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anonymous November 11th, 2006 12:50PM  

Okay first of all, I love the guitar in this song!

Anyway, no one has really gone in depth with this song and since this is one of my favorite songs on three cheers for sweet revenge; I'm going to take a stab at it.

For what you did to me
and what I'll do to you
you get what everyone else gets
you'll get a lifetime

- I think this is a part of the entire album story. This could be the husband that died in the gun fight speaking from the dead.


Do you remember back when we met
you told me this gets harder
well it did
been holding on forever
promise me that when I'm gone you'll kill my enemies

- the dead husband's ghost/soul is wandering the earth and watching his ex wife (who lived though the gun fight), hence: "been holding on forever."


the damage you've inflicted
temporary wounds
i'm coming back from the dead
and I'll take you home with me
i'm taking back the life you stole

- he is feeling the pain of watching his wife move on and marry another man, "..Damage you've inflicted". For her, when he died they were only "temporary wounds." watching his wife live and not being able to be with her is tearing him apart, "i'm coming back from the dead, and I'll take you home with me."


we never got that far
this helps me to think
all through the night
bright lights that
won't kill me now
or tell me how
just you and I
your starless eyes remain

- here he is thinking about their relationship and all the things they didn't get to do: "we never got that far / ...Think all through the night" this dead husband is also talking about how dying didn't really 'kill' him. Ya know the theory/myth that when you die you see bright lights. So think about it; "bright lights that won't kill me now." he never went into the light, his soul is still alive because her "starless eyes remain." he loves her and couldn't leave.


Hip hip hooray for me
you talk to me
but would you kill me in my sleep
lay still like the dead
from the razor to the rosary
we could lose ourselves
and paint these walls
in pitchfork red

- I think this whole song is about the dead husband's mixed feelings towards his living wife; the lyrics are him speaking. So this part begins with the husband being sarcastic because he's pissed that she is slowly forgetting about him: "hip hip hooray for me, you talk to me." this means she still talks to him. (a lot of people talk to loved ones they have lost, ya know like 'why did you leave me? Or I miss you!) but that must not be enough for him, slowly she's moving on and he hates it...
"lay still like the dead
from the razor to the rosary
we could lose ourselves
and paint these walls
in pitchfork red."
i think this whole part is a flashback from the gun fight. I know painting the walls in pitchfork red is from the gun fight. I couldnt grasp a clear meaning, but I think the razor is from 'cemetery drive' and the rosary is from 'thank you for the venom'. I'm not sure. I think these parts were written for your own interpretation; make what you want out of it.


I will avenge my ghost
with every breath I take
i'm coming back from the dead
and I'll take you home with me
i'm taking back the life you stole

- [avenge (a venged, a venging.): 1. To take vengeance, to exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.] the dead husband now wants to satisy his ghost and come back from the dead to take his wife home. Taking back the life she stole; he is pissed! He lived with her, married her, loved her, spent a good portion of his life with her then died in a gunfight with her and now she is forgetting about him and dating other men. That is like stealing a life maybe.


This hole you put me in
wasn't deep enough
and I'm climbing out right now
you're running out of places
to hide from me

- this part is simple. When you're married, if your spouse dies and doesn't have his funeral/coffin and all that paid for. You are responsible for setting up the reception and having your husband or wife burried. That's why he's saying: "this hole you put me in". It wasn't deep enough and he wants to come get her back. As you can see his anger has been building up and by now he's really pissed! It's as if he doesn't really want her back anymore. It's more like he wants vengence. Three cheers for sweet revenge!


When you go
just know that I will remember you
if living was the hardest part
we'll then one day be together

- when she goes completely away by forgetting about him or at least not showing any signs of grief over him, he says he will remember her. This part is pretty self explanatory; if their life was hard then he's looking forward to them being together when she dies.


And in the end we'll fall apart
just as the leaves change in color
and then I will be with you
i will be there one last time now

- uncanny flash forward: the end of their relationship. Before he dies their relationship is falling apart. Leaves change in color; like seasons: love is a cycle of emotions. It's happiness, hardships and tribulations over and over. No need to worry about falling apart now because this is not the end. He may die now but it's still not the end. When she takes her finaly cemetery drive, he will be right there with her and this will be the last time. Think.


When you go
just know that I will remember you
i've lost my fear of falling
i will be with you, I will be with you

- she has to live her life. He understands now that she can't sit around grieving forever. He knows in the end, she will be with him.