The incisions on your wrist were all for show. Just like you. The epitome of self indulgence. Another farce, a charade and another set of crocodile tears. So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song. "Broken hearts never mend." But fools never move one. And now she's gone because of you. And once again you're the epitome of pure self destruction. Cupid never found his mark. As we await the insertion of blades on flesh. You part the skin and tell of blades on blood. So part the fucking skin. So part the fucking skin. To tell the blades on blood. To tell the blades on the blood. The blades on blood. She said I love you. She said, she said goodbye. So cry me a fucking river bitch. You wouldn't know love if it crushed you fucking chest. Let go. You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest. "Razors, roses and a black tomorrow." You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest. "Razors, roses and a black tomorrow." Yeahhh. They never showed any affection to anything but your ego. A tragedy of errors at the best of times. You are everything that's wrong with me. You are everything that I despise. You are everything I dreamed would die. You are everything that fades away and slowly dies. Will you bleed for me when suicide seems so yesterday? Will you bleed for me? Will you fucking bleed for me when suicide. So yesterday. It's all so fucking yesterday. So yesterday.



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"Romance Is Dead" as written by Ben Michael Gordon Jeffrey Cleve Ling

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    My Interpretation:The incisions is your wrist were all for show.
    Just like you.
    He epitome of self indulgence.
    Another farce.
    A charade and another set of crocodile tears.
    So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song.
    "Broken hearts never mend".
    But fools never move one.
    And now she's gone because of you.
    And once again You're the epitome of pure self destruction.
    Cupid never found his mark.
    As we await the insertion of blades on flesh.
    You part the skin and tell of blades on blood.
    So part the fucking skin.
    To tell the blades on blood.
    She said "I Love You"
    She said.
    She said goodbye.
    So cry me a fucking river bitch.
    You wouldn't know love if it crushed you fucking chest.
    Let go.
    You wouldn't know love if it crushed your fucking chest.
    "Razors, roses and a black tomorrow"
    They never showed any affection to anything but your ego.
    A tragedy of errors at the best of times.
    You are everything that's wrong with me.
    Youre everything that I despise.
    You are everything I dreamed would die.
    You are everything that fades away and slowly dies.
    Will you bleed for me when suicide seems so yesterday?
    Will you bleed for me?
    Will you fucking bleed for me when suicide...
    It's so yesterday.
    It's all so fucking yesterday

    How has no one figured this out yet? This song is written to himself. Everyone of his love songs tells of how it hurts so much that he wants to die. Read the lyrics for the Don't Close your eyes album. He's telling himself to let go of this weakness. This part of him he hates but never goes away. "Razors roses and a black tommorow" is a direct reference to the song swallowing razorblades.

    "I'm swallowing razorblades again
    Your eyes have torn my throat
    Trying to steal my tongue
    Gaze of a demon has burned through
    My skin
    Porcelain fingers take the hope from my heart
    Splinters of love
    A years goodbye's bleed red
    Roses of black all my night"

    He looks at that part of himself and says "You are everything that's wrong with me.
    You're everything that I despise.
    You are everything I dreamed would die.
    You are everything that fades away and slowly dies."

    From Looks Like Yoda "I've become too accustomed to hopes
    Hope's cruel grasp
    Progression or regression
    It all ends the same
    In a world devoid
    Emotionless
    In a life such as this
    Only death is certain
    So why wait
    Break my heart
    Cut my throat"
    Flag bperkins7on January 04, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Thinking about this from a perspective of where parkway come from, in addition to reading and hearing alot of pwd's interviews, they talk about drugs and suicide and i believe this is a comment on the effects of suicidal tendencies and small rurual communities.
    Flag sorryyourewrongon December 01, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:It's either about a guy who commits suicide after a broken romance, or a guy who kills his former lover and then himself. Or maybe just kills the girl. Definitely some killing and/or suicide action going on. Sick fucking song, greatest fucking band ever. This continues to be one of the greatest songs ever.
    Flag MetalcoreJ44on August 27, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:@everyone who thinks it's about a girl that's self-mutilating out of fake suffering:

    "So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song."

    EMPHASIS PLACED ON "Serenade HER"



    ..derp?
    Flag FollowtheHollowon July 29, 2010   Link
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    My Opinion:theres way too many interpretations so this song but i just wanted to say,
    SO CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER BITCH
    Flag chunklelicouson July 04, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I really hope any members of Parkway Drive read what you people interpret their music as. It's fucken ridiculous. While songs are made to be interpreted differently by different individuals, you are mostly all saying the same stupid shit. It's about a girl, it's about a boy, it's about a break up.

    Generation Y, please shut the fuck up and stop tainting a iconic Australian band with your idiocy.

    If you had half a brain you would try and look behind the lyrics as structured and try to apply them to something that is more substantial than over emotionalism in blind love, heart ache and the weak exit of suicide by even weaker people. The band have even admitted that this song gets interpreted the wrong way. In fact, you people are pretty much giving this song the same ideology to what the song is speaking out against...

    Read past what you want something to be and look at it for what it is. You want it to be about a guy or girl who have been dumped because then you can relate to it more and try and convince yourself that this song speaks to you because of that. Get over your selfish reasons for enjoying somebody else's art.

