Lyrics for 306 as interpreted by MaritheGreat

306 Lyrics
Three hundred and six
In only six years
If it was an accident
Where are the tears?
I am still unidentified
Behind the cathedral
Is where my body hides
But I'm not inside
Just one of sixteen
In early one day
If it was a game
Why couldn't I play?
I am the abandoner
But still I remain
And my frozen pulse quickens
As the black plot thickens

Like the story I heard
A lifetime ago
Where a girl (and this is funny)
Took her life
And what she doesn't know
Is how long it takes for the water to rise
And the breath to stop fighting
And the cold to close her eyes

Morality plays
On stages of sin
The easy way out
Or the easy way in
I am still overglorified
My reasons to live
Were my reasons to die
But at least they were mine
Now I'm freedom unbound
Cut the laces of life
The pistol
The poison
The noose
Or the knife
I have chosen my instrument
And said no goodbyes
And my frozen pulse quickens
As the black plot thickens

Like the story I heard
A lifetime ago
Where a girl (and this is funny)
Took her life
And what she didn't know
Is how long it takes for the water to rise
And the breath to stop fighting
And the cold to close her eyes

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Poisoned desires
01-13-2007

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A girl commits suicide, and everyone is told it was an "accident", perhaps you protect their reputation. This song is quite spiteful, she practically spits out the lyrics. *Loves it*

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Haibane
04-09-2007

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Agreed, love this song. It's a reference to Ophelia.

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bugoff
04-14-2007

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Who or what are the 306, and what does the 16 years refer to?

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ElectricTape
06-05-2007

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actually, EA stated in an interview that this song has nothing to do with Hamlet. Hope that helps.

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FifiDaPoodle
07-25-2007

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I have no idea what the 306 means and one of 16 and all that but I'd like to find out..
I know it sounds weird but I feel kind of lonely when she stops singing. I can't describe it and I don't really know why.. it's not that I don't like the instrumental part, because I think it's beautiful, but I can't really listen to it without feeling lonely. Not because of the music itself, but because of the fact that she stopped singing. Anyways, I love this song alot, I think it's one of her best ones.

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MIB4u
08-14-2007

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1 in 16... group suicide...?

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YourOpheliac
08-15-2007

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Well, this song's about EA. and where she sings:, 'Like the story I heard, a LIFETIME ago..', that something from Hamlet's Ophelia.. but that's kinda weird if it's right what ElectricTape is saying. :P Hmmmm.. I want to know what the numbers mean.
Anyway, I love this song!

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wingedzephyr
08-19-2007

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306 would be, by my guess, how many suicides occured in the 6 years. There were 16 suicides that occured in one day, and "she" was one of them.

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xxsyntheticxx
09-03-2007

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306 suicides in 6 years

16 suicides in 1 day thats what it means

WZ i love your vid for tis song on YOUTUBE

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_NotWorthLiving_
09-10-2007

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306 suicides in 6 years.
16 in one day, one of which was the girl to which the song is about.

Other than that, the song is pretty straight forward.
My favorite part is the Cut the laces of life bit. It's so haunting.

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xxsyntheticxx
10-10-2007

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The pistol
The poison
The noose
Or the knife

so scary when she sings that sends chills down my spine

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Matt Holck
10-14-2007

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and thought it was about a psycho killer

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BatteredRose
10-30-2007

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This song means a lot to me, I truly can relate to this song. As I commited suicide for 16 months ago, by drowning - and dying for a few minutes. This song is scaringly close to my feelings about it.
The chorus is actually a story that could be mine. The body fights to live, no matter how much you want to die. When everything is against you, you'd think death is feedom, but no it won't come easily.
At one part I believe the girl in this story lived, she might've been dead for some minutes but as she sing "I am the abandoner But still I remain" It's like she didn't die..

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ImaMisfitfiend
12-29-2007

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It sounds like the original Draucla, his wife killed herself before he went on a rampage and there were myths that he was buried in a cathidral. And as every one know he was a murderer,,,,note Vlad the Impaler.

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--WRINGER--
01-23-2008

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To me it sounds like a cult thing....
like, the cult sucks you in a destroys you
and then you commit suicide
which is the 306 and the 16
the part about the water and how long it takes to drown
is how she chose to kill herself
and she's still unidentified behind the cathedral because the people in the cult were with her when she did it, and then they brought her body back and dumped it there
and perhaps she was really popular in the cult, which is why she says she's overglorified
and maybe she had reasons other than the cult to kill herself, but she did it with a group of kids from the cult, which is the part about how at least her reasons were hers

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angel0lynne
02-05-2008

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to me, it sounds more like she was forced to kill herself, by way of other people doing it, and wanting her to. maybe the thing about the cult that most of you are talking about is it.

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Kindest Demon
02-14-2008

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This is an actual series of events, people.

Over six years, 306 people commited suicide. The odd thing here? They were all connected. 16 was the most connected in any one day of the 306.

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Pixie_corpse306
02-23-2008

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here goes my weird interpretation(sorry for my bad english >_maybe her body was found by someone, but no-one knew who she was, so she was buried behind the cathedral like a christian.She is not inside because her soul is not inside because she was a sinner.

"I am the abandoner
But still I remain"-> she abandoned life, but her soul is still on earth
then there is the part with the girl that took her life->she sais that it's not easy to die, you suffer before you completely die
"Morality plays
On stages of sin
The easy way out
Or the easy way in"-> the way to beeing a sinner?
"I am still overglorified"-> no one knew she was a killer, and she looked just like a normal person?
"My reasons to live
Were my reasons to die"-> her reason to live was to kill, which is also her reason to die because she knows it's not wright what she is doing and could only stop if she died.

p.s.: to ImaMisfitfiend: Vlad the Impaler was not a murderer...he impaled people because of war, and
it was not such an uncommon habbit for that time.

