Saves The Day: At Your Funeral Meaning

At Your Funeral Lyrics

This song will become the anthem of your underground.
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out,
or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?
And at your...

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   savestheday89

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   Mar 30th 2006 !⃝

   I think this song is about one of the singers friends that would always get high. He says "If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out,
   or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?"
   And that's like saying that he would die from doing drugs before the water would drown him. When he says "I'd offer you my hand, it would hurt too much to watch you die" it means that even if he offered to help he knows that his friend wouldn't take it and he would die. well that's my take on it
2. anonymous

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   Apr 7th 2023 !⃝

   Listen to Chris Demakes a Podcast Episode 78 to learn everything there is to know about this song straight from Chris Conley himself, from the chord progression to the lyrics to the production. The intro verse is a reference to going over to jam with a band they had toured with, and the session quickly devolving into the other band getting massively stoned (at a time Chris wasn’t into weed) and walking through their neighborhood smashing mailboxes with bats, which Chis describes in the podcast as heartbreakingly disappointing. The chorus is about how he cares so much about these guys that even though their behavior broke his heart, he’d still try to save them and would sing the requiem at their funeral if he couldn’t. He says that ironically by he time they recorded the song they were total potheads themselves.
3. anonymous

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   Mar 2nd 2020 !⃝

   My uncle plays the bass
4. twitchyx

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   Feb 1st 2008 !⃝

   I think this song is about a friend with a drug problem. He says "If I flooded out your hours, do you think you'd make it out? Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?"
   His friend is so addicted that he would rather get high than save his own life. The singer knows his friend will die if he doesn't get help, and that one day he will be singing the requiem at the funeral.
5. anonymous

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   Jan 30th 2008 !⃝

   This song is about wanting to commit to someone who is a danger to themselves but not being able to. The person is on drugs and he wants to be with them but he can't stand them destroying themselves.
6. myherostatus

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   Nov 15th 2005 !⃝

   This song came to me easily...
   
   The first verse of the song mentions the song becoming 'the anthem of your underground.' this means that he is singing of a dying or deceased loved one. 'you're two floors down, getting high in the back room...' is also mentioned possibly due to the fact that the person he is singing about was in a car accident because she [i assume] was intoxicated prior to. 'if I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out? or would you burn up before the water fills your lungs?' means that the driver [the person that this song is about] was pregnant and the womb that the baby is enclosed in is it's 'house'; and it may be possible that the car swerved off of a bridge and into the water below, thus filling the lungs of the driver, and the baby.
   
   Singing the requiem is the song sung by mourners at a funeral [usually loved ones] thus indicating that a loved one did infact die. 'i'd offer you my hand it'd hurt too much to watch you die' is the only part I'm really confused about in this song. [i will try to figure it out soon.]
   the next verse is about the writer [singer]mourning the loss of the loved one. he mentions becoming the pig [the stuffed pig that the mourners eat after the funeral] posiibly because he feels like nothing without her and wants to end his own life. or because it symbolizes a crude death.
   
   This song is a very sad one. EMO if you will...but it's awesome none the less.
   I hope to have the second part of the chorus done soon.
   Thanks and enjoy.

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