anonymous January 14th, 2006 10:03AM  
A Rush Of Blood To The Head is about a man who has lost the love of his life to death, in an unexplainable situation. He then burns down the house in which they must have spend a lot of time in and held good memories of them together, but he wants to get rid of it, because it brings too much pain to him.

This song is devided into two stories, which adds up together in the choures. So if you think you can keep up, plz read futher...

Also, the one story is told in reverse. You should read the lyrics as follow: 1; 3; 5 ; 7... Chis starts off with:

"He said I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down"

He plans on buying the house him& his loved one spend their happy days together in.The 3rd,5th& 7th line continues with this story:

"He said I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall"/"Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire"/"Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn" (When something gets burned, it becomes unreconizable & later there is nothing left but dust).

Now, at the end of the song, he is asking his love's spirit or goast to meet him and watch him destroy the sad memories he wants to run away from, after the death of his love:

"So meet me by the bridge, meet me by the lane"/"Meet me on the road, meet me where I said".

After her death, he also wants someone to blame for his loss, so he says: "He said Oh I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war"(Start a war against the world for being unfair towards him).

The second story follow in the 2nd, 4th 6th line, BUT IN REVERSE!! This is the situation his love is at that very moment, in her grave in a cemetary. So start at:

"Blame it all upon"/"When am I gonna see that pretty face again"(He is never going to see her again)/"As you mean to go on, as you mean to go on"(She moves on to a better place, but still away from him).

This continues till the begining lines of the song:

"Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head"(The doctors doesn't know the cause of her death)/"If you can tell me something worth fighting for"(He doesn't see reason in living a life without his love)/"But you just sit down then you wonder why"(Why was she taken away from him??)/"Stand here beside me baby watch the orange glow"(the oranje glow can revere to the sunset, a simbole for the end of something)/"And do back the things they did to you in return"(He wants to blame someone for taking her from him)/"Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires"(Spend a lot of time at her grave)/"Stand here beside me baby in the crumbling walls"(The walls of her grave consists out of ground,which colapeses on her tomb once she is layed in the ground)/"I'm gonna put it six feet underground"(Her casket,along with the memories he is forced to).

The reason why it is in reverse, is because when someone is burried underground, it is final and the is no escape.

In the chouses,he reconises his pain and describes his feelings of not being hole, without his love: "(And) honey
All the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I made
See it all disappear without a trace
And they call as they beckon you on
They say start as you mean to go on".

anonymous July 23rd, 2008 01:06AM  
What! You can't leave part of a verse out. It's "i'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for". you could be right, but I think it means that he is too confused and uncaring to not follow any random reason to take out his aggression.

anonymous September 12th, 2008 04:23PM  
I think the song is about a guy who is dangerously in love with a woman and fears losing her. He then does something terrible to himself or to her, for fear of losing her. I believe this latter part because of the part of the song where he says.
"And honey
All the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I made
See it all disappear without a trace"
At the end of the song, one of them (or both) is dead, because of his rash actions (meet me by the bridge...when am I gonna see that pretty face again?) (blame it on a rush of blood to the head)implies he did something impulsively.

anonymous December 19th, 2008 05:06PM  
I think this song is definitely about a love but Chris says in the song blame it on a rush of blood to the head. A rush of blood to the head means you act instantly without thinking. You get a rush and react so he burns down the house.

daniii February 18th, 2009 08:15AM  
my interpretation of the song. the guy is saying that he is going to burn down the place that caused the women he loved pain.and that he would by a gun and start a war meaning he would fight the people that caused her the pain.im not entirely sure but thats how i understood it.

anonymous March 11th, 2009 11:27PM  
Tis as simple as a man who would do anything for his love. Anybody causing her pain, he will protect her. She is sad, clearly ("you just sit down there and you wonder why") but he doesn't know how to help her. He would do anything, though the solutions may make little to no sense, (love need not be logical) like burning down the house in which he thinks her pain has its roots, or even start a world on the war, just to rid it of that one person whose fault it may have been for her pain. This song is a proclaimation of love in its most absolute form, when nobody else in the world matters, just because the girl who is the object of his love means more than the entire world's worth and all its individual's added up. A rush of blood to the head is his excuse for loving her so much, (it's like he's saying "it's on a whim that I'm doing these things for you") but that's simply because noone else in the world can understand how pure and absolute the love is, he must make excuses. Not that the world needs to understand. He's gonna kill them all anyway, in their ignorance. His love is this unique.

graykitty August 13th, 2009 09:53PM  
To me this song is definitely not about love. It's about what is going on in our country today. wake up people!

anonymous September 23rd, 2009 02:54PM  
Think of that scene from Forrest Gump, when he is throwing stones at that house where his best-friend/lover was abused. I think the song is about a loved one who has suffered injustice and as a result has taken their own life and now he is left to mourn her death. And he is out to take revenge/justice for her, by burning down the place she suffered so much. “Some’ll laugh and some just sit and cry

You just sit down there and you wonder why”, she couldn’t deal with it, always wondering “why me”!

anonymous December 2nd, 2009 08:18AM  
I believe this song is about a man seeking redemption. I think the man whose story is being told have caused a lot of pain to the woman he loved, or other person (maybe a very close friend or relative), so he seeks redemption in quite a nihilistic way. He feels terrible for the pain he caused her, so he wants to repair the damage by destroying important things for him ('I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down'...'and see it fall'...'and start a fire', etc) and even destroying his soul and condemning himself to hell ('I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war') just to purge his soul and express how miserable he feels without her. The chorus clearly shows what I've said before: 'See me crumble and fall on my face. And I know the mistakes that I made, see it all disappear without trace', it's all about redemption, all about wanting to fix her. The end it's about starting again, now that he had found redemption he's ready to start over if she wants. And finally, something to consider along the whole song is the verse "blame it all upon a rush of blood to the head" which is obviouly refering to the impulse, the irrational impulse that obligled him to seek redemption in such a nihilistic way. PS: Sorry if there are any mistakes because my mother tongue is spanish not english.