anonymous November 24th, 2005 09:07AM  
OK, so first of all I have to say that most of MCR songs are pretty deep and not exactly written in a way that you can actually understand what they mean right away, but sometimes what they sing and the way they sing it can give extra tips on what the song might be about. So I'm now gonna give you MY interpretation, which doesn't mean its actually right, in fact you might think its stupid but anyway (I'm 15 by the way, so maybe I think I understood stuff when I really didn't at all)

Right, so I've read a couple of interpretations of this song and most of them talk about it being about the girl cheating on the guy. Now, what is sure is that the girl did kill her self ("they found you on the bathroom floor") but I'm not exactly sure if it is because she was cheating. Umm..so when they say "And crash the cemetery gates/

In the dress your husband hates" I think maybe she killed herself in that dress and like wanted to be buried in it so as like a final insult to her husband, who I think is the guy who tells the story, so what I think is that it's actually him who cheated on her, but not cus he didn't love her, because he keeps saying "I miss you" all through the song, but maybe because he was so screwed up and didn't know wat to do with his life or something and that finally led him to cheating on her, and she found out and she loved him so much and therefore killed herself cus she couldnt take it and the guy then realises what happened and all..umm but then the second verse actually made me doubt because it says stuff like "did you get what you deserve?" Maybe through all the pain because she killed herself and all, he starts thinking like well yea you killed yourself but look at all the shit you've always put me through, maybe its better off this way..and when he says "So I won't stop dying, won't stop lying" maybe he means like I won't stop dying inside as in suffering all the time, and I won't stop lying like to myself, telling me that it's not my fault although I know it was, but then since he says maybe its what she deserves maybe then he realises that it really isn't his fault after all and that he loves her and miss her but she was indeed 'using' him for sumthing, I'm thinking like money or you know just the adrenaline rush that pushes some women into cheating on their husbands.. SO that's kind of the way I see it, it might be completely wrong but well I just thought I might gve it a try at seeing what the My Chemical Romance dudes were thinking about when they wrote it and like what they wanted to say or show by singing this song and all..

Anyways, I found out doing this that I really pretty much like interpretating songs so I may do this some other time again. I hope it helped those who wanted to try and know what it meant, too.

anonymous April 16th, 2006 11:32PM  
The thing that tricks me the most is the lines:

"Did you get what you deserve?
Is this what you always want me for?"

I sort of see it as the husband who was cheated on asking his dead wife, "Did you always want this? Was I just a distraction?" Maybe, his wife committed suicide not because of guilt but of sadness, a depression which led to her cheating on her husband. The line about deserving death, I don't think, was one of anger but sort of the line that people tell you when someone dies: they're in a better place now, at peace.

anonymous May 6th, 2006 04:42PM  
This is my interpretation and it’s probably wrong but this is what I understood.

I think it’s about an affair however I have always thought that they get caught (" Where the searchlights find us Drinking by the mausoleum door") and the jealous husband shoots the wife (“It isn't that much fun Staring down a loaded gun”). Then the lover is really sad that she died (“So I won't stop dying”). Perhaps he believes that when he says it not his fault that she died he is lying (“Won't stop lying”). “Did you get what you deserve?” maybe she had discussed with her lover the guilt she felt over cheating on her husband, and then “Is this what you always want me for?” I think that maybe he feels slightly angry with her as well, like she knew he’d get hurt. “I miss you, I miss you so far, And the collision of your kiss that made it so hard” I think he is saying that the fact that he loved her so much made it hard to lose her (not necessarily that he helped kill her). “Way down, Way down” the lover falling into depression after the loss of his beloved.

But hey, what do I know :P

anonymous May 6th, 2006 10:35PM  
The song, in relation to the story the whole album follows, can be broken down into little pieces for easy chewing. ^^

"This night, walk the dead
in a solitary style
and crash the cemetery gates"

A very condensed summary of the story goes like this: The husband died while the wife lives. In order for him to live again, he has to bring the devil the souls of a 1000 evil men.

