Mama

StRayne:

well we did this song in our show as a show closer....we did it following "you know what they do to guys" . where our character was hauled into solidary confiment...then when into the good and evil...one king was in a small cell infront of the stage and the other character was behind them with a gaggle of demons...but when people fall into shadow the struggle of "i want mama" comes up......

but the song was the push and pull of a persons mind...the why am i here? what can i do im already fucked...so why not.......

but moma was a icon for the want of innocennces....the person who is not supose to let us down...but sontimes it does happen....and we crave that gentle hand when the darkness creeps in

That's very profound. Damn, I wish I was better at metaphors...

i agree with the ^ above. moms are a sort of comfort but yet the patient still can't seem to be comforted by the presence of his mother ( the voice on the track) or even a type of motherly figure. (Mother War)

i think this song is about gerard or someone in the band not being a good child to their mother, which is said but if i was one of the band members moms & they wrote a song about me.. straight. everything would be good

This song is about all the wars theres ever been and about the soldiers family of how they feel when theyre gone. The lyrics are pretty obvious too. Go 2 youtube.com and type in Saving Private Ryan Mama. All the scenes from the movie pretty much go with the song. Please reply

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i personally think its about [the patient] and at some point he went to war literaly or with himself emotionally or mentally.

throughout the song he gets angrier with his mother not writing him back.

just lettin her know that he wants her to be well and that he is leaving soon. that he knows he will be going to hell or wherever.

second part...now tellin her that everyone he knew is fake and that she will eventually die alone and he feels bad for evrything he did to her.

third part....she apparently has told him that he is nothin to him and deserves to die in this war.

angriest part of letter....letting her know that he gives no fuck about her and that he is happy to die just to leave her and everything she was behind him.

*mothers response* she finally writes back telling him that if he loved her back maybe she would care a little....

climax of song....just saying that she is dead and that he is with his friends and accepting not having her and that he will die soon.

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"Mama"...

It has something to do about a war alright.. (I'll just get out of the patient story for a while).... We all know how hard it is for the mothers of the soldiers of war to let their sons go, when they knwo occassionally, their son would die...

War changes a lot of things in humanity.... Somehow in our logical and pschological thinking.., We become musch more violent, impatient, you know that sort of stuff....

So I guess the son, was asking forgiveness in this although he feels that he won't be forgiven after all he had done.... He must be a bit cold with her mother, but you can imagine that there is also a touch of concern.....

Their songs have so many meanings that get me confused all the time... But l love the songs more when understand it in my own way..

A war zone is not a neat sight really.... I guess.. This song proves the complex of wars... Really.. Opening it up to mothers and soldiers..

I think this song is generally about rejection, esp. from loved ones. Also, i feel it's about feeling imperfect. Like being sorry for something but at the same time not really being sorry at all. And trying to get across the message that you are what you are and nothing will change that. I believe this is the most expressive song on the album.

Well its pretty obviese its about a man in a war of a sort,(weather emotional or physical but still a war) and telling his mother about it.

I think i'll agree with anyone who says he was killed, maybe it was his mothers idea to send him to war, and when he gets killed he comes beck to haunt her for sending him hence "return from the ashes you call" or maybe she wants him to come home and she feels guity for sending him,

I really do not have a clue

I think it's about war - the gunshots at the beginning and "but the shit that I've done with this fuck of a gun!" Also, there is this part - "You should have raised a baby girl, I should have been a better son" - which is probably suggesting if there had been a girl, he would not have been in a war.
When the song goes "Mama, we all go to hell", I think there is some regret there - and, since they are in a war, they're obviously shooting and killing a lot of people, which makes him feel like a bad person.

I think don't really think it's about war. I mean the character of the album, the patient, probably has some "mother issues", and is trying to sort it out before he dies. with the phrases like "I'm writing this letter and wishing you well." and "Mama we're all gonna die. Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry." Sounds like someone is gonna die to me.

I think that This song is about war. "Look at what the war has done to my legs and to my tongue"

He was drafted, or sent to military school. "You should have raised a baby girl" The girl wouldn't have to go to war.

"I could have been a better son" This means that he was sent to military school for being so bad.

I definitely think that this song has a good lot to do with war, but not necessarily war in its most literal sense. I think it's quite possible that it is, instead, an internal war inside the mind and heart of a man who has sinned. I think he's sorry for the heartache he's caused his mum. I think he's grown accustomed to saying tough things and running to get people off his back (Well, mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue) because he's ashamed of showing the wreck he's become inside of himself. Possibly by saying "You should have raised a baby girl, I should have been a better son" he's trying to shift some of the blame onto his mother while still owning up to the fact that he's been wrong. "But there's shit that I've done with this fuck of a gun" implies that he's done something horrible, such as killing a man, or, not so literally, demolishing the man that he could have been by making bad choices in his life. It sounds like his mother has forgiven him, but is waiting on her son to make the choice to reach out again when she says "And if you would call me your sweetheart, I'd maybe then sing you a song." But he refuses to reach out, it seems, judging by his mother's crying at the end of the song, after he goes on his schpiel about being damned and dying soon.

i totally luv this song, it reminds me of war...
imperfection...
and talking ot my mom!

I think it's about war because of the lyrics but i mabey wrong

It's interesting, SuicideReject.--most people think it's actually about a war, but I'm warming to the idea of war being a metaphor. One person even said that "Mama" could be a metaphor, for the one person you could always depend on, who would never let you down.

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StRayne:

well we did this song in our show as a show closer....we did it following "you know what they do to guys" . where our character was hauled into solidary confiment...then when into the good and evil...one king was in a small cell infront of the stage and the other character was behind them with a gaggle of demons...but when people fall into shadow the struggle of "i want mama" comes up......

but the song was the push and pull of a persons mind...the why am i here? what can i do im already fucked...so why not.......

but moma was a icon for the want of innocennces....the person who is not supose to let us down...but sontimes it does happen....and we crave that gentle hand when the darkness creeps in