My Chemical Romance: Drowning Lessons Meaning

Drowning Lessons Lyrics

Without a sound, I took her down
And dressed in red and blue, I squeeze
Imaginary wedding gown
That you can't wear in front of me
A kiss goodbye, your twisted shell
As rice grains and roses fall at your feet
We'll say goodbye the hundredth...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 17th 2006 !⃝

   If you at it literally, yes, he catches his fiance with another man and kills them both, but you really nedd to look at it symbolically too. The man's engagement to the woman is symbolic of gerard's drug addiction, and when he kills her, it's symbolic of him giving up drugs.
2. anonymous

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   Jun 10th 2006 !⃝

   In response to the third interpretation: the whole thing with the souls of a thousand evil men is from the 2nd album, not the first one. This song is about giving up drugs.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 1st 2006 !⃝

   Drowning Lessons is about a girl getting murdered on her wedding day. The Narrator voice in the song killed her because he wanted to be with her. He will keep on killing until he can prove that she is the one, and because of her rejection of him, more people will die.
4. anonymous

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   Dec 26th 2005 !⃝

   I think Drowning Lessons is about a love triangle. The woman is having an affair with a guy but she's supposed to be getting married. She leaves her fiance at the alter and he finds out she was having an affair and tries to kill her and the other guy but they escape but the guy realises that he doesn't love the girl anymore but tells her he still does (she really loves him) and convinces her to kill herself with him and they do but he tricks her and survives so that he can be rid of her.

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

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   Dec 19th 2005 !⃝

   The song is about a relationship that has a lot of problems. She wanted it to work out (imaginary wedding gown, rose petals, swallowed engagement ring)He's saying it isn’t going to work out, asking for "a thousand bodies piled up" if she chooses to stay, which still wouldn't be enough for him. Then the engagment ring (relationship potential) is destoryed and he isn't sad about ending the relationship.
   
   It also follows up on the story from the 1st album.
6. anonymous

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   Nov 15th 2005 !⃝

   The song is basically following the storyline of the first album.
   
   How there was a man and a woman (basically the whole Bonnie and Clyde thing) and they got caught in a middle of a gun fight, the guy goes to Hell and asks the devil where his love is and the devil says she still alive and that when he bring him the bodies of a thousand evil men, then he'll find her.
   
   So in this:
   
   "Imaginary wedding gown
   That you can't wear in front of me"
   
   He's talking about his love who he can marry yet
   
   "Lets say goodbye, the hundreth time
   And then tomorrow we'll do it again
   Tomorrow we'll do it again..."
   
   They live a life of crime, basically shooting and killing people so it describes how they'll do the same things and kill people everyday
   
   "I dragged her down I put her out
   And back there I left her where no one could see
   And lifeless cold into this well
   I stared as this moment was held for me"
   
   He thinks about ecventually killing her too, the one he loves
   
   "I never thought it'd be this way
   Just me and you, we're here alone
   And if you stay, all I'm asking for is
   A thousand bodies piled up
   I never thought would be enough
   To show you just what I've been thinking"
   
   But then he goes back to realizing that he loves her
   and it foreshadows the fact of him killing 1000 evil men for her which proves that he really does love her
   
   "These hands stained red
   From the times that I've killed you and then
   We can wash down this engagement ring
   With poison and kerosene"
   
   He still dreams about killing her, knowing he never will
   like how he'll never be able to marry her either
   
   "We'll laugh as we die
   And we'll celebrate the end of things
   With cheap champagne"
   
   They have no cares in the world as long as they're together so they'll laugh at death if both of them are dying.
   
   "Without, without a sound
   Without, without a sound
   And I'll wish you away"
   
   He still has those thoughts of him being without her
   
   Probably a lot of you will think I'm wrong but that's okay, we all have our different ideas.
7. cherryxbliss

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   Nov 7th 2005 !⃝

   No Iawlays thought of it as more of a pulling someone else into the druggie lifestyle song. But Hey, maybe I'm just not paying attention.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 6th 2005 !⃝

   It's about drugs, esp. Ecstasy I think because of the "Without a sound I took her down and dressed in red and blue I squeezed" connotation. It's also about Desintox, I guess, because of the "let's say goodbye the hundredth time and tomorrow we'll do it again".
   
   It's basically a goodbye to the drug life. "We'll laugh as we die And we'll celebrate the end of things with cheap champagne."

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