Tear You Apart

Album: She Wants Revenge (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about a boy who has a crush on a girl. He hopes that the crush will go away, but it continues to grow. Eventually the boy and girl go on a date, which leads to the boy wanting to do sexual things to her and whisper in her ear, "I want to f--king tear you apart." The band has said the violent lyric can be interpreted as either sexually or literally. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    A.J. - Chicago, IL

Comments: 32

  • KapowskiI can definitely see the teacher/student aspect. Now I am into paranormal and fantasy and it would fit like in a Edward/Bella situation. I am only using them as an example. They went to school together. He’s a vampire who is having all these new emotions and she wants to give herself, all of herself to him but he’s afraid that he will lose control. But she doesn’t care and she keeps on tempting and they get all hot and heavy and he starts giving into that dark desire.
  • Silly Guy from Silly TownWhen I first listened to this song I thought of it like a song about teenagers developing feelings for eachother and absolute RAGING hormones but now all I can interpret it as is sexual assault idk grururhhr I haven’t watched the video though so
  • Thoughtfull from Usa1. Watch the video. What you interpret it without it is irrelevant. The "girl" is not transgender, even though in the video she says, "my dad wanted a boy and got me". She is a fallen angel. Perhaps her dad wanted a boy but prayed for an angel and got one. The boy doesn't touch her private area and say "You're a guy". He asks, "What are you?" She says she doesn't know. This suggests a lack of genitalia, especially since there is a glow emanating from it. Then she follows the two rescuers outside and asks, "Who are you?" They're wearing trench coats and seem to open them as a glow emanates from their nether regions (I suspect). They are like her. Fallen angels.
  • AnonymousSounded like a teacher to me
  • Josh from Mobile, AlIf you actually listen to the lyrics without watching the music video then it's definitely sexual. He wants to do naughty things with her.
  • Girl from SchoolWhen I heard the lyric “Cause there's always repercussions when you're dating in school” I thought it was about a teacher and a student.
  • Cupid from Los Angeles, CaPersonally this song immediately struck me as like a teacher/student relationship.
  • Daniel R. from Indianapolis, InThe song seems like a standard teenage hormone situation but watching the video shows that the girl is a guy and they are trying to ostracize her. Then she is saved by people like her.
  • AnonymousI feel like this song is about meeting your ex again and giving into that old love and lust
  • Izzy from United KingdomThis song scratches my brain just the right way. I feel like it describes the feeling of having a crush as a teenager, with raging hormones lol.
  • DeklanI took it as a boy in a Christian school starts to meet this girl and starts getting sexual fantasys since the song mentions dating in school and praying the feelings away. But then eventually their sexual tension is too much so they do the devils tango
  • Grim from SfvWeird that a band who used to run a club where they would harass the young women on staff, would write something so horrific. Even weirder that Manson's old coke dealer is now their guitarist, almost as if molestation is their modus operandi.
  • RatfromI dunno but when I listened this song I was thinking it's about wrong love. like a adult guy in love with a young girl. then they started meeting, and he has all that dirty things he want to do but he can't do it because something (maybe morals) stops him. and instead he whispers "I want to fcking tear you apart" to her, meaning like "really girl a wanna do with u so many wrong dirty disgusting things and u should scared of me".
    it's very creepy song for me btw
  • Strooms from Your Mom’s Housewhen i saw the video she mentions “my dad wanted a boy but he got me” and later on the guy says “what are you?” this gives me the impression that she’s actually transgender and the “i want to rip you apart” could be literal or meaning that the group he brings wants to rip her clothes off to see what she really is.
  • The Sickness The Cure from UkWho is the actress that portrays Lydia in the video?
  • A Human from HellI think, and have thought since the first time I heard this song that it's about a boy who feels so much affection for this girl so much that the urge for violence seeps in (Similiar to how when you see an animal so cute that you just want to squeeze it.) some people get the sudden urge to bite their partner sometimes, sorry if my wording is weird I struggle to use words to explain my thoughts
  • Immy from N / AI think the “f--king year you apart” may be an unhealthy psychopathic type sick line, psychopaths usually develops fantasies and crushes and imagine doing violent things so it could be literal
  • Sky from N/aIdk how no one sees this as a song about sexual assault. Creeps me out
  • Karina He just wants some freaky sex he likes her a lot and has the hots for her , nothing weird about kinky sex!!!
  • Cheese from Milwaukee Maybe it's Necrophilic? Pretty cool
  • Alyssa from UkTo me this song shows that this boy/guy has a very dark imaginative mind and a deep crush on this girl that he has developed from just seeing her, the lyrics "An escape is just a nod and a casual wave
    Obsessed about it, heavy for the next two days" shows that this crush is an obsession and everything that happens, he holds onto, he has developed this obsession so much that he craves to do things to her and has a violent passion for her, later through the song after she tells him how she feels, it shows that he doesn't mind weather it lasts or if it is a one night thing as it would satisfy his passion for the girl, true love in my opinion.
  • The Crypt from Ncfor some reason this makes me think about femicides, you ever heard those cases where the bou falls crazy in love with the girl, because she rejects him, it drives him crazy to the point he kidnaps her or rapes her and ends up ”ripping” her apart.
  • Mrs. Monster from Toronto CanadaAwsome song! I agree with Tea Leaf about the penis. Honestly it is what the listener wants it to be.
  • Galbratorix from MdShe was a vampire, the boy found something on her (maybe teeth). The strange men that save her are elder vampires that are taking her to learn to control it. She quite literally could have f@#cking torn the boys apart.
  • Tealeaf from Sydney, AustraliaHERE'S MY TAKE:

    This is about a boy who falls for a girl. They get close and he reaches down and finds that she has a penis. He takes off, gathers his mates off they go looking for her - to F##KING TEAR YOU(her) APART.
  • Casey from Glendale, AzThe "tear you apart" could also be another way of saying "popping her cherry".
  • Sharon from Fallon, NvTo me the lyrics "I want to f***ing tear you apart" seems to be an expression of the sometimes excruciatingly strong emotions we have when we are young. You want someone so bad you ache and feel almost a violent passion for them.
  • Ian from Ragama, Sri Lanka (ceylon)It's like expressing love in a very true way... Awesome...
  • Marissa from Alhambra, Cawhen i first heard it, it had a creepy feel to it. his voice and the music and the words. creepy. (: scary.
  • Kain from Nod, Inmy version is very vampiric, you really do not want to know
  • Eliza Desu from Sydney, Australiamy perception of the song was that it was a student/teacher relationship.. makes it kinkier :D lol.
  • Shelby from Idiotville , KyEXCELLENT and creepy song- maybe a little too violent for my taste though. The video almost makes you think about...Nazis or something.
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