imXjustXme 2006-07-08 15:05:35    

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I think it's the singer's point of view not the grooms because it says "As I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor
And I can't help but to hear
No, I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words

"What a beautiful wedding
What a beautiful wedding," says a bridesmaid to a waiter
"And, yes, but what a shame
What a shame the poor groom's bride is a whore."
if the groom over heard them saying that he wouldnt still be happy about getting married so since the singer heard that he came in to show the groom what he's about to do. He ruined the wedding by making her mad about all the action going on so she left then the guy in the audience went with her and the groom got a confused look so the singer took the groom and showed him what kind of girl the bride really is

anonymous 2006-07-09 03:54:49    

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ok here is the deal! there r a lot of people who say that the singer is deffinately not playing the part of the groom!!! well y not, juss b because they think the groom couldnt b pacing the pews in a church corridor! well agan I ask y no, he could b nervous about the wedding and then he is pacing the pews of a church corridor thinking about the wedding because he is NERVOUS! anyway, I think the singer is playing the part of the groom because like I said before, he could b nervous so he is pacing the church and he happens 2 overhear the waiter and the bridesmaid saying things about his bride 2 b, things indicating that the bride has been cheting on the groom! then the groom gets upset ant tells them basically that next time they should close the door! they then tell him that it is much better 2 face these things with a sense of poise and rationality meaning that he had 2 find out! then now that he has found out he is being sarcastic and letting the bride kno that he knows by saying "look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved" by this he means well now we hav just saved ourselves from what probably would have been the worst mistake of his life!!! well, that is my opinion on what this song means.

anonymous 2006-07-09 14:23:59    

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Geez.....does anyone in here know how to spell properly or has everyone only mastered spelling up to the second grade! Learn how to spell before you try to articulate something and then get back to me.

poppers 2006-07-13 16:32:57    

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I think that when he says "I'd chime in with a haven't you people ever hear of closing the goddamn door" he means that he is mad that when the wedding guest opened the door to the church, they forgot to close it! those assholes!

bf25... 2006-07-16 17:50:35    

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I think the singer is just a guest at the wedding and he overhears the waiter and bridesmaid saying that the bride is a whore and he says to close the door beacause he doesn't want to hear it and realizes that maybe he d should stop denying it and maybe just accept it when he says ''its much better to face these kinds of things with a snese of poise and rationality'' and maybe once he realizes that ''his marriage is saved''

anonymous 2006-07-17 15:42:30    

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The first time I listened to this song it was just.. Wow.. That makes no sence at all! But after listening to it some more I figure::

the speaker is the groom

"what a shame, the poor groom's bride is a whore." kk I figure that the bride is cheating on the speaker/groom right?

"haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?!" well the speaker/groom walks in on the bride cheating on him. So obviously that is quite shocking but the groom says:

"no, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality." poise means: 'freedom from affectation or embarrassment' obviously a situation like that would be extremly embarrasing! And to be rational means 'having reason or understanding' so he's trying to understand y in gods name is my to-be wife screwing this other guy??!! So to cover this up he says:

"well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved." better to find out about this before they got married right?

Yea I donno if that is like totally out there to you.. But that's what I got out of the song. :) I'll come on back and read what other people have got to say later

peace out!

anonymous 2006-07-20 19:50:41    

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It's a pretty easy song to understand. And if the lyrics aren't clear if you watch the music video then you should be able to get it.

A guys getting married but he finds out on his wedding day that his bride is cheating on him.

anonymous 2006-07-22 00:09:57    

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I agree it is groom, I think the groom is pacing before his wedding and overhears this conversation between bridesmaide and waiter. After he hears that someone called his wife a whore he gets angry n says "haven't you ever heard of...." but deep inside him he faces a battle to calm down n think about this situation. Then the next verse talks about the marriage being saved. I think it means he must have thought about it rationally and because he did the wedding went through. Also since the title is I write sins not tragedies I think that means that talking about someone is a sin but the wedding wasn't called off so it wasn't a tragedy!! W

anonymous 2006-07-23 15:57:34    

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The song tells the story of a nervous groom who, on his wedding day, overhears two guests [apparently the bridesmaid and the waiter] the describing his wife as a whore. Feeling helpless, he tries to rationalize it, but then finds true, as the song continues to say "well, I'll look at it this way I mean technically our marriage is saved" [since they didn't go through with the wedding, their marriage didn't suffer].

anonymous 2006-07-27 00:47:11    

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I believe this song is about transvestites decieving people and getting their lives taken from them.

anonymous 2006-07-28 12:40:49    

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Grooms perspective. End of story. Very obvious

anonymous 2006-07-30 04:55:06    

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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 2006-08-01 02:22:42    

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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 2006-08-02 01:04:42    

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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 2006-08-02 15:52:58    

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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 2006-08-03 01:33:06    

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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 2006-08-03 16:37:18    

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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 2006-08-04 12:32:23    

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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 2006-08-09 03:17:09    

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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 2006-08-19 12:16:57    

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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