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It takes little more than one glance at a My Chemical Romance member — and one spin of the band's latest album, The Black Parade — to get an idea of what the quintet is all about. The black attire. The mascara. Song titles such as “Cancer” and “Dead.” A DVD titled, “Life on the Murder Scene.”
Yes, it appears that My Chemical Romance is infatuated with doom and gloom, destruction and death. And that infatuation — along with plenty of talent — has earned the group a loyal fan base, one large enough to make My Chemical Romance one of the hottest young bands in the country today. So before My Chemical Romance oh-so-sullenly invades the AT&T Center, take a look at some of the band's more death-obsessed tracks.
‘DROWNING LESSONS'
ALBUM: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “From the times that I've killed you and then/we can wash down this engagement ring/with poison and kerosene/we'll laugh as we die/and we'll celebrate the end of things/with cheap champagne.”
THE 210 TAKE: Suicidal tendencies after an engagement? Most people wait until marriage to entertain those kinds of thoughts.
‘VAMPIRES WILL NEVER HURT YOU'
ALBUM: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “And if they get me and the sun goes down into the ground/and if they get me take this spike to my heart and/and if they get me and the sun goes down/and if they get me take this spike and/you put the spike in my heart.”
THE 210 TAKE: Being a vampire wouldn't be so bad. You'd get to sleep in every day.
‘HELENA'
ALBUM: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “Long ago/just like the hearse you die to get in again/!we are so far from you.”
THE 210 TAKE: My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way wrote this hit single about his late grandmother, and the band plays at a funeral in the accompanying music video. That's sweet, albeit in a really, really disturbed way.
‘THE GHOST OF YOU'
ALBUM: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “Get the feeling that you're never/all along I remember now/at the top of my lungs, in my arms, she dies/she dies.”
THE 210 TAKE: In case you didn't hear him correctly the first time, Way makes sure to scream, “she dies” one more time. Yep, by that point, we're pretty sure we know how the story ends.
‘THANK YOU FOR THE VENOM'
ALBUM: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “So give me all your poison/!and give me all your pills/and give me all your hopeless hearts/and make me ill/you're running after something that you'll never kill/if this is what you want/!then fire at will.”
THE 210 TAKE: Who needs pills? The poison alone would probably do the trick.
‘CEMETERY DRIVE'
ALBUM: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “Back home/off the run/singing songs that make you slit your wrists/it isn't that much fun/!staring down a loaded gun.”
THE 210 TAKE: Songs that make people want to slit their wrists? Well, the list is long (see Britney, Diddy). But, at least in My Chemical Romance's case, it's a good guess the band was referring to something by sort-of rival Fall Out Boy.
‘DEAD'
ALBUM: The Black Parade
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “Oh take me from the hospital bed/wouldn't it be grand/it ain't exactly what you planned/and wouldn't it be great if we were dead?”
THE 210 TAKE: Way makes a good point when detailing the merits of death. After all, there's nothing like afterlife uncertainty, saddened loved ones and impending worm food status to brighten one's day.
‘FAMOUS LAST WORDS'
ALBUM: The Black Parade
SIGNATURE LYRICS: “Cause I see you lying next to me/with words I thought I'd never speak/awake and unafraid/!asleep or dead.”
THE 210 TAKE: If any other My Chemical Romance song you've ever heard is any indication, it's a good bet that the person in question in this song is not asleep. She is probably dead.
Clint Hale | 210SA
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