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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about The Priest And The Matador (page 1/ 4) ------ performed by Senses Fail .... | Reviewer: YouAllFail | 7/17/09 If you listen to "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues," "Negative Space," and "The Priest and the Matador" all in succession it sort of makes sense. In part of All the Best Cowboys it says; "I take the stairs to the very top floor I paid the super to leave open the door A perfect sunset is sinking in the sky I know my body is ready to fly I start the countdown back wards from ten When I reach one my family name will end Falling down as windows pass I start to cry And curse the day my parents laid In a bed of hopelessness where love was made Please mark my grave unknown" Saying he went to the top of a building and jumped off essentially. Negative Space, to me, is like just the time he has to think about what he's done/what's about to happen before he hits the ground. Then Priest and the Matador is like the aftermath. It talks about how he's still alive for a while. To the priest he essentially says, "I have no faith in you, I don't care. Leave me alone and let me die" All three songs are most definitely connected. I would like to state that this is my opinion. I'm NOT saying I'm right. Just what I think. Differences | Reviewer: uh... | 7/11/09 We all have our differences in the way we think of this song and many others. It does matter what the song is about, but I'm thinking that people aren't going to listen to it because you tell them that 'he fell from heaven and was shot to hell' or 'he was suicidal'. No... the point is that the lyrics are captivating, and the music is easy on the ears. Now, all you that genuinely care about the meaning, go ahead and keep thinking what you want to think, you're entitiled to your own opinion, I'm just saying what I personally think, that the meaning isn't really a big deal. Who cares? I do | Reviewer: James | 5/28/09 "Who cares | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/19/09 Nobody cares what any of you think. Quit writing your thoughts about a song you didn't write. Everyone keeps saying "I think" this and that, well nobody cares what you think. If the band wrote what it meant than that would be worth reading because it would be what the song was actually means. It's a good song that's it and until you ask the band what it's about than quit posting what you think it's about because there only your thoughts and nobody wants to read about what you(whoever the fuck you are)think the songs about." If the songs didn't have a point they wouldn't have been written. Some people have trouble figuring out the point of a song, the meaning behind it, because some songs are harder to figure out than others. Take "The Good Left Undone" by Rise Against - if you look close enough, it could mean a number of things. Political song or love song? Who knows? Nobody can know for sure. But what we CAN know for sure, is that song DOES have a meaning, people just interpret it differently. So, moronic anonymous commenter, I am posting what I think the song is about to help anyone who may be having difficulty understanding it, just as I sometimes search this site for songs I don't get to see if people's explanations can help me understand. The internet's a free place, buddy. Don't like it? Then kindly fuck off. Who cares | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/19/09 Nobody cares what any of you think. Quit writing your thoughts about a song you didn't write. Everyone keeps saying "I think" this and that, well nobody cares what you think. If the band wrote what it meant than that would be worth reading because it would be what the song was actually means. It's a good song that's it and until you ask the band what it's about than quit posting what you think it's about because there only your thoughts and nobody wants to read about what you(whoever the fuck you are)think the songs about. Hmm | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/11/09 well first of all he didn't tell the priest to get the **** away he just told the man. The song is very powerful, in my opinion i think the song is symbolic of him falling out of heaven or loosing his religeon and faith, its got double meaning, He says he is the arrow shot straight to hell, he fell from the sky, symbolic of lossing his faith and belief in god, and he tells the priest, he is to late and to save his speech. he is shot to hell. more religious imagery? | Reviewer: James | 5/7/09 obviously there's a lot of religious imagery in this song but something else i noticed was: " I hear a woman Start to yell "Oh dear God, I think he fell" " obviously the word God is used but, i think his 'falling' in this song is significant. as we know, the last 3 songs on this album are the build up to the end of his life, and i think the fact he dies by falling is very important. hell is below heaven, and supposedly heaven is in the sky - if he has 'fallen' from the sky, he's fallen from heaven. in my opinion, at the start of the song it is strongly implied that he has fallen from grace/heaven and is as far away from god as ever, re-inforced by the rejection of the priest and telling the man who wants him to pray to "please get the fuck away" Bunnies | Reviewer: KOONTZ | 2/25/09 I think this song is about bunnies, there were a family of bunnies that decided that they were going to commit suicide by getting William Tell to shoot them with a bow. Then the priest tried to revive the bunny, but he was out of adrenaline syringes and he didn't boost his special. The guerrillas beat them to the body and put him in an internment camp, and forced him to live off of banana peels until he got hit by an ambulance. Thus we have a dead bunny. Fuck you all for your literal interpretations. religious? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/7/08 I believe this song is simply about how no one cares for this dude and this dude thinks his life is worth nothing so he decides to end it and then once he's dying everyone rushes to his side and acts like they were their for him the whole time... in other words...no one cares about you til something tragic happens...like "father you're too late" that's telling you right there that his priest should have seen the signs and helped him then not now because he's just helping this dude now so people will think the priest tried his hardest Well.. | Reviewer: Tomish | 10/1/08 I don't see them as a sac-religious or anything, the whole album is about a guy Losing his faith, and eventually dies. It's relevant to me, because it happened to me lately. It's an Amazing song on the anyway ^^ Hmm. | Reviewer: Brody | 9/29/08 I do see them being a bit anti-religious. Especially in this song. Telling a preist to "please get the fuck away." and "Like a cross turned upside down." Very anti-religious. Same as itszaaaack, I use it to build my Faith. Not diminish it any way. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4