blondie8369 2006-08-21 02:10:10    

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The video wants you to think different than the song meaning...Its a marketing ploy

anonymous 2006-08-21 19:51:21    

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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 2006-08-30 10:52:05    

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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 2006-08-31 18:23:41    

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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 2006-09-01 03:40:11    

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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 2006-09-02 07:51:18    

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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 2006-09-02 08:34:06    

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Just check out this website and hear it from the guys themselves.

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

bye

anonymous 2006-09-02 14:21:11    

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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 2006-09-07 21:50:12    

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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 2006-09-09 13:00:13    

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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 2006-09-14 19:58:35    

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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 2006-09-18 20:06:40    

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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.

anonymous 2006-09-22 22:56:58    

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It's about this bitch uh.....Marrying this gay..And uh ....Did I mention the guy was a fag and um it's about these motherfuckers getting married and um (drool) and um they getting married and they fags and they r getting married oh ya and the bride is a bitch so she cheats on the gay and um then gay is all happy because now her can sucks guys cock ...Hha..Haha...(drool)

anonymous 2006-09-27 07:31:50    

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That the grooms brides family is all posh and she's a whore and the grooms family are all freaks so when the concience comes in he says stop ignoring the facts she doesn't really love you stop closing the door and face facts.And when he says technically our marriage is saved they have the argument and he's says pour the champagne forget about her she's not worth it that is the meaning of the song.

anonymous 2006-09-28 14:12:59    

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From what they do in the music video, I think that basically he is pacing the pews of the church and hears the waiter and bridesmaid gossiping about the bride. The bridesmaid has to know the bride real well so he figures out that it must be true. He bursts in telling them that they need to learn how to shut the $%#^ up and then alerts the wedding party of the bride's stupidity. To prove his point he brigs the groom out into the hall where the bride is making out with his best man. I think it's like a best man in better kinda deal.

anonymous 2006-10-06 20:56:15    

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I think that brendon is just the grooms(danielle isaacs)conscience telling him that the bride is cheating on him and when they say that "technically our marriage is saved" its saved from maker a bigger mistake and actually going through with the marriage and like at the end when danielle isaac has brendons outfit on its cause his conciennce goes back into him !

anonymous 2006-10-11 18:34:35    

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This song is based on the book "invisible monsters" written by chuck palahniuk. It's talking about the wedding that happens at the beginning of the book and at the end [i haven't finished the book yet, but I know that it's one of those books that start with the ending] and about all the things that happend before the wedding. You'll understand the song a lot better if you read the book. It's a very good book.

anonymous 2006-10-13 22:26:42    

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Most of the interpretation sounds reasonable, and there's one which I definately agree with by an anonymous.
Anyway, if most of you are still a bit lost, here's some stuff you might want to confirm again:

-the bride's family all have powder faces- meaning they're not really "clean" people. Something to hide, or other. One of the guys on her side (who later ends up kissing her and gets caught) has he's eyes closed during most of the movie, and only when one of the groom's "family" (circus friend, I'll assume) blows some fairy dust into him does he open his eyes. In the clip, the fairy dust can signify many things, but we'll leave it at that. But now that we notice that he's finally got his eyes to open, it means he can finally "bear to see the truth".

-the singer in the clip is really the groom's conscious, and at first, it's hard to tell his intentions. In the beginning, in a way, it's not the groom who overhears what the bridesmate and the waiter is saying-- it's actually the conscience who hears this because it is the conscience who is telling us (as the audience). He puts his finger to his lips to tell us it's a secret, kind of drawing the audience further into the secret. In a way, let's say the groom knows this beecause his conscience told him, but in the first place it wasn't him who overheard it. You getting the drift?
Anyway, when he and the bride argue with each other and the bride runs out (in guilt, most probably), the groom notices one of the bride's "family" member running after her. The guy running after he is the one with the closed eyes who finally ends up opening them, btw.

-the groom is still pretty messed up, and his conscience (whether be part of his mind or alter-ego) impatiently pulls him out of his confused daze and shows him the cold hard truth-- his bride-to-be is really cheating on him.

-the ending shows a part where the conscience and the groom bow down and the conscience is back in the groom himself. This shows who the groom really was; part of the circus- a ring-master.

[this is based loosely on my beliefs and those who have successfully convinced me.]

anonymous 2006-10-25 22:58:34    

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I know its been a couple weeks since anyones voiced their opinion but I have a slightly different take on the song. This is going off of just the song and not the video, because videos are usually skewed to get attention.

The way I see it, the "narrator" is the groom, battling his conscience. Also, "pacing the pews in a church corridor" doesn't mean he is walking in the aisle! The corridor is, in many churches, the place just outside the church doors, but still inside the building. Again, many churches have benches, or pews, in this area.

As is easily figured out, he overhears a bridesmaid talking to a waiter (why they have catering at the wedding is beyond me, most people wait for the reception). My take on this is that the brides family doesn't like the groom (not too farfetched) and this bridesmaid is now taking it a step too far. She knows that the groom can hear her and wants him to call off the wedding.

The groom knows that's what she is trying to do and wants to burst into the church and yell at her family. "closing the door" is not a physical door, but it means he wants to tell the family to "get over it" that they are getting married. But his conscience says to be calm about it.

"technically our marriage is saved" because if he hadn't confronted the family calmly they would continue to try to break the couple apart.


To sum up:
bride not really cheating.
Bridesmaid started the rumor to stop the wedding.
Groom calmly confronts the family.
Bride and groom get married, saved from the sneakiness of the brides family.

Obviously this doesn't completely tie in with the video, but this is supposed to be a song interpretation. But if you want to tie in parts: the brides family's masks could be how fake they are being to the bride. It could also be argued that the bridesmaid was not actually lying, but because of the family's past the groom thought she was, but when he tells his bride what happened she admits that its true and runs off with the man she is havign an affair with.


Follow that?

radiance 2006-11-01 16:58:17    

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I think since the bridesmaid heard the waiter say the bride is a whore she probably told the bride (never told her who said it first)
and thought the groom made a rumor saying she was the whore. But since the dude singing overheard , he is saying what he would say to the waiter (if he was in the conversation). Which in the lyrics he said i'd chime in with a "haven't people ever heard of closing a goddamn door?!"