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SOAD: Chop Suey. What does it REALLY mean?

ThirdRockFromTheSunThirdRockFromTheSun <b style="color:blue;">Third<em style="color:pink;">Cock</em>FromThe<em style="color:brown;">Bum</em
edited December 2011 in Spurious Generalities

I love this song. It's one of my personal favorites; but what DOES it mean? I decided to google it, and no one can really pinpoint what it's actually about. Most people decided on religion, and some other people said it was about one of the guitarists brothers committing suicide, which apparently is BS.

Does anyone really know?
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  • bornkillerbornkiller Administrator In your girlfriends snatch
    edited November 2011
    The noun CHOP SUEY has 1 sense:
    1. meat or fish stir-fried with vegetables (e.g., celery, onions, peppers or bean sprouts) seasoned with ginger and garlic and soy sauce; served with rice; created in the United States and frequently served in Chinese restaurants there.
    Familiarity information: CHOP SUEY used as a noun is very rare.
    There ya go! Who would'a thought?
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  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited November 2011
    The song is about the guitarists brother who committed suicide. In the song he is asking why his father has forsaken him over his brothers death.
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  • SpinsterSpinster Regular
    edited November 2011
    I'v read the lyrics and the suicide thing seems to fit.

    here they are
    Wake up (wake up)
    Grab a brush and put a little makeup
    Hide the scars to fade away the shake up
    (Hide the scars to fade away the shake )
    Why'd you leave the keys up on the table?
    Here you go create another fable

    (You wanted to)
    Grab a brush and put on a little makeup
    (You wanted to)
    Hide the scars to fade away the shake up
    (You wanted to)
    Why'd you leave the keys up on the table?
    (You wanted to)

    I don't think you trust, in, my,
    Self-righteous suicide,
    I, cry, when angels deserve to die

    Wake up (wake up)
    Grab a brush and put a little makeup
    Hide the scars to fade away the shake up
    Why'd you leave the keys up on the table?
    Here you go create another fable

    (You wanted to)
    Grab a brush and put on a little makeup
    (You wanted to)
    Hide the scars to fade away the shake up
    (You wanted to)
    Why'd you leave the keys up on the table?
    (You wanted to)

    I don't think you trust in my
    Self-righteous suicide,
    I cry, when angels deserve to die
    In my self-righteous suicide,
    I cry, when angels deserve to die

    Father (father)
    Father (father)
    Father (father)
    Father (father)
    Father into your hands, I commend my spirit
    Father into your hands, why have you forsaken me?
    In your eyes, forsaken me
    In your thoughts, forsaken me
    In your heart, forsaken me

    Oh, trust in my, self-righteous suicide
    I cry when angels deserve to die
    In my self-righteous suicide
    I cry when angels deserve to die
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  • JackedJacked Regular
    edited December 2011
    I think it's about a chick who cheated on her partner.

    she's putting make up on to hide the scars of her infidelity , leaving the keys on the table after she snuck out the night before. She was an Angle but now she deserves to die, him killing her is the same as him committing suicide in heaven, in God's eyes, *because god has made him into a jealous/ deeply in love man "forsaken me" .

    That's how I interpreted it as anyway, and it makes sense to me, I couldn't see it in any other way. Got goosebumps listening to this again after so long. Can't wait for them to come to Australia so I can lose my fuking shit to them!!!!!!*
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  • bornkillerbornkiller Administrator In your girlfriends snatch
    edited December 2011
    Why is it there's always big fat ugly looking goth chicks in the crowd @ System of a down concert's.
    What ever the lyrics mean it's still one fucking awesome song. Thanks for jogging my memory. :thumbsup:
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  • MeloncholyMeloncholy Regular
    edited December 2011
    According to users of SongMeanings 100% of songs ever written are about suicide/death/breakups/drug addiction.

    I always thought this song was about someone losing their faith and becoming an athiest. The second half of the song particularly. As to what caused them to lose faith? I don't know. Could be one of the SongMeanings Holy Quadrumvirate.

    PS. Obligatory post of Toxicity.
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  • SpinsterSpinster Regular
    edited December 2011
    or maybe its about the guitarists brother who committed suicide because his partner cheaded on him? o_O

    IDK who cares, just a good song to head bang to
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  • ThirdRockFromTheSunThirdRockFromTheSun <b style="color:blue;">Third<em style="color:pink;">Cock</em>FromThe<em style="color:brown;">Bum</em
    edited December 2011
    Well they say that the guitarists brother didn't kill himself, he died in a fire. And that spawned this song:
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  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited December 2011
    Maybe he committed suicide in a fire and that inspired both songs.
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  • fagfag Regular
    edited December 2011
    I think it's about a girl who loses everything to meth. She is first burned horribly in a meth lab explosion, hence the scars/makeup. Then, desperate, she turns to gambling, losing everything. IE, leaving keys to her home/car/life on the poker table. The verse about the father is referring to how she was then estranged by her final support network, her(most likely catholic) religious community. I guess we can assume all these troubles drove her to suicide.
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