¡The Glorias!

[Annie, get your gun]

Definitely ¡Viva La Gloria! > fighting for her beliefs

I like danger, but Little Girl is too dangerous and dark... every time I think on that song is all about razor blades, blood and rain

[¡Juliana Homicide!]

"¡Viva La Gloria!" is definitely my favorite too. Nothing beats singing along to the intro and knowing that the song is about to explode...

[harry88788]

The charlatans and saints
Of your abandon

I dont get this line, can someone explain it. Also what is this abandon Billie always talks about he says it in the Forgotten too?

[Bastard of 1967]

The charlatans and saints

Of your abandon

I dont get this line, can someone explain it. Also what is this abandon Billie always talks about he says it in the Forgotten too?

I understand the word "abandon" to mean actions without regard for consequences (it's more commonly phrased as "reckless abandon"). One definition of the word I read is "complete lack of inhibition or restraint." It's "I'm doing whatever I want and whatever the fuck happens happens, I don't really care." So the lyric "Little girl, little girl, your life is calling the charlatans and saints of your abandon" takes what's normally viewed as a positive: "your life is calling" -- hey, you've figured it out, you've got your shit together, you know your purpose and you're pursuing it -- and turns it into a negative. The "charlatans and saints", the influences (people, drugs, ideas, whatever) that surround her or that she wrestles with lead her into both huge highs and terrible lows at the same time. In that Little Girl is the "intervention" if you will -- Christian is confronting Gloria with the cold, hard reality that she's not going to be able to save shit while she's still deep in the throes of her own addiction problems -- using the term "abandon" here makes a lot of sense.

In The Forgotten, that free-for-all, whatever-happens, carefree destruction that "abandon" encapsulates surfaces in two more contexts -- "losing faith to our abandon" (set against the question "where in the world did the time go?" I think Billie is pondering whether he still has the balls to live without regard to consequences as he's gotten older) , and at "we share the scars from our abandon and what we remember becomes folklore" he describes what you talk about with your old buddies after all the dust has finally cleared.