anonymous July 20th, 2006 01:07PM  

This song is based on ryan's life growing up. His dad was an alcoholic who ryan had to take care of when he would "relapse" so camisado is his way of explaning and dealing with it all. The whole "sit back and relapse again" is because ryans dad would become sobber for awhile but then go back to his old habbits. "decorated emergency" deals with all the times ryan was called telling him that his dad was in the hospital again and needed to go get him. Thats where the whole "youve earned a place atop the icu's hall of fame".Also "this is the scent of dead skin on a linolieum floor" means that hospitals have those types of floors and ryan had to spend so much time in them and see so much that it fits into the song well. Then we have another important line. "the bruises and contusions will remind me what you did when you wake". This is ryan dealing with his fathers drinking while trying to start panic!. His and brendon's fathers didn't approve of them leaving college for music so even though ryan would do everything to help his dad get sobber when he'd wake up his dad would forget all the good things ry did for him and still try and kick him out of the house. So basically that's the main idea behind camisado.

anonymous September 10th, 2006 01:53AM  

Cant take the kid from the fight
take the fight from the kid

i think that that means, at least in this position, that you can't take ryans dad from the alcohol, so you have to take the alcohol away from ryans dad.

You're a regular decorated emergency

i think that means, his dad is always going to be a emergency, no matter what.

The bruises and contusions will remind me what you did when you wake
-to me it sounds like when ryans dad was drunk, that he might have hit ryan a few times. Or something like that.

You've earned a place atop the icu's hall of fame
his dad has been in the icu so many times, that he has earned his own little place there.

I think that this song is about ryans dad, going through the hospital and everything. How it wasn't normal that ryan had to go through something like that. He also describes the hospital and how he wishes things would just hurry up and get better.

anonymous March 20th, 2008 07:09PM  

My original interpretation was like the 6th link at first cause the songs do tell a story
but also I didn't know about his dad so I'm now siding with that
but this song may just have a double meaning keeping with that pattern of the relationship
but the
"This was no accident
This was a therapeutic chain of events" doesn't really fit with the relationship story cause it's referring to the chain of comfort and the repercussions that were Inevitable (addictions and becoming ill)

anonymous April 25th, 2008 08:10AM  

The part where he says "The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where the apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in" because I mean if your doing an opperation you used anesthetic but if it didn't set in then well he probably would die. The reason I think is interesting is because one of the guitarists in the band, Ryan, who wrote this song, his dad died a little bit after it came out. So its like this little line almost predicted his death. without trying.
I know it's about his dads alcholism but I don't think his dad abused him. Though the part where it says "The bruises and contusions will remind me what you did when you wake" makes it sound like he was abusing him. But that's just my thought. I think its an exageration.

cher3chre May 13th, 2008 07:27PM  

Ok guys I know for a fact that this is the right meaning for Camisado
wikipedia supports this, definitions do, so does the song.
Camisado means "an enemy attack/assult at nightime"
Ryan Ross's father was an alcoholic, and would abuse him. This song is about what he went through as a kid.
"This was a therapeutic chain of events" as in this was bound to happen someday; his dads addicted to alcoholic.
His dad would hit him and he had to phone is own accident into the hospital (that I thought I called in)
"Can't take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid" they can't take Ryan away from these fights, they're bound to happen. They have to take is dad away from him.

The "hall of fame" thing is that Ryan is always in the hospital from the abuse.
on wikipedia, it tells about themes on "a fever you can't sweat out" and it tells about Ryan Ross battling with his alcoholic father as a child
in case any of you were wondering, Ryan's father is now no longer alive.

I'd love to hear your response to this! I'm not sure how this site works, but my sn is the same as my username here, tell me what you think =]

anonymous July 25th, 2008 09:04PM  

It's about Ryan's dad's alcoholism and Ryan's abuse.

"Can't take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid"

Get it?

FakeitlikeyouMatter August 13th, 2008 09:40AM  

This song's about Ryan Ross' alcoholic father.

I think most of the song is pretty self-explanatory but I'd a theory, it'd be cool if others would lemme know what they think!

You're a regular decorated emergency
Regular emergency= Ryan's dad's always in and out of the hospital, quite obvious

But decorated confused me a bit then I thought could this mean that Ryan's dad fell around a lot when he he was drunk, meaning he was decorated, i.e., cut and bloody!

fantasylandx3 July 24th, 2009 01:48PM  

'Can't take the kid from the fight, Take the fight from the kid' I think that bit is kind of predicting his father's death, if this was written before Ryan's father died. I agree with what everyone said about his father's alcoholism but just this part I have my own interpretation. It's like saying you couldn't stop Ryan trying to save his father until it eventually killed him, and he knew that all along that no matter how much he'd try it wouldn't matter. The way it's phrased makes it sound powerful though, as if every time his father was back in hospital it made believe a little less that his father would stop, and eventually all the belief was gone and Ryan gave up, lost hope.