My Chemical Romance: Cemetery Drive Meaning
Cemetery Drive Lyrics
Walk the dead
In a solitary style and crash the cemetery gates
In the dress your husband hates
Way down
Mark the grave
Where the searchlights find us drinking by the mausoleum door
And they found you on the bathroom...
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Whoever wrote about Kate, the girl from before MCR's tour, you are right. At least, this is the story my friend tells me. She says Gerard used his stories to merge the girl into the songs. That's sad.
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Some people are getting very defensive over the fact that some people are saying the song is about an affair and some people are saying the song is about a friend of Gerard's who committed suicide.
Well did anyone think it could be about both?
So maybe the song is dedicated to Gerard's lost friend, however there is more to the song than the one line 'and they found you on the bathroom floor'
I am not going to say this is right because I have absolutely no proof, but does anyone know anything about this friend of Geralds?
Because that information could be very relevant.
If the song is about Gerard's lost friend, there is obviously a story behind her.
I do think there is the story of an affair in the song, maybe this friend of his had an affair.
"This night, walk the dead, in the solitary style and crash the cemetary gates, in the dress your husband hates"
To me it sounds as if she is rebeling against her husband, hence 'in the dress your husband hates'. Maybe the bad relationship with her husband is what brought her to have the affair, as if the affair was a way to escape her bad marriage.
"Lay down, mark the grave, where the search lights found us drinking by the moseleum door, and they found you on the bathroom floor"
So they were caught by the search lights, and then the death is mentioned. Maybe the whole reason the suicide was commited was because the secret was out.
"I miss you, and I miss you so far, and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard"
So it is harder because of how compatible the two were, or how much he loved her.
"Back home, off the run"
So they had their time together, she is with her husband again, and for that moment she dosnt have to hide?
"Singing songs that make you slit your wrists, it isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun"
He is sad at the fact that things he said or did contributed to her depression?
"So I won't stop dying, won't stop lying, if you want I will keep on crying"
It sounds as if he has realised her love for him was an escape as apossed to the real love her feels for her, and now he is upset that she is gone, but she might not care.
"Did you get what you deserve? Is this what you always want me for?"
Maybe he is asking if she thinks taking her own life was what she deserved or the right thing to do, and asking if all he ment to her was the escape, as I said before.
Anyway that is just some of my ideas
Lol, they are probably all wrong, it is just the way I took it, and I wanted to have a shot :D
Then again I am not the biggest MCR fan. I like the songs but I know nothing about the band themselves.
Anyways I just wanted to point out that even though a lot of you may not agree there is a bigger story to the song because it was about Geralds friend taking her own life full stop, well there has to be a story behind why she did it and I think there is more to the song than the one like 'and they found you on the bathroom floor".
Also I read in another song interpretation someone said "artists don't tell the stories to the songs, so the listner can take it in how ever they wish"
I thought that was an awsome way to put it lol. Which is why I dohnt care if I am wrong :D
Bye byes. xox -
No, people this song is about a girl that Gerard was friends with in college, and she killed herself, and he was really upset about this.
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Cemetary Drive is about a woman who is cheating on her husband, but she can't take the pressure any more.
"so I won't stop dying won't stop lying, if you want I'll keep on crying"
so she kills her self "and they found you on the bathroom floor". or, her husband kills her when he finds out about the affair, "and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard" so hard t do what? to kill her? to let her go because she slits her wrists? only Gerard will know..
some say that Gerard wrote the song about a close friend of his, others say it was his brother who recently joined the band as the new pianist.. -
This song is about Gerard and Mikey's close friend. She shot herself in the head in the bathroom that is why "and they found you on the bathroom floor, I miss you" is in their
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Okay, I don't think this song is about adultery at all. You may say that's stupid but I really dont. There's a story that gerard had a friend when he was younger and she commited suicide by shooting herself in her bathroom. Hence the "staring down a loaded gun" and the "and they found you on the bathroom floor" he used to drink with her a lot.."where the searchlights find us drinking by the m..(I can never spell that word) door"
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Yes, this song IS about adultery, but the song was written about a friend of Gerard and Mikey's, who committed suicide just days before MCR left for their first tour. She allegedly shot herself in her bathroom, and Gerard wrote this song about her while he was grieving.
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ha.... I think it's about a guy who loves a girl but she is married,there drunk in a cemetary and are kissing,and she lovs both of them but can't choose which one, so she cuts herself, but cuts too deep and dies,then her husband finds out and shoots him.
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A good (female) friend of Gerards killed herself just before he wrote this song so it is most likely to do with her and why she killed herself.
But like most MCR songs it has more than one meaning and isn't always about just one thing. -
To me I really don't think any of you are right like I love to think about mcrs songs and think like Gerard! If you start thinking like him that's were you start thinking things outside of the box you start thinking in analogies and not in a literal sense which is were I came up with this it might be completely wrong but I'm just thinking of the possibilities.
(this night walk the dead)to me that line means a married man walking by a cemetary when he meets a woman but the woman isn't accually a woman she's a spirit.
(Crash the cemetary gates) I think that would mean the man is going into forbidden taritory aka the woman.
