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. nirvanalover

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   Apr 17th 2006 !⃝

   The song is about going to prison and not being sure what's going to happen (wage this war against your faith) the faith of being straight is test by these inmates the singer is not enjoying but seems to crack near the end (I'll go down with my friends) but overall wants to die but can't forget what was done to him.
2. anonymous

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   Apr 11th 2006 !⃝

   Gerard Isn't gay, I know that him and Frank kiss but I mean I kiss heaps of my friends and I'm a girl and I like GUYS. ok so just coz they kiss doesn't matter. Kinda hot when you think bout it tho.
   
   Ohh and yeah the song is about someone who in my POV has gone to jail for something they didn't do and are trying to break free.
3. anonymous

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   Apr 6th 2006 !⃝

   Hmm, I think that Gerard wrote this song about his experience with homosexuality. I have no idea if he is or was at all, and its none of my buisness. but yea I heard him and bert "shared a kiss" or something along those lines when the 2 bands were at a hotel. I really donno if this is true, but Berts sings in the song so, hey.. maybe it is.
4. anonymous

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   Apr 4th 2006 !⃝

   okay none of this song is about any of the band members being gay it is about how much of hatred gerard has for prison as the fact as there are so many prison rapes going on in there and he can't imangine how he could cope if he was in there..i think he would of wrote it as he was getting sober because like all mcr songs they mean heaps but this one for me,now people thinking that it's about mcr being gay or bi or what ever it isn't about that..take your time to read and understand what is going on before you leave your comment
5. plasticcup_politics

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   Apr 3rd 2006 !⃝

   Okies my last post was only a short while ago but I actually didn't read every post before but now I have and wanna say other stuff. To the person above I'm sorry! I take back any thing about homosexuality as you yelled about everyone fixation on tyhe gay comment :D. I understand what everyone is saying to jealousyellowstar and why many of you a pissed but there is a chance they've just been misunderstood and I'm sure they don't actually think getting raped is fun by all means. Cut em some slack guys I think theyve been slagged off enough.
6. plasticcup_politics

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   Apr 2nd 2006 !⃝

   yes ok the person to post the first message is a bit dense as rape is rape and they wouldnt ever enjoy it but I think what they were trying to say is that if he were gay then he may have been open to the idea of sex with that person therefore it wouldnt be rape. I felt like defending them but then they suggested bert was gay with garard and that's just not ok!!!
7. starzits

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   Mar 31st 2006 !⃝

   Ok first of all, we have all said "Gerard way is not gay.", so why are we still saying it? Gerard isn't gay, god damn....
8. anonymous

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   Mar 25th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about prison rape and how gread is questioning his sexualitiy this is also about how Gerard kissed Bret Macracked in a truth or dare game.
9. anonymous

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   Mar 20th 2006 !⃝

   Okay maybe it has something to do with the story two lovers seperated by death in a GUNFIGHT the man is in hell then the devil says bring me the soles of a thousand evil men... I can imagine that there's a thousand evil men on fire a lot of MCR's songs have a story meaning and a real life one don't know what the real life one be, anywho I imagine there's at least a 500 evil men in a prison and then I think he blew it up (im about to string this muther****er on fire) FIRE!!!
10. naturepants9

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    Mar 11th 2006 !⃝

    First off: Maybe Gerard is gay, maybe he's bi, maybe he's straight. Maybe the song is about prison rape or homosexualiy, maybe it's not. Maybe Gerard is straight but decided to write a song about some of the problems homosexual people encounter. At any rate, I think it's about the cruelties of the world and how they can render you completely insenstive and without any more real feelings, and how some people try to fight that. When someone sees a lot of pain and suffering and abuse, they tend to become hard and insensitive to their own feelings; that's the only way they can survive. The narrator in this song doesn't want to "lose himself." All the abuse he's enduring (whether it's prison rape, people being homophobic and bullying him because he's gay, some other hard times, or just the abusive/insensitive attitude in prison in general) makes him feel like the only way to survive is to become hardened to it all. He's trying his best not to lose his feelings and not to let himself be destroyed by abuse.
11. anonymous

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    Mar 7th 2006 !⃝

    Ugh... no one knows for sure the sexual orientation of Gerard... He's probably straight, I doubt he's gay, but he could be just trying to keep us guessing. It's probably fun for him.
    
    Anyway... This song is undoubtedly about "being sodomized in prison", as Gerard once said... He also mentioned once that their band sings of rather taboo issues, such as "sex with men". it's not necessarily about rape, I don't think. Part of it might be, but the chorus is not. He sings,
    "Now! But I can't, and I don't know
    How we're just two men as god had made us"
    The narrator's in prison with a friend (I'm guessing) and is confused about what's going on.
    "Well I can't, well I can"
    He's deciding whether or not to go through with what is being suggested...
    "Too much, too late or just not enough of this"
    Perhaps this addresses the whole sexual situation, I'm sure you can figure it out for yourself.
    "Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
    I'll kiss your lips again"
    He doesn't necessarily want to do this, but he knows the two of them are having hard times in prison and is struggling with his own sexuality.
    
    I think maybe a lot of their songs are supposed to be open for interpretation, everyone should have their own view. This has always been mine.
12. XHotelxBellaxMuerteX

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    Feb 28th 2006 !⃝

    Oooo guys I just thought of something. What if Gerard actually gets on this site and tells us what the songs mean....but we don't know it?!! >< Mwa hahaha
13. LUCY

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    Feb 26th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about Gerard way's experiance with homosexuality.
14. anonymous

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    Feb 23rd 2006 !⃝

    Just because you go out with a girl doesn't mean you're not gay- I'm not saying gerard is, but someone I know got married and had kids befre coming out. So going out with a girl doesn't really mean much at all.
15. anonymous

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    Feb 16th 2006 !⃝

    Person above me......THANK YOU because all of these people can't seem to get it right.

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