anonymous July 30th, 2006 04:55AM  
Decent enough song...But I have to agree with the person that said this song doesn't deserve an interpretation. Is it really that deep or interesting?!
So wadda' ya' say we call this one a wrap and get back to breaking down, in agonizing detail, the subtleties and nuances of a hillary duff song...At the very least it would be equally deserving!

anonymous August 1st, 2006 02:22AM  
This is what I think:

The singer is some kind of circus freak and he somehow knows that the bride is a whore. When he hears the bridesmaid and waiter" what a shame the poor grooms bride is a whore" he says "....Closing the goddamn door" because he doesn't think its right for them to try and ruin someones wedding. But then he stops and thinks"its much better to face these kinds of things with a sence of poise and rationality" meaning that because she's a whore and everyone knows it but the groom, then he should show the groom.

So then he calls all his circus friends to mess up the wedding because he knows that she's uptight and will leave. So when the groom goes after her he sees her "hidden" infedelity. And "technically our marriage is saved" because he figured her out. Then the circus guy persuades him to take over his job and help the other clueless grooms. :)

anonymous August 2nd, 2006 01:04AM  
Definitely the groom's interpretation. "our marriage is saved."

Not sure if the bride cheated on him prior to the ceremony, but he definitely stumbled upon the conversation with the bridesmaid and the waiter. The bridesmaid (being that she would know the bride) was telling the waiter that the soon-to-be-wife was a whore . . . That she had cheated on him in the past.

He's toasting the fact that the marriage was saved because it never happened. The chorus is the split between living a sweet lie and finding the bitter truth. Close the door so I can live my lie, but no, it's better to deal with the truth.

anonymous August 2nd, 2006 03:52PM  
The song was written by the guitar player. It is loosely based off of a relationship he had where the girl he was dating cheated on him. He came up with the concept of "what if my experiences happened to a couple just about to get married".

anonymous August 3rd, 2006 01:33AM  
Personally, I think you are all wrong. I think that this is about a man who is having second thoughts on his true sexuality. He doesn't know if he should come out of the closet or not. His friends tell him not to, "closing the god dam door". Thats what I think

anonymous August 3rd, 2006 04:37PM  
I think that in the beggining of the song he hears someone saying, "too bad the bride is a whore." so he bursts in kind of awkwardly and then he says," haven't heard of closing the door and tells them how it is better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationaltity." all of this is happening before the wedding starts. Then I think that his concience starts to bug him and tells him this is bad but he decides not to listen decides that because he choose this side and disagrees with his concience the marriage is saved. But this war in his head is still going and thinks if that was the right decision so he repeats what just happened in his head even through the wedding. And sometimes his concience breaks through and stops his thoughts. Then in the end finally his concience wins this war in his head and in the end (in my opinion)is up to you whether he stopped the wedding and did or didn't say I do. At least this is what I think even though there are other songs that add a story this is what I got. And thank you for the other interpretations because they helped.

anonymous August 4th, 2006 12:32PM  
http://www.Buzznet.Com/www/search/videos/i%20write%20sins,%20not%20tr/3084544/?P=2 They talk about the video and what everything's about. So watch it! And anyway, brendon's so hott. So go watch it. Okay? Because all the people that are saying that the bride's family is the clowns and entertainers, they're not right. So sorry.

anonymous August 9th, 2006 03:17AM  
This song isn't to hard to understand if you see the music video. As the wedding begins, you see that the groom's side of guests is empty and the bride's side is filled with "masked" people. As obvious, the bride is secretly cheating on her fiance. The masked people are caricatures of the bride, for the like them the bride is wearing a "mask" herself by concieling truth of her affair. Since the groom's side is empty it shows that he has nothing but his fiance. This adds to the emotion of the heart break when the groom realizes the truth, because without his fiance he will have nothing and nobody left.

The narrator does however summon his circus gang and they sit on the groom's side of the church. The circus merely represents naivity(this is appropriate since the circus is usually meant for entertaining little kids, and kids are naive), and that is indeed what the groom is for not knowing his fiance's secret. Hence when he finds out the "marriage is saved" since the narrator stopped him from making a terrible mistake.

If you look, after the groom goes outside and finds the bride cheating on him, time is sped up and its night and the church has decayed, but yet the circus and narrator remain. What this implies is that whores will always exist, as they do now and they will in future, and that regardless of what era or time we're in there will always be naivity in similar situation( as represented by the circus). This makes the message that without truth, love is meaningless.

anonymous August 19th, 2006 12:16PM  
This song is so dumb, patd is an mediocre band, they are so overated, I bet you people just pretend they like it because they just got into rock. Plz stop pretending we all know you like hellogoodbye better. This band is trying to be good by acting "unique" or whatever, some people say they are a "break" from all the pop punk,emo, and metal that's goin on, but in my opinion they are not, there probaly is no band right now like that, the closest thing is hellogoodbye or the fray. Patd is an okay band, but they are so overated, and there music shouldnt deserve credit as much as the underated hellogoodbye or the fray
this is just my opinion

anonymous August 21st, 2006 07:51PM  
It seems to me that this song is about the groom, from his perspective. The singer is actually the groom, and this is most likley what he wished he would have done. The circus performers are to show how ridiculous, or circus like the whole thing is. How he was such a clown. This is his other personality. When he says "i'd chime in..." it's saying that's what he would have done. The bride cheats on the groom, him, with someone, and so then you realise what the circus performers and the singer were trying to say. The closing the god damn door is about the waiter and the brides maid saying that because he was easedropping...Its sort of a reaction, he was angry.

