My Chemical Romance: Sleep Meaning

Sleep Lyrics

Some say now suffer all the children
And walk away a savior
Or a madman and polluted
From gutter institutions
Don't you breathe for me
Undeserving of your sympathy
'Cause there ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did

And through it...

1. jackjohn920

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   Oct 8th 2008 !⃝

   It's about insanity, and not accomplishing your dreams. The person does something bad, but doesn't want help, he's insane but thinks everybody else is wrong.
   There trying to say that you shouldn't worry about things so much, because people feel so bad for this guy but he doesn't care. It's about having different opinions, and sticking to your own so much, and not caring about what other people think.
2. anonymous

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   Jul 30th 2008 !⃝

   I read that it was about how when My Chemical Romance was staying at the Paramour mansion in Los Angeles while recording this album. They felt spirits were trying to haunt them and Mikey would get really depressed at night. Gerard would have sleep terror feeling as if someone was choking him (because of the recording of Gerard in the beginning of the song describing it).
3. FrankiesProperty

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   May 8th 2008 !⃝

   I read in a book that the beginning is about this haunted studio that they had stayed in that had caused Mikey to have all these "terrors", three days grace also wrote a song called Scared that is about the same haunted recording studio... and I believe panic at the disco even mentioned it once.
4. ablack13

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   Jan 17th 2008 !⃝

   Well, I get it, in a way, as The Patient thinking about how people used to see him ("Some say, now suffer all the children and walk away a savior, or a madman and polluted from gutter institutions"). He's remembering the things he did (... "There ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did"), realizing that this is the end, and that there's nothing more he can do("The hardest part is letting go of your dreams"). He wants to say goodbye to people he loves, but he doesn't want them to feel bad about him leaving ("How could you cry for me, 'cause I don't feel bad about it"), so he tries to convince them, and himself in a way, that he's not afraid of dying, and that that's what is supposed to happen ("There ain't no way that I'm coming back again.").
   So there. Oh and I read somewhere that Gerard's voice recordings are about the nightmares he had when they were spending time in the haunted recording studio (Paramour). Doesn't really have much to do with the song, but fits really well.
5. deadcalm

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   Jan 15th 2008 !⃝

   The song is about fading away, dying, finally resting in peace but not sorry for it and everything. gladly accepts it in peace...

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

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   Dec 4th 2007 !⃝

   I think that it's about a janitor at an amusement park who falls asleep on the job too many times so the manager just walks about one day when he's sleeping and gives him a lethal injection... jk... That's probably the farthest thing from what the song is about... Its a great song, one of the top 5 best from the album...

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7. anonymous

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   Sep 24th 2007 !⃝

   I think it's about some guy who abused children and has been sentenced to death or something.

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

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   Sep 2nd 2007 !⃝

   It's about sleeping.
9. im_not_okay...

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   Jul 18th 2007 !⃝

   It's about when Mikey left and Gerard got really bad nightmares and that's what the bits at the start, middle and end are... He had a Dictaphone thing
   
   he wrote this when he was working out how to overcome the nightmares, it was him telling himself just to let go of the dreams, even tho that was hard. and then he'd be able to sleep...
   
   all the above is what I heard in an interview... but I have a theory too!
   
   i reckon if he wrote it when Mikey left [he was depressed and suffering from anxiety] he felt lonely and the message was that Mikey should try to let go of his problems because Gerard missed him and that him leaving was giving Gerard nightmares and he was losing sleep. consequently 'famous last words' is partially about that too!
10. twinkle_toes

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    Jul 14th 2007 !⃝

    Patient's about to go into a coma, girlfriend/wife is crying and he's all don't cry for me (knowing he's going to hell for his sins)because he has really accepted his death.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 8th 2007 !⃝

    I think it's about someone in a position where they're fighting for their lives and they're about to just let go,...and "sleep"
12. anonymous

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    Jul 2nd 2007 !⃝

    I think it's about the patient ready to give up.
13. anonymous

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    Jun 25th 2007 !⃝

    I read that Gerard suffered from sleep terror and that this song describes them. If you don't know what that is...then well...it's hard to explain LQTM
14. DiSeNcHaNtEd_DrEaMeR

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    Jun 10th 2007 !⃝

    I totally agree that this is about the patient.
15. anonymous

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    May 28th 2007 !⃝

    I think it's about "the patient" talking to all his loved ones. As he's dying he tells them:
    "So shut your eyes. Kiss me goodbye. And Sleep."
    
    He's telling his loved ones, goodbye, and not to feel bad about whats happening to him, because he doesn't. And to just.... Sleep.

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