My head is lead, I don't ever wanna go to bed.
Your hair is on fire.
You snuff the blaze, turn to vapor then you float away.
We got into a bad fight.

Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.

My eyes and lungs.
I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues.
I know how you'll die.
Your sister groans "An usurper to the holy throne".
To me she's just a dead spy.

Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.

I don't know what you feel like.
Ambushed on a road, stole your gold.
Your a rose and you're laughing now.
Everything that I owned starts to pile up like bones.
Make the walls of a prison.

Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.

I don't ever wanna go to bed.
He sta***** up for the fight.
The champ goes down like a clown in the second round.
I wish we'd had a bed or goodbye.

Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Lie to all your friends.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.
Laid her on the bed.



Lyrics submitted by timexbrandnew, edited by ditaditadi

Track duration: 03:10

"Bed" as written by Jesse Lacey

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    General Comment:Sounds like someone got in a fight with their girlfriend and lit them on fire. And the "i wish we'd had a bed he could lie." sounds like "I wish we had a better goodbye."
    Flag BurtSnipeson September 25, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:i always thought jesse was being clever with ambiguous chorus lines:

    "later on the bed" sounds just like "laid her on the bed" (slept with or put her down on the bed)
    "lie to all your friends" sounds like "lie do all your friends" (lie and do all your friends)
    Flag nothin7on March 04, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:and the lie to all your friends being repeated would make since because the band clearly wants to end their careers and they have been pretending that they love what they are doing
    Flag BrandNewman55on February 12, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:ok so I have a new theory about this song... I think the "fight" is actually Jesse and the band vs. the music industry.. the whole song is about the band and the love hate relationship they feel with the industry.. In the song the couple has been fighting for awhile but they love eachother enough to stay together for so long.. There is abuse in the relationship because it's just not working out... In the song "Her" is the "rock star" life,. They like the rock star life but they know it's not good for them... So instead of leaving her they abuse her and " lay her on the bed" they love the perks the life has to offer but they know it's coming to an end... the Actual bed I think is the bed that they made that they must lie in...
    Flag BrandNewman55on February 12, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:This would be the best song on 99.99 percent of albums ever released. However, on this one, it's in the middle of the pack. Goddam Brand New is outstanding.
    Flag AlkalineTrioFanon November 08, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:^ Your interpretation could be accurate?.. i still dont know what this song could be about i would love to know
    Flag BrandNewman55on October 10, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I could be taking a way too fucked up interpretation of this song, but here goes anyway. I think its a man killing his wife/girlfriend when a fight goes too far.

    "My head is lead, I don't ever wanna go to bed.
    Your hair is on fire.
    You snuff the blaze, turn to vapor, then you float away.
    We got into a bad fight."

    The narrator's head is heavy because he just did something regrettable - hes having trouble sleeping.
    The hair on fire could be a reference to blood mixed in with the hair that gives it an appearance of fire or just messed up hair (after a fight) that gives it the appearance of flames.

    Snuffing the blaze I interpret as the girl in this song getting a taste of the fight, which is the metaphorical fire. When she "snuffs the blaze," or gets into the fight, she turns to vapor and floats away (dies).

    Next, it says "we got into a bad fight" - the structure of these verses is almost backwards, so that the last verse of each stanza is a summary of the first few in many cases

    "Laid her on the bed"

    - He is laying her dead body on the bed

    "My eyes are lungs.
    I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues.
    I know how you'll die."

    - My eyes are lungs is some reference to the fact that he breathes or survives through his site...I'm not too sure what this means. The next line is reference to killing her again - "I know how you'll die" - which of course he knows because hes going to kill her.

    "Your sister groans, "A usuper to the holy throne."
    To me she's just a dead spy."

    - This lyrics is masterful. The girl who the singer is going to kill's sister is saying that the singer is "a usurper to the holy throne." This means that the singer is unjustly taking power from the holy throne, God. He is playing God by killing her and deciding who is fit to live and die. The singer counters with "to me she's just a dead spy," meaning that he'll kill her too for getting involved in the relationship of the girl he kills.


    Laid her on the bed.
    Lie to all your friends.

    -Pretty simply here. He's lying to all her friends about how he killed her.

    "I don't know what you feel like.
    Ambushed on a road, stole your gold.
    You're a rose and you're laughing now."

    - Not really sure what this means. It could be ambushing her on a road and stealing her gold is a metaphor for stealing her life, which is the gold - what is most precious to her. I don't get the rose reference.

    "Everything that I own starts to pile up like bones.
    Make the walls of a prison."

    - All his possessions that remind him of this girl he kills are starting to metaphorically trap him in a prison of his actions.

    "Laid her on the bed.
    Laid her on the bed."

    "I don't ever wanna go to bed.
    He stayed up for the fight.
    The champ goes down like a clown in the second round.
    I wish we'd had a better goodbye."

    - He doesn't want to go to bed because of the guilt he feels (and not wanting to sleep next to a dead body he has laid there). Now he is saying that he stayed up for the fight (not sure the use of 3rd person here..possibility using it to separate himself from the actions he just committed), killed her ("the champ goes down..."), and then wishes that that he and the girl he once loved had a better goodbye

    "Lie to all your friends.
    Laid her on the bed."

    That's my take...it might not be right but let me know what you think.
    Flag djn9on October 03, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I've gone through a bunch of live performances for comparison. Here is a very clear live in-studio:
    youtube.com/…

    100% without a doubt, it is "head is lead" and "later on the bed".
    I hope this can eliminate any doubt.
    Flag flyingxponyon September 10, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I also hear 'a usurper' not 'our usurper'.
    and maybe I hear 'rungs' not 'lungs' idk, it's all so confusing.
    also I'm pretty sure at the end it starts as '"you" lie to all your friends' - only the first time(last,... make sense?) sure it's probably filler, but it is also important, he's not just saying everyone go lie to your friends he's stating that 'you' lie to all your friends...singling you out and making sure you know he knows.
    Flag flamedelugeon September 01, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:At first I thought this song was about a girl being raped or physically abused by her boyfriend, and she would "lie to all her friends" about their relationship, not telling anyone about it.

    However, the more I listen to it, the more I think of different possibilities. I think it's about a couple who can't stand each other, and both willingly fight each other either physically/verbally every night before they go to bed. I think the lines "my head is lit. i don't ever wanna go to bed. your hair is on fire. you snuff the blaze, turn to vapor, then you float away," is about how they feed off of each other's rage. The lines "i'm a prophet, and i speak in tongues.
    i know how you'll die." could infer that one of their fights went too far, and he "laid her on the bed" and then lied to all her friends about what happened.

    Still not sure about this song, but it's one of my favorite from the album. Very interesting, I love it!
    Flag anothermeon May 18, 2010   Link

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