Cancer

this song makes me cry. especially the video. the boy in the video was nearly me. although i had a brain tumour and i lived. so many raw emotions come up when i see the video or hear the song.

and, you know, i'm not a boy.

I'm_Okay_Now:

this song makes me cry. especially the video. the boy in the video was nearly me. although i had a brain tumour and i lived. so many raw emotions come up when i see the video or hear the song.

It's still hard for me not to cry, earing this song...
The lyrics are really strong... And, I think they have more than one meaning, although the main is the patient
«The hardest part of ths is leaving you» is one of the lines that may be aplied to many other things in life..
But still cancer is the main theme, and probably the hardest, but possible one

So congratulations

I'm_Okay_Now:

this song makes me cry. especially the video. the boy in the video was nearly me. although i had a brain tumour and i lived. so many raw emotions come up when i see the video or hear the song.

Hi, there, IOKN;

Just let me say that it's truly amazing that you survived something like that, and I really commend you....being so young, and having gone through something like that. WOW, I can IMAGINE that this song is really personal for you.

You seem to have a lot of courage. That's awesome, because in this life, you need it.

Anyhow, ya, the song really strikes a nerve with me, because my own mom dies of cancer when I was 22. I was 14 when she was first diagnosed, so just watching her suffer on and off for all of those years was really painful...and she DID suffer, tremendously...and a lot of people tend to overlook the intense EMOTIONAL suffering that comes with this disease, as well as the physical. That's why this song struck such a chord with me...He concentrates on the emotional aspect, as well as the physical, which is so important, because people have got to remember....this is a disease that COMPLETELY DRAINS YOU!!!!

I think the hardest part of the entire ordeal was that my dad, nor any of my other relatives, were around when my mom was sick, so I was pretty much alone to figure it all out on my own. Ya, this song really spoke to me.

It's REALLY powerful. My heart broke when I first heard it...opened up a lot of old wounds.

my mum and dad said no to chemo and instead they gave me lots of vitamins and put me on this special eating plan. it worked and the doctors were like "wow." because they said it couldn't be removed and then it got removed. I didn't really know what was going on, it was crazy.

That song is one of my favorites it made me cry. Doesn't Gee really express himself and the song so much that you get super emotional? I know I do!

I cried when I first heard this song. Its obviously about the patient dying from cancer and leaving his love.

this song makes me cry every time because my grandma, who i was really close to, died of lung cancer.

The ridiculous thing about this is..everyone thought Gerard ACTUALLY had cancer. Probably because he puts so much emotion into it, which would naturally make it pretty convinsing. It is a lovely song. My mother is waiting to hear from the doctor. They are 99% sure it is cancer though. It is quite tragic. This song gives me a sort of...understanding. More like...an exeptance. I hope she gets better.
As for the meaning...I think it is pretty straight forward. The patient is dying of cancer, and he doesn't want to say goodbye yet. It is a very sad song...but very beautiful.

The cancer part is just a metaphor for not being aroud anymore. The song is about lossing someone close without being able to say goodbye. It is kinda like Ghost of you. but said a little differently.

maudlinromance:

Same as STFU. says, and also when I listen to it, I see someone so sick of being sick and like the song goes, asks them to do some last minute things. Getting a drink of water, calling Aunt Marie, help gather his stuff, burying him in his favorite colors. He doesn't want to be kissed, because in his way it is a symbol of saying goodbye, and he is milking it so he doesn't have to say goodbye.

"I will not kiss you,
because the hardest part of this is leaving you."

It is a very sad song and it really does touch me because, even though I haven't lost anyone to Cancer, I've lost someone and the hardest part of it is leaving loved ones.

This song is really deep and i cry when i see it preformed live because i have lost someone to cancer and someone else in my family has cancer so it means even more to me.

Dispite my personal experiences, this song is very well written and truly touches me.

Its Deep, it is one of two songs that i cry to when i hear them (the other is better than me by hinder cuz i was on msn and talking two people out of suicide one of them being my best friend for 11 years so every time i hear it i am reminded of the time i almost lost my best friend)

First of all, I would just like to say this song is very touching to me and it made me cry the first time I heard it. But anyway, this song is about dying of cancer. The main character of the song is really sad because he is leaving his loved ones behind.

this song makes me sad cuz i knew someone who had died from cancer and when i got this cd and saw this song, i didn't wanna listen to it because it would just bring back memories of this person and make me sad.

it's like.. the patient, he doesn't want to be changed by cancer..
"bury me in all my favorite colours" - i don't know, might just be me, but it's like he wants to be remembered as he was before he got ill..


it's pretty straightforward really, but it affects so many different people..
i'm listening to it now, and reading through all this just makes me think of people i know affected by it :/

i feel out of place saying this, cause people who've posted on here, i really do admire.. anyway, i'm going off point now..

this song (or the album really) came out when my friend was going through all this with her mum.. it's wierd how a song can reach out to so many people in such different situations :/

i love this song and the first time hering it put em to tears and i still get emotional hering it. Watching them placy this song live amazes me both times iv seen it . He puts so much energy and heart into it and All this raw passion is amazing

I love this song so much... I really moves me because my grandma passed away with cancer before i met her, and my other Granddad was dying with cancer when this song first came out (he's passed on now) and it always makes me cry because it makes me think of him and what it was like for him. I might have to sing it for a friend's music assignment because they have a piano and violin... I'll be singing it so hard for my grandma and pa and I hope they hear it from heaven...

This is one of the most sad songs i ever heard, i think what their trying to say i though that someone they love is dying of cancer and know that the person will die. Its an awesome song, ive cried to it many times.

this song made me cry when i first heard it cause it hit my close to home as such. my cousin who was like a borther to me died a couple of years ago from cancer and i don't think anyone can no who it feels to have someone in ur family to have cancer if they themselves don't have someone who has it in their family and even as a family member who is sick with it, could no how it feels to have it and its like so hard to talk about even when ur a family member. but for me i don't want ppl to feel sorry for me i want them to treat me the way i was treated b4 my cousin died and b4 he got sick

This is a truely beautiful song. the lyrics are so strong, bringing me to tears almost every time.

Although this song is more than likley about a cancer [a give away is the album cover/album art, but im not saying it definitly is about cancer] patient, in hospital who is near death.

''I will not kiss you,
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you.''
- it is hard for him to come to terms that these people surrounding him that are so dear to him are people he'll never see again.

'''Cause all my hairs abandoned all my body, ''
- the chemo has made his hair fall out.

I think the amazing thing about this song is that Gee expresses such emotion, and such details without even going through such a terrible disease. It has a strong meaning to me and many others.