The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You

Album: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song seems to be about drug use and maybe even suicide. The lyrics, "It gives the weak flight, it gives the blind sight" support this theory, as does "Lost in the prescription, she's got something else in mind." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Ali - Oxford, PA
  • A "Jetset Lifestyle" is a hedonistic pursuit involving lots of travel and is often characterized by drug use.
  • "Hotel Bella Muerte" means "The hotel of beautiful death." The hotel could be a place that the mind goes to temporarily. The lyrics, "Give up, get down, It's just the hardest part of living. Alright, she wants It all to come down this time" are saying that doing drugs and then coming back down again is a hard way to live, and someone, maybe his lover, wants him to come down and stay down for his own good. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Rhiannon - Manchester, England

Comments: 7

  • Kami from Canadadude the entire band went thru alot of s--t
  • Anonymous@Alicia from Chicago, I can agree with you!
  • Cloutless from New Hampshirethis is hot
  • Rae from Buxton, NcThis is a great song. Call me a a crazy fangirl if you want, but when Gerard sings this I feel like I'm about to melt. He is THAT sexy
  • Alicia from Chicago, Ilthe jetset life is acctually about a woman who checks into a hotel and takes so much drugs that she falls in a coma and her boyfriend tries to pay for her to stay in the hospital but he doesnt have enough mobey so he pulls the plug on her
  • Jack from Cork, IrelandThis is a brilliant song.
  • Brian from Alluhrst, Njthis song reminds me of a girlfriend i had who was drug addicted and suicidal i constantly tried to help her but she would never let me
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