anonymous November 6th, 2005 05:32PM  
This song appears to be about a woman trapped in a marriage she can't stand, so she murders her husband. But it's also about the feeling being trapped people have when confined to their daily routines with nothing happening in their lives. It also hints to the phoniness and bland sameness of Suburbia ("away with these nightmares, away with suburbia shakedown away..."). It's about feeling mentally trapped and that the only way out is to do something drastic because it's literally driving you insane.

anonymous April 28th, 2007 03:02AM  
I agree, except I believe that the person she kills is herself because of this part:
And it's over, but it just started
The blood stained the carpet
Her heart like a crystal
She's lucid and departed
A life left behind, she can find in her mind gone away

anonymous November 17th, 2007 02:24PM  
Yes, I guess in a way that can be true, but her heart like a crystal that means in cold and hardened not caring any more. She's lost her mind and her old self is lost now creating a new one and she can only remember the old her in her mind