My Chemical Romance: Destroya Meaning
Destroya Lyrics
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WHOA!
Don't belive what they say
Were dead flies in the summer time
They leave us all behind
With duct tape scars on my honey
They don't like who...
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#1 top rated interpretation:Most of their songs are ambiguous and refer to the album concept and a message in real life, be it war, politics, love. In this I agree with previous comments made about them thinking they are the bad guys. It could also be about the Killjoys wreaking as much havoc as they can as their numbers decrease, possibly revenge after S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W (most likely refering to a nuclear bomb and the fallout to ensue or the actual unit within BL/ind)
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think the song is about how the Killjoys are determined to fight the bad guys, despite the overwhelming odds against them. The bad guys are not seriously thinking that the Killjoys are a real threat (They don't believe in us), but the Killjoys think they are a force to be reckoned with (But I believe we're the enemy). They will still go to war with the bad guys, despite knowing all too well they won't be able to win (Against the sun we're the enemy).
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#3 top rated interpretation:My opinion is that this song is about illuminati. It is like - everyone pushes and no one raises against the pressure. Gerard is singing about a rat that is the king of the street and we are the flies that hide. You know how flies are interpreted with something boring that should be destroyed. If you think we all are flies, then who can be the rat? I think there can be two answers: government and illuminati. But since illuminati are everywhere, you can even think they are the government. I will look at most of the verses so I will explain what I mean.
"Don't believe what they say" - I think someone is trying to make them, or just us, think something that we renounce.
"We're dead flies in the summertime
They leave us all behind" - we may be the flies. Those that are scared from the law, those that have been forced to hide forbidden things, those that have to bring their IDs everywhere and those that have been treated like a stock with barcode or something like this. We are those that have to hide in holes.
"With duct tape scars on my honey" - you know how flies stuck in honey. Also you know how when you touch the duck tape it leaves print. We, the flies, don't just stuck in the honey, but leave our scars. They know everything about us, we are no just a humans that born, live and disappear. They know everything about us.
"They don't like who you are" - the illuminati don't like the individuality.
"You won't like where we'll go" - "you" in this case may be the same illuminati.
"Brother, protect me now" - protection, because he sings this, I think.
"With blood they wash in the money!" - obvious. May be about wars or may be about just a little criminal that haven't been noticed by anyone. Someone just disappears and their (the illuminati's) hands are clean.
"You don't believe in God" - I think "you" is again the illuminati.
"I don't believe in luck" - means that contrariwise of their thoughts, Gerard, which is one of us, the people, believes in God.
"They don't believe in us" - the illuminati don't believe we are someone. They think we are zombies to manage.
"But I believe we're the enemy!" - we are the enemies of the illuminati.
"I'm sick down from the bones to the other side" - sickness from the illuminati or from how they drove someone to the other side.
"Red-mob, we insects hide" - address to the illuminati that we are forced to hide. The illuminati are red because of the blood on their hands.
"King rat on the streets in another life" - their life is different. All they know is to wield us. And they are the king of the streets - the streets are the place the flies live so it's their big world.
"They laugh, we don't think it's funny" - the things they make us believe we have to laugh at. It can be everything. But those that know what they are doing, don't laugh.
"If what you are
Is just what you own
What have you become
When they take from you
ALMOST EVERYTHING" - we are 0. That's it - they take from us out individuality, our intimate life, they govern us.
"Destroya" - it can mean that they are destroying you or that you should destroy 'em.
"Against the sun, we're the enemy" - they, the illuminati, think they matter more than we, those who know what they are doing, think. They think that they are the sun. But we are actually their enemies.
"I don't believe in God (you don't believe in God)" - what they think is we don't, but at the ground we do. We believe in God and they can't make us don't do.
"I don't believe in luck (I don't believe in luck)" - it's true. Today a lot of people don't believe in luck, like they don't believe in God (sadly). They are like robots with no hope for future. Like the community of illuminati made them. In the background Gerard sings he doesn't believe in luck, which means that he really doesn't. He believes in God.
"I don't believe in you (They don't believe in us)" - what first is heard is "I" but this is what illuminati think - we actually believe in us. They don't.
