So let me take thee with a chainsaw, (Chainsaw)
And take the glass against your wrists.
You know I am your worst nightmare
Oh how you love my bloody kiss.
But its time to die
(Your worth more dead)

Tell me your fantasies
I'll make you believe
That I really care
I'll look into your eyes,
I'll tell you all my lies.
As I take you slow.

So let me take thee with a chainsaw (Chainsaw)
I'll leave you like your father did.
I'll bite your lip, so fucking, so hard.
And watch the innocence just rip.
Rip down your chest, and into mine.

Tell me your fantasies
I'll make you believe
That I really care
I'll look into your eyes,
I'll tell you all my lies.
As I take you slow.

So take your tears and go away
So take your tears and go away
A bitter ending from a slow decay.
So take your tears and go away.
And I'll sit here with a smile and a match.

The pain, she cried, the heartache.
The lies, she cried, the heartache.
The life, she cried, the heartache.
And your life, she cried.
And the heartache.



Lyrics submitted by heartattack

Track duration: 03:09

"Tie Her Down" as written by Michael John Glita David Michael Miller

Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP

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    General Comment:Yes definitely a guy that gets a girl to fuck him, takes her virginity, then laughs about it later. Sounds pretty "rape-ish".
    Flag mechatanneron August 03, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:"Love me gently with a chainsaw"

    Way to screw up an iconic line. You can't use a line like that and change it, you just can't. "Heathers" is boss
    Flag DanceDamouron May 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"Love me gently with a chainsaw"

    Way to screw up an iconic line. You can't use a line like that and change it, you just can't. "Heathers" is boss
    Flag DanceDamouron May 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:yea this song is pretty good. I think it's one of their best songs. When it says oh how you love my bloody kiss i think that it means they probably cutt their lips and made out and it probably got her really hot, so she loved it. I do that with my boyfriend sometimes. If your a cutter go ahead and try it. It's great i promise. I'm pretty sure he has sort of a death fetish cause he says love me gently with a chainsaw, which means that he wants to be hurt by her knowing that she loves him. When he says I'll bight your lip so fucking hard and watch the innosence just drip. He means that when they made out he bit her lip so hard that it would break the skin so it would bleed sown her chest and he would lick it off and they would beging makeing out. The chorus is showing how much he really loves her while he's takeing her virginity. I love it. and you guys obviously get the other lyrics of the song.
    Flagged weniseeyersmileon December 07, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:awesome song. took a while to grow on me though
    Flag AllOnBlack666on March 29, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:okay...StandUpJack, i don't think you'd know good music if it bit you on the ass...Buddy has an incredible voice!! And if you don't like 'em, don't listen to 'em...DUH! Iwdcm pretty sure they're good in concert...Buddy's voice is very appealing to the mind...and I'm pretty sure that's not the only reason people listen to them...The meanings of their songs are just to be self-taken...
    Maybe this song is just to be determined by one's own will...as if it may be about sex and taking one's virginity or it may be about how one guy love's a girl and gets hurt by her and still loves her but hates her at the same time...
    quite a tough song to figure out
    Flag himynameiszummieon December 02, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with most of you, the ones that are acutally commenting on what the song means, not about how "juevenile" Buddy's lyrics are. Personally i find Senses Fail inspiring, but its your own opinon i guess. It does seem like the male character is using the girl for sex. But i agree with toxik lemon that she could have hurt him or something and made him feel used so he used her...idk. But throughout the song it sounds like he's taking someones virginity...maybe rape then?...but that wouldnt make sense because of "oh how you love my bloddy kiss". So hmm.this is a toughy. Id say that hes using her, she knows it, but she lusts after him and they spend time together and thats all that matters to her. I dont know..im prolly wrong, but hey im trying.

    and "love me gently with a chainsaw" is an oxymoron. Because, well, you cant be gentle with a chainsaw. So maybe he's saying that their relationship was rocky..idk..just a thought or something. This is definately something to just sit and think about...
    Flag Addicted2pUnK90on July 17, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Buddy has to be one of the worst lyricists ever. Like my friend said tonight, there's retarded kindergarten students who could write better lyrics. They try so hard to be morbid and shocking but it just comes across as an incredibly juvenile and fake. Also, Buddy's voice isn't anything astounding on CD, but during live performances he has the most ridiculously off-key and flat vocals ever. Saves the Day blew them off the stage on this fall's co-headlining tour.
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    You and your friends are SO cutting edge.
    Flag Panic!on July 07, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is almost like the girl did something horrible to him.. for example, maybe she cheated on him, and she doesn't know he knows. He completely hates her for it.. but he's going to just use her one last time before he gets rid of her? yeeeah
    Flag toxik_lemonon June 15, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I can definitely relate to where Buddy is coming from here. I went out with a psycho who acted EXACTLY like the girl in this song. hehehe...

    I truly think this song is just about a girl who had anything she could ever hope for, but she wasn't satisfied. She had to pretend like her life was so awful, and made up problems so that she could be unhappy with whoever she was with, and whatever she was doing. No matter how much he tried to make her happy, she would blow everyhthing out of proportion, make him the bad guy, and be unhappy. And this is Buddy finally getting fed up with it and just saying, "Well, fuck you then. Go be unhappy, but don't drag me down." Or at least that's how I interpret this.

    Then there are lines that make me agree with bullets&love. I just don't know...
    Flag RememberToForgeton May 30, 2006   Link

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