Annotations for DESTROYA

Lyric: Check, check
 (Check, check) Check, check
 (Check, check, check, check, check)
 Check, ch... Woah!
Annotation:
In similar manner, in Brand New’s song “Logan To Government Center”, there are also such “check, check” at the start of the song. May be a nod to this.

Lyric: If what you are
 Is just what you own
 What have you become
 When they take from you almost everything?
Annotation:
This line essentially shines a light on the consumerist principles promoted by BLI. It also suggests the hypocracy of hypercapitalism, as one cannot always ‘pull yourself up by the bootstraps’ if you cannot afford a decent education.

Lyric: They laugh, we don’t think it’s funny
Annotation:
When the BL/ind people kill any Killjoys, they just laugh it off because Killjoys are against them, but the Killjoys want revenge

Lyric: Red-mob, we insects hide
Annotation:
This “red-mob” is something big. Compared to it, we are the size of insects compared to humans, tiny.

Lyric: Uh, uh uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh
 Uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh, uh uh, right now!
Annotation:
this is known as the most beautiful sounds known to man

Lyric: Against the sun, we’re the enemy!
Annotation:
They fighting against BLI, or, capitalism, but this is a pretty anarchist line: they’re the enemy of everything, of the sun, which is way to powerful for them to literally fight. They want to smash everything, including the sun. This is like the anarchist idea that in order to make any sort of social progress, we have to destroy everything and start over.

Lyric: With blood they wash in the money!
Annotation:
This is a metaphor about big corporations like Better Living Industries, or any member of the ruling class, exploiting and oppressing the people who generate profit for them.

Lyric: Uh uh, uh uh, uh uh (Uhh)
 Uh uh, uh uh, uh uh
 Uh uh, uh uh, uh uh (Uhh)
 Uh uh, uh uh, uh-uh, uh-uh
Annotation:
Fun fact: if you wear earbuds while listening to this song, you will hear Gerard in one ear, and Frank in the other. The lyrics are most likely referring to the porno droids of Battery City. In the comics, they believe that “Destroya” will come and save them

Lyric: So show me what you got, you children of the gun
 (Destroya, Destroya) Don’t hide and we don’t run!
Annotation:
This might relate to the killjoys who, having disowned their old lives and families back in Battery City, have become the “children” of guns and violence. They favour standing and fighting more than running and hiding, which most see as a dishonour.

Lyric: Destroya, Destroya, we’re all waiting for ya
 Destroya, Destroya!
Annotation:
Party Poison says this sarcastically, because Destroya is a god that the droids believe is real and will grant them salvation, while most of the Killjoys think this is way of think makes no sense. Although the themes of deities being questioned were present in the album, Destroya eventually returned to Battery City during the siege led by the Girl and the new Killjoys, as shown in the comic book series  The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.

Lyric: King rat on the streets in another life
Annotation:
This line is probably based on the Hindu belief in  reincarnation, which is when your soul returns to the physical world in a new body, be it one of a human or another animal. Frontman Gerard Way  told  Billboard that this song was partially inspired by a Hindu festival, so he likely did his research. Someone who’s all high and mighty now could be nothing in another life. This is likely the Killjoy’s attitude towards the executives of Better Living Industries, who think they’re great people.

Lyric: Destroya, Destroya, Destroya, Destroya
 Destroya, Destroya!
Annotation:
In the killjoy universe, Destroya is the god of the androids. He’s believed to be their savior from the BL/ind.

Lyric: They don’t like who you are
 You won’t like where we’ll go
 Brother, protect me now
Annotation:
In the perspective of the Killjoys these lines are the group saying how BLI doesn’t like them and their cause, and then saying how BLI won’t like where the Killjoys will take their battle next. It is then saying how the Killjoys should stand by each other. In the perspective of the real world it is saying how some people don’t like who you are and then shows the narrator telling these people that they won’t like how they end up in the future. The last line has the same meaning except it is looking from support from the narrators peers

Lyric: (I don’t believe in God) You don’t believe in God
 (I don’t believe in luck) I don’t believe in luck
 (I don’t believe in you) They don’t believe in us
 (I just believe in the enemy) But I believe we’re the enemy
 (I don’t believe in God) You don’t believe in God
 (I don’t believe in luck) I don’t believe in luck
 (I don’t believe in you) They don’t believe in us
 (I just believe in the enemy) But I believe in the enemy
Annotation:
Gerard Way and Party Poison (Gerard’s Killjoy identity) are stating their slightly contradicting opinions. Party Poison is in the present combatting his past persona (Gerard), revealing the differences that have evolved over time in Party Poison due to Gerard becoming a Killjoy. Party Poison is confident in himself, using the word “I” significantly more often than Gerard does. Gerard, on the other hand, is still the tiniest bit under the brainwashing of BLI, so his opinions differ slightly from Party Poison’s. When Party Poison says “I don’t believe in you”, he is saying that he doesn’t believe in what Gerard is saying because are over and done with the old life they had lived, completely loyal and obedient to BLI. Party Poison doesn’t believe that he was every truly Gerard Way, in the sense that Party Poison is the freed manifestation of Gerard’s complete personality. Gerard and Party Poison finally find something in common at the end of chorus when they find themselves saying almost identical remarks, something around the lines of “but I believe we’re the enemy!” and “I don’t believe in luck.”

Lyric: Don’t believe what they say
 We’re dead flies in the summertime
Annotation:
It doesn’t matter what they do, who they listen to, or what they say.  All hope seems to be lost. “Dead flies in the summertime” adds some emphasis to this as flies are quite insignificant. The mention of the summer season may be a play off the previous song,  “Summertime”.

Lyric: You don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in luck
Annotation:
The Killjoys know that the only way to create change is through action. This drives their revolutionary spirits to overthrow Better Living Industries and undo the brainwashing that BLI has done to the public. Better Living Industries don’t believe there is anyone more powerful than them, let alone a god of any sort. However, the Killjoys have been shown to hold some sort of religious beliefs — they believe in a being known as Phoenix Witch, who  guides fallen Killjoys to the afterlife. “I don’t believe in luck” is likely a snarky response, saying that there  must be some higher power since things don’t just  happen.

Lyric: They don’t believe in us, but I believe we’re the enemy!
Annotation:
The antagonist can be viewed as either a higher power or the record label, Better Living Industries.  They do not consider them a serious threat, they don’t believe their ideas to be significant enough.  The protagonist begs to differ.

Lyric: They leave us all behind
 With duct tape scars on my honey
Annotation:
‘Duct tape scars’ refer to the sticky stuff that tape leaves around when it’s taken off. This stickiness often gets covered in dust and becomes quite unpleasant and a pain to remove.  This phrase refers to being left behind with sticky honey, which could mean a number of things. His ‘honey’ could be a symbol for his sweet experiences, love interest, or any other positive aspect of his life. In this case, the leavers in this phrase have made all these experiences negative due to their influence. This phrase could also refer to the physical stickiness of honey, maybe indicating that the only thing the leavers have left them with is these minor details.

