Digital Booklet - The Black Parade(Deluxe Edition)

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THE END. Now come one come all to this tragic a ff air air Wipe o ff  that   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 | Yo You u can find out firsthand what it’s like to be me | So gather ’round piggies and and kiss this goodbye | I’d encourage your smiles I’ll expect you won’t cry  AHHHHHH! AHHHHHH!  AHHHHHH! AHHHHHH!

Oh, motherfucker if LIFE LIFE   ain’t just a joke Then why are we laughing? Then why am I dead? DEAD. \. 03

THIS IS HOW

I DISAPPEAR To un-explain The unforgivab le  Drain  Drai n all all the the blood blood & give give the the kids kids a show show By streetlight | This dark night | A séance séance down below | There’re things that I have done done You never | Should ever know know

 Another contusi contusion, on, my funeral funeral jag ag | 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

 And withou withoutt you is how how I disap disappear pear | And live ive my life alone | Forever now | And without you is how I disappear disappear | And live my my life alone

YEAH! YEAH! I SAID—YEAH! YEAH!

Who walks among the famous living dead Drowns all the boys and girls inside your bed  And if you could could talk talk to me | Te Tell ll me ifif it’s so That all the good girls go | To heaven Well heaven knows

C’mon C’mon C’mon 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 walk away and | Take Me! \. 02

DEAD!

 AND IF YOUR HEART STOPS BEATING

I’LL BE HERE WONDERING DID YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE?

The ending ng of your life | And if you you get to heaven | I’ll be be here waiting, babe babe | Did you get what you deserve? | The end | And if your life won’t wait | Then your heart can’t can’t take this Have | Yo You u heard the news that you’re dead? No one ever had much nice to say | I think they never liked 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?

DEAD.

Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish | You never fell in love | Did you get what you deserve? | The ending ending of your life | And if we get to heaven | I’ll be here here waiting babe babe Did you get what what you deserve? deserve? | The end  And if your life won’t wait  Then your heart can’t take this Have | Yo You u heard the news that you’re dead? No one ever had much nice to say | I think they never liked liked you anyway | Oh take | Me from the hospital bed | Wou Wouldn’t ldn’t it be grand To take a pistol by the hand? AND WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF WE WERE DEAD?

 And in my honest observation observation | During this operation | Found a complicatio complication n 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? LA LA LA LA LA! | LA LA LA LA LA LA! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!

F O R E V E R

N O W

 And you can take all the pain away away from me  A kiss and I will surrender surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead  A light to burn all the empires empires | So bright the the sun is ashamed to rise and be 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 o ff  your  your skin in the cannibal glow | Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands commands | Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands 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 remember | And you can take all the pain away from me | A kiss and I will surrender | The sharpest lives lives are the 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 abandoned me \. 05

That without you is how I disappear disappear | And live my life alone | Forever now | And without you is how I disappear disappear | And live my my life alone F O R E V E R

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 anymore | I’m just a ghost

SO  YOU CAN

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WELL NOW SO  YOU CAN *

I’M SO FAR AWAY FROM YOU

WELL NOW SO * YOU CAN

 And withou withoutt you is how how I disa disappear ppear  And withou withoutt you is how how I disa disappear ppear F O R E V E R FOREVER NOW

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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’ve spent the night dancing I’m drunk, I suppose suppose | If it looks like I’m laughing I’m really just asking to leave This alone, you’re you’re in time for the show | You’re Yo u’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 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

To carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re dead and gone believe believe me | Yo Your ur memory will carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re broken broken and defeated defeated | Yo Your ur weary widow marches On and on we carry through the fears Disappointed faces of your peers | Take a look at me | ’ Cause I could not care at | A ll Do or die | You’ll never make me | Because the world | Will never take my heart | Go and try | Yo You’ll u’ll never break me | We want it all | We want to play this part I won’t won’t explain | Or say say I’m sorry | I’m unashamed | I’m gonna show my scar | Give a cheer 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 boy Who had to sing this song song | I’m just a man I’m not a hero | I | Don’t | Care!

WE’LL CARRY ON.

