kaykracke November 18th, 2008 03:05PM  

No one has left a in depth interpretation for this so I'm gonna give it a go as this is a fantastic song from an amazing band , you may not agree with how I interpret but yeah I'm gonna try.

- I think the first 3 lines are a metaphor based on gerards experience with suicide and drugs, and is not actually refering to a person by saying "her" I think it is referring to the lady of death or dangerous drugs will put his life in danger. The "stare for hours" means he would sometimes take drugs and put his life in danger by doing so for hours, or he would think for hours about committing suicide. "She even poked the holes so I can breath" means either that death "she" is sometimes merciful and instead of killing you off she (lady death) will say you and help you breath again or the drugs poking holes and through his lungs and organs.

After the first 3 lines 'she' is not always referring to death or dangerous drugs, but occasionally an actual woman who he cares about very much, probably loves. "She bought the last line" is about a woman breaking up with this man because of his drug problem and he is unable to accept it so he argues with her because she has found his drug problem, which is what links to "I'm the worst guy to argue" because he sees he can't honestly justify his drug use. He knows he is going to die through his drugs or suicide problem and wants to lie with the woman he loves on his last night.

Then what I think is the chorus:
Alright, give up, get down
'Cause it's the hardest part of living
Alright, she wants, it all
To come down this time.
-Is the man saying to himself. Ok its time to give up and end my life because being alone is the hardest part of living. He then goes onto say ok she wants to split up forever.

In this part I'm wasnt sure but I decided my original thought perhaps was looking into it to far, by thinking of prescription as a healing solution and he is lost in the prescription/solution to his life. But I'm going to say "Lost in the prescription" means he is lost in how much dosage of the drug to take and how much will his body take before it makes him fatally ill. Bella Muerte is spanish for beautiful death, hotel in its contexts makes it a metaphor 'check into the hotel beautiful death' This means he has taken the drugs . Because it means by checking into a hotel you are almost in your hotel room but not quite, meaning he has almost reached death but not quite.

"It gives the weak flight It gives the blind sight" means he has taken the weak way out because he was blind to see what he had left to live for. "The cops come" I think means paramedics and "until" they come means he is blind and weak until they come and maybe save him. "Or by the last light" is the other option that if the paramedics don't save him the last light could be the last thing he sees, the woman he loves 'his light'. "Lie next to you" now means the woman is with him when he is dying through the overdose of drugs, and it was her who called the paramedics or "cops" as the song refers to.

This verse I think is the doctors/nurses talking to the man who has had an overdose. I have always thought "pull the plug" means the doctor is ordering them to pull the plug on the life support when he is in hospital, as the man is in a coma but not completely dead yet. "like to learn your name" suggest that by using the word learn it means we would like to learn your name and your identity, learn more about what you were like as a person. "And holding on" means the woman he loves is holding onto his hand and the doctors are hoping that by them hope he does "the same" means they hope he fights to hold onto life. "Aw sugar" is the doctors feeling sympathetic for the man who has been taken off life support as he is not showing any signs of life in his coma. "Slip into the tradegy" means he is slipping out of life. I think the chamber represents his lungs or his body as a whole, and "spun it dry" means all the air from his lungs has gone, or all his strength/life from his body has gone.

The last verse repeats:
Pull the plug
But I'd like to learn your name
And holding on
Well I hope you do the same
Aw, sugar.
- I think by the last "Aw, sugar" the man is finally pronuced dead and the aw, sugar is a sympathetic metaphor used for him and the woman he loved, who still loved him but spilt up with him earlier in the song because she didn't want him to die.