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This feeling never leaves you alone
You pull the trigger on your own
You're hiding in your safe place
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
On the way to the hospital
Not will you ever rest your head
You end up feeling mostly dead
Pretending you're the last one
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
On the way to the hospital
Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
It never used to hurt before
It isn't funny anymore
You're feeling so alone now
Funny how you wish some way that you could die at the hospital
You're quiet on the car ride home
You're waiting for your head to explode
You're hiding in your safe place
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
All the way to the hospital
Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
(Before I close my)
Before I close my eyes
I hope to give it up
(Take off my)
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
And leave the lies to the liars
He thinks he fooled them all
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)
He thinks he fooled them all
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)
Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
(Before I close my)
Before I close my eyes
I'm gonna give it up
(Take off my mask)
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
Leave the lies to the liars
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Leave the lies to the liars
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Leave the lies to the liars
Hey, hey, hey
You pull the trigger on your own
You're hiding in your safe place
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
On the way to the hospital
Not will you ever rest your head
You end up feeling mostly dead
Pretending you're the last one
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
On the way to the hospital
Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
It never used to hurt before
It isn't funny anymore
You're feeling so alone now
Funny how you wish some way that you could die at the hospital
You're quiet on the car ride home
You're waiting for your head to explode
You're hiding in your safe place
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
All the way to the hospital
Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
(Before I close my)
Before I close my eyes
I hope to give it up
(Take off my)
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
And leave the lies to the liars
He thinks he fooled them all
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)
He thinks he fooled them all
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)
Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
(Before I close my)
Before I close my eyes
I'm gonna give it up
(Take off my mask)
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars
Leave the lies to the liars
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Leave the lies to the liars
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Leave the lies to the liars
Hey, hey, hey
Lyrics submitted by afitch1206
Track duration: 02:57
"Hospital" as written by Robert C./howard Mccracken
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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(You pull the trigger on your own)
(You end up feeling mostly dead)
(Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all)
The singer then states that he has tried this before.
(It never used to hurt before it isn't funny anymore)
He then feels that he is disfigured by the bullet...and sad that he is even alive.
(Will you look them in the face
Could you look me in the face)
(Hiding with your eyes shut tightly all the way to the hospital
)
The lines "Before I cross my heart and hope to die at all
I take off my mask
And leave the lies to the liars"
seem to have some support for this, "Take off my mask and leave the lies to the liars" could be saying reveal the truth, you're not actually crazy, "and leave the lies to the liars" is leave the actual insane people to do the lying (that they are alright).
Then the verse
You're quiet on the car ride home
You're waiting for your head to explode
You're hiding in your safe place
Hiding with your eyes shut tightly
All the way to the hospital
Makes me think of the false diagnosis. You're leaving, you're sane, but you're labelled as not sane, as if you shouldn't actually be leaving the hospital, though you should be leaving because you really are okay. Further support for this theory of mine, I found in:
"He thinks he fooled them all
(Hip hip hooray, hip hip hooray)"
Being the head of the experiment, who pretty much got away with this until one hospital told him to send more pseudopatients and the hospital would not misdiagnose them. Then over the next 3 months, they suspected over 60 of 193 new patients to be pseudopatients, when, truthfully, Rosenhan didn't send a single pseudopatient.
So, this song makes me think of that psychological study. Someone sane being classified as insane and having that as a burden/destructive force throughout the rest of the person's life.
I've been in hospital because of mental health problem. So always when i had to go back to the department i listened this song. It's fakin' great.
Everyone relates to songs in different ways, make up your own meaning based on your own personal experiences that's what music is about in my opinion. I'd go with the suicide interpretation - someone tries to kill themselves and end up going to hospital but no one really knew they were feeling suicidal because they pretended to be happy (which is the mask) and they lied to everyone saying they were okay but they weren't ( which is the "three cheers you fooled them all" part)
I wrote a piece the other day. I used the words 'cheer' and 'hospital,' I included references to 'liars,' and guess what else?
Despite my being a huge fan of theirs, not a single bit of it was about My Chem!
Shocking, right?
Because obviously any piece of writing or music that shares a couple of words with a piece where the authors have some sort of connection is about that other author.
You know, that's why Kiros' song Dear Michigan is totally about MCR. After all, Dear Michigan uses the line "Don't be scared, now" and Our Lady of Sorrows says "Never be afraid again", and the singer/bassist of Kiros hung out with the bassist of MCR at Warped a few years back. The connection is clear!
Not everything is gossip, people. We don't know everything about the lives of rockstars, nor should we try to or try to pretend that we do. For all we know, this song is about someone who's chronically clumsy and is embarassed by it, so he or she lies about it. For goodness sakes. Obviously songs have different meanings to everyone who hears them.... but none of us have personally expirienced the feud that may or may not have happened between The Used and My Chemical Romance, so none of us has any reason to interpret the song in this way. If Bert McCracken, the writer of the darn song, has said that it's not about Gerard Way, well, I choose the believe him. People don't generally lie about the meanings of their pieces, especially someone who was so blunt and open about disliking MCR and who showed us very clearly that the 'feud' was over by eating a sign he saw at a show that was dissing them.
So chill out, listen to the music, and stop making a great song and a great album into The National Inquirer, please. Thank you.
whenever I play It I end up dancing a few secounds
later XD
He might think he's bigger because he's keeps making these little attacks in his songs and interviews and live shows and what have you, but I respect Gerard much more for keeping quiet about it and keeping it personal.
Absolutely love that lyric, because in a lot of ways it's true. Loved ones surrounding you, you know it's only a matter of time, and you won't be just lying there dead for hours waiting for someone to find you.
The way I heard it, it was mostly about dying. A suicide attempt, from the trigger pulling bit.
He was on the phone when he shot himself, so the person on the other line calls the ambulance. Strangely, the one who tried to kill himself didn't manage to land a fatal shot? Anyway, on the way to the hospital, he has a bit of a melt down and panics, which is normal.
After they patch him up at the hospital, he feels worn out and useless, he feels like he should have just died. On the way home from the hospital, it doesn't get any better, He goes 'to his safe place' in his head and pretends it all isn't happening.
The "three cheers you fooled them all, hip hip hooray" bit I thought was about another attempt. Either he'd said before that he was fine or that he'd not try it again he did, or at the hospital this time they'd asked him if he'd try again and he said no. Either way, he fooled them and gets to try again if he wants. The hip hip hooray is just a sarcastic stab at saying "so what, you fooled them, now you get to go through that whole ordeal again instead of addressing the problem".
The mask part is about not lying about it anymore. He is going to tell them that he really is going to kill himself instead of denying it so they'll leave him alone. This could tie into the first part about being on the phone, which could be him 'taking off the mask'. As in, the whole song is a flashback that he has while killing himself, which I rather like.