What do you think Sadie means?

Alkaline Trio: Sadie Meaning

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Sadie Lyrics

You're on your own my little nightmare
You cannot stay here, it's far too bright for you
If they attack you just lay there,
Play dead dear, it's your only hope of pulling through

And seconds they seem like a lifetime,a dream
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  1. anonymous
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     Jun 25th 2023 !⃝

    This isn’t like a huge revelation or anything but i think the song is from the perspective of the other members of the cult. If you look at the lyrics it makes more sense if you look at it from the others perspective

  2. anonymous
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     Aug 16th 2016 !⃝

    To clarify, it wasn't that California abolished the death penalty alone, it was that the United States, the Federal Government itself, abolished the death penalty for the entire nation. It was found that minorities, particularly black Americans, were receiving the death penalty for crimes white Americans were getting lesser sentences for and at most life sentences in prison. Mainly from trials in southern states. So, as a way to curb the targeting and lopsided sentences based on someone's race, the United States temporarily abolished the death penalty for everyone; the result being anyone on death row had their sentences converted to life. Once the federal government felt states were issuing sentences fairly (heh), the death penalty was re-established in those states that had capital punishment laws. But due to double jeopardy laws, those whose sentences were converted could not be given the death penalty again as a result.

  3. anonymous
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     Sep 2nd 2011 !⃝

    also in the chorus "Sadie G shes crazy see thats what the white coats say". thats a double meaning for 1. being in a crazy house with "white coat doctors" but the deep meaning 2. white coats refer to the Beatles white album which more or less encouraged Manson the want to kill, but leaving it to Sadie

  4. anonymous
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     Mar 10th 2009 !⃝

    they did get the death penalty and were sent to death row. but right at that time california changed the law and abolished capital punishment.

    annnnnnd, ps, charles manson never claimed to think he was god. and don't just read helter skelter and think that vincent bugliosi's take on things were the be all and end all of the story.

    and yes, i believe it was at least a quote by Susan at the end.

  5. brielle
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     Jun 11th 2007 !⃝

    And just to clear things up, manson never physically killed anybody. all the murders were done under his command, carried out by susan atkins (sadie), tex watson, linda sumthin, and sum1 else I forgot the name

    all of them should have been put to death, though. I find it amazing that after a nine month trial- the longest in us history- they didn't get the death sentence that they would have gotten because shortly after it was assigned to all five of them, death penalty was abolished.

  6. brielle
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     Feb 23rd 2007 !⃝

    Ok, well everyone knows this song is about the Charles Manson La-Bianca /Tate murders. Manson didn't actually kill the people himself, that was done by Susan Atkins (aka Sadie). They used different ways to kill the people, but one was wit a .22 with a broken gun grip ("Charlie's broken twenty-two"). And, maybe the part where it goes "If yoour alive then just sit there, just smile dear make them thankful for every breath" is when Susan was killing a pregnant woman and she was begging not to be killed because of her baby. But Susan didn't give in and said that she didn't give a fuck and was going to kill her anyway.

    "helter skelter" by the beatles was thought to be the perfect song for the crime he was going to commit <- just had 2 add that!

  7. anonymous
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     Mar 26th 2006 !⃝

    This song is, indeed, about Sadie Mae Glutz aka Susan Atkins. She brags to other inmates, in prison, about the murders. She was part of Charlie Manson's "family" and she thought him to be Jesus. Charlie believed that a battle between blacks and whites would break out, and he wanted blacks to win. He ran out of patiences waiting and he began to kill whites to help it along.
    Read the book Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi to get the story on the Manson "family."
    <3

  8. PeaceLuvRok41
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     Jan 28th 2006 !⃝

    The part in the song in which Heather Hannoura is speaking I part of her confession but if you have researched the manson families then you would know that manson thought of himself to be Jesus Christ so if you change God to Charlie in that section it can make a lot more sense.

  9. cherryxbliss
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     Dec 16th 2005 !⃝

    I'm pretty sure it is. It sounds like part of confession, or testimony or something. I can't remember, did they put her on the stand in her own defense??

  10. anonymous
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     Nov 30th 2005 !⃝

    She wasn't put into a mental hospital, she was in prison where she bragged to the other inmates about her hand in the death of Sharon Tate, Abigal Folger, and two others. Is it true that Susan Atkin's confession is actually what is being read at one point in the song?

  11. cherryxbliss
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     Nov 4th 2005 !⃝

    No one seems to love Alkaline Trio......weird.

    Anyway, this song is about Sadie Glutz a.k.a Susan Atkins, one of the members of the Manson family responsible for the death of Sharon Tate. She was the youngest, and most infamous becasue of her openess about it all. She is reported as being put into a mental hospital, where she told some of the other patients of her hanmd in the nurders, but when one of the other pateints tried to rat her out, none of the nurses believed her.


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