So I can’t hurt you anymore So I can’t hurt you anymore

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So paint it black black | And take it back back | Let’s shout it loud loud and clear | Defiant to the end we hear the call

We’ll carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re dead and gone believe believe me | Yo Your ur memory will carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re broken broken and defeated defeated | Yo Your ur weary widow marches on

N O W

 And now now | You wanna wanna see see how how far down I can sink? nk? | Let me go!

 A world that sends you reeling | From decimated dreams dreams | Your misery and hate hate will kill us all

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When I was a young boy

I DON’T

 My father took me into the city to see a marching band 

LOVE YOU

He said son when you grow up | Would you be The savior of the broken | The beaten and the damned?

WELL WHEN YOU GO 

He said will you | Defeat them | Your demons | An d all the non-believers | The plans that they have made?  Because  Becaus e one day day | I’ll leave 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 city | To see a marching marching band | He said son when you grow up | Would you be | The savior savior of the broken | The beaten beaten and the damned? Sometimes I get the feeling ing | She’s watching over me | And other times I feel like I should go  And through it all all | The rise and and fall | The bodies in the streets | And when you’re gone we want you all to knowWe’ll carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re dead and gone believe me | Yo Your ur memory will carry carry on | We’l We’lll carry on  And in my heart I can’t contain it  The anthem won’t explain it 

 Don’t ever think think I’ll make you you try to stay 

I don’t love you | Like I loved you | Yesterday | I don’t love you | Like I loved loved you

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HOUSE OF

WOLVES 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’ma come on sing the praise | So let the spirit spirit come on through ya | We got innocence for days days Well I think I’m gonna burn in hell   Everybody burn the house right right down chorus  And say | What I wanna say | Tell me 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 this to my grave You play ring aroundthe ambulance | Welllike you never had a care | So get the choirboys around you | It’s a compliment I swear  And I said ashes to ashes we all fall down I wanna hear you sing the praise  And I said ashes to ashes we all fall down We got innocence for days Well I think I’m gonna burn in hell   Everybody burn the house right right down chorus 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 blood runs down down the walls You see me creepin’ up these halls

 And maybe when you get get back  I’ll be off to find another way 

I been a bad motherfucker Tell yer sister I’m another

 And after all this time that you still owe You’re You ’re still a good-for-nothing I don’t know So take your gloves and get out | Better get out | While you can

TELL ME I’M A BAD | BAD | BAD | BAD | MA MAN. N.

When you go | Would you even turn to say I DON’T LOVE YOU | LIKE I DID | YESTERDAY Sometimes I cry cry so hard from pleading pleading | So sick and tired of all the needless beating But baby when they knock you | Down and out | Is where you oughta stay 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 When you go | Would you have the guts to | I don’t love you | Like I loved you

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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 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

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 \. 09

MAMA  MA MA WE A LL GO TO H E LL  MA MA WE A LL GO TO H E LL

I’m writing this letter and wishing you well 

 MA MA WE A LL GO TO H E LL Oh well now | Mama we’re all gonna die die Mama we’re all gonna die | Stop asking asking me questions | I’d hate to see you cry | Mama WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE

 And when we go don’t blame us | We’ll let let the fires just bathe bathe us | You made us oh so famous | We’ll never let let you go | And when you go don’t return to me my love Mama we’re all full of of lies | Mama we’re meant for for the flies | And right right now they’re building a co ffin your size | Mama WE’RE ALL FULL OF LIES

Well Mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue tongue | Yo You u should have raised a baby girl | I should have been a better son | If you could coddle coddle the infection infection | They can amputate at once | You should have been I COULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER SON

 And when we go don’t blame blame us | We’ll ll let the fires just bathe us | You made us oh so famous | We’ll never let you go | She said “You ain’t no son of mine” | For what you done they’re gonna find | A place for you and  just you mind | Yo Your ur manners when you go  And when you go don’t don’t return to me my love Mama | We all go to hell | Mama we all go to hell hell | It’s really really quite quite pleasant pleasant | Except for the smell | Mama we all go to hell 2

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MAMA! MAMA! MAMA!

