My Chemical Romance: The Sharpest Lives Meaning
The Sharpest Lives Lyrics
If I crash on the couch, can I sleep in my clothes?
'Cause I've spent the night dancing
I'm drunk, I suppose
If it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave
This alone,...
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i also believe this song is simply about both drug abuse and sex addiction. i think the patient fell into those scenes when he was alive and he's reflecting on it now on his death bed.
of course the first verse is kinda straightforward.
the second verse delves more into the theme.
"You're the one that I need
I'm the one that you loathe "--sex addiction,
"You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose
'Cause I love all the poison
Away with the boys in the band"--poison most likely referencing drugs.
"So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?"
I think the pause after blow me is another reference to sex (as a joke i'm guessing).
"Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead"
A shot may be alcohol. A kiss, sex? The sharpest lives, maybe needles and just the dangerous lifestyle.
"There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands
Romeo"
More sex references. Like a night club or those vampire night clubs. And of course the vampires in the chorus all those things harmful to him like the drugs.
That's what I got from this song anyhow. -
Dude you're way off.
It's about Gerard's past drug addiction.. it's painfully evident ... you gotta be a kid to think it's about cheating.. you should be embaraseed.
xo
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I believe this song is about a girl cheating on a guy and him finding out.. This is after he finds out
"Well it rains and it pours when your out on your own/if I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes?"
He had to think over what had happened, and your mind only makes things worse. He wants to just pass out.
"Well I've spent the night dancing I'm drunk I suppose"
he makes up a lie to cover up since she still didn't know
"If it looks like I'm laughing I'm really just asking to leave/this alone, your in time for the show"
He pretends to be happy, but snaps and confronts her
"You're the one that I need, I'm the one that you loathe"
He loved her and she "hated" him as interpreted by cheating
"you can make me corrode like a beast in repose"
She destroyed him and she turned out fine
"Because I love all the poison, away with the boys in the band"
he loves the things that hurt him, and wants no one around
"I've really been on a bender and it shows"
She was his drug, and it was obvious
"So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?"
He wants a last sign of innocence before the new 'her' he found out about leaves.
"Give me a shot to remember/and take all the pain away from me/a kiss and I will surrender"
He wants a last kiss with her, hoping she'll change her mind and stay with him which would take back the pain
"The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead"
cheating is the hardest route to go, one slip up and your done
"A light to burn all the empires/so bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be/in love with all of these vampires"
She was his everything and he watched as his world went up in flames and he'll be stuck in darkness, he realizes that she was just a 'succubus,' the type of vampire who seduces
"So you can leave like the sane abandoned me"
he wants her gone, he was already going insane because of her
"there's a place in the dark where the animals go/you can take off your skin in the cannibal glow"
He wants her to go to a place where people act purely by instinct and be herself, which will end in her being 'eaten' by her own type of people 'cannibals'
"Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands/drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo"
He's telling her she should love the pain and suffering that her desires make, and that instead of dying like juliet does, she should put the blood on HER hands, and be guilty and in misery as her 'love' is no longer there -
First off...this is what I think...
its of personal experience so I am going to use words like I and Me...
Well I am out in the rain on my own...thinking about things- "well it rains and it pours when your out on your own".
Then I come home and I jump on the couch because I can't be botherd moving...and I fall asleep without getting changed- "if I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes".
Ive been at a party trying to get him out of my head...ive drank so that maybe he'll leave- " Cause I've spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose". When People see me laugh I don't mean it...i want to leave the world completely- "if it l;ooks like I'm laughing I'm really just asking to leave". He Just wastches me when I'm like this- "this alone your in time for the show". I Need him and he hates me- " Your the on ethat I need, I'm the one that you loathe".
he can watch me get angry at myself for not being good enough- "you can watch me corrode like a beast in repose". I Need him or will vanish- " Cause I love all the poison away with the boys in the band".
Ive been living on something that's never going to happen- "ive really been on a bender and it shows". Can you give me a kiss before I die?-"so why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes".
Please do something I will cherish-"gimme a shot to remember". And I Will Be Happy-"and you can take alll the pain away from me". Just a kiss and I will be yours forever-" A Kiss and I WIll Surrender". My Life is very lonely just now-" the sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead".
Your my light to destroy every thing else-" A Light to burn all the empires". Your Brighter than he sun-" So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be". The Person Your In LOve With Is Not Right-"In love with all of these vampires". You can get away like me-" So you can leave ,ike the sane abandoned me.
Theres a place I know where the lovers go-" Theres a place in the dark where the animal go". You can show how you really feel for me-" You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow". I Love the way this is going and the love I demand-" Juliette loves the beat and the lust it commands". Dont Hate me...Just take me in your hands-" Drop the dagger and lather the blood on you hands romeo". -
Well I think every1 has just about covered it but here is what I would change from everyone elses
Well it rains and it pours when you're out on your own
If I crash on the couch, can I sleep in my clothes?
*unlike everyone else I think when he is asking if I crash on your couch can I sleep in my clothes he is REALLY asking her if she will accept him as is or if he has to change his belief or "clothes" to be accepted by her*
This alone, you're in time for the show
You're the one that I need
I'm the one that you loathe
You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose
'Cause I love all the poison
Away with the boys in the band
*i think the girl is the poison not drugs or alcohol and when he says you can watch me corrode he means his love for her is eating at him widling him down to nothing*
I've really been
On a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?
