The Demolition Lovers.
Some say they were meant to be together, others say they were meant to be torn apart.
This duality of blood and love letters, of knives and heartfelt promises is precisely what the story of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is all about.
But to figure out how it starts, we need to go back before Three Cheers to I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
Specifically the last song, aptly named Demolition Lovers.
This song's about a lot of things, but in the context of the Demolition Lovers, it's about how lost in their love they were, before tragedy struck.
In particular, there's a lot of lyrics about “forever”, which is ironic because at the end of the song, something tragic happens.
The Demolition Lovers die.
Now, there's a lot of speculation about how our lovers died. Some say it was a car crash, others say a gunfight. I, personally, believe that their cause of death was Lovers’ Suicide -- or in other words, self-destructing at the same time with the belief that they'd end up in heaven.
Unfortunately, things didn't go exactly as planned.
Demolition Man (side note: the demo lovers don't have names) winds up in hell, but his lover goes to heaven. Out of desperation, Demolition Man makes a deal with the devil -- if he kills a thousand evil men for him, he'll be able to see Demolition Woman again.
Now, the album doesn't give us much in the way of how Demolition Man goes about this, but we do know for certain that at some point, he gets arrested, and some… interesting things happen while he's incarcerated. (if you know, you know)
Finally, after what seems like an eternity, Demolition Man has just one more man left to kill. He's tired, he's bruised, he's bloody, and he's just about ready to give up.
Suddenly, he realizes something.
You see, through all his murderous escapades, he's changed. He swore to destroy evil, and now he, too, has become evil.
The last evil-doer Demolition Man needs to kill is himself.
And that's how the story ends. The Demolition Lovers never reunite, and there is no happy ending.
The end.
(thank you for reading!!!)