Sleep

mcrfreak21:

good one
kiss the bride

silverrain:

I've to join mcrfreak21: that's a thoughtful interpretation, KissTheBride

I don't know, but it's not that unlikely that the patient could be a singer of a rock band himself who is considered as an idol and a "savior" by his young fans or a wasted "madman" or a threat to the youth by others (probably parts of the adult world).

KissTheBride:

"They say now suffer all the children"
There is a guy, that is seen as a savior by all the children, but by the adults is seen as a mind breaker and a monster for the children.
"Don't breath for me"
That how the children worship him so much
"How could you cry for me"
That how the childen cry
"for the monsters that I've been"
he never new until now what the adults thought of him
and he says in a sarcastic way how his been a monster
"Cos there ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did"
Cuze he feels and what all the children tell him is that he saved him so he says to the adults how he thinks he did right

and all the parts about his nightmares are what he tells the children about.

siiti:

me and my cousin were thinking about this song and we tought it could be good to share our oppinion... don´t know if it´s right but here you go

um we thought these are some thoughts of the famous patient in the hospital waiting to die..

1 "some say now suffer all the children and walk away a saviour"
-- well this was actually the hardest part ( :-] )
but this can be the oppinion of the guys ("some.." ) that see the patient(s) (or the children) are going to die as suffering people who go to heaven then (or to death) as a saviour (just like jesus or some matyr -- i don´t believe in that christian thing too but, well, only the other people ["some say..."] think that)

2. "...or a madman and pulluted from gutter institutions"
-- As this sentence goes through the patient´s mind he thinks that it can´t only be a savior but also a madman or something bad... because not every dying child is a nice person, and having a deadly illness doesn´t make you good...

3. "don´t you breathe for me, undeserving all your sympathy"
Well this is just what the patient wants to say to the people that want him to stay alive
- "breathe for me" can mean the machines that make him stay alive (like the ones that breathe for him and the ones that make his heart work and on and on) or this is symbolic for the people that love him and want him to be with them, the people that try everything to keep him, and he doesn´t want that because a) he knows he´s going to die, and they are trying in vain and b) he also wants to die because he has to suffer so much pain and wants to get away from this bad, nasty world
- "undeserving all your sympathy"
he knows that he is not nicer or any better than in the times he was still healthy he doesn´t want to be treated like a very nice person now,
he doesn´t want his beloved friends and family to suffer with him,
he doesn´t want them to be sad because he loves them and
he doesn´t want them to think of him as such an angel just because he isn´t able to do bad things anymore

4 "cause there is no way that i´m sorry for what i did"
that perfectly fits to part 3
he isn´t sorry for what he did (the bad things) and therefore he has not become a saviour or a jesus or something.he regrets nothing.

5 "and through it all how could you cry for me cause i don´t feel bad about it"
that´s the same thing again, well maybe he isn´t able to speak anymore and so he just thinks it or he thought the things above and says that now

6 "so shut your eyes, kiss me goodbye, and sleep"
a) he´s saying that to his family and friends, and he wants them to sleep because then they can fulfill their dreams => look at no 7
b) he wants his family to eventually stop the fightings and struggles for his life and wants them to say that to him, so in this case falling asleep is dying.

7 "the hardest part was letting go of your dreams"
ok. maybe this is just gerard saying this to the patient.
as the patient was still healthy, he had dreams and wanted to reach something in his life. now that he knows he´s gonna die he can´t do this, so his wishes will remain undone.("letting go of your dreams" )
and this was the worst thing for him as he realized that he´s gonna die.
ad 6) sleeping is not this real sleeping that we do, it´s more maybe living like you want to.
it´s the perfect, nearly impossible way to live, so it´s compared to sleeping.
"your dreams" are the things that you reach in this perfect life.
6a) so maybe he wants his friends to go on living like they did before (after he has died) and go on reaching out for their dreams, because he´ll never be able to do that again and he knows that it´s a big f++king situation when you realize that you´ve never done anything for yourself and lived your life for someone else.
he wants them not to make the same mistake as he made.

8 "a drink for the horror that i´m in... [...] ... [...] ...unapologetic apathy"
this is what the patient thinks shortly before he dies. he wants to celebrate before he goes, like in a party before you leave school or something.
-- "the horror that" he´s "in" - is his bad situation, his suffering, he disease
-- "the good guys and the bad guys"
- a) these are the guys that he met in his life, some were nice, some were not
- b) these are the people that are dying of a disese, not all are nice and innocent
-- "for the monsters that i´ve been" - "three cheers for tyranny"
- he wasn´t innocent all his live, too. he also has done lightly or heavy bad things
-- "unapologetic apathy"
- well he can´t talk to his mates, friends and family anymore because he´s so ill, but this is actually unapologetic, because the things he wants to say to them are so important.


9 "cause there is no way that i´m coming back again"
he simply wants to celebrate (as in no 8 ) for good things as well as for bad things cause there is nothing in the world that is "purely good" or "purely bad"
he wants to celebrate because this is his last chance


- "and through it all... [...] ...just sleep" -

10 "the hardest part is the awful things that i´ve seen"
"the awful things that i´ve seen" is the suffering you go through when you have a deadly disease.
it was really hard for him he suffer from this disease, it caused pain and whatever, and maybe whishes that he had died as the disease started, cause he suffered in vain for so long, because he dies anyway.

11 "sometimes i see flames"
"flames" stands for anger, agression and rage
it makes him angry to be ill

12 "and sometimes i´d see people that i love dying and... it´s always"
he is kinda scared of himself because he´s so angry now and he wishes that other people died instead of him
he´s shy to admit that he always (not only sometimes) has these thoughts
he doesn´t want to die, but he accepted that he has to and so these thoughts come to his head

13 "wake up"
the other´s shout wake up, trying to make him live

14 "i can´t, i can´t wake up"
he´s dying

Lees:

I aint got a problem, just don't like this song, do i have to like every song they done?

demolitionjo:

When Mikey left the Paramour due to depression, Gerard had alot of really terrible nightmares, which inspired this song. He would wake up, and talk about the nightmares into a hand-held recorder thing. Some of the recordings were used in the intro and outro of "Sleep", eg "feels like somebody was gripping my throat"