anonymous February 15th, 2007 12:25PM  

It's about people keep trying to change him but he wants to stay himself. "You'll never make me leave I where this on my sleeve" means you'll never change him, "you're running after something that you'll never kill" means it's not gonna happen.

anonymous March 25th, 2007 06:17PM  

In my opinion this song is about liberation and freedom for your own cause, regardless of what that may be. Those who preach, believing they can only be the ones that are right, are ironically and ignorantly doing this to some-one who is also as just as strong minded as them but remains open to other concepts; however unlikely it may be that he would accept them.

These preachers only spurn him further to believe in his own convictions and hence he thanks them for the venom.

thank.u.4.the.venom May 31st, 2007 04:59PM  

I think this song is as the whole album is about a man who would kill a thousand men to get his love back and he's proud of this"ill wear this on my sleeve" and he goes to a nun who trys to swerve him off his course (to kill a thousand men) he says "so give me all your poison and give me all your pills" this is him saying try what you want you won't stop me and then "your running after somthing that youll never kill " this is saying but try if you want but itll never work "if this is wat you want then fire at will" or that's what I think anyway

anonymous August 6th, 2007 02:06AM  

This song is about all these preachers coming to you with messages of how you can be saved. When you know that you have done some pretty bad things and nobody saved you then so why would they save you now? And mostly the song is letting them now that whatever they do to try to change your opinion it just isn't going to happen in this lifetime, or any for that matter.

anonymous November 24th, 2007 09:49AM  

I see the song as about someone who knows what he/she believes and doesn't want anyone screwing around with that. As if they are saying 'Do whatever you want to, you're not going to bring me down'. "So give me all your poison, and give me all your pills, and give me all your hopeless hearts and make me ill, you're running after something that you'll never kill." The line "if this is what you wanted, fire at will", seems to be saying 'if you really want to destroy me, than go ahead'. That's what I think.

anonymous December 4th, 2007 09:19AM  

You see, I've come up with this theory that their whole 2nd album, three cheers for sweet revenge, is about the story of romeo and juliet...

ablack13 January 18th, 2008 07:25AM  

It's basically about “the criminal” (figuratively, that is), who is expected to be something more ("a poet"). He says that they can love him for who he is or not love him at all and that he doesn't really care ("Love it or leave it, you can't understand"...), that he doesn't want to change ("I'm just the way that the doctor made me"). So basically everyone else change to try and fit in, so they end up "bleeding on the floor" (become something that he finds useless, and thinks that they would be better off actually bleeding on the floor.), and he doesn't (in your face! :P). He’s proud of the fact that he remained loyal to his beliefs (“You'll never make me leave, I wear this on my sleeve”…) He, in a way, wants to be the person he once used to be ("Give me all your poison and give me all your pills"...). He feels like he’s lost everything he believed in, and he needs a reason to stay alive (“Give me a reason to believe”, “I keep a gun on the book you gave me, hallelujah, lock and load”), and that the society is killing him, but he’s not letting them to (“You're running after something that you'll never kill, if this is what you want then fire at will”).

anonymous April 23rd, 2008 02:53PM  

So....obviously nobody shares my understanding of that song. One main sentence is: You wanna follow something, give me a better cause to lead!
I think it's about a guy who loves a girl but that girl doesn't love him as much as he loves her! she needs something to run after and lets him walk behind. Hes not about to "lead" her somewhere as he already loves her and doesn't want to play any bloody games. In this song he tries to tell her that neither she loves him the way he is and with all the love he wants to give or to give him a better cause to lead. I agree with: you killed me mentally so why don't you kill me physically (if this is what you want then fire at will), as he's looking for somebody who really loves him and whos not willing to play.
quite different to your understandings... ;)

anonymous June 24th, 2008 08:00PM  

I think that "Black is the kiss, the touch of the serpent's son/it ain't the mark of the scar that makes you one" means something rather different, compared to the rest of you. I think it means that black is meant for evil, the "Serpent's Son" being like the devil or a demon. People usually wear black to funerals. This has nothing to do with evil.

The only people at funerals are those that are unhappy about the person passing. It is a deep wound that will take time to heal, it's a "scar" that makes them "one." They are one because they share the sorrow. "It's not the mark of the scar that makes you one." "Black is the kiss, the touch of the Serpent's Son. Tell me what you think.

anonymous July 22nd, 2008 05:20AM  

'So give me all your poison and give me all your pills and give me all your broken hearts to make me ill your running after something that you'll never kill if this is what you want than fire at will'

That there meaning that he can't get rid of his burdens he has to live with this and he'll do anything to get rid of them. He'd take alcohol, pills, and anything to save his own arse

anonymous July 29th, 2008 04:28PM  

Sure at the surface this song is about a nun meeting a criminal and trying to change him. It fits into the story of this concept album. But there are few interpretations that see beneath the surface. This song is about tenacity. When a person chooses a path for themselves to pursue. Often times, close friends and loved ones will attempt to sway this person from their goals and paths. The people who attempt to change a person's mind are tenacious in trying to tell a person how to live their life and what is best for them. But the speaker in this song is tenacious as well. In fact, he or she takes the nasty, damaging things that people say and and uses it strengthen himself internally and pursue his path even more. It is nearly impossible to change a person and this speaker is saying that what he believes in, what he is pursuing, the way he lives is a part of him, just as his hands or feet are a part of him. He is not embarrassed anymore and is choosing to go against the grain, the people around him who want to change him.

At the same time this song is also about pride. Being able to show those people who told you couldn't, being able to show the world who said it was impossible, that it is possible and that a person can be happy and successful.

Finally this song is about passion. Anyone who has chosen a path that others disagree with can relate to this song. Gays and lesbians who are not accepted by their families. People who get married at a young age. People who pursue their passion that others disagree with.

anonymous September 18th, 2008 10:44PM  

I think its a crack at modern medicine because it says "Your running after something you'll never kill" Its like when doctors are hunting a disease they can't cure.

anonymous February 10th, 2009 02:35AM  

It is about religion, someone (don't know if it's a killer, but it could be) who doesn't want to believe in it, he considers it all just poisonous bullshit.

"Preach all you want but who's gonna save me?
I keep a gun on the book you gave me, hallelujah, lock and load"

The book he mentions is the bible, I'm sure, the "hallelujah" makes me quite sure of it.

anonymous June 3rd, 2009 01:11AM  

This is obviously about a nun(sister) or other churchly person trying to convert a "nonbeliever" and he wants nothing to do with it and believes there is no God "im just the way the doctors made me" here he is saying that science has come so far babies can be made in a lab he doesn't think thier is even a need for God the "poison and pills" are symbols for all the Christian biblical stuff they r shoving down his throat "I keep a gun in the book you gave me" the book is aparently a bible