These lines say that he is walking in the cemetery.

"In the dress your husband hates"

The woman gets remarried, and I think she believes by wearing the dress that her present husband hates, it won't be like she betrayed the man she was once married to.

"Way down, mark the grave
Where the search lights find us
drinking by the mausoleum door"

She may not be able to see him, but he's there with her, drinking with her, watching and following her.

"And they found you on the bathroom floor"

She kills herself.

"Back home, off the run
singing songs that make you slit your wrists
it isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun"

This is before she kills herself, which says she's tried to commit suicide before, and that she was depressed.

"Did you get what you deserve?
is this what you always want me for? "

He asks her if she's found peace, and if his death was an excuse for her to die.

Well, that's what I think. :3 Hope it helps!

anonymous July 13th, 2006 03:00PM  
ok so this is a really deep song, and to be honest as with most MCR songs there probably isn't one maening to this song. I doubt the band even have a definete story to it... but obviously it is clearly about suicide, depression and someone having an affair...

so here my version, simular to the others I'm sure, and not neccesarily right (in fact probably wrong)

ok so the first verse in my opinion is pretty simple, this woman is having an affair 'in the dress your husband hates' and they get caught 'where the search lights find us drinking by the moseleum door'

'and they found you on the bathroom floor' this is where I think the story could be a number of things. So the obvious thing is she commits suicide, she shoots herself, another thing that points to this is the fact that in teh secret backing track thing somebody keeps saying 'don't do it. don't do it... are you there at all ?? do you care at all ??' so that obviously backs up the thought of her killing herself. But I also though tta maybe the husband killed her and then got really angry 'is this what you always want me for' kidna like she wanted to kill herself but didn't have the guts so provoced him unti he did it for her... If that makes sense ??

and that's about it really lol

but as I said I don't think there's one definete interpretation for this song

<3

anonymous September 15th, 2006 10:48AM  
I think this song is about woman who is having an affair. The line "..In the dress your husband hates..." is about the woman having an act of defiance against her husband, as if to say she doesn't care about him anymore. Then she and her lover get caught ("and the searchlights find us drinking by the mausoleum door...") either by her husband out looking for her, or by the police or something. Then, her husband finds out about her affair and kills her ("and they found you on the bathroom floor.." - refers to finding her body). I also think that this song is told from the voice of the person she is having an affair with. He really misses her "I miss you, I miss you, so far..."). When he says "the collision of your kiss, that made it so hard," I think he means that it was hard for the husband to kill the wife, because he still did love her. She probably begged forgiveness and kissed him, but he felt that killing her was something he had to do. The next stanza of the song I think goes back to before she was killed. It says "back home, off the run" which I think goes back to when they were at the graveyard and were caught, but they get away, and she goes home. I think she was really depressed, feels guilty about cheating, and thinks about suicide ("singing songs that make you slit your wrists, it isn't that much fun staring down a loaded gun") and her husband finds her and she tells him about cheating. Then, like I said before, he is so mad that he kills her, even though it was hard. When the lover says "did you get what you deserve? Is this what you always want me for?" I think he means, did you deserve to be killed because you were wrong for cheating, and did she just want one last fling before she killed herself, or in this case, got killed. Then the repeating of "way down" I think symbolizes them burying her "way down" in the ground. That is just my interpretation. It may be wrong, but its just a guess.

anonymous October 20th, 2006 07:05PM  
Heyy!
So okay...Mine is probably rubbish ^^ lol but I love this song so much...

"this night
walk the dead
in the solitary style and crash the
cemetery gates"
-ok, I think 'this night walk the dead' is about her dead husband coming back to be with her, in ghost form. Like people say waking the dead when you sing ^^. I don't know about the other too lines, my guess is that she climbs over a gate into the cemetery and sits by her husbands grave.
"in the dress your husband hates
way down, mark the grave
where the searchlights find us drinking by the
mausoleum door...
And they found you on the bathroom floor"
-in the dress your husband hates...Defiance against her husband(?) um...Way down as in hidden amongst things like trees where her husbands grave is and she actually marks it like with a pen or something^^ they send out a search party for two people including her and they find them drinking by the mausoleum door. And obviously, they found you on the bathroom floor is like dead on the bathroom floor^^ suicide.

