anonymous May 31st, 2008 02:21AM  
If anyone here hasn't had the shit scared out of them by teenagers at some point or another, raise your hand!

Pretty straightforward lyrics- teenagers can be stereotypical, violent, and mean. My friends and I love this song.

anonymous June 10th, 2008 04:39PM  
This song is just basically about violent teens. At the end of the music video, It says something about getting help for violent teens. The music Video itself is an explanation. Gerard is scared of teens because he never knows what they could do to him (Or anyone else for that matter) He's not saying that he hates them. He's not even scared of all of them, just the violent ones.

- Emmy Von Kaulitz (WE NEED TOKIO HOTEL INTERPRETATIONS!)

anonymous June 16th, 2008 01:11PM  
This may sound weird but I kinda believe it is about joining the military. Because at 18 you are still a teenager but you are able to join the military. What makes me think of this is the "another cog in the murder machine" but I also agree with the Columbine gun violence thing.

anonymous June 21st, 2008 11:08PM  
Well, if you watch the Making of Teenagers video, Gerard clearly states that the song portrays that adults in general think that teens are dangerous people. They made the video with the cheerleaders holding batons and wearing gas masks to show what adults see them as.

anonymous July 2nd, 2008 07:30AM  
I think this song is about how teenagers are more violent. And Just like everyone has been saying how when Frank was on the train he would get scared of them, because maybe it also brought back memories of him being bullied at school.

But The song has been set in a situation of a kid at school, a social outcast, and how they are saying to the kid, "Your never gonna fit in much kid" and they suggesting maybe you should stand up, and not care what people think, and take your revenge, lets face it My Chemical Romance Love Revenge! (3 Cheers For Sweet Revenge). It's all about how school is divided up now in to cliques, and darkening you clothes will scare the shit out of the jocks! Just like how when we are self conscious Jocks scare the shit out of us! It Also fits in with my favourite quote from Gerard Way "Are you gonna be individual like us, or be like them, and throw footballs at our heads"

anonymous August 3rd, 2008 12:22AM  
Teenagers are so crazy these days and they're pretty risky and willing to try anything and are completely out of control. Therefore adults are afraid. but MCR are not teenagers, but we still go crazy for them. because they dress dark and "scary" and we like it. So we're more obsessed with them, then annoyed like we are with other adults.

"so darken your clothes
or strike a violent pose
maybe they'll leave you alone
but not me"

get it?

anonymous August 16th, 2008 11:34AM  
It's a song about how teenagers want to fit in. Everyone gets teased or talked of behind their backs. This song shows how they just want to stop being made fun of for what they are. There's no point in pretending to be what you're not - wear what you want, listen to what you want, and live how you want. If others don't like it, then that's their problem.

anonymous August 28th, 2008 11:04PM  
Has any1 seen this video? it reminds me of pink floyds The Wall during one of the first scenes.

anonymous October 15th, 2008 09:41PM  
I actually used this song on an English project last year.

It's all about school violence, and how the underdog takes it upon themselves to even the playing field.

It's absolutely oozing with violent references, it's not even worth rewriting them here, just read through the lyrics once, and you'll agree

anonymous October 26th, 2008 02:37PM  
I don't think the song is about teenagers trying to fit into society, rather they're trying not to, but it's forcing them, together, and forcing them into things they wouldn't do otherwise. Also talking about how you can't rely on the people and adults of school to get your dreams, you're all alone in that department.
And, for my final two cents, I always thought the passage:
"But if you’re troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did"
I thought that always was talking about self-inflicted injuries that the injured kids hide under their shirt. But that someday, those injurys will make the popular and bullies pay for what they did.

anonymous January 18th, 2009 01:14AM  
First off, anyone who is afraid of teenagers is a coward. Second off, this song sorta explains itself. Parents are afraid of current teen fashions and trends.

anonymous February 1st, 2009 12:30AM  
It's pretty much self explanitory. Teenagers alway scare their elders. This is totally off topic but I saw a vid on youtube of mcr singing teenagers, And I'm posotive gerard was either drunk, or stoned. A the begining he was talking like he was, And telling the audience to keep throwing confetti. I think he was about to fall off stage too.

anonymous February 11th, 2009 01:34PM  
This song really tells us what our elders really think of us they are scared basically also I think it shows how people who maybe dont fit in that good (like myself) can be forced to do acts to protect themselves like for instance when Gerard sings 'When your troubled and hurt what you got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did' I beleive that he is referring to many of the resent shootings in high schools across the states and what forced then to do what they did in some cases.

Pandora_Darkness May 16th, 2009 07:23AM  
This song is so good because it's so understandable. In Australia we have more smudged and faded versions of the Cliques, but that doesn't mean people don't get pushed around. I know that when I was in grade 6 I felt like murdering them all, becaus ehtey all preyed on me because I had none of my friends in that class. I know a guy who also has a death list who's in my high school class.

