my_apocalypse_etf August 4th, 2007 10:54AM  
The album tells the story of a man and woman dying and while she goes to heaven he goes to hell, he makes a deal with the devil and has to kill 1000 men to be with her. Since this is the last song on the cd, I think this is the part where he is telling her how he had to kill people to be with her. I could be wrong though

anonymous October 26th, 2008 02:32PM  
I think the song is talking about a man who charms lovely ladies, but murders them, for a living. Then, the song is just the murderer talking to his latest how should I say: 'client'. It often talks about 'your blood' meaning he is talking to someone.

I love the song, especially the dakr, murderous meaning.

anonymous January 7th, 2009 08:09AM  
Okay, who ever wrote the lengthy article is 99.99% correct. The story does continue on from "I Brought You My Love, You Brought Me Your Bullets". And the man and woman are the pair who were gunned down in the desert in the song "Demolition Lovers". The two of them both died- the woman went to heaven while the man went to hell. The man made a deal with the devil to retrieve the souls of 1000 evil men. In "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge," his lover is mourned over during the song, Helena (although originally the title did come from Gerard's late grandmother, Elena Lee Rush). After the funeral, the man begins the task of mass murder and along the way gets a group of students' souls who went on a shooting spree at their school for being bullied all the time (I'm Not Okay...). He retrieves the soul of a man in prison and talks vaguely about abuse and prison rape (You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison). He also gets feelings of regret, and thinks about giving up (Ghost Of You), but continues anyway.

Some people say that the transition from tracks 1-7 into tracks 8-13 switches the mood of the CD from light to dark. Towards the end the song lyrics' meanings deepen.

In the end the man supposedly succeeds and is reunited with his love. He then explains how they came to be together again. But the man of course is wanted for 1000 murders and the two of them are discovered by the police who shoot them while dancing - in the backs of their heads, naturally. It is better off this way; they can be together without the guilt, the worries, and being wanted criminals the rest of their lives.

[An alternate theory says the man kills 999 people, and a woman is his last victim before he can see his lover again. But he gets to know her before killing her and tells her all about why he is doing what he is doing while they dance. Since he could never live with himself anyway - let alone face his lover, its all better off this way.]
He tried.


^^The guy who wrote this is spot on, apart from the "other interpretation", which is the one he put in brackets at the end... The woman he is dancing with would be his 1000th victim, and so before he kills her, he wants to get to know her a bit more, and while they are dancing in the street, he tells her the whole story, about why he is doing this, and then before he gets to kill her, the police arrive (as he is wanted for 999 murders remember), and "they gave us two shots to the back of the head"... as someone said earlier, notice how its NOT "to the back of OUR heads"... This shows that two shots were fired, into the back of her head.... This meant that he had inadvertently taken the 1000 souls that he needed, and so the devil then took his life away so he could reunite with his lover, in heaven... Therefore they're "all dead now", and "its better off this way, so much better off this way", because although he died, his task is now complete, so he is now free to meet up with his lover...

Ok, I understand most of your interpretation, (BUT!)
If you here this lyric one more time, you will now understand.
"They gave us two shots in the back of the head"
Do you hear the (US!) when the lyrics said "they gave US!"
Which means the police shot them both In back of the head. On shot for the man and one shot for the women. They both died together when they where dancing and they where both killed by the police and now they are dead. The women Is in Heaven again and the man Is In Hell again because the women didn't do anything evil or bad in her life, she just loved the man. although she was a criminal because she did rob banks, but I think she deserved to go to Heaven more than the mad did. The man killed people, including shooting his evil victims, stabbing them, etc... He also made a deal with the devil and that is not a good choice. So he will never ever go to Heaven with her. Hes mostly bad. The devil tricked him, they are now never reunited again, he's better off without her now. There both dead.
Sad ending...
he tried to be with her with his 1000 evil souls thing.
He did kill 1000 evil souls, she is not a EVIL soul!
She can not be included in his 1000 evil soul deal. He completed it when he killed his last victim (don't know who)
He was dead when he was killing his evil soul victims, he came back from the dead to be with her when he completed his task. His ghost was killing the victims, because remember the lovers died together in a gunfight in the desert (near a western restaurant). They where both separated from death when they died in the gunfight, they went to hell and heaven.
I hope every gets what I'm saying!

anonymous February 17th, 2009 04:45PM  
I think this guy is a ghost or demon or something, and has to keep killing and posessing bodies to stay here on earth. that would explain the whole "Another night and i'll be you" which stumped me at first, and also the "I did it all so maybe I'd live this everyday" the bodies only last so long so he has to kill a new one: "Only go so far 'Til you bury them So deep and down we go" maybe the girl is a mortician or something? I think the girl is next,and when the girl goes he'll go too to be with her (both dead): And we'll all dance alongto the tune of your death We'll love again We'll laugh again And it's better off this way" but something goes wrong and they both die. haha, idk

anonymous June 9th, 2009 11:12PM  
This song is about a serial killer and how, after killing all these people, he is discovered and eventually put to death. Another knife in my hands A stain that never comes off the sheets Clean me off I'm so dirty, babe The kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes I keep a book of the names and those Those lyrics mean, essentially, that he has killed and it will forever be on his conscience. Down And down we go And down we go And down we go And we all fall down This can mean that he's fallen from grace, that he is no longer the best serial killer out there because he was caught. I tried I tried And we'll all dance along to the tune of your death We'll love again We'll laugh again And it's better off this way The first part probably means that he tried to stay hidden, but the cops found him anyway. The second part is probably him thinking about what death will be like. Once he's dead, he reasons, he won't have all the kills on his conscience. Well never again And never again They gave us two shots to the back of the head And we're all dead now This part is pretty obvious. It means that he was killed execution-style, two shots to the back of the head.