ShaniceMiharu October 22nd, 2005 03:51AM  

The song is basically about losing someone. The theme of war was used because wars really bring out the essense of losing the people you love.

anonymous October 25th, 2005 06:21PM  

The song is about loss and the fear of losing someone who's close to you. And it also touches on how hard it is to lose someone. It's kind of similar to "Helena."

anonymous November 16th, 2005 02:27PM  

I think this song is about loss and losing sombody who you loved very much and the fact that they are gone. It could be a family member or a lover or a friend. Either way, the song is about loss. They chose the theme of war because many people lost loved ones and friends, that's why they chose the theme of the video that they did.

anonymous November 17th, 2005 07:22PM  

This song is definitely about loss. It could be anything, from the loss of a lover, to a friend, loss of a family member or even losing someone in the war, although that may just be the video idea. It can be interpreted for many different ways of loss. There is no one interpretation, especially for a song like this one.

anonymous December 15th, 2005 10:04AM  

Yeah, it's a song about loss, but not hair loss!??

ScareCrow December 16th, 2005 02:41AM  

The song, although appropriate for war, is not about war. The song is about losing a loved one and having regrets for not saying enough and only having memories. The is apropriate for war because the original release date of the CD was June 8, 2004. Two days after June 6, 2004, the 60th anniversary of D-Day. If you didn't notice the war in the film is a representation of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, during World War II.

anonymous December 19th, 2005 09:10PM  

I agree that this song can be interpretated many ways, but they way it is by Gerard is that the song is about loss, and how hard it is to lose someone.

IloveGERARDway December 19th, 2005 09:38PM  

It's about the fear of losing people.

anonymous December 28th, 2005 03:35AM  

I think it's about losing someone you love, and also thinking about killing yourself to be with them again ("If I died, we'ed be together," and "Could I? Should I?"). Loss, and contemplation.

DemolitionLover December 30th, 2005 04:50AM  

This song is how Gerard views the fear of losing someone just like the video he loses his brother.

anonymous February 10th, 2006 06:52PM  

I love this song. I think it is about losing someone- "If I died we'ed be together"
They'd be in heaven/nirvana/limbo/neverneverland together.
If you all believe in heaven/nirvana/limbo/neverland XP
I think they used war to show the loss, like almost everyone else has said. :)

stjimmysdisciple February 15th, 2006 12:59PM  

I like this song for the fact that, as we've all managed to discover, is about loss. It can be applied to whomever or whatever you like - a wonderful artist's tactic, as someone stated above. Whatever they intended it to be about when they wrote it, they also layered in this lovely anonymity about the whole thing so that it could be applied to other situations.

My favorite thing about this song (besides the wonderfully possessed look in Gerard's eyes when they're in the bar) is the fact that the video is taken right out of the D-Day invasion scene from "Saving Private Ryan" - some parts are literally shot-for-shot, especially the stuff in the boat before they land. Check it out.

anonymous March 7th, 2006 06:15AM  

Yes this is about fear for losing a family member or friend. The song helena is about his grandmother ELENA, who passed away. gerard probably has the fear of losing someone again.

slitingthroats_tap16 April 13th, 2006 12:45PM  

I agree with geradlover123 that person has a good point.

anonymous April 23rd, 2006 05:32PM  

Um... ye so I think this song is about how hard it is to lose someone close to you. The reason war is mentioned is because gerard wanted to make a video about war. The song has nothing to do with war! lol luv me x x x

anonymous May 5th, 2006 01:00PM  

It's like when you lose (someone died) a family member, in this case his brother or girlfriend. That's what I think because in the video that's what they showed.

hell_kid May 28th, 2006 02:09PM  

I love this song and specially the video because gerard is criying and that makes me extra happy but the song meaning is about when you lost someone that you love

Nightmare12 July 12th, 2006 10:45AM  

I think it is about how he goes off to war and he is married or in love and he is scared that he is going to die and never gonna see her again and he has been wounded and he is dying and he will never see her again and she has cheated on him and they are the lies and the ghost that will never catch him is enemy in war he was fighting they will nevver catch him

anonymous November 5th, 2006 09:41PM  

Omfg.... Whoever said it was about a war, they're dumb, don't listen to them, they'll rape you
the war is representing death
once you die you never come back
so there you have it

GerardWayIsSexy November 14th, 2006 04:06AM  

She`s right.

War represents death.
I doubt it`s about his grandmother.
He wouldn`t want to keep bringing it up.
I think it`s like how everyone`s like omg gerard lost his grandmother! But she was mikey`s grandmother aswell.
I think he just wants everyone to know that it`s hard on mikey aswell as anyone to deal with death.