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Two hearts that beat as one Stacey Q – Two of Hearts

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They complete each other

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Not only that but studies have shown that when you’re in love with or feel a deep emotional connection to someone your heartbeats will synchronize with each other.

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Why have you forsaken me?
In your eyes, forsaken me?
In your thoughts, forsaken me?
In your heart, forsaken me? Oh System Of A Down – Chop Suey!

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Another one of the Seven Sayings of Jesus suffering on the cross before his death. Like the previous one used in this song, it harkens to a psalm, this time Psalm 22, which sets Matthew 27:46 in verse:

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?

The singer equates himself with Christ and the people he is championing with the sinners of the world whom he could only save through his own painful death. In doing so, the song questions the righteousness of a God, and a religion, where the inevitable sins of imperfect people can be so serious, and so unforgivable, that they can be denied salvation because of it. This also puts an impetus on the audience to practice what Jesus actually taught, which was forgiveness.

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Taken randomly from the first book on the shelf:

Rick Rubin talks System of a Down's Chop Suey! at the Joe Rogan Experience podcast (2022) — YouTube

In the recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Rick Rubin talks about the song climax of System of a Down's 'Chop Suey!' and how Serj Tankian fou...

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Rick Rubin, the producer of this song, discussed these lyrics during Episode #1881 of the Joe Rogan Experience. He explained that Serj Tankien, the Singer/Lyric Writer was stuck because he did not have lyrics for the bridge of the song. They were in Rick’s library at the time, and, as a solution, he (Rick) told Serj to grab any book off the wall, turn to any page and read the first phrase – and those would be the lyrics. Serj did this and these lyrics are the result – from “Father, father, father, father” to “In your heart, forsaken me? Oh”. Although meaning can be found and given to these lyrics, the reality is that they are a collective non-sequitur by definition given the way they were created.

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He doesn’t understand – he did what he thought was right for him and committed. He wanted God to save him, but was sent to Satan instead.

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I don't think you trust
In my self-righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die System Of A Down – Chop Suey!

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Nobody can truly understand his (or anyone’s) feelings towards death and the afterlife. Killing himself would be a blessing that only he could understand.

Daron Malakian has addressed the meaning of this chorus directly:

The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass. Everyone deserves to die. Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. Hence the line, ‘I cry when angels deserve to die.’

This plays on the rest of the song’s extremely aggressive expression of agency (the repeated and harsh and implacable “you wanted to”).

In terms of the Christian ethos, self-harm and suicide is a sin because we shouldn’t desecrate the bodies God gave us. Much of society has absorbed this and thus its response to diseases like addiction can be very harsh and unsympathetic. The speaker turns it around and emphasizes the choices that someone makes are not always tied to their value as a person. From that perspective, the one who knowingly harms themselves (accepts their sin) can be viewed as more righteous than the person who high-handedly judges others without practicing compassion. The singer takes on an almost Christ-like stance of mercy towards those that the most “pious” people of society choose to look down on.

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Nobody can truly understand his (or anyone's) feelings towards death and the afterlife. Killing himself would be a blessing that only he could understand.

Daron Malakian has [addressed the meaning of this chorus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_Suey!_(song\)) directly:

>The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass. Everyone deserves to die. Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. Hence the line, 'I cry when angels deserve to die.'

This plays on the rest of the song's extremely aggressive expression of agency (the repeated and harsh and implacable "you wanted to").

In terms of the Christian ethos, self-harm and suicide is a sin because we shouldn't desecrate the bodies God gave us. Much of society has absorbed this and thus its response to diseases like addiction can be very harsh and unsympathetic. The speaker turns it around and emphasizes the choices that someone makes are not always tied to their value as a person. From that perspective, the one who knowingly harms themselves (accepts their sin) can be viewed as more righteous than the person who high-handedly judges others without practicing compassion. The singer takes on an almost [Christ-like stance](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8) of mercy towards those that the most "pious" people of society choose to look down on.

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Simply reverse psychology …..christian doG kills himself,his father sad

In catholics path,he'$ a dumbass rich spoiled boy

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@iminlovewithmycar this is wrong, for the album was released a week before 9/11 and the song had been released even before that. They just changed the title because the record label didn’t like it directly referencing suicide

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There is also a double meaning here about the “Self-righteous suicide” of God sacrificing Jesus (who is also God, thus suicide) on the cross and the internal monologue between the self (God) and the body (Jesus) that must bear the suffering

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like christ was crucified for other’s sins the narrator cries when “angels” – people victim of their circumstances (tied to a cross) deserve to die.

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3 years

The “I cry when angels deserve to die” is, in my opinion, showing that people will only mourn n grieve those who are perfect in the eyes of God…even after admitting to the fact that everyone deserves to die, they’ll only feel remorse if you “tried” to keep a holy image

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“I cry when angels deserve to die”, refers to, a person suffering from abuse decides that he deserves to die as he can’t cope up with the abuse or ask for help in the society due to fear, and after his death the society thinks he deserved this type of death. So when a person decides to commit self-righteous suicide, the singer cries because an angel of a person is getting what he “deserves” .

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Given reference in other parts of the song to the death of Jesus (“Father into your hands I commend my spirit”), “Self-righteous suicide” may refer to the fact that God and Jesus are (according to many Christian denominations) the same being, perhaps suggesting that religious condemnation of self harm/suicide is hypocrisy, as in a way God killed himself.

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The song was gonna be called suicide, but 9/11 had happened at the time, so they had to change the name, they called it “Chop Suey” Including this lyric, it’s “Selfright-chop suey-cide” because they couldn’t change the lyric. They did that play on words.

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Saddest Girl Story The Starting Line – Saddest Girl Story

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This song describes a bad relationship that is cyclic in nature.

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So it's safe to say that we've been here before
Heart torn out, down for the count and still come back for more
This lesson is learned too well
Though, only unlearned by the time your wounds have healed The Starting Line – Saddest Girl Story

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Describes a bad relationship where the girl keeps going back to her player boyfriend and only learns her lesson momentarily before going back to him.

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I’m never nickel and diming but I’ll take change if it makes sense DRK (Ft. Mick the Martyr) – Hold it Down

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Word play! Social/economic change that makes sense (cents)

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I’m the hip hop version of Bobby Mercer, DRK (Ft. Mick the Martyr) – Hold it Down

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A baseball player who played for the Yankee’s, Mick the Martyr’s favorite baseball team

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If you ain't a 10, you're a 9.9 Luke Bryan – Drunk on You

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Very close to perfect.

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10hp+ outboard boat motors are taxed at a higher rate than motors that are below 10 hp, so Mercury resorted to making a 9.9 to avoid this tax. A 9.9 is more desirable due to the lower tax rate, and he thinks the same way when he’s talking about his girl.

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More Like Her Miranda Lambert – More Like Her

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