*someone said this should be read as so why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes instead of bt why don't you blow me PAUSE a kiss before she goes but if you listen to the song it sounds like he is saying it the second way also the first way doesn't make sense my interpretation of this is he finally couldn't stand it any more so he is trying to make the girl jealous and when she catches them he is saying give me a kiss in a taunting way*
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me
*idk what the beginig of this means but I think the second part is saying he wants to be with other otcast and he is telling her to leave like all the "normal" people did*
There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands
Romeo
*i think by animals he means people not accepted by conventionl society and thier is only 1 place where they can drop thier faccades or "clothes" and be themselves once again he is useing clothes as a metaphor* -
See this song just means a lot to me
i don't know if it means this to other people but it def speaks to me like this
well I imagine it as this
a girl/boy - just say a girl - is madly in love with this boy who doesn't even notice her. She goes out for a walk to think about what she could do - "well it rains and it pours when your out on your own". She comes home and is just fo fed up that she just sleeps on the couch with her clothes on - "if I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes". She has been out all night trying to forget about him - " cause I've spent the night dancing, I'm drunk I suppose". She has been hiding that she actually misses him from all her friends by laughing and joking when really she wants to be alone to confront the problem - "if it looks like I'm laughing I'm really just asking to leave". Shes alone and she thinks that he enjoys leaving her in pain - "this alone your in time for the show". She thinks about it...and she describes it as she loves him and he hates her- "your the one that I need,im the one that you loathe". She gets angry with herself because she loves him - " You can watch me corrode like a beat in repose". She thinks that she loves him but is not sure - "cause I love all the poison away with the boys in the band". She thinks she's mad...so she wants to die - " Ive really been on a bender and it shows...so why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes".
She wants him to do something she will remember - "give me a shot to remember". And She will Be happy - " and you can take all the pain away from me". She only wants a kiss - " A kiss and I will surrender".
This was based on MY OWN feelings on the song. and she is replaced with ME. In my opinion -
K well I agree with the first guy, but I've made a few changes.
First of all the first 2 lines show how he feels towards her- he wants her to experience how he feels. Then he crashes on the couch to wait for his friend to leave, since he knows he is there. He tells us at the end of the first stanza he doesn't really want to do what he is planning, but it's too late when his friend comes in, so he 'starts the show,' which is basically confronting them about their affair. The 'bender' word means he is under the influence and has been abusing drugs. 'you can watch me corrode like a beast and repose'- his addiction is killing him and all his friend does is continue living his life. 'So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes' is a metaphor. It means tells his friend to kill him before he kills her. 'A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be' is another metaphor. The sun is the speaker of the song, the light is his friend and the empires symbolize their relationship and how his friend wrecked it. That whole Romeo and Juliet thing means he accuses his friend of seducing her, and that her death is his fault so he can 'wash his hands clean' bacuse he caused her death. The lines 'Cause I love all the poison' and 'In love with all these vampires' express how he loves his friend and girlfriend but they are out to hurt him. 'So you can leave like the sane abandoned me' means he lost it. 'Give me a shot to remember And you can taje the pain from me' is telling his friend to kill him but remember why he did it, so he won't hurt anymore. 'A kiss and I will surrender' means if she comes back to him he will surrender his heart to her again.
Obviously she doesn't so he kills her, as we can hear her in the background, and he breaks down crying, as we hear in the end of the song.
Trajic, really.
That's why the whole 'Romeo and Juliet' line is in there. -
Now im only 15 and havent finished the play but i can clearly see that this song is based on the play Romeo and Juliet.
shakespearian time...the line "take off your skin" may mean thats its noow ok to be himself.
"cannible glow" could mean how dangerous it could be to show ones true self. In R and J romeo is a montague and juliet is a ccapulet sworn enemies...
and the lines
"juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands,Romeo"
comes straight from the play...
Romeo whether on accident or purpose caused every death in the play and juliet was still inflatuated with him. Even after he killed her ocusin. she was soo inflatuated with him they both ended up commiting suicide... -
i think that this song means that some guy got totally wasted and he's just now figured out what that's doin' to his life. u know that part with romeo and juliet? thats the part where he's realized he's wrecked a relationship with someone he loved.
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This song figures in the Black Parade's plot. After being told that he has only two weeks to live (see "Dead"), our lead character, "The Patient" spends those two weeks in drunken depression while his girlfriend can do nothing but watch as his condition grows worse and it tears their relationship apart.
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First of all, you guys read the lyrics wrong. You have to read like Shakespearean text, like connecting lines that aren't connected. For example:
"If it looks like I'm laughing
I'm really just asking to leave.
This alone, your in time for the show.
You're the one that I need, you're the one that I loathe."
You have to connect the lines "If it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave.....next saying and so on!"
Also like when he says:
"Why don't you blow me
A kiss before she goes."
Also like Shakespearean text! A play on words! When he sings it, it sounds like one thing, but could mean something completely different, or vice-versa! -
This song is about someone who's very alone-well it rains and it pours and you're out on your own-he's been to a party and gets very drunk. When he gets home he has an argument with his girl. She makes him sleep on the couch-if I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes-.
In one verses he's asking her to help him cure his addiction to drugs and booze. -
This I believe is in reference to Gerard's drug and alcohol use in the past.
"Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead"
"I've really been on a bender and it shows"
maybe this drug and alcohol use has been a cause of "the patient" getting cancer... -
I think that this song heavily leans on the 'live fast, die young' cliche. The line 'the sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead' show this. He's talking about how he 'loves the poison' and has been on a bender, and how much it shows. Because of these lines, I also think it's about becoming unhinged and addicted to alcohol. I dunno, it's just my theory. Don't ask about the surrendering lines, they remind me too much of a story I'm writing xD
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