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Alkaline Trio: Dethbed Meaning

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Dethbed Lyrics

Calling all cars, all coroners, we've got a dead one here
And anybody else receiving this, the west coast is far from clear
Like a time bomb or sudden death
It's gonna find you when you least expect
It's gonna leave you with the emptiest...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jun 27th 2023 !⃝

    One of my favorites aside from saidie :alkaline trio which is bout Susan's atkins (Sharon's tate murderer) but this song is helping me over come depression knowing that other people also experience it by listening to this song so I wana think the band.

  2. anonymous
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     Apr 9th 2012 !⃝

    Yeah, it´s literally speaking about killing oneself because somebody left you, but metaphorically, I think it´s about letting a relationship slowly die, and the feeling you get when you have lost it, without even the will to get up, to wake up until she returns for you. Which you know she won´t.

    The relationship is the one that´s all cut up and dead. Unrecognizably dead. You´ve messed up something that was beautiful so much, that now that it´s over, you can barely tell what it was just by the pieces left of it. When you break up on painful circumstances (like, in this case, someone going through a rough time and in stead of finding support, finding her empty side of the bed)your grudge and pain make it hard to see the good times, you kinda feel like it was all a lie, and the relationship is as good as dead. Sometimes, with time, you´re able to take it in as a good experience, but at the moment, it´s a murder scene. There´s blood and pain everywhere.

    That´s what I thought, at least.

  3. brielle
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     Apr 29th 2007 !⃝

    Both right. Someone leaves him and he is so upset that he kills himself when she leaves. The girl is the only one that can bring skiba back to life again, but of course he'll die because she is gone.

  4. ALK3s_STUPiD_KiD
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     Aug 6th 2006 !⃝

    This song seems obvious to me, it's about someone leaving skiba and him feeling so horrible and low, that he can't take it and commits suicide on the day that she left him.

  5. anonymous
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     Nov 28th 2005 !⃝

    I think its obviously about a girl leavng him but I THINK he killed himself?
    They found me face down in the street---Found him dead

    On the night you left to find
    another place to sleep- Beause she left him

    they said they tried everything
    but it was no use- hospital tried to revive him but he was gone

    yeah they tried everything
    and everyone but you- they tried everything medical and nurses and doctors but they didn't try bringing her back to make him come alive again

    It seems obvious to me, but any one got any ideas?


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