anonymous September 16th, 2006 04:39PM  

I think that this song is about how everything that surrounds the 'jesus of suburbia' is just caving in around him. His girlfriend doesn't like him, the city he's in is burning down, and the town bishop is a greedy extortionist. It's a very emotional song and you should be able to tell that from the lyrics. Espescially the ending part where he's told that he isn't the jesus of suburbia and that st. Jimmy is just a figment of his imagination.
The ending lines are 'whatsername' telling him that she's leaving. Sad as hell. But it rocks.

xKidxViciousx October 29th, 2006 06:46PM  

This song is about st.Jimmy's girlfriend, whatshername, and how she writes him a breakup letter. She taunts him (nobody likes you everyone left you....) going deeper, I think she broke up with him because she wants him to save the city, but he doesn't care. (this city's burnin', it's not my burden....) and her anger towards him (your not the jesus of suburbia, st jimmy is a figment of your father's rage and your mother's love...) so, that's it.

anonymous April 16th, 2007 02:28AM  

The song begins with the Jesus of Suburbia's girlfriend breaking up with him. The song is entitled "Letterbomb" because she left a note and left. The note reads "nobody likes you, everyone left you, they're all out without you, having fun" He feels alone and rejected by everyone. "The dummy failed that crash test" is a reference to him thinking that his life was supposed to be the way he was living it with whatshername, and he failed at it.
He is wondering what happened to his life. Everything from his old life seems to have disappeared around him (where have all the riots gone) And nothing is the way it was planed to be (As your city's model gets pulverized)
He knows that his life, which is being represented by the city is going to crash down and fall apart and he just wants to get it over with (so strike the fucking match to light this fuse)
The symbols of goodness and trust in his life are proven to be uncaring and fake (The town bishop is an extortionist
And he don't even know that you exist) And he learns that when it is down to the wire you have to do something or else somebody else will (Standing still when it's do or die
You better run for your fucking life)
He begins to realize that it is never to late to change your life. (it's not over till you're underground)
His whole life is falling apart, and he feels that it's not his problem.
He wonders what use he is now that he feels that his job is done. He begins to wonder where he will go and what he will do with his life. (Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself? And where will we all go when it's too late?)
He tells himself to not look back on his past and just keep working forward.

"You're not the Jesus of Suburbia
The St. Jimmy is a figment of
Your father's rage and your mother's love
Made me the idiot America"
I believe that whatshername is telling him that, but he is telling himself that too. He begins to realize that he is not who he thought he was and that he imagined himself to be this wonderful person when he was king of the 7-11 only to make up for his awful home life. He begins to realize that he is no better than all the rest.
The chorus repeats itself reminding you that he is going to let his old life go down in flames and rebuild a new life.
The "city" is not his burden anymore because he abandoned his old life.
"She said I can't take this place
I'm leaving it behind
Well she said I can't take this town
I'm leaving you tonight"
is what whatshername said in the letter that was mentioned in the beginning of the song. She was fed up with his lifestyle and she wanted to get out.
This is repeated because the Jesus of Suburbia is still thinking about how she broke up with him, he is angry at her and frustrated.
Also this last line is about the Jesus of Suburbia saying how he can't take his life and how he left it that night also

anonymous May 4th, 2007 10:30PM  

Jimmy's really pissed at his girl for dumping him that's where (So Send my Love A Letter Bomb and visit me in hell....)comes from.