Basically, the song is mostly about Emos and depressed people scaring the shit out of them, because they know how it feels, and they know that they might lash out at any moment and start a massacre to get back at the people who made their lives hell. But they only know this because they've felt this (Especially Gerard) all before and this is why they are in the most perfect position to sing this song. Because they've been through the same thing, it makes you feel they understand you. I never felt offended, because the song isn't about any teenager, it's the ones who've been bullied and are actually likely to go on a blood and gore spree. And it's true that they do feel like murdering them. I've felt it before, and my friends have felt it, too. It couldn't be any less of a stereotype.

erhitfm May 30th, 2009 01:59AM  
when i listen to the song teenager's i think it's about how teenager's are always rebiling aguinst the people in charge of them. it also has many refrences to school shooting's. the line that says "because the drugs never work, there gonna give you a smerk because they've got methads to keeping you cleen" that is saying all the things the older people are doing to the teen. it's also about being an outcast and using that as a refrence to school shootings. "The boys and girls in the clique The awful names that they stick You're never gonna fit in much, kid" talking about how the "popuilar" kids make fun of this one kid "But if you're troubled and hurt What you got under your shirt We'll make them pay for the things that they did" the teen has had enough, gone mad, and brought a gun to school sorry about all the spelling error's. :D

xoxtammixox July 11th, 2009 10:16PM  
Okay, I am part of the Hot Topic / 'scene' era && would probably be labeled as one of those kids.

Let's do a bit-by-bit interpretation.(:

'They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you'

This is refering to all the adults who don't feel that we, the teenagers in black, are good enough to be the next generation of America. They're gonna 'clean up our looks', get us out of black, and lie to us to try to get us to be the definition of 'normal.' 'To make a citizen out of you' They are trying to get us to be more like them, to make us like they are && a citizen should be.


'Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do'

'Because they sleep with a gun,' That is saying that they sleep with a gun for protection because they do not know what we may be capable of. 'And keep an eye on you, son, so they can watch all the things you do.' They try to watch us closely because, once again, they do not know our capabilities && are scared.

'Because the drugs never work
They're gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip up your heads
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine'

This is begining on how the adults view us teenagers. 'Because the drugs never work, they're gonna give you a smirk. Cause they got methods of keeping you clean' This is saying that they put us on pills, because they, adults, think we have problems && we smile and make them think that the problem has been fixed; they are saying that that fools them or 'keeps them clean.' They're gonna rip up your heads, your aspirations to shreds; another cog in the murder machine' They are saying that we are going to mess with their minds, ex. make them paranoid. 'Tear aspirations to shreads', we are going to ruin their dreams of what we could do with our lives and just kill people, or become 'another cog in the murder machine.'

'They said all teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me'

This is mostly adult's view of teenagers. 'They could care less as long as someone'll bleed.', meaning that we are happy as long as someone is dead, hurt, or cutting themselves. 'So darken your clothes or srike a violent pose, maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me.' This is MCR saying adults are trying to fit in with them, or standing up against him, and that maybe we'll just leave them alone because of that, but MCR's just staying neutral.

'The boys and girls in the cliques,
The awful names that they stick
Your never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did'

This is MCR talking to teenagers in black now. 'The boys and girls in the cliques, the awful names that will stick; you're never gonna fit in much, kid.' This is saying that the 'prep', popular && sporty teenagers are going to make fun of us and pick on us && that we will never fit in with them. 'But when you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did.' This is saying that when you are feeling depressed, hurt && alone. Bringing a gun to school, or hiding a weapon 'under your shirt', can make them pay for the things that they did, by shooting, killing or at the very least scaring them into respecting you.

Then in goes to repeat the chourus that I already explained.

I know that you may have some different views upon a few minor meanings, but, ultimately, it all adds up to the same thing. I hope that this cleared some blank spots up for you![:

anonymous October 11th, 2009 11:16AM  
I'm a teenager and I think that article in the daily mail is a bunch of crap - literal BS
didn't even read the whole of it, but didn't need to!
that psycho don't know what she's talking about - call herself a journalist? why don't she go TALK with these kids? if I was doing an article about self-harm, I'd try to get under the skin of it - pun not intended! TRY and find out what these kids are all about - research self-harm, seek help 4 the kids - let em know they 'aint on there own'
because they aint - being a teen meself, I know how hard life can be sometimes - and don't kid me with all that 'but you don't have to pay bills, tax, you have more freedom' crap, cause that has nothing to do with it!

anonymous January 26th, 2010 10:58PM  
I think that, as a teen myself, its stating how the teenage population thinks, its their interpretations of the world.

"they gonna clean up your looks with all the lies in the books, to make a citezen out of you"
Its exactly that. They try to groom the teens into adults, but teens take it a lot as trying to push them into conformity. Therefor, the automatic reaction is REBEL!!(at least, it is with me)

"Because they sleep with a gun, and keep an eye on you, son, so they can watch all the things you do" Well, hopefully, they arent sleeping with an actual gun, but its like saying, they *think* that they hold the last ace. They watch your every move. Derr.

"Because the drugs never work, they gonna give you a smirk, because they got methods of keeping you clean" Meaning that the drugs really don't help, and the adults can just tighten the chain anywho, "methods of keeping you clean".

"They gonna rip up your heads, your aspirations to shreds, another cog in the murder machine" Meaning that adults tend to micromanage your life so that you can't do the things you want to. "Cog in the murder machine" seems to refer to the fact that this is normal/it happens everywhere.

Now, the chorus, because that comes next.
"They say 'all teenagers scare..."
Its saying that they really don't know how to handle these kids that seem to have a really random thought proccess. "They could care less..." Meaning, they really don't care as long as they get what they want out of you.
"Darken your clothes or strike a violent pose" most likely refers to this little thing called REBELLING, mostly in retailiation.

"The boys and girls in the clique, the awful names that they stick, your never gonna fit in much kid." A fairly good summary of being outcast from the popular kids.
"But if your troubled and hurt, what you got under your shirt will make them pay for the things they did" Refers to the radical actions people can be pushed to when they feel they have no other choices.

Well, there it is, then. I always thought that it was told from the actual teenager's point of view. YOu might not think that, idk. Whatever. Theres my two cents.