anonymous August 30th, 2006 10:52AM  
I think I figured out what 'technically our marriage is saved' means. It is a sarcastic comment, yes. But I think instead of overhearing a conversation, what he walks in on is the two of them making out - but he interrupted them before they could have intercourse. So technically she didn't cheat - but of course 'technically' isn't good enough so he leaves her anyway.

abbas August 31st, 2006 06:23PM  
Just to throw a spanner into the works don't you think that brendon looks like a ringleader that is maybe leading all the clowns and circus act. Also this whole song could be metaphorical of something else. Also in the video the bride (if she is a bride or perhaps just a spiritual entity) kisses someone outside who has a bowtie like a waiter. This could be how the waiter knows that the bride is a whore.

Another idea is that at the end of the video the groom becomes the "ringleader". Anyway I emailed the band and if they email me back (which I doubt) then I'll tell youse.

Bye

LPJordy September 1st, 2006 03:40AM  
Here's one. Maybe this ties in with the 2 songs before it (not including "intermission").

Lying is the most fun... - girl cheats on guy

but it's better if you do - guy goes to strip club to forget girl

i write sins... - girl's getting married to the other guy and the first guy tries to stop it after hearing the conversation between the bride's maid and waiter because they all think the bride cheated on the groom with him...If that makes any sense.

anonymous September 2nd, 2006 07:51AM  
I agree with some of the others that it is from the perspective of the groom. Think about it..Pacing the pews in a church corridor. Well the groom is in the church waiting for the wedding (b/c the groom is at the altar and in the actual church before a wedding starts). Ok, so he overhears the his bride is a whore. Then his first reaction is to blurt out haven't you people...Blabla..Door. But before he reacts he thinks to himself, no..It's better to face these things...Insert line here..Rationality. And the repetition is because he is going back and forth with his emotions. He wants to yell but can't b/c I am sure other people are around so he has to contain himself by acting "poise and rational." then I agree with what most people said that it is the groom talking about the marriage being saved from divorce and stuff. So he toasts to that!! But still is angry and still has these back and forth reactions (ie, the repeat of the lyrics). The reason I know it is the groom is because 1. It says our marriage is saved, so it is either the bride or groom, all other charcters are have quotation when referenced. 2. The bride would not be pacing the pews in a church corridor. She wouldnt be near the pews yet b/c she can't be seen by anyone until the ceremony. It can't be the lover b/c of 1 also. Well that was long but I am finally done. Thanks for reading. Let me know what you think!

abbas September 2nd, 2006 08:34AM  
Just check out this website and hear it from the guys themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ftkydv42sic&mode=related&search=

bye

anonymous September 2nd, 2006 02:21PM  
You all are thinking too much. Its definitely the groom's perspective because he says, "technically our marraige is saved." he says our marraige so it obviously the groom because the only other one could be the bride but that would make no sense. It's the groom...

anonymous September 7th, 2006 09:50PM  
This song is about a wedding between a bride and a groom from different backgrounds. The groom is from a family of circus performers, and the bride is from an upper class family. The circus performers wreak havoc (ee the video) and then the chorus starts. The singer (narrator) is the groom's alter ego, almost like his conscience. The singer is trying to tell himself (the groom) that the marriage is not right for him. Hear the real interpretation on video from the band members themselves here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftkydv42sic

anonymous September 9th, 2006 01:00PM  
The song is in more than one persons perspective, the groom and the circus guy quote "I chime in with a haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door"

but the song is awesome

lbmanl September 14th, 2006 07:58PM  
I believe that it is her lover, and that he is pacing the pews, nervous, because 1) he doesn't want the groom to find out, and 2) he doenst want her to get married because he's not only her secret lover, but now he is in love with her, and can't forget her. So he overhears them talking about how she is a whore, and then the chorus come which says, "i'd chime in with a "haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?!"" you would think that obviously he speaks this to whoever is talking about her, but if you look closesly he says "i'd" this is a contraction for I would, so he never says it. And the reason he says "I would" is because he is a good man, and in any other case he really would, but because 1) he doesn't want her to marry and wants the groom to actually hear this, and 2) because his conscience is telling him to tell the truth. So he hopes that the groom will hear it, and he says, " I mean technically our marriage is saved " this could mean the marrage between her and the lover is saved, because if the groom hears he will break it off, and she will come running into the lover's arms. Also in literature repetition stands for an underlying problem, or something of great importance, so he repeats the chorus over and over
"i'd chime in with a "haven't you people ever heard of closing
the god damn door?!"
no, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.
I'd chime in "haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?!"
no, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality. "

thats him inside his head, his conscience, wondering wether he made the right choice, or not. So he repeats what happened over and over again, trying to convince himself that he did the right thing, by not chiming in, only saying under any other circumstance, he would.
Thats just my two-sense!

anonymous September 18th, 2006 08:06PM  
I think the groom is the hoottest guy ever!!Omg and anyway I think that the guy singing the song is one of the people whom the bride has cheated with and that the guys that the bride is kissing at the end is the current guuy that she's cheating with. The guys that's singing the song is just trying to tell the groom that his wife-to-be is going to be cheating on him.