"A Little Piece of Heaven" is a song by American band Avenged Sevenfold from their self-titled album. Unlike many of their other songs, A Little Piece of Heaven consists of very theatrical sounding instruments and lyrics. It features the use of various musical elements from Broadway show tunes, with keyboards, as well as brass and woodwind instruments (played by various members of Oingo Boingo according to the Avenged Sevenfold MVI), mostly taking over Avenged Sevenfold's typical use of guitars. Many fans have said that the song resembles the sound of Mr. Bungle.
Video The video had recently been taken off of YouTube multiple times by Warner Music Group, so only owners of the Avenged Sevenfold MVI have access to the video. On February 12 2008, the video was released on iTunes and officially released on the band's YouTube page possibly due to the outcry of the video being removed multiple times.
The video starts with a man and a woman eating dinner in the man's apartment. The man proposes, but the woman just laughs and says "no". The man snaps, pulls out a breadknife and stabs her (must have stabbed her fifty fucking times and "rips her heart out right before her eyes". After this he does numerous things (including making love with her corpse and eating her heart). Later, the woman comes back from the dead, repossesses her body and chases the man to a graveyard, where she kills him in the exact same way as he killed her (it even has the same lyrics, just switching "her" to "him"). He then gets sent to hell, where he realises that he did wrong. He wants to make it up to the woman, who eventually gives him another chance. They decide to go back up to earth, get married and go on a killing spree. Meanwhile, at the church near the graveyard, a wedding ceremony is taking place. The undead couple crash the wedding, killing everyone except the vicar (voiced by A7X guitarist Zacky Vengeance)who seems unfazed by the events. The couple are wed by the vicar, whom they kill afterwards. The video ends with them doing romantic things (taking pictures in a booth, drinking milkshakes out of a man's head). Before the video ends, the Avenged Sevenfold logo is shown in the clouds.
Subject The theme of A Little Piece of Heaven is forgiveness. The song is about a man who is madly in love with a woman. When he begins to fear that something in their relationship might go wrong, he kills her to remove all possibility of it occurring. Although in the video it differs; as we see this man proposing to her, while the video seems to indicate that she says no and laughs at him and accordingly he kills her. He preserves her corpse, and continues to make love to it. Eventually, she comes back from the dead to kill him, ironically murdering him in the same way that he murdered her. Afterward, they share a personal talk as corpses. Gradually, they make up and get married as the undead, and subsequently begin a murderous rampage.