Lyrics for Disenchanted as interpreted by A Red Hotel

Disenchanted Lyrics
Well i was there on the day
They sold the cause for the queen
And when the lights all went out, we watched our lives on the screen
I hate the ending myself,
But it started with an alright scene

It was the roar of the crowd that gave me heartache to sing
It was alive when they smiled and said,
"You won't feel a thing"
And as we ran from the cops we laughed so hard It would sting

Yeah Yeah, Oh

If i'm so wrong (so wrong, so wrong)
how can you listen all night long?
(night long, night long)
How will it matter after i'm gone?
because you never learned a goddamned thing

You're just a sad song with nothing to say
About a life long wait for a hospital stay
Well if you think that i'm wrong,
This never meant nothing to you

I spent my high school career
Spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes sell a car on tv
Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show 'em what we all mean

Yeah, Yeah, Oh

If i'm so wrong (so wrong, so wrong)
How can you listen all night long?
(night long, night long)
How will it matter long after i'm gone
Because you never learned a god damned thing

You're just a sad song with nothing to say about a life long wait for a hospital stay
Well if you think that i'm wrong,
This never meant nothing to you

So go,
Go, just go, run away.
Now where did you run to? and where did you hide?
Go find another way...

Woah oh, Woah oh...

You're just a sad song with nothing to say about a life long wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that i'm wrong, this never meant nothing to you, come on

You're just a sad song with nothing to say about a life long wait For a hospital stay
And if you think that i'm wrong, this never meant Nothing to you

At all...
At all...
At all...

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sweet;revenge
10-20-2006

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Orginally, i heard this song was about My Chemical Romance's falling out with The Used.
but now i think that it's about some kids in high school being rebels, and causing trouble,
and end up getting hurt in one way or another.
and everyone was telling them, not to do anything bad.
but it didn't mean anything.

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misfitsxmcrfreak
10-21-2006

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well i like disenchanted(shut up and play) better
maybe just because i heard it first but this ones really good too and i agree with sweet;revenge

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Maelstrom
10-22-2006

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This is the best song on the new CD.

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XmYdAiLyCaNvAsX
10-22-2006

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First, I really like this song. =D

I think this song is about the people you grow up with in High School and the things they do to hurt you, and then growing up and seeing them as regular people who didn't really amount to everything they acted like they would've. Kind of spitefully saying "Well you did this to me, and you hurt me really badly, and now I'm here and I can sing these sad songs for the world while all you can do is your sad little job."

The life long wait for a hospital stay, I think, is just life in general, in the end all coming down to a possibly triumphant, but also possibly quiet and overall "disappointing" death. Disappointing isn't the best word, but you get it.

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nhinman
10-23-2006

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now, no matter what the band says, not every song will fit in perfectly with the concept of the album, that is, the patient dying at a young age and his journey through death. However, dispite my initial skepticism upon hearing that they were putting this song on the record, I feel as though this really fits quite well.

You know those songs in musicals, where the main character comes forward near the end of the play, and sings a song where he/she looks his/her life right in the face and how they've accepted the past and how it has set the stage to where they are? Maybe not, I have one particular song from one particular play in mind, but I can't put my finger on it. (This was prompted by the line "It was the roar of the crowd that gave me Heartache to sing")

This is one of those.
The vibe I get from this song is that the patient is going over a large portion of his life, namely, high school, and considering all the stupid things he did.
However, he does this in a very calm manner, as though he is simply accepting his demons and putting them to rest.

If this is one of those songs, then it is only fitting that Famous Last Words is the empowering finale, where the moral is realized and stated.

And that's exactly what it is.

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_go_away_
10-24-2006

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sorry for being souch a correction nazi, but this is how it says in the booklet.

Well I was there on the day
They sold the cause for the queen
And when the lights all went out
We watched our lives on the screen
I hate the ending myself
But it started with an alright scene

It was the roar of the crowd
that gave me heartache to sing
It was a lie when they smiled
and said "you won't feel a thing"
And as we ran from the cops
we laughed so hard it would sting

If I'm so wrong
How can you listen all night long?
Now will it matter after I'm gone
because you never learn a goddamned thing

You're just a sad song with nothing to say
About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to ya

I spent my high school career
Spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes
sell a car on tv
Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show them what we all mean


If I'm so wrong
How can you listen all night long
Now will it matter long after I'm gone
Because you never learn a goddamned thing

You're just a sad song with nothing to say
About a life long wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that i'm wrong
This never meant nothing to ya

So go
Go away
Just run
Run away
But where did you run to?
And Where did you hide?
Go find another way
Price you pay

You're just a sad song with nothing to say
About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that i'm wrong
this never meant nothing to ya

Come on

You're just a sad song with nothing to say
about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that I'm wrong
this never meant nothing to ya
At all

At all
At all
At all

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I_Dont_Love_You
10-24-2006

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The Beginning Of This Song Reminds Me Of A disney Movie
I dont know Why
I Have A Warped Mind

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Ryoku
10-24-2006

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The start sounds almost like SOmething Corporate. O_O Oh well. Love the song no matter what.

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raine697
10-25-2006

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thanks ____go__away.

I think this entire song is from the point of view of the patient's father. the journey is reaching it's end, but the patient is still arguing with his father, who did all of this to show his son that life is so precious and that his life means something. "If I'm so wrong, how can you listen all night long? You never learned a goddamned thing." i think it's pretty obvious: after all this, the patient still doesn't understand.

I think the beginning verses are the father recounting his own life.

