We walked through the doorway
Heard you calling from the hall
To find you in the bedroom
Not breathing at all
I drug your body to the cellar where we lay
The wax, it melts away
I kiss your face.

Now we are starting to love you more
Your body's on the canvas
I painted on the floor

Now you wait like the drug, like the change
And the pain it goes on for so long
And oh, how it hurts in the worst way now that you're gone
It's so wrong
It's so wrong.

If I could take you somewhere
I'd take you to the darkest place
Scatter you in art forms
Admire the whore
Beauty in different ways
Your hands on picture frames
Your eyes in the glass
Wear your face has a mask

Now they are starting to love you more
A gallery of your beauty
No charge at the door

As you wait like the drug, like the change
And the pain it goes on for so long
And oh, how it hurts in the worst way now that you're gone
It's so wrong
It's so wrong

And down below
Your veins run dry your vacant eyes
I lost control
Your face is pale, your body's cold
And down below your veins run dry your vacant eyes
I lost control
Your face is pale, your body's cold (Your face is pale, your body's cold)

Wait, like the drug, like the change
And the pain it goes on for so long
And oh, how it hurts in the worst way now that you're gone

It's so wrong [x10]



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Cellar Door song meanings
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    My Interpretation:I think this songs is about addiction.

    the first verse notes they are approaching the hallway
    addiction calls out.
    As he enters his room he finds "her (heroin, most cultures refer to heroin as her)
    as he takes her to the cellar where he usually has a hit and lays down
    he uses a candle to mix in the heroin in with a spoon and flame

    He is starting to like the addiction more.
    When he has finished his taste he then squirts out the blood from the syringe on the floor.
    as if he is painting a canvas.

    Chorus:
    this is about withdrawal.
    as he waits, the drug wears down, changes from euphoric to pain,
    hanging out hurts, now that the heroin is gone, they pain is building
    and it goes on and on.
    He knows that its wrong. but the pain is too much.

    Verse 2:
    If he could take it somewhere, he would go to the darkest place
    squirting his canvas of blood everywhere, memorized by it all
    admiring his art, as his blood touches everything
    gazing through it through the glass of the syringe, the cap of the syringe as a mask

    Now everyone fiends for her(oin)
    loving her more.
    a shooting gallery of all the beauty, there is no charge at this art door

    Chorus
    withdrawal.

    Breakdown:
    He looks down to realize his veins have run dry, the vacant look in your eyes as he is high
    he has lost control, look of heroin is pale and body is cold.
    repeats and ends

