The Used: I'm a Fake Meaning

I'm a Fake Lyrics

Small, simple, safe price.
Rise the wake and carry me with all of my regrets.
This is not a small cut that scabs, and dries, and flakes, and heals.
And I am not afraid to die;
I am not afraid to bleed and fuck and fight,
I want the pain of...

1. xUSEDx10

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   Apr 27th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is meant to have many meanings.How about he wants attention so he's pretending to be something he isn't "Just look at me now"? It could be about people chanting who they are trying to fit in with everyone else, and it hurts to do this and they start to feel like they would rather die then have nobody see who they really are. Another could be the whole staying clean and away from drugs is driving them insane. Or he's looking for away to let his feelings or emotions out "do I drink, do I cut?". I'm not to good about reading songs, but I definitely know it makes me feel so much better to let myself out screaming to.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 27th 2007 !⃝

   Ever thought it's about how much of an asshole he felt like when he dumped kelly osbourne over the phone hence "LOVE IS NOT LIKE ANYTHING ESPECIALLY A FUCKING KNIFE"?

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3. anonymous

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   Feb 14th 2007 !⃝

   The song is just about trying to be what everyone wants, everyone is supposed to be perfect and "clean", it's not that hard to get that from the song. Unless there is a hidden meaning that none of us get. Also, I've been cutting for three years, it's got nothing to do with emo or wanting to fit in with The Used fans. The main reason is because your sad and it doesn't help when morons automatically make fun of you and say your emo for doing it.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 3rd 2007 !⃝

   WHAT!!?! the cd in love and death is an amazing cd! how can you say that you foo!.
   anyway, I do agree that it is about his drug addiction...
   yeah, that's it.
5. leanne234

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   Dec 29th 2006 !⃝

   "Okay its from the point of view of a diehard fan, trying to fit in with an emo croud, thus cutting themselves, but not wanting to cause they no its pointless (which it is)"
   fuck you. cutting is not pointless. when people cut themselves, it releases beta endorphins in the brain, which mask the physical and emotional pain the person is feeling.In other words, people that cut themselves have unbearable feelings, and when they cut, they feel better. The endophins are addictive, which is why people cut themselves over a long period of time. I would know this, I used to cut myself (before I got caught and sent to a psychologist). For me, cutting was the only way I could handle my emotions. Definitely not 'pointless'.
6. anonymous

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   Nov 3rd 2006 !⃝

   I think it is about trying to quit but want to convince himself that an addict is who he is and he should accept that so that he can go back to his dugs.

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7. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2006 !⃝

   I think this song is a "fuck you" to Bert's parents. P.S you're all emo wankers.

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8. Lylehahn

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   Jun 14th 2006 !⃝

   Okay I'm a big fan of the used, and I know where bert is coming from... Okay its from the point of view of a diehard fan, trying to fit in with an emo croud, thus cutting themselves, but not wanting to cause they no its pointless (which it is) anyway as someone else said, it is also about his drug abuse and drinking habits, how he dosnt care... but this can also be interperated as bert's anger towards the social status of "Normal" and "Popular" and "Cool" people, and how they are nothing special, but after all this is just one interperatation, I hope you can all find your own meanings, because songs arnt always about one thing, there is more than meets the eye;)
9. lizzisaloser

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   May 3rd 2006 !⃝

   I think this song is about who ever wrote the song...putting themselves in someone elses shoes. I'm sure quite a few of their fans cut themselves...following the whole emo thing.
10. anonymous

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    Apr 26th 2006 !⃝

    Um I think you're all a bunch of fucking idiots and this song should be about you bacause you're all fakes and you deserve to be shot!
11. anonymous

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    Mar 17th 2006 !⃝

    Well, obviously this song is a bout being fake. I think it is about pretending to be the perfect person even though you're not. In the song, the person drank and did drugs and was depressed but changed and pretented to be perfect to fit in with everyone else. I think the person is struggling to hide beneath the perfect person they have become and id sick of being someone they are not.
12. anonymous

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    Feb 13th 2006 !⃝

    I understand the intro to be saying how pointless and stupid cutting is and how it dosent solve anything. "This is my sad selfish cry out to the cutter, Im cutting to try and picture you black broken heart, but LOVE IS NOT LIKE ANYTHING ESPECIALLY A FUCKING KNIFE!"
13. Hallelujah_LockNLoad

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    Jan 1st 2006 !⃝

    Well I think this song is about cutting. The lyrics are quite obvious to me at least.
14. queer_apathy

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    Nov 28th 2005 !⃝

    It's about Bert's drug addiction. He says he's clean but he's not and he doesn't care if what he says insn't true. "Or its not me I don't even care"
    
    Best song on in love and death, if not, the only good one.

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