My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade lyrics
- The End
- Dead!
- This Is How I Disappear
- The Sharpest Lives
- Welcome To The Black Parade
- I Don't Love You
- House Of Wolves
- Cancer
- Mama
- Sleep
- Teenagers
- Disenchanted
- Famous Last Words
- Hidden Track
The End
Now come one come all to this tragic affair
Wipe off that makeup
What's in this despair?
So put on the black dress
Mix in with the lot
You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see
You can find out firsthand what it's like to be me
So gather 'round piggies and kiss this goodbye
I'd encourage your smiles
I'll expect you won't cry
Another contusion, my funeral jag
Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag
You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up I want to be nothing at all!
I said
YEAH! YEAH! I SAID...YEAH! YEAH!
Come on come on come on I said
Save Me!
Get me the hell out of here
Save Me!
Too young to die and my dear
You Can't!
If you can hear me just
Take Me!
Dead!
Yeah!
And if your heart stops beating
I'll be here wondering
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life
And if you get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, baby
To give you what you deserve
The end and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this
Dead!
Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh, take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand to hear exactly what you planned
And wouldn't it be great if we weren't dead
Oh, Dead.
Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish
You never fell in love
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life
And if you get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, baby
To give you what you deserve
The end and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this
Dead!
Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand to take a pistol by the hand
And wouldn't it be great if we weren't
Dead
And in my honest observation
During this operation
Found a complication
In your heart
So long
'Cause now you've got
Maybe just two weeks to live
Is that the most the both of you can give?
1, 2
1, 2, 3, 4
La la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
Well come on
La la la la la
La la la la looya
La la la la la la la
Oh muthafucker
If life ain't just a joke
Then why are we laughing?
If life ain't just a joke
Then why are we laughing?
If life ain't just a joke
Then why are we laughing?
If life ain't just a joke
Then why am I dead?
Dead!
This Is How I Disappear
Go!
To un-explain
The unforgivable
Drain all the blood
And give the kids a show
By streetlight, this dark night
A seance down below
There's things that I have done
You never
Should ever know
And without you is how I disappear
and live my life alone forever now.
And without you is how I disappear
and live my life alone forever now.
Who walks among the famous living dead
Drowns all the boys and girls inside your bed
And if you could talk to me
Tell me if it's so
That all the good girls go to heaven
Well heaven knows
That without you is how I disappear
and live my life alone forever now.
And without you is how I disappear
and live my life alone forever now.
Can you hear me cry out to you,
words I thought I'd choke on
Figure out I'm really not so with you anymore
I'm just a ghost
So I can't hurt you anymore,
So I can't hurt you anymore!
And now, you wanna see how far down I can sink? Let me go! Fuck!
So you can
Well now so
You can
I'm so far away from you
Well now so
You can
And without you is how I disappear,
And without you is how I disappear
Forever
Forever now.
The Sharpest Lives
Well it rains and it pours when you're out on your own
If I crash on the couch, can I sleep in my clothes?
Cause I spent the night dancing, I suppose
If it looks like I'm laughing I'm really just asking to leave
This alone You're in time for the show
You're the one that I need, I'm the one that you loathe
You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose
Cause I love all the poison away with the boys in the band
I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?
Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandon me
There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo
I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?
Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandon me
Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandon me.
Welcome To The Black Parade
When I was
A young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said
Son when you grow up
Would you be
The savior of the broken
The beaten, and the damned
He said
Will you defeat them
Your demons
And all the non-believers
The plans that they have made
Because one day
I'll leave you
A phantom
To lead you in the summer,
To join The Black Parade
When I was
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said
Son when you grow up
Would you be
The savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned
Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me
And other times I feel like I should go
Went through it all
The rise and fall
The bodies in the streets
And when you're gone we want you all to know
We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The anthem won't explain it
A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all
So paint it black and take it back
And let's shout out loud and clear
Defiant to the end we hear the call
To carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches
On and on we carry through the fears
Over the disappointed faces of your peers
Oh, oh, oh
Take a look at me
'Cause I could not care at all
Do or die
You'll never make me
Because the world
Will never take my heart
Go and try
You'll never break me
You want it all
You want to play this part
I won't explain
Or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed
I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer
For all the broken
Listen here
Because it's who we are
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
I'm just a man
I'm not a hero
I don't care!
