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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   Nov 13th 2006 !⃝

   It comes from an urban myth that death comes to you in the form of your subconscious choice and as a boy his father would talk to him of the black parade so when near death it came to him as the black parade.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 10th 2006 !⃝

   I think the second one is correct and tells the whole thing correctly to the world. This is my favorite song so I love it either way, if it is could or people who think it is bad.

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3. anonymous

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   Nov 8th 2006 !⃝

   This is about the patient and his memories about going to his first parade with his father.While he slowly dies of cancer his memories move on. And the form in which he is taken to the next life is his greatest memory:the black parade carries him off to death.
4. anonymous

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   Nov 7th 2006 !⃝

   I pretty much love this song, I think it's about a guy remembering his favorite memory but it's kinda haunting me, because that's like his death

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5. shiorysm

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   Nov 4th 2006 !⃝

   First, this song is really called "welcome to the black parade" and it tell the story of a man who's dying tragicly young. The death comes for him in the form of the best memory he has, not the best day, and of course, that memory is a marching band (parade). And because the death always is black, the parade turns into a black parade
6. anonymous

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   Nov 4th 2006 !⃝

   I saw the making of the video. The wood is there because the parade is going through like a ghost town.
   
   
   Macayla
7. anonymous

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   Nov 3rd 2006 !⃝

   The song is welcome to the black parade and it is about a guy and he is dying from cancer and as he is dying he thinks about his greatest pass time and that is when his father took him to see a marching band called "the black parade". In the music video geard explains about how the father leaves his son as a phantom and he wants the son to join the black parade after the father is dead. This song speaks out to ppl who have lost a loved one or someone who is different from others or people that are dying. I'm gothic so I like this whole song because it talks about kids who r dying and losing someone.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2006 !⃝

   Wow! I kinda figured it was something ike that, thanks for the specifics though.

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9. anonymous

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   Oct 29th 2006 !⃝

   I think this about hurricane Katrina. They have a parade when someone dies in new orleans. And if you see in the video there are pieces of wood on the road on the side which are houses.

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10. anonymous

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    Oct 28th 2006 !⃝

    The second one is correct. The song is all about how the patient is joining the black parade. The black parade being a metaphor for death. Hence the title of the track too.
    
    The video clip doesn't leave too much to the imagination either... Pretty straight forward. Having listened to this whole album, it's going to be a lot easier to decipher the meaning/ideals behind each track.
11. Yudorka

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    Oct 21st 2006 !⃝

    This song is about a man awaking from a coma, and the only thing he is able to remember is when he was young and his father took him to the city to see a marching band , and since its the only thing he remembers it is dark to him and he envisions it, that it could bring back his memory and what his father said to him.

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12. anonymous

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    Oct 16th 2006 !⃝

    The song is called welcome to the black parade. It's about the patient. Gerard(hottness)believes that death comes to you however you want. The patient's strongest memory is of his father taking him into the city ti see a marching band. So death comes to him in the form of a black parade.
    
    Macayla
13. anonymous

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    Oct 15th 2006 !⃝

    I'm sorry but I rated this 0. You got the song name wrong and that is not what the song is about sadly :( the band themselves had said the whole album is a concept. Gerard says in a interview on how he believes when you die your fondest memory, may it be from your childhood or adulthood, come back. The man who died from cancer or also known as "the patient" says how his fondest memory was when his father took him to go see a parade. And when he died he is carried away by a "black parade" to the after life.
    
    Aaaa- thank you
14. naturepants9

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    Oct 14th 2006 !⃝

    I think it's about war. Particularly about a draft. The father is being drafted and he's taking his little boy to a parade to help him understand the concept of war. He's relating the war to a parade. He knows he's being drafted, and he disagrees with the killing. He wants to make sure his little boy will fight (not literally) all the injustices in the world, since he personally is being forced to go to war and kill. He's asking his little boy to someday defeat all the people that would kill the innocent, to save all the "broken, beaten, damned" people, and to remind people of all the beauty of the world. "because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer..." here he's saying how he and what he did, no matter how much he fights it, will always haunt the little boy's life because the boy will always remember his father and what he did, dying while killing people in the war. "i'll leave you... To join the black parade." he's comparing war to a black parade.
15. anonymous

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    Oct 12th 2006 !⃝

    Okay, here is what I have worked out.'the paitient' is dying from cancer and re-lives the best day of his life. But, as gerard(in all his hottness) believes when you die you re-live the best day of your life but it is turned upside down and turned into your worst. That is what a friend told me. I have search the internet to no prevail. Hope this helps you.

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