anonymous March 1st, 2007 03:49PM  

I think "The End." is more of an introduction to the story, perhaps by the patient himself, and "Dead!" is about the doctors telling him that he's dying. However, they are trying to say that when doctors tell you you're dying, they don't really care. You're just a patient and the source of their pay check. It's exaggerating on how cruel they can be about the fact that you're DYING.

anonymous April 18th, 2007 12:00AM  

Gerard says that his favorite thing about writing song lyrics is telling a story. So it starts off with two lovers, and one of them is dying. and by the end he's dead

And if you get to Heaven
I'll be here waiting, babe

when that is said, it implies that the narrator thinks it's better to die also.

as gerard said, the concept of the CD was two lovers getting separated, and doing anything [yes... dying] to get back together.

anonymous May 8th, 2007 01:53AM  

*Sigh* in between every post the correct answer is there. He's imagining what it would be like to be told he was dying. When told something like this the mind thinks all kinds of things. He felt that no one liked him because no one was there when the doctor told him. He had felt like he had never truly loved. Therefore he felt as if he had never really lived and feels that killing himself would be less painful than having to live his last few days in constant reminder that he had never truly lived.

peteinmypants June 15th, 2007 05:33PM  

First off, obviously, The End is part of Dead! That's why when you play one right after the other, there is NO space between the songs whatsoever. (In fact if one of them comes on, I have to turn the shuffle off just so I can hear the songs connect.)
Two, I think you guys all have a good point. I however also thought of possibly another scenario. Maybe...maybe, this dead person committed suicide. Thus the IF you get to heavens. and the did you get what you deserves. Then when Gerard sings "if life ain't just a joke, then why are we laughing?" It's like the suicider thought life was a joke, and didn't need it anymore.

anonymous July 2nd, 2007 09:37AM  

I think this song is about the patient dying but it could also mean Gerard's drug and alcohol addiction is finally dead.

MCRocker666 July 5th, 2007 03:59PM  

This song is the 2nd of the 13(possibly 14 if you want to count Blood) of the death of The Patient. In this song he finds out he is going to die in less than 2 weeks. When he finds out he is going to be dying things start running through his head. He hears people talking to him.. Telling him that "no one ever had much nice to say. I don't think they ever liked you anyways" When he heard this, he got urges to just go ahead and kill them all. "Wouldn't it be grand to take a pistol by the hand.. and wouldn't it be great if we were dead!"

mikejlvhs July 6th, 2007 05:27PM  

the end is "the patient's" last moments alive while "Dead! is the patient dieing( hence the beeping at the beginning of the song) the speaker is the band leader informing the patient that he is dead

anonymous July 14th, 2007 08:04PM  

The narrator is a friend of the patient, he's telling him he has cancer, he tells him that nobody liked you anyway and he's kinda jealous because he's depressed and wants 2 die and doesn't understand why we're here and just doesn't care anymore because his friend is dying 2.

anonymous July 14th, 2007 10:48PM  

I agree w/ anonymous above me, but I think it's the girlfriend/wife that is brought up later that is talking.

anonymous September 3rd, 2007 09:00PM  

Akk! you peeps don't get it do you? The song doesn't go " DEAD.. Have you heard the news that your dead?" it's 'HAVE' in stead of DEAD. I'm sorry iv had a rough day.

ninjacait October 23rd, 2007 05:06AM  

Its someone in the third person making fun of him because he's dead. and Gerard ways dad is not even dead. at least I don't think

peteinmypants November 24th, 2007 12:20PM  

This could be the moment that the patient dies. or some might agree that it is a dream that he's having where he truly believes he is dead. and he's getting this feeling like "is it really worth it?"

anonymous December 5th, 2007 08:52AM  

Uhhh... I don't know how to submit a correction to the lyrics, but maybe one of you do...
this part---

So tired and oh so squeamish
You never fell in love
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life

--- should start out tongue-tied and oh so squeamish, not so tired and oh so squeamish... If you don't believe this, go buy the album and look at the lyrics in writing...

anonymous April 27th, 2008 03:51AM  

This song (in my opinion) is looking at death like a game! like blood, bloods a little different but its to show people that death could somehow be a game

anonymous August 3rd, 2008 12:11AM  

Honestly, I don't think the song has to do with anyone literally dying. I believe it has to do with him telling someone who hurt him real bad, that they're dead to them---"have you heard the news that you're dead"
and when that person actually does die, he'll be wondering if they got what they deserve "and when you're heart stops beating I'll be wondering did you get what you deserve"

So yeah, just look past the lyrics.

anonymous August 12th, 2008 09:57PM  

Since this whole album is about the patient I think it is someone(dont know who)telling him right of the bat "your dead" and joking like saying "If life ain't just a joke
Then why are we laughing?".

Thats just what I think

anonymous March 3rd, 2009 07:37PM  

I think it is about the patient learning that he has cancer and how the patient copes with it at first.

anonymous March 10th, 2009 08:02PM  

I think that the death being referred to in this song is that of a relationship,
"No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway"
could refer to the guy's friends/family not liking his girlfriend,
"Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish
You never fell in love
Did you get what you deserve?"
this could refer to the fact that the relationship was over before it got really serious,
"And in my honest observation
During this operation
Found a complication in your heart"
the persons heart could be their physical heart, but it could also be their loving heart, and they didn't or couldnt love the guy for some reason, also, the operation could be the relationship, people do always tend to over-analyze relationships.

but that's just what I think, and there's a good chance of me being wrong.

anonymous September 15th, 2009 01:05PM  

The combined analysis of both The End and Dead as one song but two different parts of that song is necessary in understanding What exactly is happening to The Patient. The very first 4 lines in The End almost give the song's meaning away in its entirety. "come one and all to this tragic affair" is pretty self explanatory ie. The Patient found out his imminent death and lamenting. "Wipe off that make up" implies that The Patient had a very uncaring possibly ignorant viewpoint towards life/death and now is whipping off the "makeup" that previously was blinding him. realizes just how much he really cared about dying. After that line Gerard says several things implementing The Patients distaste in his life before he discovered the true value of it; "wake up and notice you're someone you're not" "if you look in the mirror and don't like what you see".

anonymous October 17th, 2009 03:39PM  

I don't know what kind of situation he is describing exactly. But he's talking about the meaning of life. As you can see at the end when he asks "If life ain't just a joke then why are we laughing ? ". Cause we all have to die, the life means nothing or at least not much to him ! I don't know how to say that in englisch but in german we say "Nihilismus".