We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone, believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're broken and defeated,
Your weary widow marches on
''Do or die
You'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try
You'll never break me
You want it all''
We'll carry on
''You want to play this part
Do or die''
We'll carry on
''You'll never make me
Because the world''
We'll carry on
''Will never take my heart
Go and try''
We'll carry on
''You'll never break me
You want it all''
We'll carry...
''You want to play this part''
...on.
I Don't Love You
Well when you go
So never think I'll make you try to stay,
And maybe when you get back,
I'll be off,
To find another way
When after all this time that you still owe
You're still a good-for-nothing I don't know,
So take your gloves and get out,
Baby get out
While you can
When you go
And would you even turn to say,
I don't love you like I did yesterday
Sometimes I cry so hard from pleading
So sick and tired of all the needless beating,
But baby when they knock you down and out
Is where you oughta stay
And after all the blood that you still owe
Another time was just another blow
So fix your eyes and get up
Baby, get up
While you can
When you go
And would you even turn to say
I don't love you like I did yesterday
Well come on, come on
When you go
Would you have the guts to say
I don't love you like I loved you yesterday
I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday
I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday
House Of Wolves
I know a thing about contrition
Because I got enough to spare
And I'll be grantin' your permission
Cause you haven't got a prayer
Well I said, hey hey
I'm gonna come on sing the praise
Let the Sprint phone come on through you
We got innocence for days
Well, I think I'm gonna burn in hell
Everybody build the house right up
And say, what I wanna say
Tell me I'm an angel
Take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man
Like a stray
Tell me I'm an angel
Take this to my grave
You play ring around the ambulance
Like you never had a care
So, get the choir boys around you
Well it's a compliment, I swear
And I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down
I wanna hear you sing the praise
I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down
We got innocence for days
Well I think I'm gonna burn in hell
Everybody build the house right up
And say what I wanna say
Tell me I'm an angel
Take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man
Like a stray
Tell me I'm an angel
Take this to my grave
You better run like the devil
Cause they're never gonna leave you alone
You better hide up in the alley
Cause they're never gonna find you a home
And as the blood runs down the walls
You see me creepin' up these halls
I been a bad muthafucker
Tell your sister I'm another
Go, go, go
I said, say, what I wanna say
Tell me I'm an angel
Take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man
Like a stray
Tell me I'm an angel
Take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad bad bad bad man. x4
Cancer
Turn away
If you could get me a drink of water
'Cause my lips are chapped and faded
Call my Aunt Marie
Help her gather all my things
And bury me in all my favorite colors
My sisters and my brothers, still
I will not kiss you
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you
Now turn away
'Cause I'm awful just to see
'Cause all my hair's abandoned all my body
Oh, my agony
Know that I will never marry
Baby I'm just soggy from the chemo
Counting down the days to go
It just ain't living
And I just hope you know
That if you say
''If you say''
Goodbye today
''Goodbye today''
I'd ask you to be true
''I'd ask you to be true''
'Cause the hardest part of this
Is leaving you...
'Cause the hardest part of this
Is leaving you.
Mama
Mama, we all go to hell
Mama, we all go to hell
I'm writing this letter and wishing you well
Mama, we all go to hell
Oh well now, Mama, we're all gonna die
Mama, we're all gonna die
Stop asking me questions, I hate to see you cry
Mama, we're all gonna die
And when we go don't blame us, yeah
We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah
You made us oh so famous;
We'll never let you go
And when you go return to me my love
Mama, we're all full of lies
Mama, we're meant for the flies
And right now they're building a coffin your size
Mama, we're all full of lies
Well mother what did to my legs and to my tongue.
You should have raised a baby girl
I should've been a better son
If you could coddle the infection
They can amputate at once
You should've been
I could have been a better son
And when we go don't blame us, yeah
We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah
You made us oh so famous;
We'll never let you go
She said, "you ain't no son of mine"
For what you've done they're
gonna find a place for you
And just you mind your manners when you go.
And when you go return to me my love,
That's right
Mama, we all go to hell
Mama, we all go to hell
It's really quite pleasant except for the smell
Mama, we all go to hell
Mama, Mama, Mama, ohhhh
Mama, Mama, Mama, ohhhh
And if you would call me your sweetheart
I maybe then sing you a song
But there's shit that I've done with this spark of a gun
You would cry out your eyes all night long
We're damned after all
Through fortune and fame we fall
And if you can stay then I'll show you the way
To return from the ashes you call
We all carry on
When our brothers in arms are gone
So raise your glass high for tomorrow we die
And return from the ashes you call.
