anonymous April 7th, 2007 07:17PM  
This is about GC being believers of God even though they have a sinful past. They want to leave all the bad things behind and be in heaven with God when they die! (I am just guessing)

anonymous June 10th, 2007 07:12PM  
I definitely think that this song has religious meanings and those brainless idiots who say it is about suicide or remembering your childhood are sadly mistaken. I didn't really like Good Charlotte before this song and it is easy to like them now that they have apparently turned to God. Rock on GC and keep making good songs like this one.

anonymous July 24th, 2008 09:29AM  
I believe that, at first, he thought he was living the good life-partying every night, drinking, etc-you know, like the prodigal son? But, later on, he realized that it wasn't the life for him. "I've seen enough now to know that beautiful things don't always stay that way." He also realized his sinful ways, and that the true good life is following God.

anonymous October 23rd, 2008 10:23AM  
Good Charlotte use to be a Christian band when they first started, their main goal was to spread the word of God. There will always be a religious interpretation in their songs. I only know this because I knew one of their childhood friends. Their family is/are Christian baptists.

anonymous November 18th, 2008 04:44PM  
the song is religious, i know that benji and joel madden (lead singer and guitar) are christians, but which suprises me is that M. Shadows and Synyster Gates (from Avenged Sevenfold) are featured in this song, and alot of their songs are religious (such as "Beast and the Harlot" and "Chapter Four"), but in a different way...

kennedyasu12 December 4th, 2008 02:24PM  
I think this song has a religious meaning, definitely. But I think what it is doing is portraying what alot of people feel and struggle with everyday with God. They talk about LA seeming beautiful at first, and then they realize its a sin trap. I believe this means that people give in to temptaions, like the easy sex, money and drugs that are easily found in LA. And then you realize, you dont get anywhere giving into these things. But everyone wants them at some point, your selfish little tamptaions. "I've done alot of things wrong, but I swear I'm a believer" People struggle alot with giving into temptaions over and over again, and wanting to quit, or knowing they need to because God wants them to, but they struggle with it. By saying they were baptized in the River, it means they are christain, but they, like alot of people, have struggled alot with sinning continuously. The song is like somebody saying "Im tired of this. I want to follow God and do right, and I need to start, or I'm screwed"

anonymous January 8th, 2009 04:43AM  
I think most people have the general interpretation of this song correct. The song focuses on a man who lives a sinful life [perhaps a life of crime]. After a while, this man looks back on his life realizes that he is a sinner, and realizes all the things he's done. He decides that he no longer wants to live like this, and that he wants to leave this life behind to become a follower of Christ. He confesses to being a sinner, but admits that he is a believer and goes on to lead a new lifestyle as a follower of Christ.

anonymous April 13th, 2009 05:13AM  
This song is about forgetting the past sins that you have done, and living a life for God. You know how the bible says the first step to forgiveness is to admit you're a sinner? That's the point of this song. The song itself is like a prayer. Notice at the end of the song, instead of saying "I wanna be delivered", he says "I confess I'm a sinner". Greatest and most meaningful song from Good Charlotte.

anonymous June 10th, 2009 01:38AM  
This song is referring to life without God... Baptised in the river (on my own) explain that...

HowCouldYou June 10th, 2009 06:13PM  
Priest falls, sees light after losing themselves in thiir fears and serviving, predicts another's fall, thinks they have the answers, yet another has another path where things cross, fee charged not waived nor asked to be refunded, words are used that should not, things are 'forgotten' until days later because the cross does not include the others paths, I am woken, but I am about to be bitten by those that see a manic psychotic at work, remove the independence, when the independence was already voluntarily stripped, priest sees but sees so little, the light is bright and makes the eye teary cloudy, I have not clarified and for good reason, right much, right little, no longer the issue, path is all there is and at least one other song has not been played yet, I will beat the bite, and the score I must attempt today, canned by a two prong statement, another route less taken, some people do not want the truth but what they assume and still everything I do happens for a reason and without my even understanding why, I will accept your warning because I made a promise a major one, the priest is but a and I had a chances to see in action, I have heard in action, the chain will be passed, the ring regurgitated and ready, some time yet, nothing is easy, nothing worth keeping if not, so much more to say, to see, to do

anonymous June 13th, 2009 11:48AM  
This song is deffintly a Christian song. Good Charlotte is NOT a Christian Rock band, however they have this song which is a Christian Rock song, they also also have explicitly used a few Christian-based themes in their song "We Believe". They also occasionaly mention God in some of their songs (Complicated, Thank You Mom, Movin' On, etc.) And I think that one of the reasons that M. Shadows and Syn Gates are in the song is because right after Shadow's line, Joel says "they sing that evil comes disguised", i just think he may be referring "they" as Avenged Sevenfold (Shadows and Gates band), who sing about Christianity but not exactly from a Christian point of view. Anywho, I think that this whole song is about how he used to be close with God but after he became famous, he became more and more wordly and started to do sinful things and step away from God, and now he wants to renew his relationship with Christ and become close with him again.

wafflecookies August 9th, 2009 06:40PM  
Howcouldyou is definitely right.........i think that the "The footsteps that were next to me/have gone their separate ways" and "on my own" refer to being abandoned by God and not being delivered respectively.

anonymous August 27th, 2009 08:05AM  
the song was actually written by avenged sevenfolds m. shadows who has written an abundance of songs full of bible references

medeirosland August 28th, 2009 11:18PM  
This song's Lyrics spell out one persons disappointment in them self and in the discovery that Los Angeles is not the wonderful place it was once imagined to be. The tone of these verses gives me the impression that this person left the security and protection of home and the sedate small time life for the glamour of the big city, only to find that many bad things can and do happen in this city which was once considered beautiful and without blemish.
A person put into tough and unfamiliar surroundings, Without the proper resources often has to sink to desperate measures just to survive. The acts which are then committed in the name of self preservation can not only make a person want the life they left but allow them to appreciate the
hard lessons which were learned while trying just to get by. These lessons might not be something to be proud of but they are lessons never to be forgotten.
This persons religious faith has helped them make the choice to not be like the people they have witnessed, those who spiral out of control in the name of indulging temptation and the whatever it takes attitude.
As I understand these lyrics, to be baptized in the river means going through bad experiences alone, while coming to the hard realization that life is not always good, and neither are all the people in it.
To be delivered is making the realization that mistakes can be forgiven and that there is still the opportunity to be a better person while living a more productive life.

anonymous February 5th, 2010 06:19PM  
I'm a little confused as to what "howcouldyou" said. I think you're trying to hide the meaning, but I picked up a little bit of what you're saying. Care to explain a little more?