My Chemical Romance: Welcome to the Black Parade Meaning

Song Released: 2006

Welcome to the Black Parade Lyrics

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...

1. anonymous

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   Feb 22nd 2007 !⃝

   The man in the song is dying in a hospital. And his most treasured memory was when his father took him to a parade when he was a young boy. And gerard says he believes that when you die, death comes to you in any form you want it to. So as this man is dying, remembering his father and the parade, death comes to him as a black parade
2. anonymous

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   Feb 21st 2007 !⃝

   I suggest you all look for a sign that says, "Starved to death in a land of plenty" in the video.
   
   I believe 'the black parade' is indeed the US Army. His father wanted him to join the Army but he had other dreams.
   
   It confuses me when he sings, "Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me." However, this female can be his mother or some female influence in his life; she told him he should follow his dream, because he continued by saying he feels she's watching over him while sometimes he just think he should join the black parade.
   
   "And in my heart I can't contain it," I believe that explains his passion for his own dream.
   
   "Though your dead and gone believe me Your memory will carry on," even after many years, he still remembers this memory.
   
   Disappointed faces of your peers... Take a look at me cause
   I could not care at all Do or die... Cause the world, will never take my heart... you'll never break me ... Wont explain or say I'm sorry I'm not ashamed," ... That speaks for itself...
   
   "I'm not a hero Just a boy, who's meant to sing this song Just a man," His dream: Musician
3. anonymous

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   Feb 19th 2007 !⃝

   The song is saying that when you die your memory is still living and remembered by others forever.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 15th 2007 !⃝

   It's about MLK! REad the lyrics, it all fits!

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5. anonymous

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   Feb 14th 2007 !⃝

   This is according to Gerard. When you die, death comes to you in your fondest memory. For The Patient, his fondest memory was going to a parade with his father when he was young. "When I was a young boy my father took me into the city, to see a marching band." So when death comes for him, it comes in the form of The Black Parade. Also, the father says "Will you defeat them, your demons and all the non-believers? The plans that they have made? Because one day I leave you, a phantom to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." This suggests that his father may have been preparing him for his upcoming life and that the father died before the Patient and will help him join the Black Parade. In the chorus when they say "We'll carry on," they are saying that even though The Patient is dead, everyone will carry on. "And though your broken and defeated, your weary widow marches on."
6. blackparade

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   Feb 10th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is about a The Patient who is dying from Cancer. He dies and remembers when his father took him to a marching band. He joins The Black Parade which is a sign of death. The Black Parade leads the Patient to like My Chemical Romance heavan, "Will carry on, will carry on." That's just a guess.
7. anonymous

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   Feb 9th 2007 !⃝

   i think that the black parade is a symbol for the youth of the united states to stop listening to emo bands, to get off their asses, and do something with their lives...not to sit and listed to a song, as well as analyze every stanza to try to understand the lyrics that probably don't even make sense in the first place. Stop being emo
8. anonymous

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   Feb 5th 2007 !⃝

   wow maybe i, wrong but I didn't really take this song the same way as everyone else. I know this album is about the patient but I don't think this song is about his best memory as much. I think its more general and saying that after you die you will live throught people's memories and the black parade. I think the black parade is the everlasting march of all the dead people who's memories keep them "alive". and I think its the guy's (gerard?) responsibility to keep the black parade going and not let the memories die. He's saying reassuring the dead people that he and the world will keep them living through the parade.
   
   i could be completely wrong but that's kind of what I thought. and I think this song is amazing. I know its overplayed now because a lot of people think they like because they listen to whatever is on MTV but it really is a good song. not to offend anyone or anything, I just thinks it kind of annoying.
9. anonymous

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   Feb 5th 2007 !⃝

   wow, I've read some of the interpretations, which are all pretty much the same. I've never seen the video, so I don't have the advantage of that insight, but I just thought the song was about the underdog. you know, like the message is that even though were pressed down by society and all the popular people and their little cliques that we matter an to join the black parade because were not alone, and not to let yourself be supressed by all that stuff, keep fighting. " we'll carry on"
10. anonymous

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    Feb 4th 2007 !⃝

    I was so far off: I thought it referred to the OLD belief that some people's souls rise at night to fight witches during full moons, etc. as werewolves in order to protect the crops. Those people (and the witches) don't get to go to heaven/hell until the apocalypse and thus wander the world at night as a sort of dead "black parade." Although, the real meaning is just as strange.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 3rd 2007 !⃝

    This song is about a boy whose padre is dying and needs help dealing with it. while his padre is dieing, he tells his son that he will help him through all of the depressing times he has to go through after he is dead. I think it resembles how when loved ones die, they are still with us... In our hearts.
    'sob'
    toodles

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12. anonymous

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    Feb 1st 2007 !⃝

    It doesn't need to be interpreted this deep. It is a song by an emo band about (you guessed it) DEATH. Big surprise. What else is new? Stop cutting yourselves, your pathetic souls are already damned to hell.

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13. radical_pixie

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    Feb 1st 2007 !⃝

    This song is an inspiration to me, for some reason. Whenever I listen to it I feel like ... doing something to rebel. mostly just because of the part that starts out "do or die, you'll never make me..." and so on. Ha, anyone else out there feel the same way? :D
    i love MCR!
14. anonymous

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    Jan 31st 2007 !⃝

    I Just figured this through a music video on you tube.
    
    I figure, that, the man dying is the singer's father, and he took the singer to see a marching band when he was a young boy, and his father is about to die. When his father dies he will join the black parade aka a place where (as in the song) you join when you die. This explains the whole song. And the carry on part. Think about it.

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15. satanslilwhore_666

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    Jan 30th 2007 !⃝

    Welcome to the black parade. It's about the patient dying and seeing life in the form of a parade because his greatest memory is of his father taking him into the city to see a parade. The black parade is about his life through death and how it comes to him.

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