From First to Last: Ride the Wings of Pestilence Meaning

Ride the Wings of Pestilence Lyrics

Hiding behind the shadows
I'll be waiting in the dark
to drive this blade straight through your heart
I'll drag your body to the car
as blood races down my arm
I think everyone will wonder where you are, tonight

I'll hide you in my...

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   anonymous

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   Dec 14th 2005 !⃝

   If you take it literally, this is just a song about killing someone, but I don't think that they would literally wear someone's skin as a suit, so I see that line as reason to look for metaphorical meaning.
   
   the chorus:
   "I'll hide you in my walls
   your body will never be found
   I'll wear your skin as a suit
   Pretend to be you, your friends will like you more than they used to"
   
   I think this song is about hiding your true personality and creating some new image of yourself pretending to be you so that you friends will like you more. Basically, changing who you are to fit in. The lines "Dear diary my teen angst bullshit has a body count / I believe it's 6 going on 7 now" refer to how you have to keep changing your self over and over agian to fit in with the trend of the moment. This sentiment is also refected in the title, which is repeated at the end of the song. The use of the word "ride" shows that you aren't the one in control of who you have to be, you're just following what everyone esle says. The reason they use the word "pestilence" instead of disease is not just because it sounds better, but because pestilence is a widespread epidemic, not just somethign affecting you, showing that many people are throwing away their identities to fit in.
2. anonymous

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   Oct 24th 2011 !⃝

   I heard it was based on an Edgar Allen Poe story. Possibly The Cask of Amontillado? The character entombs his friend alive in his walls. But I could be wrong
3. anonymous

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   Sep 20th 2011 !⃝

   I think its about the man was "Possed by the devil" and killed a person he hated so yeah you get the idea but i gotta love the line ill drive this blade straight through your heart
4. fftl1827

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   May 19th 2009 !⃝

   It is about Ed Gein just look at the lyrics everything including every line is everything Ed Gein did.
5. anonymous

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   Jul 4th 2008 !⃝

   What about the video to this song? I live in cali so I'm right near a mission and was wondering...a lot of diseases did spread through the native American populations brought to the missions......what that whole theme has to do with the video?
6. anonymous

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   May 13th 2008 !⃝

   None of these meanings actually make sense when you read the whole song except for number one.
7. anonymous

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   Mar 3rd 2008 !⃝

   Yeah, I agree with the first post.
   It's basically saying you "kill your old self" to fit in with the new fad.
   
   Hide you in my walls?
   Forget your past and move on, or, jokingly, putting your old clothes in the closet, which is in the wall.
   
   Most people get their idea for a new fashion trend to pick up from someone else, which is where the "Pretend to be you" is from.
   
   And I agree, riding the "wings of pestilence" means that this fad, is spreading so fast and is so strong it's more than a disease, it's like a plague, a pestilence. Instead of being knocked away by it, you ride it, joining it.
8. anonymous

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   Jan 21st 2008 !⃝

   Fuck it!
   omg do not complicate yourselves that much!
   dont waste time trying to find a hidden meaning of the song.. like following what everyone says or whatever..
   
   its clear in there!
   the song is about a guy who is freakin mad at a girl who broke is heart in an awful way...
   he hates her so much, he wants to kill her and disappear her..
   he wants to hide her body in the walls so no one finds her..
   
   in the part "i'll wear your skin as a suit, pretend to be you, your friends will like you more than they used to", it means that he'll rip her skin off and use it to pretend being her, and everyone will like her more because she really was a bitch and it's hard to be a worse person than the one she actually was"..
   
   the guy is nuts.. He literally dreamed about her drowning in a pool of her own blood..
   it's not a double sense song..
   please do not complicate..
   
   thanks =)

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9. anonymous

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   Aug 21st 2007 !⃝

   Hey what about the first verse?
   "hiding behind the shadows"
   waiting in the dark?
   and this: (to drive this blade straight through your heart)
   i don't think its literally
10. anonymous

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    Aug 8th 2007 !⃝

    I love this song. I read from a source that this song has a close relation to Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart." In all, it sounds like someone wanting to kill a person they hate, but also admire.
    
    I've seen the movie "Heathers." Winona Ryder was so fucking hot when she was teenager and she still is. I can't stop obsessing about her. I've written many of my own songs and poetry about her.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 15th 2007 !⃝

    The chorus reminds me of a movie silence of the lambs because the guy buffalo bill would kidnap girls by getting them into his van take them to his house and hid him in a hole in the ground kill them after a few days and use there skin to make a suit so he could look like a girl and he would hide the bodies.
12. anonymous

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    Mar 25th 2007 !⃝

    It had a secret meaning...But Sonny and I have desided that it is about me wanting to killing some girl because she was with the man of my dreams..then him going crazy..
13. anonymous

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    Jan 27th 2007 !⃝

    i agree with the first interpretation... It's about trying to change yourself and be someone your not to fit in.... and as for number 3.... dude wtf? you sound like a boy crazed teeny bopper, shut up, your not cool.
14. kissmeimcontagious

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    Jan 26th 2007 !⃝

    I read an interview that someone had with Sonny and Derek. One of the questions was were you thinking when you wrote Ride the Wings of Pestilence, they pretty much said it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously and that they didn’t write it, someone they work with did.
15. Dead_Baby_Kick_Ball

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    Dec 4th 2006 !⃝

    The killers name is Edward Gein...There are direct links from his murders to the song." Gein's most infamous creation was an entire wardrobe fabricated from human skin...""...Gein's car which he used to haul the bodies of his victims was sold as public auction"...
16. Dead_Baby_Kick_Ball

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    Nov 27th 2006 !⃝

    It's about this guy in america I think his name is charles someone or other. He was a serial killer and he went round killing women and wearing they're body parts. I'm researching it for a college project...

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