"I miss you
i miss you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard"
-the man who is alive misses his dead wife and she is too far away from him. I think the last line is meant to be when he was shot he kissed her just before he died and it made it hard to die.

"back home
off the run
singing songs that make you slit your wrists
isn't that much fun
staring down a loaded gun"
-when I was looking at these things they all said before she actually died, but I think it's a sorta flashback to being at home and depressed and cutting her wrists. I don't really know about the last two lines...=[ maybe when the husband was shot(?)

"so I won't stop dying
won't stop lying
if you want I'll keep on crying
did you get what you deserve?
Is this what you always want me for?"
-the husband won't stop dying inside from the grief of his wifes death perhaps? This is what I think for the rest:
+he won't stop lying when people ask him about her, he will just tell them a lie eg. "how is your wife?" "aive and well." get me?
+he might be sick of crying but if he thinks he hasn't cried enough then he will carry on...Ok that made no sense^^
+did you get what you deserved, might be at peace now like many people have said and the last line...Maybe she always wanted him under her control and he's finally free from her reighn(?)

"I miss you
i miss you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard"
-already explained ^^

"way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way down
way down, way down!"
-maybe he still goes down to the place where she died as in his grave or were they were drinking and just sit in her place for a moment.

The rest I've already explained...Sorry if you think it's absolute crap^^ lmso but that's what I think it's about.
Love ya all
lixue xx

anonymous December 20th, 2006 11:08AM  
The song "Cemetery Drive" is believed to be about adultery and more so the guilt that surrounds it. The story is about a man who has an affair with a married woman ("the dress your husband hates") who then kills herself when her husband finds out ("and they found you on the bathroom floor(...)"). Her lover feels guilty over what he caused the woman to do, and he imagines himself meeting her, somehow still alive, in the cemetery where she is buried ("this night walk the dead(...)

Many speculate that this song has a personal meaning for the band members. On My Chemical Romance's live album, Life on the Murder Scene, Gerard Way begins the song by saying, "This song is about the hardest drive me and Mikey and my band ever went on. We been on this long road now about four years." It is believed that there was a girl that the band was very close to prior to being signed (Gerard was especially close to her). The day after My Chemical Romance left for their very first tour, she committed suicide in her bathroom by shooting herself, and during his mourning, Gerard wrote this song.Some wonder if it is possible the same girl that Bert from The Used talks about in his linear notes from Love Or Death where he refers to a girl named Kate. Gerard had written to a girl referred to as "K' in the notes for Bullets, where he apologizes for always killing her in songs.

anonymous January 9th, 2007 10:06PM  
To me I really don't think any of you are right like I love to think about mcrs songs and think like Gerard! If you start thinking like him that's were you start thinking things outside of the box you start thinking in analogies and not in a literal sense which is were I came up with this it might be completely wrong but I'm just thinking of the possibilities.

(this night walk the dead)to me that line means a married man walking by a cemetary when he meets a woman but the woman isn't accually a woman she's a spirit.
(Crash the cemetary gates) I think that would mean the man is going into forbidden taritory aka the woman.
(in the dress your husband hates) means she was married to someone which I think was the man that went to hell but then the devil sent him up to get the corpses of a thousand evil men so really I think that the woman was dead but she was a ghost and ghosts are spirits with unfinished business and her unfinished business was saying her last goodbye to her husband and she mistakes the guy that's walking for her husband.

So basically that's what I think of it idk I could be far gone but idk...

anonymous January 12th, 2007 03:57AM  
A good (female) friend of Gerards killed herself just before he wrote this song so it is most likely to do with her and why she killed herself.

