Sadie

Alkaline Trio has traditionally misrepresented themselves aesthetically as evil and brooding with blood and fancy black and red clothes. I personally hated them without having ever listened to a song for this reason alone. But when I finally gave them a shot I found out that their dark persona is really just a clever motif through which they are able to craft clever lyrics about much more realistic scenarios which are ultimately not dark and devilish at all. In fact, anyone can write an Alkaline Trio song. Say you're looking back on your life up to this point and wondering what--if any--meaningful contributions you've made. Why not write that song from a perspective that you're dying tomorrow? You've written an Alkaline Trio song! Too bad you're not as cool as the band.

Anyway, it occurs to me that even though Marilyn Manson these guys are not, they at one point did actually write one song that was sort of dark by nature and not in an ironic or clever way at all. The song, from their 2005 major label debut Crimson, is called Sadie and was inspired by the book Helter Skelter published in 1974 about The Manson Family. The song is about one of Manson's followers Susan Atkins who went by "Sadie Glutz." It's probably the one Alkaline Trio song any non-fan should definitely know.

	Alkaline Trio - Sadie
	Found at skreemr.com