My Chemical Romance: You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison Meaning

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison Lyrics

In the middle of a gun fight
In the center of a restaurant
They say come with your arms raised high
Well they're never gonna get me
I'm like a bullet through a flock of doves
To wage
This war against your faith in me
Your life will never...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 29th 2006 !⃝

   So basically most ppl are saying that the song means what the tile is saying
   and (big suprise) they love the band
   
   i like to make my own assumptions and presume that is about one guy going to be in a battlewith his friends and even thouth he's about to go down, he will stick it to the end for his firends,
   and that part in the song where it gets confusing is when they're fighting
   then something happens and the song title comes into play
2. anonymous

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   Sep 30th 2006 !⃝

   Does it matter if someone in the band is gay? You can write a song from a perspective other then your own. Plus even if the one who wrote it is gay, then there's the fact that he's talking aobut rape, which no one likes, which constitutes it as rape in the first place....
3. prongs666

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   Sep 5th 2006 !⃝

   But gerard did say the thing about getting arrested in france...
4. Demoltionlovers6606

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   Sep 1st 2006 !⃝

   Ok you do know that the first and the second cd are talking about two lovers being together but one of them dies. The male in this is trying to find his way back to his girlfriend.
   
   And in the second cd (three cheers for sweet revenge) it say :the story fo a man, a woman, and the corpses of a thousand evil maen..."-- he has to kill off 1,000 evil men to get back to his love. Thats what both of the cd's are based on. He made it to kind of relate to some of his own troubles (alcohol abuse, pain killers, depression, and suicide like many of us may have experienced I know I have). True mcr fans know that.
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   Gerard is bi and admits to it. Bert and Gerard have made out, and Gerard admits he is some what attracted to Frank (who is also bi) there have been pictures of g, and frank holding hands and slight kisses. But he's not full on gay. He hasn't been to prison (as far as I know).
5. anonymous

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   Aug 29th 2006 !⃝

   "This song got us arrested in france because it's about getting fucked in the ass!"
   -Gerard Way
6. bob45

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   Jul 1st 2006 !⃝

   omg! listen I dnt know them personally or anything I'm just a reli big fan.
   
   frank's gt a girlfriend
   gerard's not fuckin gay and has a girlfriend
   mikeys engaged
   rays gt a girlfriend
   
   and as far as I know bob's the onli single one in the band! I dnt know wat the song means I wish I did bt I dnt
   and there's so many rumors about them gerards gay franks married and havin a baby, I no gerards nt gay, and I dnt no if frankies engaged/married or havin a baby, bt if he is I'm happy 4 him
7. anonymous

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   Jun 18th 2006 !⃝

   Okay guys, I an interveiw Gerard said that song is about prison rape and a relationship with a guy (that doesn't mean bert) but he admited that it has do t with gay relationships that Gerard has had. But he's straight now and has a girlfriend
8. BEBIN12

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   May 24th 2006 !⃝

   Who fucking cares if Gerard is gay? That's not your problem because none of you are going to be a couple with him because he doesn't even know the 99% of you and how he's going to be the boyfrienf of someone who says that he's gay. YOU IDIOTS OR FUCKERS
9. anonymous

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   May 19th 2006 !⃝

   Okay, he isn't bi or gay. Gerard Way and Bert McCracken hate each other (shocking right?) A source said he crossed two names of his Christmas list: George Bush and My Chemical Romance. This subject is really getting on my nerves. Every time I'm looking up something about Gerard, this damn topic always comes up. Although he kisses guys from other bands or vice versa it means nothing. Gerard even kisses his brother like that, and for all you negative thinkers, it's not incest (attraction between family memebers). My brother was kissed by dudes and he has a girlfriend. He won a basketball game and he was kissed by his teammates and the coach. I love Gerard and don't care what he is.
10. zomgxx

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    May 17th 2006 !⃝

    :]
    
    Ok. Personally...after listening and reading the lyrics alot, I think the song is about a man. (Not Gerard..just someone)who does all these bad things, and he thinks he'll never get cought, "Well there never gonna get me" and so finally he gets sent to prison, and maybe on the side or something he might have had a secret gay/bi relationship with a guy, and he's going to have to leave him and all, "Now! But I cant, and I don't know". Then once he is in prison he realizes just how absolutly horrible it is:
    
    "They all cheat at cards.
    And the checkers are lost.
    My cellmates a killer,
    They make me do push-ups (in drag)"
    
    I got up to there..but then the end sort of confuses me. Lol. I can't exactually put it into words or a story.
11. GerardLover123

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    May 5th 2006 !⃝

    One:Gerards not gay, he's bi-sexual.
    
    Two:He's not dating Bert McCracken from The Used.
    
    if all you were REAL fans than you'd know bc you bought the mcr dvd/cd where GERARD SAYED that he and bert werent dating!??!!?
12. anonymous

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    Apr 30th 2006 !⃝

    Gerard is so ungay it is like ... ungayish and the person who said that it is "a world wide rule not to be gay" you have a few skeletons in your closet in my opinion and there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.
13. anonymous

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    Apr 28th 2006 !⃝

    Why you all are saying that they are gay! And what's the fucking problem with that! If they are... WHO FUCKING CARES??? YOU FUCKERS I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAt. At least they talk about real shit, not of the same things like...'I love you sooo much! I can't live without you! Make love TO ME" LEAVE THAT SHIT TO JESSICA SIMPSON AND YES!!! THEY TALK ABOUT PRISON RAPE.
14. anonymous

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    Apr 21st 2006 !⃝

    I think it might be a reference to Shakespeare's play "Othello". I think it could be because MCR has more then one song with a literary reference. If any one knows the story of Othello, it's about deception. The homosexuality references could be refering to how Iago, the main villian, hates Othello but has a love for him that makes you think that it may be homosexual.
15. me

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    Apr 20th 2006 !⃝

    ...Omfg , you people are so lame
    
    ''He's gay and dates Bret!''
    ''No he is not gay!''
    
    You don't fukin know a thing about his like, just leave him alone, you people are not even sure he wrote the song, so would you dumbass stop posting stupid comments. It is about being in prison, being afraid of the others man that COULD rape you, and being afraid to be killed. The fact gerard has kissed bert in a dare or truth game was just an inspiration.

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