My Chemical Romance: Early Sunsets Over Monroeville Meaning
Early Sunsets Over Monroeville Lyrics
Just like my favorite scenes
Then holding hands and life was perfect
Just like up on the screen
And the whole time while always giving
Counting your face among the living
Up and down escalators
Pennies...
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Okey dokey, this is about losing somebody to evil and you have to go against them to stop them and then leave. Kinda like the concept of Vampires Will Never Hurt You.
But it is also related to Dawn Of The Dead. Yes, I know two year difference. BUT that was a remake. The first dawn of the dead was created 1978.
"And the whole time while always giving
Counting your face among the living"
This about how the girl is either alive or still morally good.
"Up and down escalators, pennies and colder fountains
Elevators and half price sales, trapped in by all these mountains"
This is where Dawn Of The Dead comes in.
"Not knowing you'd change from just one bite"
Meaning bite of a vampire. A vampire symbolizes an evil creature. He didn't think she would turn evil from an unfortunate event.
"And if I had the guts to put this to your head..."
Meaning either killing her or going against her evil.
"But would anything matter if you're already dead?"
Dead in feelings, or dead as in part of the 'living dead' a.k.a. vampire.
"Before I pull this trigger,"
Before I put you to an end, or litterally.
"Your eyes vacant and stained..."
Expressing she's already gone mentally.
"But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?"
He has ceased it, whether it's meantally or physically. Even though she turned evil he still loved her. Which made it harder to do. -
"this is a sweet song about the movie, dawn of the dead...!" Gerard said
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Okay, it can't be about Dawm of the Dead, because I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me You Love (the album that song is on) was released in 2002. Dawn of the Dead was releases in 2004. A two year difference.
Anyhoo...
I think it was about running away from something, not physically, but mentally.
"trapped in by all these mountains", I think is a mental stumbling block. Like, he couldn't escape his own thoughts and he just wanted to run away and forget his past. -
It's not about dawn of the dead, but its a very similar story.
The album is about two lovers who discover that the world has been taken over by vampires. They flee, but the woman is bitten, and in the song the narrator, her lover, is deciding whether or not to kill her so that she can't get him.
Then she kills him any way, enter "three cheers for sweet revenge".
This is all correct, check any magazine with an mcr interview. -
Yes it is about dawn of the dead. You're all right, however it's all metaphorical. Those that have touched on the girl becoming a zombie being a metaphor for her becoming something different to what he thought she was are on the right track.
If you put this song and vampires will never hurt you together, it's obvious that the character sees society as harmful. Society being dead/lifeless and he sees himself as being alive and free. -
The entire first album is about the narrator and his love running from a world infested by vampires. This song is a short version of the proverbial end, whereas three cheers is essentially the long version. While the narrator can't decide whether or not to kill his love, she does kill him. The "does anyone notice" line points out the irony of his moral dilemma - love keeps him from doing the obvious, so instead of following the path of self preservation, his lover kills him since she is no longer human.
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I met them 3 years ago and took with me a dawn of the dead movie poster. Gerard and mikey freaked bc the two of them watch that movie every xmas or something. They all wanted to sign it. The song is based on the flick. End of story.
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Right. This song is about Dawn of the Dead and the band even said in an intervew that this is a "sweet song about Dawn of the Dead."
I love this song and MCR rocks. -
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I think its based on Dawn of the Dead as Gee said in one of his interviews, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't incorperate other things. Like relizing the pain a loved one or yourself if going through, but nobody notices.
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OKAY, listen up.
In dawn of the dead, Francine does not get bitten. Her boyfriend does. And I think its more about Peter and Stephen. They become really close friends. And Stephen gets bit. And dies in the bed. and comes back, in the bed.
"Late dawns and early sunsets"
-dawn
"theres no room in this hell, there's no room in the next"
-logo for the movie, "when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth"
"not knowing you'd change from just one bite"
-Stephen gets bit, and they aren't aware that a bite will infect you.
"To put this to your head"
-only way to kill a zombie
"Theres a corpse in this bed"
-stephen dies in the bed.
Also, Monroeville, I do believe that is the the mall in which Dawn of the Dead takes place in.
it may not be what mcr meant for it to be about, but it easily can be translated.
But, hey, I'm just the zombie girl. Don't take my word for it. -
It's nothing about the Dawn of the Dead, kids. It's about not realizing the pain that a loved one and/or yourself is going through, and no one notices. Then, it's too late. "But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?"
Yeah.
I met them. I know. -
Like mcrgurl said, it's about Dawn of the Dead. The girl gets bitten and turn into a zombie and now he has to shoot her, but it's hard because he loved her. I haven't seen the movie but I know the basic concept about zombies because I saw Shaun of the Dead hehe.
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This song is about the movie Dawn Of The Dead. Its talking about were two people that love eachother and are running from zombies and she gets bit and he has to kill her before she get to him but he loves her and he has to shoot her, "And if I had the guts to put this to your head/And would anything matter if you're already dead?"
He loves her so much that he doesn't want to kill her, "And should I be shocked now by the last thing you said?" and "And in saying you loved me, made things harder at best."
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