"Well I was there on the day
They sold the cause for the queen
And when the lights all went out
We watched our lives on the screen
I hate the ending myself
But it started with an alright scene

It was the roar of the crowd
that gave me heartache to sing
It was a lie when they smiled
and said "you won't feel a thing"
And as we ran from the cops
we laughed so hard it would sting"

I think "we watched our lives on the screen" means EVERYONE in the black parade, not just the father. It might be saying that all the lives they've been showing the patient this whole time were their lives.

The father is telling his son that he's disappointed in him
"You're just a sad song with nothing to say about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay. If I'm so wrong this never meant nothing to you." He's saying that the patient is still lost in self-loathing, woe-is-me bullshit. Like: I took you on this whole journey to teach you, and you still haven't learned anything son...

"Bring out the old guillotene" I think they bring out a guillotene, like: I didn't want to do this, son, but you leave me no other choice...
"Where did you run to? Where did you hide? Go find another way..."
The patient runs away, he is now feeling totally frantic and helpless: he's disappointed his dad, he realizes what an asshole, his father says "go find another way," which I think is mocking what the patient said in "don't love you anymore", like: Yeah, go find another way! that's ALL you'll ever do! Maybe you should stop trying to find another way and try to FIX things! STOP RUNNING FROM YOUR PROBLEMS!!"

I think this is where the patient finally realizes that he's been running this whole time, and he can live with his own life and actually appreciate it. The song doesn't sound like that, but I think so because in the last song, he is finally grateful for his life, and I think this is where he learns it.

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ghost in the smow
10-25-2006

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i think this song is about their fans not listening to their message just looking for things to critisise them for.so they are saying (if im so wrong how can you listen all night long)
etc. their writing from the heart and soul . listen to their message and enjoy or live your life waiting to die , as ignorent as you arrived,your choice!

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Takemetoneverland
10-26-2006

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this song is amazing

really hits me straight away =]

love it.

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rhaz
10-26-2006

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Man... the opening part of this song is nearly enough to make me tear up. Reminds me of like, a coming armaggeddon or something. Maybe im just weird.

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asdfg
10-27-2006

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this aint as good as shut up and play in my opp,

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~Mink~
10-28-2006

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this is gerard way dissing his own song.

"You're just a sad song with nothing to say"

this is the meaning of the song *lol*

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MCVicky
10-28-2006

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Shut Up and Play was a better song.
Not that this is bad though.

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courtneyobsession
10-29-2006

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This is one, if not my very, favorite on the album. 'Disenchanted' means coming out a spell, basically, so it's like the patient is coming out of life and going into death, and hes watching his life on the screen. He hates how it had to end so early (In another song he says 'knowning I'll never marry') but he likes how most of it went. (I hate the ending myself, but it started with an alright scene.)

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PunkRockerHasaHeart
10-29-2006

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this song seems, to me, to be about high school & its memories. the 1st verse basically says reliving memories

"I spent my high school career Spit on and shoved to agree" says how in high school they want you to have one opinion: everyone else's

"Well if you think that I'm wrong then this never meant nothing to you" paraphrasing: if you wont agree, then we were nothing together

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poserboarder
10-30-2006

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I spent my high school career
Spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes
Sell a car on tv
Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show 'em what we all mean.

Can anyone elaborate on the previous lyric? I get the high school part about how you need to go with the flow to be acceptd, but

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poserboarder
10-30-2006

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I spent my high school career
Spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes
Sell a car on tv
Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show 'em what we all mean.

Can anyone elaborate on the previous lyric? I get the high school part about how you need to go with the flow to be accepted, but i don't get the car salesman on tv or the guillotine part. Is it that he watched like his favorite sports stars go on to be on commercials etc..

Can someone please elaborate, i'd really appreciate it. Also sorry about that first post error.

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septimusphoenix
10-30-2006

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it's the deepest part of depression before he can get up adn move on in famous last words. he reviews his life, becomes disenchanted from the facades of life and death to realise he lived his life as a wait for death - living to die, not appreciating life. adn he makes fun of himself for this speech of a sad song, self-mockery of his slow self discovery. it mentions selliong cars for the queen, which may have ben sellling cars for money whilst the husbands all went to war for the queen.

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ghost in the smow
11-03-2006

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spent my high school career
Spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes
sell a car on tv
Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show them what we all mean

to me this means how they were picked on because they were loyal to their heros. dressing differently etc onley to see them selling out doing tv commercials

.Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show them what we all mean

they feel that their heros would be better off dead and they would have no problem doing it! (after all they were the so called odd ones in highschool) stereotypical killers.

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MCR_VAMPIRE
11-03-2006

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Well....
"And when the lights all went out, we watched our Lives on the screen
I hate the ending myself,
But it started with an alright scene"



is obviouslly a refrence to Life On a Murder Scene.


"If i'm so wrong (so wrong, so wrong)
how can you listen all night long?
(night long, night long)
How will it matter after i'm gone?
because you never learned a god damned thing"

is about MCR's fans or wanna be fans not getting the true meaning behind teh song. Since every MCR song has a meaning, His purpose is to make sure we get it. And some of us dont believe or dont get what hes saying so we "stay awake all night long" or however long it takes you to realize what the song is about. And it may already be to damn late.


"I spent my high school career
Spit on and shoved to agree"

To me means...that he was in high school a rebel or an outcast. and peopel had to beat him up or spit on him/ or verbally harrass him in order to get hin to agree with what was the "normal"

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ursexyluva
11-05-2006

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i just love this song plain and simple nothing more to it

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llama1298
11-11-2006

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i love this song it's just great

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#1 TDG fan
11-20-2006

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Are disenchanted and Disenchanted Shut Up and Play two different songs? The lyrics are similar but I've never heard Shut Up and Play. Sorry guys, I'm kind of new on the rock scene. Great song, by the way. Best on the CD. And I think he says, "It was a lie when they smiled," not, "It was alive when they smiled."

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