But like most MCR songs it has more than one meaning and isn't always about just one thing.

anonymous February 10th, 2007 05:34AM  
ha.... I think it's about a guy who loves a girl but she is married,there drunk in a cemetary and are kissing,and she lovs both of them but can't choose which one, so she cuts herself, but cuts too deep and dies,then her husband finds out and shoots him.

anonymous February 17th, 2007 10:23PM  
Yes, this song IS about adultery, but the song was written about a friend of Gerard and Mikey's, who committed suicide just days before MCR left for their first tour. She allegedly shot herself in her bathroom, and Gerard wrote this song about her while he was grieving.

villenoel March 15th, 2007 01:57PM  
Okay, I don't think this song is about adultery at all. You may say that's stupid but I really dont. There's a story that gerard had a friend when he was younger and she commited suicide by shooting herself in her bathroom. Hence the "staring down a loaded gun" and the "and they found you on the bathroom floor" he used to drink with her a lot.."where the searchlights find us drinking by the m..(I can never spell that word) door"

anonymous March 22nd, 2007 12:43PM  
This song is about Gerard and Mikey's close friend. She shot herself in the head in the bathroom that is why "and they found you on the bathroom floor, I miss you" is in their

anonymous March 28th, 2007 03:53PM  
Cemetary Drive is about a woman who is cheating on her husband, but she can't take the pressure any more.
"so I won't stop dying won't stop lying, if you want I'll keep on crying"
so she kills her self "and they found you on the bathroom floor". or, her husband kills her when he finds out about the affair, "and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard" so hard t do what? to kill her? to let her go because she slits her wrists? only Gerard will know..
some say that Gerard wrote the song about a close friend of his, others say it was his brother who recently joined the band as the new pianist..

beth090310 March 30th, 2007 04:50PM  
No, people this song is about a girl that Gerard was friends with in college, and she killed herself, and he was really upset about this.

anonymous April 4th, 2007 04:37AM  
Some people are getting very defensive over the fact that some people are saying the song is about an affair and some people are saying the song is about a friend of Gerard's who committed suicide.
Well did anyone think it could be about both?
So maybe the song is dedicated to Gerard's lost friend, however there is more to the song than the one line 'and they found you on the bathroom floor'
I am not going to say this is right because I have absolutely no proof, but does anyone know anything about this friend of Geralds?
Because that information could be very relevant.
If the song is about Gerard's lost friend, there is obviously a story behind her.
I do think there is the story of an affair in the song, maybe this friend of his had an affair.
"This night, walk the dead, in the solitary style and crash the cemetary gates, in the dress your husband hates"
To me it sounds as if she is rebeling against her husband, hence 'in the dress your husband hates'. Maybe the bad relationship with her husband is what brought her to have the affair, as if the affair was a way to escape her bad marriage.
"Lay down, mark the grave, where the search lights found us drinking by the moseleum door, and they found you on the bathroom floor"
So they were caught by the search lights, and then the death is mentioned. Maybe the whole reason the suicide was commited was because the secret was out.
"I miss you, and I miss you so far, and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard"
So it is harder because of how compatible the two were, or how much he loved her.
"Back home, off the run"
So they had their time together, she is with her husband again, and for that moment she dosnt have to hide?
"Singing songs that make you slit your wrists, it isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun"
He is sad at the fact that things he said or did contributed to her depression?
"So I won't stop dying, won't stop lying, if you want I will keep on crying"
It sounds as if he has realised her love for him was an escape as apossed to the real love her feels for her, and now he is upset that she is gone, but she might not care.
"Did you get what you deserve? Is this what you always want me for?"
Maybe he is asking if she thinks taking her own life was what she deserved or the right thing to do, and asking if all he ment to her was the escape, as I said before.

Anyway that is just some of my ideas
Lol, they are probably all wrong, it is just the way I took it, and I wanted to have a shot :D
Then again I am not the biggest MCR fan. I like the songs but I know nothing about the band themselves.

Anyways I just wanted to point out that even though a lot of you may not agree there is a bigger story to the song because it was about Geralds friend taking her own life full stop, well there has to be a story behind why she did it and I think there is more to the song than the one like 'and they found you on the bathroom floor".

