It references the practice of putting makeup on corpses for viewings so that they don’t look so bad in their caskets. Malakian goes on to explain that this condemnation of such judgment was the inspiration of the lyric, “I cry when angels deserve to die.” The bit about, “Grab a brush, and put a little makeup,” is ostensibly about possibly covering up why someone died so that the person isn’t unfairly judged after death. They give the example of someone dying of an overdose “deserving it” because the person abused dangerous drugs. Judgmentīoth Tankian and guitarist Daron Malakian think that society unjustly judges people based on how they died. So, the band decided to call the song “Chop Suey” not only because “Suey” was a short form of suicide but also because of the haphazard nature of musical styles: head-banging metal, alternative-rock chorus, anthem-like closing. The song was originally supposed to have the title “ “Self-Righteous Suicide,” but Columbia Records refused to back the album if the title wasn’t changed. The dish doesn’t feature at all in the lyrics of the song, although there is a shot of lead singer Serj Tankian eating it in the song’s music video. While working the railroad, the workers probably couldn’t get the same ingredients as they had in China, so they used what was available. Most of them came from the Guangdong Province in China, and the idea of tossing leftovers into a wok and frying them up was well-known there.

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System of a down angels deserve to die