Brand New: Sic Transit Gloria....Glory Fades Meaning

Sic Transit Gloria....Glory Fades Lyrics

Keep the noise low.
She doesn't wanna blow it.
Shaking head to toe
while your left hand does "the show me around."
Quickens your heartbeat.
It beats me straight into the ground.

You don't recover from a night like this.
A victim, still...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 3rd 2008 !⃝

   This song is about a boy who is with this girl. He wants a relationship; she wants sex. He doesn't want to do it, but he wants her to be happy. Even as he's doing it, he feels like it's wrong.
2. anonymous

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   Sep 12th 2007 !⃝

   This is a song about a guy who is looking for a long term relationship. However every time he thinks he's found love it turns out to be a one night stand. I am a guy and I can definitely relate to this song. He is really uncomfortable about how his life is turning and how he doesn't want to be a stereotypical guy but can't do anything about it.
   
   The line 'he whisper that she wasn't but she's probably looking for... So much more than he could ever give' refers to how much he wants a serious relationship however she only looking for sex.
   
   Thank you for taking you time to read this.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 18th 2007 !⃝

   I thought that this song was about when John Nolan, his best friend, slept with Jesse Lacey's girlfriend. This is so messed up.. and when he says unprepared for a life full of lies and failing relationships.
4. anonymous

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   Apr 23rd 2007 !⃝

   It's about a guy who is being forced into sex and I'm guessing isn't ready, and he loves this girl, but she obviously doesn't feel the same way about him. The 'die young and save yourself' bit means that if you die young, you avoid all of the heartbreak and pain in life. That's what I think anyway. Think about it, it makes sense.
5. anonymous

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   Apr 19th 2007 !⃝

   ("You don't recover from a night like this.
   A victim, still lying in bed, completely motionless.
   A hand moves in the dark to a zipper.
   Hear a boy bracing tight against sheets
   barely whisper, "This is so messed up." )
   
   
   obviously so far it's about sex and a boy not being completely prepared
   
   
   ("Up the stairs: the station where
   the act becomes the art of growing up")
   
   this is just setting the stage of the sexual experience
   
   ("He keeps his hands low.
   He doesn't wanna blow it." )
   (But the body on the bed beckons forward
   and he starts growing up.")
   
   once more he isn't going to back down although he knows what he is doing does not feel right.
   
   ("Die young and save yourself.
   The tickle, the taste of...
   It used to be the reason I breathed but now it's choking me up.
   Die young and save yourself.")
   
   This is explaining how just like every immature boy he's explaining how sex was everything he ever thought about and he knew that it had to be good somehow thus the reason he breathed cause he wanted to experience it and now that it isn't what he thought its whats killing him inside
   
   "Die young and save yourself" is exactly what it says that's all
   
   Also on another version he doesn't say Die young... Instead he says "Die old and screw yourself" pretty much the same thing
   
   
   In simple, Yes it is about a boy who is having sex whether the girl is older isn't a factor but she is obviously more experienced and after only one thing. The truth is the irony lies in the use of a boy as a main character to express the fact that girls can be manipulative about sex and use boys just as much as guys use girls and dying young is just stateing that its the only way to be free of all this. That is the overlying message
6. plasticcup_politics

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   Dec 19th 2006 !⃝

   yeah but who cares about the meaning when the VIDEO is this BLEEDING COOL!!! check it out if you've never seen it
7. anonymous

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   Dec 16th 2006 !⃝

   Don't make this so complicated. basically its saying that all innocence is lost after sex and dying young would be saving yourself. This kid is getting used by a girl. He wanted a real relationship, but got sex that went fast and unromantically. It lets people know that sex is a big thing and changes things dramatically.
8. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2006 !⃝

   I think it's about a kid who was raised in a world were sex was the main priority in a man's life. Then the day comes were he faces it he gets scared as he is being pressured into having sex by his friends and a girl he loves. At the end he's not a kid anymore and he has to face a world full of lies as an adult.
9. Selo

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   Nov 26th 2006 !⃝

   This song is pretty complex, but it's definitely about a boy having sex for the first time, with a much more comfortable and (presumably older) girl who wants nothing more than sex from him. He isn't ready himself, but he wants to make her happy, so he goes along with her request. He is very nervous and discovers that sex isn't all it's cracked up to be ("Despite everything he learned from his friends, he doesn't feel so prepared") and he has let go of his innocence and childhood forever ("Up the stairs: the station where the act becomes the art of growing up"). He remembers how he had always waited to lose his virginity, but now that it's actually happened, he can't bear it ("It used to be the reason I breathe but now it's choking me up"). And when he tells her that he's uncomfortable, she ignores him.
10. anonymous

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    Nov 12th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about a boy losing his virginity..And being terrified of all the complications that go along with crossing that bridge. Its the end of being a kid..After sleeping with the girl he will be in a whole new adult world of drama.
    
    The end.
11. lovedust_111

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    Nov 12th 2006 !⃝

    I think it s about a girl who is statutorily raping a young boy. He is scared but does it anyway.
    "he is the lamb, she is the slaughter.
    She's moving way too fast and all he wanted was to hold her. Nothing that he tells her is really having an effect.
    He whispers that he loves her,
    but she's probably only looking for se-... " (sex)

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
12. anonymous

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    Sep 12th 2006 !⃝

    I think it is about a girl who is going out with a guy and he wants her for love but she wants him for sex and he isn't ready for it "wished that she loved him but she is proably only looking for sssssssssso much more than he can ever give"

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
13. anonymous

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    Jun 14th 2006 !⃝

    It's basically about a boy who loses his virginity to a much more experienced girl. "She's breathing quiet and cool/He is gasping for air"
14. lyric_guy43

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    Mar 28th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about a boy who is unprepared for a cruel world. 'Die Young and say yourself', meaning that he should just give up before having to go through his own personal hell. 'Unprepared for a life of lies and failing relationships', means that this boy doesn't know how to live life and will be a push over and in the end gives up.
15. anonymous

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    Mar 21st 2006 !⃝

    'Die young and save yourself' refers to the pressures of growing up in this culture. Jesse Lacey talks about how we feel the need to conform, and is questioning the point of life. The song itself is about a boy who has listened to his friends, and feels he needs to lose his virginity in order to fit in.

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