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Pixie_corpse306
02-23-2008

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oh..sorry, something went wrong, i had written more than that :|

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Pixie_corpse306
02-23-2008

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so...here goes my weird interpretation:

i think this song is about someone who killed 306 people ( "If it was an accident/Where are the tears?") and one of the people killed was her.

"I am still unidentified
Behind the cathedral
Is where my body hides
But I'm not inside" ->maybe her body was found by someone, but no-one knew who she was, so she was buried behind the cathedral like a christian.She is not inside because her soul is not inside because she was a sinner.

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Pixie_corpse306
02-23-2008

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Part 2:
"I am the abandoner
But still I remain"-> she abandoned life, but her soul is still on earth
then there is the part with the girl that took her life->she sais that it's not easy to die, you suffer before you completely die
"Morality plays
On stages of sin
The easy way out
Or the easy way in"-> "-> the way to beeing a sinner?
"I am still overglorified"-> no one knew she was a killer, and she looked just like a normal person?
"My reasons to live
Were my reasons to die"-> her reason to live was to kill, which is also her reason to die because she knows it's not wright what she is doing and could only stop if she died.

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Pixie_corpse306
02-23-2008

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oh...and for ImaMisfitfiend:Vlad the Impaler was not a murderer...he impaled people because of war, and
it was not such an uncommon habbit for that time.

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Broken_Rose
02-28-2008

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Okay, let's see if I can shine any light on this subject.

Three hundred and six
In only six years

{ The numbers are a string of suicides. 306 suicides in six years. It was the largest string of suicides recorded at the time of writing the song.}

If it was an accident
Where are the tears?

{That's taken word for word. Saying, it wasn't an accident proving it suicide.}

I am still unidentified
Behind the cathedral
Is where my body hides
But I'm not inside

{This is saying that the girl is "Behind the cathedral. aka a graveyard is where she's buried behind the church. It just says she's not inside to indicate the fact that her body 'lies outside'.}

Just one of sixteen
In early one day
If it was a game
Why couldn't I play?

{ One of sixteen is how many suicides took place in one morning. 'early one day'. I'm not entirely sure about the game part.}

I am the abandoner
But still I remain
And my frozen pulse quickens
As the black plot thickens

{'I am the abandoner, is meaning she abandoned the will to live. Yet still I remain meaning she never physicaly went anywhere, and technicaly never left.}

Like the story I heard
A lifetime ago
Where a girl (and this is funny)
Took her life
And what she doesn't know
Is how long it takes for the water to rise
And the breath to stop fighting
And the cold to close her eyes

{This is supposed to irony. It talks about how a girl kills herself. When she says is this is funny she's hinting at the irony. It's supposed to mean what how hard it is to drown. The girl obviously drownt herself, and it's describing how long it took for her body to shut down and finaly die}

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sashamay
03-12-2008

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If it was an accident
Where are the tears?

{I think this means that the death was declared an accident..possibly an accidental drowning, even if it was actually a suicide. )

I am still unidentified
Behind the cathedral
Is where my body hides
But I'm not inside

(and this would be the reason it was declared an accident. b/c in the catholic church, she wouldn't be allowed to be buried behind the cathedral if she committed suicide...by declaring it an accident, she can be buried in the graveyard there...avoiding all the "Family shame" and whatnot associated with suicide... )

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Gwagalagh
04-28-2008

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I think this about someone who was loved (like a celebrity) that commits suicide.

Three hundred and six
In only six years
If it was an accident
Where are the tears?

(To me, this is about how there are so many celebrity's that people say they feel sorry for when this happens, but they don't really care. People say how sad it is, but they wouldn't really cry for a dead celebrity.)

I am still unidentified
Behind the cathedral
Is where my body hides
But I'm not inside

(This is saying how she's just another gravestone, and now everyone overlooks her. Then it's saying that her body is still there, but nobody cares about it anymore.)

Just one of sixteen
In early one day
If it was a game
Why couldn't I play?

(This part is about how she was just someone for people to laugh at. People treated her life like a game, and she couldn't see what was so funny.)

I am the abandoner
But still I remain

(She's dead, but people are still talking about her.)

And my frozen pulse quickens
As the black plot thickens

(People are starting to say worse things about her than they had when she was alive.)

Like the story I heard
A lifetime ago
Where a girl (and this is funny)
Took her life

(This is about how she had heard stories of famous people killing themselves before, and she had always laughed at their problems before it happened to her.)

And what she doesn't know
Is how long it takes for the water to rise
And the breath to stop fighting
And the cold to close her eyes

(She had been hesitant about killing herself.)

Morality plays
On stages of sin
The easy way out
Or the easy way in

(She had put on a show for people, making her life and herself look almost perfect. She sees suicide as her only way to escape. She feels it has to end that way, no matter which way you look at it.)

I am still overglorified
My reasons to live
Were my reasons to die
But at least they were mine

(People are still making her sound like a much better person than she actually was. At first she thought the only thing she wanted was fame, but now she's killing herself to escape it. She feels like her fame is all she has left, since her private life has been taken away.)

Now I'm freedom unbound
Cut the laces of life
The pistol
The poison
The noose
Or the knife

(She's glad she has the freedom to chose whether she lives or dies. She's thinking of ways to kill herself.)

I have chosen my instrument
And said no goodbyes

(She can't trust anyone, and has no one to say goodbye to.)

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