what you got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did

a dark song that i cant help but love
Teenagers By My Chemical Romance

They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work
They're gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip up your heads,Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine

They said all teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me

The boys and girls in the clique
The awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did

This song tells us the reasons behind shooting. Kids get called names all the time and they put down your entire life. And what they got under there shirts (guns) will make them pay. It mentions the cliques which are always the people who are one sided and don’t see anything else in this world but themselves. And Stick: when you hear a name so many times, people tend to repeat it. I honestly don’t think the phrase that’s so gay is just something that everyone does. Someone started saying it and then someone else said it and then it just became a part of peoples vocabulary. Its completely pathetic. And no the drugs never work. You cant take a pill to make people not make fun of you. Just like that’s so gay happened, names you call certain people stick. Everyone joins in to pick on a kid, they will continue because they know its not them. I could go on and on about the message in this song. But you can read it yourself and think about how you feel. And this songs video was actually supposed to come out right around the time of the Virginia Tech shooting but was delayed because they re-edited it to make it more suitable for the viewers.

As much as it sounds bad to say, I justify these shooters for there rage and anger. No I do not think they should be killing people, but, they have every right to be angry. It seems that the people in our class don’t see it that way. After hearing a comment in class that was clearly based on there own bubble, made me realize how little some people see. Just saving a few phrases directly or indirectly can make this song into a reality. These kids who get shot specifically by the shooters needed to learn a lesson but never did and it cost them there lives. No they shouldn’t die, of course not, but no one ever has sympathy with the shooter. I have sympathy with them are human beings not as killers. People lived there lives every day and new these people were being treated badly by peers yet they either joined in or did nothing to stop it. Why haven’t people learned to love one another and not make fun of each other. that’s the only way we can prevent this stuff. We should try to embrace these people and not hurt them. I don’t understand why this keeps happening every where. People need to quit. These boys needed someone by there side and clearly no one was there. It seems like people were asking for a backlash. Sorry but that’s reality. We are the reason for these boys rage. We need to be the cure to the problem because its all in our hands.

*Just wanted to say something here I said in class. Its white boys because even though we don’t have a true definition for the word normal, a white middle class male has got to be close. They aren’t all too special and there problems seem tiny compared to females and minorities.