Black Parade (song) Puns

I've went on a search for an official explanation of the album, yet the only official explanation by MCR I have found is this video where they state their influences for each song as well as the album in general, but never really go into much detail of the story for each song: https://youtu.be/jM3hF0Z-4hM Resulting in that (more-or-less fail of a) search, I have decided to try and elaborate on the story and where The Patient is in each of the songs, as well as what they're each about to my best knowledge.

The Black Parade is an album centered on a character only known as "The Patient", a man fatally diagnosed with cancer who dies and begins his journey into the afterlife, reflecting on his life and what's to become of his memory towards his loved-ones and family.

The End is the first song on the album, where we're introduced to The Patient on his deathbed. He tells people close to him to prepare for his inevitable funeral but doesn't expect any mourning from those who attend, stating "I'll expect you won't cry!" He understands he's going to die and has somewhat accepted it, yet in the outro repeatedly pleads to be saved while simultaneously telling anyone left trying to help him to just walk away, knowing his illness is fatal and wanting to give up on himself.

The next song Dead steps back in time before his diagnosis and begins with a flatline as The Patient's heart has temporarily stopped while in the hospital. He is revived with his mother at his bedside, her angrily asking him again and again if, once he dies, if his death is justified as he threw his life away. The first chorus of the song is him coming to the realization that he is dying and has nobody that would care. He's never lived his life to the fullest, and now won't have the chance to. In the operating room the Doctor tells him that there are complications with his heart, that he's only got two weeks to live, and the sudden stress of guaranteed death so early in life starts to drastically affect The Patient's mental health.

This Is How I Disappear is The Patient realizing that nobody will miss him, and that his memory will fade to nothing as the one person he loved doesn't care for him anymore. Not only in life are they separated but in death they will be too since he's done many things he is ashamed of and will go to hell. His lost love, on the other hand, will go to heaven as "all the good girls go". He reaches out with courage h

Mine is Dead! Also, even though blood is really weird it actually kind slaps

I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love:

1. Vampire's Will Never Hurt You
2. Drowning Lessons
3. Skylines and Turnstiles
4. Early Sunsets Over Monroeville: Am I the only one that sobs listening to this song?
5. Cubicles
6. Our Lady of Sorrows: It's pretty stabyyyy
7. This Is the Best Day Ever
8. Headfirst for Halos
9. Demolition Lovers
10. Romance
11. Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For the Two of Us

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge:

1. I Never Told You What I Do For A Living: One of my all time favorite MCR songs, the line, "And never again, and never again, they gave us two shots to the back of the head" is rad.
2. Give 'Em Hell Kid
3. Thank You For The Venom
4. Cemetery Drive: Any songs that mention mausoleums are awesome
5. To The End
6. You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison
7. The Ghost of You: One of the saddest music video's of all time
8. I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
9. Helena (So Long & Goodnight)
10. The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You: The way Gee says, "Check into the hotel Bella Muerte."
11. Hang 'Em High: The line "wild eyed jokers is cool.
12. It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish
13. Interlude: It's just there

The Black Parade:

1. Disenchanted
2. Famous Last Words
3. This Is How I Disappear
4. Sleep: Seriously the fanmade video for this is amazing, if you want to check it out here's the link
5. House Of Wolves
6. The Sharpest Lives
7. Cancer
8. Dead!: The guitar riffs are INSANE, they're amazing I love them so much
9. Blood: Music video's so fucking sassy, I love it
10. I Don't Love You
11. The End.
12. Welcome to the Black Parade
13. Mama
14. Teenagers

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys:

1. Vampire Money: Love the intro and it gives me like 50's diner vibes
2. DESTROYA: ...
3. Bulletproof Heart
4. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
5. Party Poison
6. SING: I sobbed watching the music video, watching your heroes die (even an acted death) killed me
7. The Only Hope For Me is You
8. Summertime: Backstory of this song is adorable
9. The Kids From Yesterday
10. Planetary (GO!)
11. Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back
12. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Conventional Weapons:

1. Boy Division: My all time favorite MCR song, I love when Gee goes, "La La La La" It kills me
2. The Light Behind Your Eyes: *sobbing*
3. The World Is Ugly: *more sobbing*
4. Gun.
5. Tomorrow's Money
6. AMBULANCE
7. Kiss the Ring
8. Surrender the Night
9. Make Room!!!!

