Richard, have you been asleep ever since the 80s? Are you unaware of the links (alleged and otherwise) between Goth culture and the child psychos who barge into their schools to deliver some payback to the kids who've been bullying them? Next you'll be saying you don't get it if your Monday Morning Song is Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and someone alludes to suicide.
Hey 5:41 - The original rumour was that the song was about his sister's wedding to a BLACK man, but that's apocryphal too...The song has three elements that require the suicide interpretation: (1) the repeated, rather violent phrase "shot gun" set in a song which is brimming with menace, (2) the suggestion that its a nice day to "start again" (which hardly makes sense in a wedding context) and (3) the stanza complaining that there's nothing fair, nothing safe, nothing sure, nothing pure, nothing left in this world.
Sure, you can read this as the average brother mad at his sister for getting pregnant and then married off quick, but that song would have been called ""Shotgun Wedding".
Here's the lyrics - decide for yourselves:
Hey little sister what have you done Hey little sister who's the only one Hey little sister who's your superman Hey little sister who's the one you want Hey little sister shot gun!
It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again
Hey little sister what have you done Hey little sister who's the only one I've been away for so long (so long) I've been away for so long (so long) I let you go for so long
It's a nice day to start again (come on) It's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again
(Pick it up) Take me back home There is nothin' fair in this world There is nothin' safe in this world And there is nothin' sure in this world And there is nothin' pure in this world Look for something left in this world Start again Come on
It's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again It's a nice day for a white wedding It's a nice day to start again