    Fuckheads
    Flag MrDillingeron June 14, 2010   Link
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    My Opinion:Gotta love this one. The best part of the song is the breakdown until the end. Nice melodic guitar solo to bring things down a bit, then a snare blast and an epic scream and guitar riff to blow your mind, which continues until the synths slowly fade in, ending the song with so much emotion. It's truly amazing what a good band is capable of.
    Flag TheAbstractedon June 09, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:It's a possibility of a lot of things.
    Song writers write based on trying to send a message.

    It's this simple i believe. Self harm is not a way to get attention. It does seem like he is bashing out on the other emo bands. Which is true in a sense read and portray your own way. But then it's like he's also trying to cross the message of being strong. Live above trends, emo trends. Starting to make sense?

    My take is this.

    "The incisions is your wrist were all for show.
    Just like you.
    The epitome of self indulgence.
    Another farce.
    A charade and another set of crocodile tears."

    Somewhere along the lines of a girl he might have had relations with. That of course imposed self harm to get his attention. Him being a strong willed/caring individual falls for this.

    "So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song.
    �Broken hearts never mend�.
    But fools never move on.
    And now she�s gone because of you.
    And once again You�re the epitome of pure self destruction.
    Cupid never found his mark.
    As we await the insertion of blades on flesh.
    You part the skin and tell of blades on blood.
    So part the fucking skin.
    To tell the blades on blood.
    She said.
    She said goodbye."

    He then becomes overly infatuated with her. Being the kind person he is he loves without question. Girls not used to this and turns opposite to what she acts. He slowly pushes her away because of her problems and him just being caring. Making everything seem like it's his fault, and he slowly falls prey to this evil. It gets to the point where he indulges so much so quickly she's already gone. Hence saying goodbye.

    Girl go's back out into the world and continues the life she had of getting used hurt etc etc.
    Comes wanting him back.

    "So cry me a fucking river, bitch.
    You wouldn�t Know love if it crushed you fucking chest.
    Let go.
    You wouldn�t know love if it crushed your fucking chest.
    �Razors, roses and a black tomorrow�"

    He's slowing coming back to sense with what was right and see's that over time. So when she does come back it's too late. He's moved on, exclaiming to her these lyrics in a way. She's dead to him he exclaims in the last verse. Then continues the reasons why she is here.

    "They never showed any affection to anything but your ego.
    A tragedy of errors at the best of times.
    You are everything that�s wrong with me.
    You�re everything that I despise.
    You are everything I dreamed would die.
    You are everything that fades away and slowly dies."

    He tells her about her wrongs. That he was not wrong in what he did and that she was self indulged in herself so much she failed to be real. In life and in love. So he's telling her to die not literally but mentally. That all hope is lost due to her arrogance and ignorance.

    "Will you bleed for me when suicide seems so yesterday?
    Will you bleed for me?
    Will you fucking bleed for me when suicide...
    It's so yesterday.
    It's all so fucking yesterday"

    In this part ending the story and once again saying how ignorant self harm is and how doing so to get attention is wrong. Saying his last good bye.

    So therefore this song could be about being a strong willed individual tempted by something bad, going threw it and seeing the bad. Not giving into wrong himself but rising above it in the end. To send a message out for others to live intelligently not ignorantly. Cause as said in interviews by the band it's about downing the emo trend. Trying to help people to realize life not forget it. Because as i said usually writers write about something portrayed to them in some way. Portraying a message to others is all. Hope this helped
    Flag kcizlegendon May 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This might sound weird but i think it is about a guy who goes sleeping around. he meets this one chick and promises her the world, he gets laid and leaves. she is heart broken. then he comes back and she has to make a decison but thinks back
    You are everything that�s wrong with me.
    You�re everything that I despise.
    You are everything I dreamed would die.
    You are everything that fades away and slowly dies.
    Will you bleed for me when suicide seems so yesterday?
    Will you bleed for me?
    Will you fucking bleed for me when suicide...
    and then she doesn't fall for it again. like i said weird lol
    Flag wyattyarnellon April 03, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:i think you guys are really missing the point here. And by the way, alot of you are mistaking depression and such with being 'emo', which makes you seem rather childish, as depression is a serious illness.

    anyway, i think the song is talking to a guy, who broke a girls heart. It's telling him how much of a cunt he was. And that he is doing everything to get her back, threating suicide and self harming. But its saying she doesnt deserve that, as he hurt her, and should just let go, because she is gone.

    "You wouldn't Know love if it crushed your fucking chest" - a twist on a commonly used phrase, meaning he doesn't apreciate what he had, and that he is stupid for hurting her.

    "So serenade her with your last pathetic suicide love song" - pretty much telling him to stop sending empty threats, and get on with it and take his life, because she is not gonna change her mind.

    Basically, i think it's about, what alot of you touched on i guess, a guy who is sort of attention seeking, sending empty threats, trying to get back a girl who he hurt, and has left him. Calling him a pussy.

    cheers :P
    Flag RazorsAndRoseson March 22, 2010   Link

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