I remember when I was younger, I had the song “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance on my iPod. I was listening to it on the bus for it was popular and was recently released, and one of the kids I was friends with asked me what I was listening to. I told him and he asked to listen to the song so I gave him an earbud. He loved it and asked me to replay it three more times, particularly the opening monologue portion. The next day, he brought another one of his friends to listen to it. Then the after school group I was with, more of his friends all wanted to listen to it. What was strange about this is, all of these kids that were asking to listen to this song were Black. Having known most of them and what they listen to, emo/punk bands with lyrics alluding to suicide(or so I remember) were not high on their list, but for some reason, this song resonated so well with them. It took me more than a decade to realize why it may have been so popular.

They were not listening to a song about suicide, but an empowering song. An empowering song of the Black parade—a parade of Black people. Looking at the lyrics, it very well may invoke such a feeling of empowerment. It was strange it took me that long to realize that this song could take on a whole different meaning.

Mines every song except Blood. Ironically I’m 14 and I was born in 2006 so am I a part of The Black Parade?

Put a letter of the alphebet that corresponds with the song ex: the end/dead is A the sharpest lives is B so on and so forth

The black parade is a near perfect album apart from its most famous song, welcome to the black parade in my opinion isn't even a good song in it's own right the fact it's on an album off songs so good the bane couldn't live up to the expectation it had set it's self makes the song standout even more.

Maybe it's becuase I heard to non stop on kerang and skuzz but I can't stand welcome to the black parade.

This has been driving me nuts for a bit now, there's an opening going on repeat in my head with the same notes as Welcome to the black parade, but doubled. Like every note is played twice. Does anyone know what i'm talking about or have i gone crazy?

This is honestly a pretty tough list to make for me. TBP was one of the first CDs I ever purchased. I remember being in like 4th grade and being weird because I was obsessed with MCR because of this album. This is one of the very few albums where if someone tells me “my favorite song on the album is ____” I’d say “yeah I definitely see why that’s your favorite song on the album.” Every track is solid at worst and absolutely timeless and perfect at best.

Here’s my list: (Note, I am not including ‘Blood’ or any of the bonus tracks on streaming services. Just the original 13 tracks.

13. Sleep: Don’t get me wrong, this track is still good. But one song has to be last right? I feel like this song as well as number 12 don’t really have the star power or memorability to be ahead of any of the other tracks. I would say when I don’t listen to the full album, this would be the one I skip most frequently.

14. Disenchanted: I like this better than Sleep, the melody is awesome and the track is an awesome slow song to set up Famous Last Words. Other than that I find myself skipping it often as well.

15. The End: I feel like this is mainly meant to be an intro song to the album but it passes as an individual song that sounds great on its own. Probably one of the only intro songs off any album I actually listen to individually.

16. I don’t Love You: This song is really well written as far as the instrumental goes. However it doesn’t stick out enough to beat the rest.

17. Dead!: Awesome transition into the meat of the album. Great guitar and outro.

18. House of Wolves: Nice energetic song in between two slower songs. Makes me want to jump. One of the best hooks on the album.

19. Teenagers: One of my favorites when I was younger. This song is definitely a detour from the rest of the album but it sounds great with the rest album nonetheless.

20. This is How I Disappear: Another song with one of the best hooks on the album. This is a track I have liked a lot more as I have grown up. Good energy and instrumental.

21. Cancer: Kicking off the top 5 with a sad one. This is the best ballad on the album by far in my opinion. I love a song that starts slow and picks up a bit later. This track has great personal meaning for me because I discovered this album around the same time that my mom was diagnosed with cancer and my grandma passed away from it. I usually only listen to it with the rest of the album because it reminds me of losing my grandma and almost losing my mom. St

Not all that articulated, but unmistakably the intro to WTTBP

I couldn't be more proud

Ok I know what you’re thinking; “Welcome to the Black Parade is the most iconic MCR song how could you be sick of it??” I do agree that it is a great song and one of their most well-known song which is the very reason I’m sick of it. I have been listening to this song for as long as I can remember and I’ve learnt the drum and guitar parts to it and because of that I have definitely over-listened to it. What is your opinion on the song? Please don’t hate too much.

It's kind of hard to describe what I mean by anthem songs. Rock songs that sound very melodic, building up to something grand, while remaining clear itself. A song that celebrates something or sounds like the culmination of something.

YouTube examples

Power of Partying

https://youtu.be/ysbmarEjmXw

The Black parade

https://youtu.be/RRKJiM9Njr8

Tusk

https://youtu.be/ATMR5ettHz8

I love the darkness in both bands and Cure were a huge influence on MCR.

Are their bands like MCR that are their spiritual successor like Set It Off?

What about other 80s bands that are like The Cure like Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees or Bauhaus?

