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Desert Song Lyrics
We hold in our hearts the sword and the faith
Swelled up from the rain clouds, move like a wraith Well after all, we'll lie another day And through it all We'll find some other way To carry on through cartilage and fluid And did you come to stare, or wash away the blood? Well tonight, well tonight Will it ever come? Spend the rest of your days Rocking out just for the dead Well tonight Will it ever come? I can see you awake anytime, in my head Did we all fall down? [x4] From the lights to the pavement From the van to the floor From backstage to the doctor From the Earth to the morgue Morgue, morgue, morgue Well tonight Will it ever come? Spend the rest of your days Rocking out just for the dead Well tonight Will it ever come? I can see you awake anytime in my head All fall down Well after all...
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10-11-2009
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08-06-2009
and the girl come back in the beginning a little after she leaves, but then goes again "Did you come back to stare, or to wash away the blood?" so she leaves, angry, and she never goes back. The guy lives in the desert, no meaning of life "rocking out, just for the dead" like dead mummies and such, and he sings to himself. And he imagines the girl, ALL the time, and reflects on his sad life.
This is a complicated song, i think it has a different meaning for everyone. I also heard Gee wrote it drunk.
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06-23-2009
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06-17-2009
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01-31-2009
i'm a fan of both Def Leppard and My Chemical Romance, and I'm intelligent enough to know that this is NOT a cover of Desert Song by Def Leppard, it's a song with the SAME name. Get it now? Jeez...people shouldn't claim to be fans of Desert Song by DL when they can't even tell that the lyrics are completely different. It just proves that you're not a fan of either band and need to learn your song facts.
Also, I think that the Song 2 cover was different from Blur's version, and it was as good as, if not better. It was also recorded for NME's CD, so don't blame MCR for it, many other artists covered songs on the same CD.
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06-13-2008
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05-12-2008
I know it's odd and really doesn't connect with a lot of the lines in the song, but that's just the picture I get in my head. :3
MCR IS AMAZING. I saw them play this live at MSG on May 9th...it was so eerie. Gerard was singing on the catwalk, bathed in blue cell phone light from the audience...it sent shivers down my spine.
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02-14-2008
"We hold in our hearts the sword and the faith
Swelled up from the rain clouds, move like a wraith"
The sword and the faith was the big tip-off. For me. :\
"Well after all, we'll lie another day.
And through it all, we'll find some other way
To carry on through cartilage and flood.
And did you come to to stare or wash away the blood?"
For some reason this sounded to me like 'we're not giving up, and we'll fight on until there's none left'.
*shrug*
That's what I got. It may have been because my social studies class got through watching "Kingdom of Heaven" and I first listened to this song with that movie still on the brain.
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02-12-2008
i mean,
"From the lights to the pavement
From the van to the floor
From backstage to the doctor
From the Earth to the morgue
Morgue, morgue, morgue"
when he was drunk and high, he came down from the glamour and 'lights' of stardom to being severly depressed.
there are reams of footage of him regularly falling drunk, from their van and collapsing on the ground.
he came offstage and was backstage puking up after a show when he decided he needed help...the 'doctor' see.
and as for 'the earth to the morgue'
he realises that if he'd carried on he was going to die...leaving the earth for the hospital morgue.
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01-15-2008
anyway it's not a cover, obviously.
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01-13-2008
he is ultimately saying that if they didn't get their big break when they, they would've gone downhill and eventually died. over reacting, maybe? i hope so. but thats what i think it means.
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01-03-2008
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12-03-2007
(did you come to stare or was away the blood?;
spend the rest of your days rocking out for the dead. Seem like someone telling him about what they think.)
It could be about his grandma, I'm not sure when this was written; but I know it was originally on bullets.
He obviously feels very strongly about this person, so again, it could be his grandma.
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11-18-2007
listen to the both of em
and comment back!
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10-06-2007
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09-09-2007
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08-17-2007
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08-01-2007
As to the meaning; I think it's about Gerard's alcoholism and depression... and how people reacted...
"Did you come to stare, or wash away the blood"
- Possibly saying 'Are people going to actually help him, or will they judge him?'
"From the lights to the pavement"
- Saying how when he was onstage and drunk, it seemed okay, but when he came off the stage (back to the real world - the 'pavement') reality hit him.
"From the van to the floor"
- Could be a reference to that time when he was drunk and fell on the floor near a van (seems a bit obvious, but you never know!)
"From the earth to the morgue"
- Could be saying that he realises what the alcohol is doing to him.
"Well tonight, will it ever come?
Spend the rest of our days rocking out, just for the day"
- I think this could be talking about insomnia ('will it ever come'). And how everything can feel so good when you're with people and having fun, getting drunk, but the moment you're on your own, unable to sleep, you feel awful.
"All fall down,
Well after our own"
- I think that means that no-one's perfect, and people might let you down? Or how he felt he failed people?
I'm not that sure about any of it, really. That's just what I think! Any other ideas?
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07-08-2007
well thats my really long guess i suppose it could be some what right
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07-06-2007
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07-04-2007
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07-04-2007
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06-26-2007
It's basically about a daring leader and his group of rebellious banditos who threaten the safety of a French outpost. Gerard's reference of this old film in the context of the song positions himself as the leader of this group of rebels, travelling unendingly through a wasteland. He's said that My Chemical Romance were never a safe band, and back when this song was written, that statement was probably a little more true.
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05-26-2007
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05-03-2007
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