My Chemical Romance: Thank You For The Venom Meaning

Song Released: 2004

Thank You For The Venom Lyrics

Sister, I'm not much a poet but a criminal
And you never had a chance
Love it or leave it
You can't understand
A pretty face but you do so carry on, and on, and on

I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me
I'm just the way that the doctor...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 23rd 2008 !⃝

   So....obviously nobody shares my understanding of that song. One main sentence is: You wanna follow something, give me a better cause to lead!
   I think it's about a guy who loves a girl but that girl doesn't love him as much as he loves her! she needs something to run after and lets him walk behind. Hes not about to "lead" her somewhere as he already loves her and doesn't want to play any bloody games. In this song he tries to tell her that neither she loves him the way he is and with all the love he wants to give or to give him a better cause to lead. I agree with: you killed me mentally so why don't you kill me physically (if this is what you want then fire at will), as he's looking for somebody who really loves him and whos not willing to play.
   quite different to your understandings... ;)
2. ablack13

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   Jan 18th 2008 !⃝

   It's basically about “the criminal” (figuratively, that is), who is expected to be something more ("a poet"). He says that they can love him for who he is or not love him at all and that he doesn't really care ("Love it or leave it, you can't understand"...), that he doesn't want to change ("I'm just the way that the doctor made me"). So basically everyone else change to try and fit in, so they end up "bleeding on the floor" (become something that he finds useless, and thinks that they would be better off actually bleeding on the floor.), and he doesn't (in your face! :P). He’s proud of the fact that he remained loyal to his beliefs (“You'll never make me leave, I wear this on my sleeve”…) He, in a way, wants to be the person he once used to be ("Give me all your poison and give me all your pills"...). He feels like he’s lost everything he believed in, and he needs a reason to stay alive (“Give me a reason to believe”, “I keep a gun on the book you gave me, hallelujah, lock and load”), and that the society is killing him, but he’s not letting them to (“You're running after something that you'll never kill, if this is what you want then fire at will”).
3. anonymous

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   Dec 4th 2007 !⃝

   You see, I've come up with this theory that their whole 2nd album, three cheers for sweet revenge, is about the story of romeo and juliet...
4. anonymous

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   Nov 24th 2007 !⃝

   I see the song as about someone who knows what he/she believes and doesn't want anyone screwing around with that. As if they are saying 'Do whatever you want to, you're not going to bring me down'. "So give me all your poison, and give me all your pills, and give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill, you're running after something that you'll never kill." The line "if this is what you wanted, fire at will", seems to be saying 'if you really want to destroy me, than go ahead'. That's what I think.
5. ninjacait

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   Oct 23rd 2007 !⃝

   Omg to the person who wrote it's about thanking someone for giving them the venom: you r awesome :) that's like what I say wen someone asks me something and I just change the question or wateva 2 answer it but not actually answer it :) but that made no sense :) you rock lol

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

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   Oct 22nd 2007 !⃝

   This song reminds me of how I was convinced I would go to hell, because of all the bad stuff that was happening to me and how unhappy I was, but my mom would tell me that everything would be alright if I believed.
   I think that's what the nun, or missionary or preacher is sort of doing to the guy.

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7. anonymous

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   Oct 2nd 2007 !⃝

   This is clearly a song about thanking someone for giving them venom
8. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2007 !⃝

   This song is about all these preachers coming to you with messages of how you can be saved. When you know that you have done some pretty bad things and nobody saved you then so why would they save you now? And mostly the song is letting them now that whatever they do to try to change your opinion it just isn't going to happen in this lifetime, or any for that matter.
9. thank.u.4.the.venom

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   May 31st 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is as the whole album is about a man who would kill a thousand men to get his love back and he's proud of this"ill wear this on my sleeve" and he goes to a nun who trys to swerve him off his course (to kill a thousand men) he says "so give me all your poison and give me all your pills" this is him saying try what you want you won't stop me and then "your running after somthing that youll never kill " this is saying but try if you want but itll never work "if this is wat you want then fire at will" or that's what I think anyway
10. anonymous

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    Mar 9th 2007 !⃝

    well people believe this is about vampires. In a way it is but I think gerard uses the idea of vampires as a metaphor in a lot of his songs.
    
    i think its infact his struggle with alcohol and drugs
    
    So give me all your poison
    And give me all your pills
    And give me all your hopeless hearts
    And make me ill
    
    If this is what you want
    Then fire at will
    
    these are evidence to back up my idea. Its like piers pushing him in to drugs and him giving in and taking what they give him
11. anonymous

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    Mar 2nd 2007 !⃝

    Ok, since the album is about a guy going to kill a thousand men to see his love again, which was a deal with the devil, I think the "sister" (sister, I'm not much of a poet) is a nun who finds him and tries to bring him to god, but he doesn't want to leave earth-he wants to see his love again, and of course the nun can't do it. The sister is trying to "condem the beast within" and trying to get the "inner demon" out, but they made a deal, so nothing happens. The husband is testing the nun: You'll never make me leave. I wear this on my sleave. Give me a reason to believe. So give me all your poison, and give me all your pills. And give me all your hopeless hearts that make me ill. You're running after something that you'll never kill."
    And if this was a video, the scenes would flash every now and then from THE HUSBAND GOING AND TRYING TO KILL A THOUSAND EVIL MEN: "If this is what you want, then fire at will."
    "I keep a gun and the book you (the devil) gave me."
    "Hallelluja, lock and load."
    "I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me. I'm just the way that the doctor made me."
    (Remembering his bride)"Love is the red rose on your coffin door. What's life like bleeding on the floor?"
    *Everything else is him and the nun
    TO THE NUN TRIYNG TO UPLIFT "THE DEMON INSIDE HIM".
    
    So how does that sound?
12. anonymous

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    Feb 15th 2007 !⃝

    It's about people keep trying to change him but he wants to stay himself. "You'll never make me leave I where this on my sleeve" means you'll never change him, "you're running after something that you'll never kill" means it's not gonna happen.
13. shmmmo

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    Sep 14th 2006 !⃝

    I agree with the last interpretation
    I think lyrics are taken too literally
    I think it's as simple as a struggle with himself and people around him. All the people around him are tryin to make him better but he views this as poison"" so give me all your poison and give me all your pills and give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill" "your running after something that you'll never kill" this means people around him are fighting a hopeless cause and "if this is what they want then fire at will" means it'll just end him if they continue"
14. anonymous

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    Jul 17th 2006 !⃝

    This isn't a story.
    
    This is a metaphor.
    
    It's about one mans pain.
    
    And how he shares it.
15. anonymous

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    Jun 10th 2006 !⃝

    It's about someone (a missionary of some sort, I guess) trying to convice a criminal, a murderer, I think, "to believe."

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