Sleep
Some say now suffer all the children and walk away a savior
Or a madman and polluted from gutter institutions
Don't you breathe for me, undeserving of your sympathy
Cos there ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did
And through it all how could you cry
For me?
Cos I don't feel bad about it
So shut your eyes, kiss me goodbye
And sleep
Just sleep
The hardest part is letting go of your dreams
A drink for the horror that I'm in, for the good guys
And the bad guys, for the monsters that have been
Three cheers for tyranny, unapologetic apathy
Cos there ain't no way that I'm coming back again
And through it all how could you cry
For me?
Cos I don't feel bad about it
So shut your eyes, kiss me goodbye
And sleep
Just sleep
The hardest part is the awful things that I've seen
Just sleep [x6]
Teenagers
[Low mic static]
They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work
They gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They gonna rip off your heads
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine
They said all
Teenagers scare
The living shit out of me
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
The boys and girls in the click
The awful names that the stick
You're never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did
They said all
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
Ohhh yeah!
They said all
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
All together now!
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less
As long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me.
Disenchanted
Well, I was there on the day
They sold the cause for the queen
and when the lights all went out
We watched our lives on the screen
I hate the ending myself
but it started with an alright scene.
It was the roar of the crowd
that gave me heartache to sing
It was a lie when they smiled
and said you won't feel a thing
and as we ran from the cops
We laughed so hard it would sting
Yeah! Ohhh!
If I'm so wrong
(So Wrong, So wrong)
How can you listen all night long?
(Night Long, Night Long)
And will it matter after I'm gone?
Because you never learned a goddamn thing
You're just a sad song, with nothing to say
About a life-long wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
I spent my Highschool career
Spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes sell a car on TV
Bring out the old guillotine
We'll show 'em what we all mean.
Yeah! Ohhh!
If I'm so wrong
(So Wrong, So wrong)
How can you listen all night long?
(Night Long, Night Long)
And will it matter long after I'm gone?
Because you never learned a goddamn thing
You're just a sad song, with nothing to say
About a life-long wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
So Go away
Just Go away
(run away)
But, where did you run to?
And where did you hide?
Go find another way
Price you pay
Woah! 6x
You're just a sad song, with nothing to say
About a life-long wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
You're just a sad song, with nothing to say
About a life-long wait for a hospital stay
And if you think that I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
At all 4x
Famous Last Words
Now I know
That I can't make you stay
But where's your heart?
But where's your heart?
But where's your...
And I know
There's nothing I can say
To change that part
To change that part
To change...
So many
Bright lights that cast a shadow
But can I speak?
Well is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete
A life that's so demanding
I get so weak
A love that's so demanding
I can't speak
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
Honey if you stay, You'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
Can you see
My eyes are shining bright
Cause I'm out here
On the other side
Of a jet black hotel mirror
And I'm so weak
Is it hard understanding
I'm incomplete
A love that's so demanding
I get weak
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone
Honey if you stay, You’ll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
These bright lights are
always blinding me
These bright lights are
always blinding me
I say…
I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or dead (asleep…)
'Cause I see you lying next to me (I see…)
With words I thought I’d never speak (I’d never speak…)
Awake and unafraid (and I see you lying next to me)
Asleep or dead (I see you lying…)
'Cause I see you lying next to me
With words I thought I'd never speak
Awake and unafraid
Asleep or dead
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone (or dead…)
Honey if you stay, You’ll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home (or dead…)
I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone (or dead…)
Honey if you stay, You’ll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
Hidden Track
Well they encourage your complete cooperation
Send you roses when they think you need to smile
I can't control myself because I don't know how
And they love me for it honestly I'll be here for a while
So give them blood, blood
Gallons of the stuff
Give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough
Give them blood, blood, blood
Grab a glass because there's going to be a flood.
A celebrated man amongst the gurneys
They can fix me proper with a bit of luck
The doctors and the nurses they adore me so
But it's really quite alarming cause I'm such an awful fuck (Why Thank You!)
I gave you blood, blood
Gallons of the stuff
I gave you all that you can drink and it has never been enough
I gave you blood, blood, blood
I'm the kind of human wreckage that you love!