a tryhard to go look for interviews about this song.
From my interpretation... 1) the cutting of the mouth by stuffing it all in, refers to sticking the entire phallus into ones mouth causing damage to the integrity of the oral cavity. 2)Losing his head and being unable to make the partner "come" or "cum" meaning they are unable to reach their orgasm... which is often a problem for masochistic or sadistic people; unless there is pain involved. 3) The lust and desire for "kinkier" for a lack of better words becomes figuratively like a gun. The singer is implying that there then needs to be pain or destruction in order for the lust to be satisfied.
The mouth is not a literal mouth on ones face but the nether lips so to speak, he is stuffing it in to her lady parts.
Her petals are also her lady bits, and the abuse would be sex, i think the current act, because he looses his head and so forth over it once he thinks of what he has done.
The bottle part, either is nonsensical or also referring to putting something (his penis) into her figurative 'mouth' and if it was her first time she may bleed ad so it would be like chewing glass for that mouth.
The hanging there bit and chair bit reads to me as, she was on his lap then he stood up, kicking out the chair, and she is hanging onto him and so forth.
Their lyrics are always very ambiguous yet strange and you can take any meaning you wish from them.
Watch you bite into the bottle
Watch me kick out the chair
Let you chew up the glass
And laugh as you just hung there
I had thought of rose petals
Most were perfectly pure
Then I thought of your petals
And the abuse they've been through
He's talking about how he thought he was dealing with somebody undamaged, "pure", and not someone who'd already been through so much abuse and was affected so much by it.
"Then I thought of your pedals
And the abuse they've been through"
he's trying to say she a bit of a whore...
and the song also has alot of violent references and i think they're not completely literal I think he's kind of expressing the fact that he's pretty pissed off about something she did
but yeah basically i think the songs basically about some twisted fucked up sex life and whoever thinks its not sexual and that i just have my mind in the gutter is just in denial because this song is so obviously sexual