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. narleymarleybabe

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   Dec 31st 2006 !⃝

   I heard it was about nazis. which kind of makes since when you look at the album art and stuff.
   
   either way its a great song and I <333 it!

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2. anonymous

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   Dec 29th 2006 !⃝

   Ah, it's a dark song about a black parade. Maybe their gay and talking about the halloween parade in West Hollywood. But
   I'm not gay, they are. Or it has to do with the Pope making a
   trip to the Muslim nation, and he thought he was a young boy and his father took him into the Muslim city. Yeah that's it.
   But if you listen to the lyrics, their trying to insert a little Queen action in the middle of the song. Whatever to all you haters, get a Life!!!!!

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3. anonymous

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   Dec 28th 2006 !⃝

   Well this whole album is Gerard recovering from alcohol addictions and whatnot, and he's starting a whole new life, sober, blonde, new. So, I'd say when he refers to his father saying "son, when you grow up, will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?" he's saying that he is here to rescue others (the broken, beaten, and damned) from a fate similar to the one he was headed towards until he sobered up. He's reaching out through the power of music to all those people with addictions and such, to be their savior, just like his father said. That's what I could gather from that part.
4. anonymous

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   Dec 22nd 2006 !⃝

   I think the song is talking about 9-11 tragedy. I got the first clue in the lyrics when they say "the bodies in the street" and when they said "carry on" (we must move on). In my opinion they're talking about the horrors of 9-11, due to the setting of the music video...it kinda looks like the scene of the world trade centers after they collapsed...and the black parade meaning the military avenging 9-11 victims...
   
   Whatever the meaning, it's an awesome song
5. anonymous

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   Dec 18th 2006 !⃝

   "Welcome to the black parade" is (to me) about this man who is the savior of th broken(ones who didn't make it in the real world), the beaten(abused), the damned(going to hell). pay attention the song tells a story.what I just said...is basicaly the actual meaning of the song.
6. anonymous

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   Dec 15th 2006 !⃝

   When I first saw the video for this song, I immediately thought that it was alluding to the Holocaust. Gerard looked like an Aryan, the city behind them was all burnt and destroyed, there was the chick in the gas mask... It all sorta made me think of the Nazis. I can see how it is about death, but Nazis suck (I don't really know how that applies, but it's true).
7. anonymous

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   Dec 9th 2006 !⃝

   i actually thought it was about a man that is in a comba and in the comba he remembers his dad taking him to see a marching band and he remembers what his dad says to him and he has a dream about him joining that marching band and in the end of his drem he joins and that's when in real life he dies!
   <3 x x x
8. anonymous

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   Dec 8th 2006 !⃝

   Gerard actually said in an interview that it's about how when death comes for the Patient, it comes in the form of a parade which represents the Patients best memory from when he was a kid (when his father took him to see a parade)
9. anonymous

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   Dec 7th 2006 !⃝

   Don't laugh, but is there ANY chance that the black parade could be reminiscing about the Phantom Regiment, which is a drum and bugle corps band? Just a small thought. When I first heard this song, it brought back memories of DCI where the Phantom Regiment played.
10. anonymous

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    Nov 30th 2006 !⃝

    ok dude seriously its not jesus he's talking about other wise it would be called welcome to the white parade because nowadays people claim black to be dark so when they say black parade it means he falling into the darkness of somekind and I think the one about the war sounds pretty close to this but since the singer himself said it was about ding and going into a darkness and why is it saying she's watching over me and they call her a widow its b/c his father died of somekind an di guess its really about the war in iraq if you think about it and the part were he goes I'm just a man I'm not a hero that means he doesn't want to go to the war hed rather be a musician like he is now.
11. anonymous

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    Nov 22nd 2006 !⃝

    LOl people this song is about himself and jesus . The intro is about jesus and the middle and end is about him not being jesus ...its so clear >.<
12. anonymous

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    Nov 21st 2006 !⃝

    The song is about when the lead singer was young, his father told him at a parade that he was going off to some war and he might not come back (he doesn't. his father also told him that he wants the young boy to "carry on" the family tradition of joining the army when he becomes of age. but the boy did not want to join the army all he wanted to do become a musician because he thinks he is just a normal kid not a hero.
13. anonymous

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    Nov 18th 2006 !⃝

    It's about not letting death beat you. The speaker is telling how his father died, and gave the job of protecting others from death to his son.

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14. anonymous

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    Nov 18th 2006 !⃝

    That has to be the the dumbest interpretation every, but it was kinda funny I like the broken chair part

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15. anonymous

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    Nov 13th 2006 !⃝

    The kid's dad wants him to be like a ghostbuster when he grows up. And so the ghosts kill the dad. And then the kid gets hurt by ghosts *the scars* and then there's a parade to get the ghosts to go away *the black parade* and the broken chair was from when the ghosts were beating him....Ya...-love ana!!!!

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