System of a Down: Chop Suey Meaning
Song Released: 2001
Chop Suey Lyrics
We're Rolling Suicide
Wake up(wake up)
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
Why’d you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush...
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this song is about a girl who had an abusive spouse, and she was beat by him, the keys upon the table is about how he gets mad at her for little things like leaving the keys on the table, then he accuses her of making a fable about the keys, eventually she is driven to scuicide by him. That's what I think it means, by the way, I'm only 13. So I must be mature to come up with such a great explanation.
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This song is about Jesus dying on the cross, and when he says self ''rightous'' suicide he means that its a rightous suicide because jesus died for our sins, When he says ''I cry when angels deserve to die'' its becuase someone in the crowed shouted to jesus ''if you truly are christ then call upon the angels to save you'' And when he says ''father In your hands I condem my spirt ect.... why have you forsaken me'' I think Jesus ment why didn't you come down to save me father? and then jesus bows his head and dies after a little bit. yes its a quite sad story.....
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The song is clearly about a suicide victim. The victim, in the main verses, is thinking about what she would've done had this not have been the day she would end it. The suicide is self-righteous, because the person believes that she doesn't deserve to live. "when angels deserve to die" got me, but I figured that this person believed she would not be "saved", and she felt that she was unjustly given an empty life which she would now have to end.
The passage from the crucifixion has stumped many a bibilical scholar. When Christ uttered these words, he was not only lamenting his injustice, he was also directly quoting Psalm 22, a psalm called the "lamentation of the innocent man" or something similar to that effect. In this sense, the suicidal woman is lamenting the absence of god's love in her life, and also proclaiming herself a victim, a casualty of a postmodern era. -
this song can be taken in a few ways, 1: the bible like a few people have said, 2: could be the singer talkin to his father through lyrics, as if he intends to say that his father doesn't care about him, forsakes him, and the last way would be the singer or whoever wrote the lyrics really just losin faith in god, and he warns everyone about his suicide basically
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I believe the part about the leaving the keys on the table is about whoever tried to hide the scars (hide the bad things in the world, done to them, or done by them), like the Turks in the Armenian Genocide, or the Media covering certain events, or someone abused by another. They tried to hide whatever it was, but they left some kind of clue to the truth in the open, the key to the secret and truth, and that line is asking why they leave the key to the truth out if they are trying so hard to hide it.
I think this song is left open for interpretation on many levels. I think it has a basic theme of fakeness, or lying to cover something up. This could refer to the Genocide, Media, or someone abused by another or themselves. Chop Suey is a fake chinese dish, as it was created in the US, and it represents that basic theme. I also beleive it relates to religion in covering up certain things that make them look bad, and how religion plays in the world today. If someone commits a self rightious suicide, in whichever way you wish to take that, they can either be considered as a maryter to some, or a statistic to others. Their death could be used to prove the point of others, making it self rightious in a sense.
But that's just my opinion. This has very open possibilities for interpretation as I said before, and that's what SOAD tries to do. They don't want to explain everything to you, it's more important to them what the song means to you then what it means to them. -
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I believe this song doens't have to do mainly with suicide but ends up with the woman that's involved in the song committing suicide.
"wake up/ grab a brush and put a little make up/ *hide the scars and fade away the shake up*/
last line being the most important. It's about a girl that gets beaten, by whoever, her boyfriend father...and ends up in sucide from her own beatings. -
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I think this song is about how one was driven to suicide by another's abuse. Maybe it has somehting to do with the guitarist's brother who commited suicide because he couldn't take their father's abuse.Somehow I think the entire song revolves around the abusive father and the son who has commited suicide. When the singer says "why don't you trust in my self righteous suicide, I cry when angels deserve to die" I think he's stating how the son's suicide had no affect on the father whereas the singer himself is sad for the guy's death as he describes the guy to be an angel.
At the bridge when he scream father four times, I think he is desperately trying to get the father's attention to stop and pleading for his life. When the forsaken part rolled in, I think the singer is questioning the father's actions towards him.
I think this song has been sung in 2 peoples perspective: one the person who had witnessed the abuse and the suicide and the other the person who was abused and subsequently commited suicide. -
I think that the reason for SOAD making this song is because SOAD is mad at god for not stopping all the bad things that have and are happening today.
For example The Tianenmen sqaure incident on june 4 1989 which they clearly sing about in hypnotize were in which the chinese goverment killed hundreds of peaceful protesters
and innocent people.
They're mad because god is letting all these bad things happen he lets them happen for a reason that we cannot understand. -
The song is about monkeys who throw keys at each other because they ran out of poop. That is why it says grab a brush and put a little makeup. This makes no sense. But it made me smile.
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Somebody is getting ready for something he is planning to do in public. He is nervous but he doesn't want others to recognize. ("makeup", "hide the scars", "fade away the shakeup") He is going to do something relevant, something that is going to be remembered (a "fable"). He is not planning to come back, he maybe knows that he is going to die. That's why he leaves his "keys upon the table". If you leave your keys it means
1. You forgot them
2. You don't come back
For 1. There is no other evidence in the lyrics. For 2. we find evidence: The suicide theme.
I don't know about the armenian genocide, but what I read sounds quite interesting. Can anybody find the poem of Father Armeni? I also agree on the Suicide > Suey Cide > Chop Suey idea. Sounds like something that can happen in rehearsal rooms.
Greez,
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