(in the dress your husband hates) means she was married to someone which I think was the man that went to hell but then the devil sent him up to get the corpses of a thousand evil men so really I think that the woman was dead but she was a ghost and ghosts are spirits with unfinished business and her unfinished business was saying her last goodbye to her husband and she mistakes the guy that's walking for her husband.
So basically that's what I think of it idk I could be far gone but idk... -
I don't know if you've noticed but at the beginning of the second verse, you can hear Gerard whispering.
After playing about a bit with sound filters I've found out it says:
"Dont, dont, dont, don't do it."
This, to me, points towards suicide. Hope this all makes sense ;) -
The song "Cemetery Drive" is believed to be about adultery and more so the guilt that surrounds it. The story is about a man who has an affair with a married woman ("the dress your husband hates") who then kills herself when her husband finds out ("and they found you on the bathroom floor(...)"). Her lover feels guilty over what he caused the woman to do, and he imagines himself meeting her, somehow still alive, in the cemetery where she is buried ("this night walk the dead(...)
Many speculate that this song has a personal meaning for the band members. On My Chemical Romance's live album, Life on the Murder Scene, Gerard Way begins the song by saying, "This song is about the hardest drive me and Mikey and my band ever went on. We been on this long road now about four years." It is believed that there was a girl that the band was very close to prior to being signed (Gerard was especially close to her). The day after My Chemical Romance left for their very first tour, she committed suicide in her bathroom by shooting herself, and during his mourning, Gerard wrote this song.Some wonder if it is possible the same girl that Bert from The Used talks about in his linear notes from Love Or Death where he refers to a girl named Kate. Gerard had written to a girl referred to as "K' in the notes for Bullets, where he apologizes for always killing her in songs. -
This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Heyy!
So okay...Mine is probably rubbish ^^ lol but I love this song so much...
"this night
walk the dead
in the solitary style and crash the
cemetery gates"
-ok, I think 'this night walk the dead' is about her dead husband coming back to be with her, in ghost form. Like people say waking the dead when you sing ^^. I don't know about the other too lines, my guess is that she climbs over a gate into the cemetery and sits by her husbands grave.
"in the dress your husband hates
way down, mark the grave
where the searchlights find us drinking by the
mausoleum door...
And they found you on the bathroom floor"
-in the dress your husband hates...Defiance against her husband(?) um...Way down as in hidden amongst things like trees where her husbands grave is and she actually marks it like with a pen or something^^ they send out a search party for two people including her and they find them drinking by the mausoleum door. And obviously, they found you on the bathroom floor is like dead on the bathroom floor^^ suicide.
"I miss you
i miss you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard"
-the man who is alive misses his dead wife and she is too far away from him. I think the last line is meant to be when he was shot he kissed her just before he died and it made it hard to die.
"back home
off the run
singing songs that make you slit your wrists
isn't that much fun
staring down a loaded gun"
-when I was looking at these things they all said before she actually died, but I think it's a sorta flashback to being at home and depressed and cutting her wrists. I don't really know about the last two lines...=[ maybe when the husband was shot(?)
"so I won't stop dying
won't stop lying
if you want I'll keep on crying
did you get what you deserve?
Is this what you always want me for?"
-the husband won't stop dying inside from the grief of his wifes death perhaps? This is what I think for the rest:
+he won't stop lying when people ask him about her, he will just tell them a lie eg. "how is your wife?" "aive and well." get me?
+he might be sick of crying but if he thinks he hasn't cried enough then he will carry on...Ok that made no sense^^
+did you get what you deserved, might be at peace now like many people have said and the last line...Maybe she always wanted him under her control and he's finally free from her reighn(?)
"I miss you
i miss you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard"
-already explained ^^
"way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way down!"
-maybe he still goes down to the place where she died as in his grave or were they were drinking and just sit in her place for a moment.
The rest I've already explained...Sorry if you think it's absolute crap^^ lmso but that's what I think it's about.
Love ya all
lixue xx -
I think this song is about woman who is having an affair. The line "..In the dress your husband hates..." is about the woman having an act of defiance against her husband, as if to say she doesn't care about him anymore. Then she and her lover get caught ("and the searchlights find us drinking by the mausoleum door...") either by her husband out looking for her, or by the police or something. Then, her husband finds out about her affair and kills her ("and they found you on the bathroom floor.." - refers to finding her body). I also think that this song is told from the voice of the person she is having an affair with. He really misses her "I miss you, I miss you, so far..."). When he says "the collision of your kiss, that made it so hard," I think he means that it was hard for the husband to kill the wife, because he still did love her. She probably begged forgiveness and kissed him, but he felt that killing her was something he had to do. The next stanza of the song I think goes back to before she was killed. It says "back home, off the run" which I think goes back to when they were at the graveyard and were caught, but they get away, and she goes home. I think she was really depressed, feels guilty about cheating, and thinks about suicide ("singing songs that make you slit your wrists, it isn't that much fun staring down a loaded gun") and her husband finds her and she tells him about cheating. Then, like I said before, he is so mad that he kills her, even though it was hard. When the lover says "did you get what you deserve? Is this what you always want me for?" I think he means, did you deserve to be killed because you were wrong for cheating, and did she just want one last fling before she killed herself, or in this case, got killed. Then the repeating of "way down" I think symbolizes them burying her "way down" in the ground. That is just my interpretation. It may be wrong, but its just a guess.
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