"I just believe we're the enemy (but I believe we're the enemy)" - "I just" is like said from a slave. When it is "but" it is like from someone that knows who he is and what he wants.
"So show me what you got, you children of the gun" - rising against the illuminati. They are the children of the gun, because that's what they do when something doesn't please them - destroy it, kill.
"Don't hide and we don't run!" - the illuminati don't run from us, but we, those that know who they are, also don't hide from them.
"Well I'm waiting for yaa Destroya Destroya" - we are waiting they to capitulate. -
This song leans hard into concept
Which is to say, this don't does what it's meant to do and yet does more.
There's definitely the concept of the killjoys questioning if, by pursuing their technically criminal behavior, it makes them irredeemable to the point of becoming the enemy they're painted as.
I also think it had a Lot to say about the personal state many of the band members were in.
They're all relatively newly married and making an album they never planned to make because they only planned through TBP
and then they come out of left field with something positive because that's mostly where they're at in their lives, and they worry that they will be branded, yet again, as the enemy of the genre.
There's a lot more meaning that could be read into it if you want to ask me. But these are the broadest of broad strokes about what it means.
Also I don't like this song.
It's worth sharing, I don't listen to it. I skip every chance I get because it rubs on the wing nerves and I can barely get through it. I didn't listen to it out of pleasure, but because I felt that too know the band you have to listen to the sings you like and the ones you don't. And however I hate listening to it, I think Destroya is truly one of the songs one just be able to interpret to enjoy the album. Despite the asinine, there's almost more interpretations about this song than any other in their discography and I think that speaks to the power of ambiguity within a framework because the interpretation all follows theme in some way
But I think it being so off the wall compared to the rest of the album paired with green day's similar sounding hit that released shortly beforehand, to create one of their biggest hits by virtue of sound, in spite of a multitude of meanings that have nothing to do with the illuminati, tho that is a great troll tell -
Okay, so "Destroya" is a robot. Gerard told us that.
This song is from the album "Danger Days" which was in a post apocalyptic world, so a giant robot named Destroya isn't too weird.
Now, the song seems to not have a lot of meaning, however there's a lyric that says:
"If what you are is just what you own, what will you become when they take from you almost everything?"
This kind of points out that what you own or how rich you are doesn't change you.
Now, as for the moaning in the song...they were drunk.
The drums are inspired by a festival where drums were a huge thing, and people moved with the drums, creating circle pits and having a good time.
This is one of my favorite songs.
Now, if you're mad about him saying he doesn't believe in God, get over it. If you like MCR, you should know by their songs Thank You For The Venom and WTTBP, that they aren't entirely Christian.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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But still near the end of the song the singer Gerard sings two different things at the same time. So if you have ear buds just try listening to it one at a time.
One of the things he said on the left side was "I don't believe in god, I dont believe in luck I don't believe in you I believe in the enemy" but the left side sings: "you don't believe god I don't believe in luck you don't believe in us I believe were the enemy". (I was shocked when he said I don't believe in god). -
over all I think this song is simply about an underdog. Because you're not the "norm" or what society wants you to be you are treated like dirt. You are seen as a problem or an outcast.
"What you are
It's just what you own
What have you become
When they take from you
almost everything"
You are who you are, and others may not like that and they might try to strip you of who you are. if you let them take that passion away from you, you are nothing but another person on this earth who won't make an impact -
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I think this song talks about not.being like society, or the killjoys enemy, so since they/you arent following the rules.they make.or.believing in their strength/beliefs you.must be the enemy because you are not like them
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Its about the new world order and how if you dont do what the masses do you will be targeted by them and the government.
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The song is about how strong peoples faith is. It compares god to the sun and to the eyes of many faithful people, going against god is like trying to fight the sun which in that case, you can't win. Since usually the good guys always win, trying to fight the sun will make them the bad guys or the enemies. That's my interpretation of the song.
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I believe it is a song about going to war and they have a conscious so they believe they are the enemy. and the luck and god thing are different reason they go to war. because what some believe is god others believe is luck. They believe they are the detroya
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Yeah, it could have something to do with religion with the you don't believe in god i don't believe in luck line.
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This song reminds me of Appolyon the "destroyer" written in Revelation
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