The intro to the song is basically gonna be my background to why I’m adventuring but I want to see if u guys can help me flesh out a character

“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? Will you defeat them? Those heathens and all the non believers, the plans that they have made”

This sounds sorta like a paladin or a cleric but I want to see what you guys can come up with

CRINGE Warning: This might not be accurate so don’t mock me for it. Stay away from neckbearding. Downvote if Mikey no Likey or else you’re never gonna get a Nikey.

Also this post is cringe so be aware

The Black Parade: You probably listen to Queen or you just really like marching bands

Dead!: you never turn your headphone’s volume down and you probably speak loudly

The Sharpest Vibes: your favorite subject is literature and you attempted writing poems before

Sleep: The only thing straight about you is your arm’s hair when you listen to it

House of wolves: you’re problematic and your parents can’t handle you

The end: You never listen to it without Dead!

Cancer: admit it. You like it because it reminds you of someone

I don’t love you: you spend a little too much time thinking about your relationships with people and you thought everything was as deep as your self esteem’s pit hole when you were a tween

Teenagers: You hate the government more than anybody else does

Mama: You’re even more dramatic than Bollywood movies. And you’re very pessimistic

This is how I diss a pear: you actually disappear into thin air in every social event

Disenchanted: you’re distrusting sometimes

Blood: You’ve replied to someone who said the word “Blood” with “gallons of this stuff” at least once

Famous last words: you’re more impressed by the music video that stars two mine who throw themselves on each other until they’re a pile of bamboo than the song itself

What artwork will you get on The Black Parade for different copies of it (vinyl vs. cd, etc.)? Also, what artwork will you get on the actual disc/record?

yes imo mcr's greatest hit song isn't really that good imo. it just isn't. I don't jam with it at all. ik the lyrics and the sounds and the GLORIOUS G NOT OOOOO but I just don't like it. I can't jam with it at all and it's really imo overrated. mcr has so many better songs such as teenagers, house of wolfs, nanana, helena, I'm not ok, and my favorite the ghost of you. what do all these songs have in common? they're actually good and aren't overrated and are super easy to jam to. I just don't like the black parade at all I'm sorry

If you have other ideas of where songs should go let me know:)

1. The End
2. Dead!
3. Party at the End of the World
4. This Is How I Disappear
5. Heaven Help Us
6. The Sharpest Lives
7. Welcome to the Black Parade
8. I Don’t Love You
9. Kill All Your Friends
10. House of Wolves
11. Cancer
12. All The Angels
13. My Way Home Is Through You
14. Mama
15. Emily
16. Sleep
17. Not That Kind of Girl
18. Teenagers
19. Disenchanted
20. The Five of Us Are Dying
21. Famous Last Words
22. Blood

Also The Owl House more like The Owl Parade am I right?

Just curious how you guys would order the tracks on Black Parade from favorite to least favorite

Hello, fellow MCR fans. Originally I wanted to rank all of MCR songs, but then realized that it would be hard, because I haven’t listened to Danger Days and Weapons as much as to first 3 albums. So here are songs from I Brought You Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade ranked from worst to best. This list was hard for me to make because Bullets and Three Cheers are my all time favorite albums. Let me know your opinion on this post. So here is the list:

• This is just my opinion, I don’t want to offend anyone *

38 Interlude

37 Romance

36 Blood

35 This is the best day ever

34 House of Wolves

33 Cubicles

32 The end

31 Skylines and Turnstiles

30 Teenagers

29 Welcome to the black parade

28 Cemetery drive

27 The Shapest lives

26 The Ghost of you

25 I don’t love you

24 Dead

23 Thank you for the venom

22 Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill U

21 Famous Last Words

20 This is how I disappear

19 To the end

18 I’m not okay I promise

17 Hang em high

16 Our lady of sorrows

15 Drowning lessons

14 It’s not a fashion statement it’s a death wish

13 Sleep

12 Cancer

11 Mama

10 You know what they do guys like us ...

9 I never told you what I do for a living

8 Disenchanted

7 Vampires will never hurt you

6 Headfirst for Halos

5 Give em hell kid

4 Helena

3 Honey this mirror isn’t big enough for both of us

2 Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

1 Demolition Lovers

So this was my ranking of songs on those albums, but everyone has different opinions. Let me know how you liked/ disliked this list.

I feel like everyone has a different preference for the Black Parade, so feel free to share

14. Blood
15. Teenagers
16. I Don't Love You
17. Famous Last Words
18. Cancer
19. House of Wolves
20. Welcome to the Black Parade
21. This is How I Disappear
22. The End.
23. Dead!
24. The Sharpest Lives
25. Sleep
26. Mama
27. Disenchanted