Also I read in another song interpretation someone said "artists don't tell the stories to the songs, so the listner can take it in how ever they wish"
I thought that was an awsome way to put it lol. Which is why I dohnt care if I am wrong :D

Bye byes. xox

anonymous April 5th, 2007 10:09PM  
Whoever wrote about Kate, the girl from before MCR's tour, you are right. At least, this is the story my friend tells me. She says Gerard used his stories to merge the girl into the songs. That's sad.

anonymous May 22nd, 2007 09:31PM  
Howdy, Y'all!

Well this song may be about adultery, but Gerard also wrote this song about his and Mikey's friend who committed suicide and was found on the bathroom floor. (Sound familiar?) Or about the book Estacy: three chemical romances by Irvine Welsh. (Yep, that's how they got the name!)

If you mess with the sound you can hear him say don't do it, don't do it. And he says are you there at all? do you care at all? Are you there at all?

Its awesome how combines his life with his story.

Anyway, now I'll try to give the other interpretation. Underline try.

'This night, walk the dead
In a solitary style
And crash the cemetery gates.
In the dress your husband hates'

This night walk the dead I think means the dead are being remembered. Like the dead are walking through people's hearts, if that makes any sense. The male lover is saying she is being remembered through his heart. She is dead in heaven, and he is trying to kill the 1,000 dudes and all. And in the dress your husband hates is kinda complicated. I think before both lovers died they broke up and she was remarried. Then they realized they still loved each little before they both died. He's saying this in bitter sarcasm.

'Way down, mark the grave
Where the search lights find us
Drinking by the mausoleum door
And they found you on the bathroom floor'

Way down, mark the grave. The grave where they talked and crap and got back together and would hang out there all night. Where the search lights find us means someone found them when they were together during the night, and her husband found out. And they found you on the bathroom floor. Either her angry husband killed her or she killed herself. And the male lover dude found her on the bathroom floor.

'I miss you, I miss you so far
And the collision of your kiss that made it so hard'

Obvious enough, I hope . . .

'Back home, off the run
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists
It isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun'

He's saying back home her life was crappy with her husband. And she was running away from him and slitting her wrists. It isn't that much fun staring down a loaded gun is saying being it and slitting your wrists was nothing compared to either your suicide/murder.

'So I won't stop dying, won't stop lying (are you there at all?)
If you want I'll keep on crying (do you care at all?)
Did you get what you deserve? (are you there at all?)
Is this what you always want me for?'

He'll keep dying for her and he'll keep lying to see her. He'll keep on crying for on. He wonders if she's just teasing him. Pretty obvious.

Phew, that took a while . . .

Braksnen July 7th, 2007 04:56AM  
1st, this song IS about adultery, it almost tells you that it is. Gerrard is singing first person about a married woman having an affair with him.

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"this night, walk the dead
in a solitary style" (walking around in the graveyard)

"and crash the cemetery gates." (her husband crashes through the gates with his car trying to find them)

"in the dress your husband hates" (she's wearing a dress her husband hates out of spite, because she's mad at him)

"way down, mark the grave
where the search lights find us
drinking by the mausoleum door" (Her husband stopped the car near a specific grave when his headlights shined on them at the mausoleum)

"and they found you on the bathroom floor" (her husband killed her in the bathroom which is where unknown people found her, or he dragged her dead body into the bathroom)

"I miss you, I miss you so far
and the collision of your kiss that made it so hard" (Gerrard is obviously missing her a lot)

"back home, off the run" (he was running from her husband until he made it home)

"singing songs that make you slit your wrists" (he keeps singing songs that remind him of her and makes him slit his wrists)

"it isn't that much fun, staring down a loaded gun" (he remembers when her husband pointed the gun at him)

"so I won't stop dying, won't stop lying
if you want I'll keep on crying" (he's dying on the inside because he's forced to lie about his situation with her, which makes him cry)

"did you get what you deserve?
is this what you always want me for?" (self explanatory)