    etc

    Very deep metaphors and well written. Would only get to a person that really knows this life. very sad song.
    Flag tidexon April 17, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:What I don't understand is that he heard her calling, but when he found her, she was 'not breathing at all'. What/why did she call out? That could make a big difference in the song meaning. She could have overdosed, and didn't wanna die, but was making some sort of sound and by the time they got to her, she wasn't able to be saved. Or perhaps she made a sound when she shot herself? Or she screamed for help when she heard him walk in and someone killed her? There's also the twist where he says ''We walk through the doorway, heard you calling from the hall''. Is he in the hall? Or is she? Then how did she get to the bedroom? And here's another twist (and this one is a little far-fetched, I'll admit) Perhaps when he walked through the door (coming from her funeral), his memories of her came flooding back. He could be in the hallway, and in past times she was in the bedroom calling out to him, and when he got to the bedroom, she's ''not breathing at all'', meaning she's not there, she's dead. ''I drug your body, to the cellar where we lay'' Then, he doesn't want to remember her and he drags her stuff to the cellar. Maybe they laid together in the cellar in the past? Then ''The wax, it melts away, I kiss your face'' <-- Also a memory. ''Now we are starting to love you more'' (By this point, I'm starting to wonder if he has a complex.. sort of like Smeagol from Lord of the Rings, because he says 'we' a lot) He loves her more and realizes how much he loves her now that she's gone. ''Your body's on the canvas I've painted on the floor'' Maybe he's throwing things and they're breaking (such as picture frames) and it's all the things from when she was alive that were special to her. Hence the 'body' reference I made earlier. Then the chorus ''Now you wait, like the change in (and) the pain, it goes on for so long'' <-- This could mean she's waiting in the ground for him, and he's young so it might be awhile. Also, I'd like to put in that if it is, in fact, 'in' not 'and', then it could be referring to how when you're in pain, you sort of get used to it after a while, but if you change out of the routine that has gotten used to the pain, then you feel the pain all over again and it feels like forever until you can get used to it again. Think of when your foot falls asleep. ''It's so wrong'' Maybe he's thinking that it's wrong without her being alive and with him and that everything feels wrong without her there and they'll never be able to live their life as they had planned. And really, if you just follow that train of thought, you get where it's going. Also, when he's describing her as art, I think he's looking at a photograph, except for when he says ''And down below..'' I think he means while she's in the ground and she's rotting away, because she's dead. ''I lost control'' Maybe he's crying and going crazy because she's gone? Like I said, this meaning is very far-fetched, but it was unique and I didn't see it in the comments, so I thought I'd share. Sorry for the long paragraph, it's just something to think about and consider, you know? Beautiful song with a lot of possible meanings! (:
    Flagged AwkwardStrangeron February 10, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:i like all of the different metaphors(: but i think the first verse could be literal. he could have drug her into a cellar and had candles lit...maybe a seance? this song is awesome either way.
    Flag maradeniseon December 07, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:Does no one else think that this song sounds like it's from the point of view of a creepy stalker-murderer?
    Flag divicool72on May 22, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:I thought it was about a necrophiliac who finds his old girlfriend dead, does it with her body, then slices her up and puts her parts in a gallery-like setting in his house...
    Flag personman906on February 07, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:drug=past tense of drag. problem solved.
    Flag sycfuk515on January 17, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Parts if tis song actualy makes me think of a movie. it's called the afterlife .

    "we walked through the door way heard you calling from the hall to find you in the bedroom not breathing at all"
    *refers to how the main characture [forget her name] was always trying to escape before her funeral . And people even began to wonder if she was really dead then when they would come to see her dead body before the funeral [like her mom]they saw she was dead.

    "Now you wait, like the drug, like the change and the pain it goes on for so long"
    *refering to how when ever anyone tried to visit her the funeral home owner shot the drug into her to make her musclues relax and to seem as if she was dead.

    Yea but thats like all i think relates to it . i mean maybe im crazy but whatever .

    Flag LoserKiddRadkeon January 01, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I always thought this was about doing drugs with someone and they OD
    Flag HideMeFromReflectionon December 12, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:We walked through the doorway
    Heard you calling from the hall
    To find you in the bedroom
    Not breathing at all
    I drug your body to the cellar where we lay
    The wax, it melts away
    I kiss your face.

    (He/People walk in to hear a loved one screaming in pain from the call, when they rush to find her/rescue her. When they get there, the loved one - possibly a girlfriend, is lying dead, not breathing, on the bedroom floor. He drags her body to the cellar, where they now lay - where he is singing this song. The wax, it melts away, refers to the wax of the candles melting away, he then kisses her face.)
    Your body's on the canvas
    I painted on the floor

    Now you wait like the drug, like the change
    And the pain it goes on for so long
    And oh, how it hurts in the worst way now that you're gone
    It's so wrong
    It's so wrong.

    (He reefers waiting for her coming alive is like waiting for drugs to come and take the pain away. He explains how much the pain hurts, then explains how it was wrong for her to die.)
    Flag braxtunnon September 22, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i don't think the title really has to do with a cellar at all, and like in donnie darko where its said about the words "cellar door being the most beautiful", it could just be a metaphor, since the song is about the girl's beauty (whether metaphorical or not) after all.

    Love the song <3
    Flag ansem990on July 16, 2010   Link

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