My Chemical Romance: Teenagers Meaning
Song Released: 2007
Teenagers Lyrics
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work
They're gonna...
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from what the band said about the story line of the CD, about how the black parade is supposed to be taking him back through his life, I think this is just a part of the story. The patient might have been a rebelious teenager and the song is in the point of view of all the adults around him who just see him as a dangerous, disturbed kid. The song does hit on stuff like school violence though-
and if you're troubled and hurt
what you got under your shirt
will make them pay for the things they did
i don't think tha band meant to offend any of their fans with the song though, but you must admit some people take things a bit too far when it comes to the band. -
MCR is not actually scared of teenagers.
They stated in an interview that this was about how teenagers are made to feel that they have to be violent or made to feel worthless.
Hello, Gerard lived those feelings when he was in highschool.
They're making a point about society, duh. -
ok lets go section by section here
Their gona clean up your look with all the lies and the books to make a citicen out of you. because they sleep with agun and keep an eye on your son so they can watch all the things you do.
that section is abought how the teachers and other kids don't liek the way someoen dresses and wants to change them so they constantly make fun of them. The sleeping with a gun part is because they have to watch eery thing that peopel do because noi matter were you go someone is going to push them around.
Because the drugs never work their gona give you a smerk because they got methods to keeping you clean. Their gona rip off your head you asperations to shread another caught in the murder machine.
ok now this part is abought how they put the kid on drugs becaus ethey think they are like pycho or something. Their gona rip off you head part is abouht how they are sick and tiered of being pushed so they are getting clooser and clooser to doing something they know they will regret.
teenagers scare the living shit out of me they could care less as long as someoen will bleed so darken your cloths and strike a violent pose mabe theyl leave you alone but not me.
hes not saying hte teenagers scare him he sayign how people are pushing this one kid around and they could care less if he's cutting himself or anything liek that and darken your cloths or strike a violent pose that whole section is abought hwo peoipel turn into goths or emos and try to keep to themsleves and hope they will leave them alone but MCR isn't they want them to feel that tehy are fitting in with their kind of people.
the boys and gilrs in the cliq the awfull names that they stick your never gona fit in much kid now if your troubled and hurt what you got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did.
ok lets see here the cliq means liek jocks preps and so on thoose cliq hate on goths emo and randome kids so bad that they don't fit it at all so they get so pissed that they brig something to school (they never say exacly what it is so its not just a gun it could be a knife or something) and kill them or cause pain to the ones that hurt them.
MCR did an interview they said that this song is talkign abought how to many kids are being pushed around and they get to the point that tehy shoot up a school.
now I can relate this song to my life because from 4-10 grade I ws pushed around and at the end of 10 I chaged the way I dressed completly and then I moved that summer to a new and better school to a school that peopel understand me for me not for how I dress and you don't knwo how many time I really wanted to hurt so many peopel at teh other school -
I love this song. <3 I agree with most people's interpretations. Its about how Teenagers are becoming more violent, and it also has refrences to school shootings. And there's one part in the song
"so darken your clothes
or strike a violent pose
maybe they'll leave you alone
but not me"
That makes me think about their obsessed teenage fans, adults are freaked out by MCRs dark persona, yet teenagers just seem to become more and more obsessed with the group, and Gerard no matter how "scary" he becomes. -
I guess this song is about the fact that teenagers are trying to be something they're not. "So darken your clothes; and strike a violent pose"? COME ON. WAKE UP. Its about teenagers that are trying to be ugly emo losers to look "cool"
Thank God I'm Italian, and I don't have to deal with the burden to even THINK about being "emo". My sister on the other hand...who keeps insisting that this song is not what I think it is about.
I'm older, wiser, smarter, SEXIER. Hah. -
I think this song is about how todays teens are getting more and more out of control. This might just be me, but all lyrics are meant to be interpreted. The interview on this song wasn't very to the point(in my opinion) so I think that I should say what I think.
I'm a teen and I'm not corrupt though so maybe they were to descriminative; something mcr set up to fight. -
I read the same interview about the train thing and that was the first time he ever felt old. I think its saying that because the younger generation (teenagers) are the future they scare the living shit out of adults. Teenagers at that point in their lives are dangerous because as year go by they are becoming more and more corrupted. They can be extremely cruel and they are constantly questioning adults and authority in general that believe they know whats best.
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I think it might be about the band actually being scared of teenagers. But that`s the audience they`re targeting with their music.
Like adults woudn`t like this stuff. And gerard would scare little children too much. [stupid children who don`t like hot pale men!] -
I think that this song is about how teenagers have such a hard time fitting in and getting along with othe kids. "what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the tings that they said" shows that they can fight back in ...Violent..Ways. ...Yikes
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Frank stated that this song was about the time that he was living in queens and he had to take the train everyday. He would always end up getting on the train at the exact moment when all the kids finished school and he used to be scared shitless, hence, "teenagers scare the living shit out of me..." because he didn't know what they would do. He said that he felt like a complete loser as well while he was riding the train because none of the kids knew who he was. Maybe that's relating to teenagers not caring about anyone but themselves or something
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I actually read an interview saying that gerard wrote this song after a ride on a subway where he was surrounded with teenagers and for the first time he felt frightened of them, and he said it was the first time he really felt old.
There's also many references to school shootings (columbine, etc.) like when he sings:
but when you're troubled and hurt,
what you got under your shirt,
will make them pay for the things that they did.
It's really just how corrupted us teenagers have become and how teenagers of any generation will always scare their elders. -
This song is about gun violence, Gerard said in an interview.
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Hahaha. Great song. Basically, you can say that it's about how teenagers can be rather superficial and don't care about anyone but themselves, which can be true. We do tend to be at the "screw you, as long as I'm happy, that's all that really matters" thing. You know? Well yeah, just thought i'd put that out there because I was bored.
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