Artist: My Chemical Romance
Album: The Black Parade (2006)
Track Listing:
1. The End.
2. Dead!
3. This Is How I Disappear
4. The Sharpest Lives
5. Welcome to the Black Parade
6. I Don't Love You
7. House of Wolves
8. Cancer
9. Mama
10. Sleep
11. Teenagers
12. Disenchanted
13. Famous Last Words
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Title: "The End."
Come one, come all to this tragic affair
And wipe off that makeup, what's in is despair
So throw 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
Instrumental:(strum each once)
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
Instrumental to End
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Title: "Dead!"
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, babe
Did you get what you deserve? The end and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this
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? It ain't exactly what you planned
And wouldn't it be great if we were 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, babe
Did you get what you deserve? The end and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this
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 were dead?
Bridge:
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?
INSTRUMENAL (Intro chords)
La la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la
END ON
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Title: "This Is How I Disappear"
(x2)
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
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
Bridge
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, f###
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 live my life alone forever now
And without you is how I disappear
And live my life alone forever now
END ON
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Title: "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'm drunk, 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
Pre-Chorus
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 the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the embers
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned 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
Pre-Chorus
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 the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the embers
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me
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Title: "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 will 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 will 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
And 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
Let's shout it 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
Bridge
On and on we carry through the fears
Disappointed faces of your peers
Take a look at me because I could not care at all
Refrain
Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scars
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
I'm 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
We want it all, we wanna play this part (We'll carry on)
Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try you'll never make me
We want it all, we wanna play this part (We'll carry on)
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Title: "I Don't Love You"
Well when you go, don't ever think I'll try to make you stay
And maybe when you get back I'll be off to find another way
And 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
Better get out while you can
When you go 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 dollar's just another blow
So fix your eyes and get up
Better get up while you can
When you go would you even turn to say
"I don't love you like I did yesterday"
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Title: "House of Wolves"
Well, I know a thing about contrition
Because I got enough to spare
And I'll be granting your permission
Cause you haven't got a prayer
Well, I said hey, hey, hallelujah
I'm going come on sing the praise
And let the spirit come on through you
We got innocence for days
Pre-Chorus
Well I think I'm gonna burn in hell
Everybody burn the house right down
And say what I want to say
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man, kick me like a stray
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
You play "Ring Around the Ambulance"
Well, like you never gave a care
So get the choir boys around you
It's a compliment, I swear
And I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down
I want to hear you sing the praise
I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down
We got innocence for days
Pre-Chorus
Well I think I'm gonna burn in hell
Everybody burn the house right down
And say what I want to say
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man, kick me like a stray
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
Bridge
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 creeping up these halls
I been a bad motherfucker
Tell your sister I'm another
And say what I want to say
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man, kick me like a stray
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
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Title: "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
Turn away, cause I'm awful just to see
Cause all my hair has abandoned all my body
Oh my agony, know that I will never marry
Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo
But counting down the days to go
It just ain't living, and I just hope you know
That if you say goodbye today
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
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Title: "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
Mama, we're all gonna die
Mama, we're all gonna die
Stop asking me questions
I'd 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 don't 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 the war did to my legs and to my tongue
You should have raised a baby girl, I should have been a better son
If you can 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 did they're gonna find
A place for you and just you mind
Your manners when you go
And when you go, don't return to me, my love
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
Interlude (go crazy on )
MAMA, MAMA, MAMA...
And if you would call me your sweetheart
I'd maybe then sing you a song
But there's shit that I've done
With this fuck of a gun
You would cry out your eyes all along
We're damned after all
Through fortune and flame 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
Though our brothers in arms are gone
So raise your glass high for tomorrow we die
And return from the ashes you call
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Title: "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
Cause there ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did
And through it all
How could you cry for me
Cause 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 I've been
Three cheers for tyranny
Unapologetic apathy
Cause there ain't no way that I'm coming back again
And through it all
How could you cry for me
Cause 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
Bridge
Just sleep, just sleep
Just sleep, just sleep
Just sleep, just sleep
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Title: "Teenagers"
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're gonna give you a smirk
Cause they've got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip up your heads
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine
They say "The 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 clique
The awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you've got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did
They say "The 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
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Title: "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
Pre-Chorus
If I'm so wrong
How can you listen all night long?
Now will it matter after I'm gone?
Because you never learned a goddamn thing
You're just a sad song with nothing to say
Another lifelong wait for a hospital stay
And if you think I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
I spent my high school 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 them what we all mean
Pre-Chorus
If I'm so wrong
How can you listen all night long?
Now will it matter after I'm gone?
Because you never learned a goddamn thing
You're just a sad song with nothing to say
Another lifelong wait for a hospital stay
And if you think I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
Bridge
So go, go away, just go, run away
But where did you run to? Where did you hide?
Go find another way, price you pay
You're just a sad song with nothing to say
Another lifelong wait for a hospital stay
And if you think I'm wrong
This never meant nothing to you
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Title: "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, they 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 I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
Can you see, my eyes are shining bright
Because 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 I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
Interlude
These bright lights have always blinded me
These bright lights have always blinded me
Bridge
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
Honey, if you stay I'll be forgiven
Nothing you can say can stop me going home
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