30 Seconds To Mars: The Kill Meaning

Song Released: 2006

The Kill Lyrics

What if I wanted to break
Laugh it all off in your face
What would you do? (Oh, oh)
What if I fell to the floor
Couldn't take this anymore
What would you do, do, do?

Come break me down
Marry me, bury me
I am finished with you

What if...

1. alexxponce

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   Mar 16th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is about someone that changed for someone else. So that person is saying that they are gonna kill that part that they made up of themselves. Hence the bury me bury me part. In the video, when he's face to face with himself, he says this is who I really am and he's saying it to the made up part of himself. He doesn't even know which is the real part of himself anymore. That's why it would be kind of like a crazy person. The person is confused about who they are.
2. ._nemo_.

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   Mar 13th 2007 !⃝

   People, you don't need to swear and you don't need to abuse each other. The whole point of this is to interpret lyrics, is it not?
   
   I actually think this is a good song
3. anonymous

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   Mar 12th 2007 !⃝

   To all the ppl who thought it was about a girl- that's real typical, and 30 sec to mars songs are not typical. I'm pretty sure that the scene in the music video where (as my friend likes to call it) he has that "moment" with his twin kinda gives a little insight to the song. when he says "what if I wanted to break...what would you do?" he's not talking to some girl or whatever, he's talking to himself- or the person he's trying to be. either that, or he's just talking to the world- everyone around him. all the people who THINK they know him. Take your pick. :D
4. anonymous

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   Mar 7th 2007 !⃝

   You people are all morons with your deep interpretations of the meaning of this song. If you pay attention to the video, you will notice that whenever he is face to face with himself, he is uncomfortable. This represents his bad breath vs his fresh mouth. His halitosis is so bad he would rather be dead thus the "bury me Bury me". The Bear in the video represents how he wants the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
5. anonymous

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   Feb 26th 2007 !⃝

   Hmmm I don't really like them that much jared leto seems kinda arrogant, but I heard that in this song he was talking to himself about his life and how he didn't know who he was but he finally found himself..... Something like that.
6. anonymous

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   Feb 17th 2007 !⃝

   First of all, Jared Leto is the hottest man in the world... and this song interprets how he's fighting with himself and where he can go from where he is, I say this because I can kinda relate to him. Its hard to find your true self without actually knowing for sure, if you pay attention to the lyrics in his songs from the album a beautiful lie, he is constantly saying in his songs how he wants to find himself in some way or another.thats why he takes his nusic so seriously, which is understandable.
7. x0presi0ax0

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   Feb 17th 2007 !⃝

   I think that this song is about a parent-child realationship. Thats at least the way that I connect to the song. Parents tend to want certain things for your future that the child may not want, but the parent knows its best and the childs dreams get put aside. But when the parent is never acceptant of how the child truely wants to be, anger bulds insid the child and I feel like this song is telling the parent, or trying to tell the parent that I want what I want, What if I want to fail and pick myself up. What would you do if I became someone you don't want me to be.

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8. extremesniper7

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   Feb 10th 2007 !⃝

   If you don't like the song then why are you wasting your time posting this shit?
9. Dante

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   Feb 8th 2007 !⃝

   This song sucks... It's emo, so no interpretation is necessary to understand it. It's a sad piece of crap complaining even though he's semi rich and famous to all of the emo/preppy posers who think they know what music is.
   
   Listen to some good music people. Proggressive rock, then maybe your eyes will be opened to what music is.

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10. anonymous

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    Jan 17th 2007 !⃝

    well... I agree that the song it telling about accepting urself, also the thing of a hiden personality, that you don't want to accept, mm... I don't agree the thing of going crazy, because I think that if you go crazy, you can't notice it, you can't say you r crazy if you r crazy, maybe (this is for the ppl that said jared said that this song for about going mad) he just told it in a wrong way, with worng words...
    mm... but also... I agree with the thing of being gay, I mean, maybe he learnt that being gay is a "wrong thing" (dont think I'm gay hey! XD), but he feel attraction for his own sex, and then he tries to oppress these feelings, because what he have learnt. Hehe I don't know, its just what I think hehe ^^
    also, maybe someone can help me.... I don't understand this part of the video, when some dude, or maybe I'm blind, but someone is dressed with a bear suit??!!! XDXD, and he is kneeling, and then the other guy (hey the group is new for me so I don't know their names) appears, watcing the guitarrist in his skate board
    can someone explain this to me?
    ty
    
    **GRETINGS**

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11. anonymous

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    Jan 8th 2007 !⃝

    okay
    
    it's not "burry me burry me"
    
    it's "bury me bury me"
    
    learn to spell before you call someone else an idiot
    
    and no, I'm not the one who thought it was marry me
12. anonymous

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    Jan 5th 2007 !⃝

    okay.
    its not "marry me burry me" its "burry me burry me".
    idiot.

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13. anonymous

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    Jan 4th 2007 !⃝

    He did an acoustic version of the song on MTV and said, "This is a song called 'The Kill'. But don't be scared, it's a nice song....about losing your mind."
    
    Check out the video...
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9oW0-yeYE&mode=related&search=
14. anonymous

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    Dec 15th 2006 !⃝

    sigh......so everyone is saying how it's about a girl and a boy. Well I think it's about just any type of relationships. It could be about a child wanting to be accepted by their parent. basically it's about having two personalities and always having to hide a part of your self because people don't always accept who you really are as a whole. sometimes it kills people to know that they have to hide because the think they won't be accepted. Then people get tiered of hiding and end up pushing people away by being mean
15. anonymous

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    Dec 14th 2006 !⃝

    Duh you stupid bastards!!!! Jared Leto is as straight as a crooked circle!!! the song is about coming out of the closet. No Doubt.
    
    Did you know he recently came out of the closet just after this song and video was released.
    Jared Leto packs the fudge, that simple!!!
    By the way a great song, even though he is gay...

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