 And if you would call me your sweetheart I’d maybe then sing sing you a song | But there’s shit that I’ve done with this fuck of a gun You Yo u 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 to the ashes you call | We all carry on | When our brothers in arms are gone SO RAISE YOUR GLASS HIGH   FOR TOM ORROW W E DIE 

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SLEEP DISENCHANTED SOME SAY NOW SUFFER ALL THE CHILDREN AND WALK AWAY A SAVIOR  OR A MADMAN AND POLLUTED From gutter institutions 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 about it | So shut your your eyes | Kiss me goodbye goodbye | And Sleep | Just sleep sleep | The hardest part  part   Is letting go of | Yo Your ur 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 cheers for tyranny | Unapologetic apathy | ’Cause there is no way that I’m coming back again  And t hrough it all | How could you cry For me | ’Cause I don’t don’t feel bad about it | So shut your your eyes | Kiss me goodbye goodbye | And Sleep | Just Sleep | The hardest parts | The awful things that | I’ve seen J U S T S L E E P. P.

Well I was there on the day they sold the cause for the queen  And when the l ights all we nt ou t  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 sohard it would sting 

Because they sleep with a gun | And keep an eye on you, son | So they can watch watch all the things you do Because the the drugs never work | They’re gonna give you a smirk smirk | ’Cause they got methods to keep you clean clean | They’re gonna rip up your heads | Yo Your ur aspirations aspirations to shreds | Another cog in the the murder machine machine Chorus: | They said all | Teenage rs 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 girls in the clique | The awful names that they stick stick | Yer never gonna fit in much, kid | But if you’re troubled troubled and hurt What you got under your shirt shirt | Will make make them pay for the things that they did Chorus

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These bright lights have always blinded me These bright lights have always blinded me I said I see you lying next to me | With words I thought I’d never speak | Awake and unafraid asleep or dead chorus

You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say  About a lifelong lifelong wait for a hospital hospital stay stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never meant nothing to ya

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

I spent my high school career | Spit on and shoved to agree | So I could could watch all my heroes | Sell a car on TV | Bring out the old guillotine | We’ll show them what we all mean

THE BLACK PARADE

If I’m so wrong | How can you listen all night long | Now will will it matter after I’m gone | Because you never learn a goddamned thing 

So go | Go away away | Just run  Run away | But where did you run to? Where did you hide? Go find another another way | Price you pay pay

They’re gonna clean up your looks  With all the lies in the books  To make a citizen out of you 

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 ng | I get weak

If I’m so wrong | How can you listen all night long | Now will will it matter after I’m gone | Because you never learn a goddamned thing 

You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say  About a lifelong lifelong wait for a hospital hospital stay stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never meant nothing to ya

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chorus

I am not afraid to keep 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

You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say  About a lifelong lifelong wait wait for a hospital stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never meant nothing to ya | C’mon | You You’re ’re just a sad song | With nothing to say say | About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay | And if you think that I’m wrong wrong | This never meant nothing to ya | At all \. 13

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 many | Bright lights they cast cast a shadow | But can I speak | Is it hard understanding I’m incomplete | A life that’s so demanding | I get so so weak | A

APPEARING AS

BOB BRYAR  FRANK IERO  RAY TORO GERARD WAY  MICHAEL WAY 

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all songs written and performed by my chemical romance, ©2006 blow the doors off the jersey shore music, inc. bmi |  lyrics reprinted by permission. all rights reserved. produced by rob cavallo and my chemical romance | engineered by doug m ckean recorded at eldorado recording studios, burbank, ca |  assi stant engineer: chris steffen strings and horns recorded at capitol studios, hollywood, ca | assistant engineer: engineer: jimmy hoyson | mixed by chris lord-alge lord-alge at resonate music, burbank, ca |  assistant engineer: keith armstrong | mastered by ted jensen at sterling sound, ny |  strings and horns arranged by david campbell guest vocals on “mama”: liza minnelli as mother war | additional vocals on “mama”: linda iero, donald james & donna lee way additional musicians: rob cavallo – acoustic piano | jamie muhoberac – b3 organ, synthesize rs, wurlitzer; piano on “blood” | cheech iero – additional percussion on “welcome to the black parade” additional protools: lars fox |  guitar techs: andrew “hans” busher, tyler dragness | drum tech: mike “sack” fasano fasano production coordinator: cheryl jenets my chemical romance/the black parade use the following: epiphone, c and c

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