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 5th 2007 !⃝

   I think it's about a bunch of different things in Gerard way's life because it seems to have so many meanings. Maybe it was like, he took his diary, went to the studio, and the band made an awesome song just after reading it through.
   haha that's probably not true though...
2. anonymous

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   Nov 5th 2007 !⃝

   Um well today is the first time I ever heard this song so I had no idea what it was about and my friend who is an MCR fan wouldn't tell me so thanks lol
   (the 2nd one)
3. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2007 !⃝

   Its a song telling people not to be afraid of death. In the shadow of death people worry about if they'll be remembered, if their loved ones can handle themselves well and some others are just to afraid to go through all the pain. It encourages the 'damned' to fight with courage and the ones still living 'to be the chair for all the broken ie. To support them.
   I don't think this has anything to do with Jesus. It more like forget Jesus and fight your own battles with courage and hope.Which I feel compelled to add is a very wrong thing to say.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 30th 2007 !⃝

   Yes My Chemical Romance wanted it to seem that death comes to a man in the form of a parade, but that's their interpretation. The Black Parade is actually a parade of people marching through purgatory, straight to hell. And in the beginning of the song, it says how the father of a little child asked him to be in the black parade. This means that the child who was taken to the Black Parade was abused by his father. So abused to the point where his father would actually be proud of his son if he were to join the Black Parade and burn in hell.
5. ninjacait

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   Oct 23rd 2007 !⃝

   Gerard thinks death comes to everyone in different ways. The Patient's fondest memory was one of his father taking him to see a parade, so death came to him in the form of a parade. There you go. End of story.
6. anonymous

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   Oct 7th 2007 !⃝

   This song is obviously about a man whose father died of drugs, eg mariuana so his wife became a "widow" ("the plants that they have made", this means the plants of satan, marijuana and opium and coca and so on). The father said to the son not to take drugs ever in his live. The young man now is fighting against taking drugs himself, very thankful to his father that he warned him about drugs and remembering his funeral (The black parade). He finds help in his religion and his church. They make him strong in his eternal fight against drugs.
7. anonymous

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   Oct 1st 2007 !⃝

   This song is about the patient. He dies and is welcomed into the black parade. While he is dying, he recalls his favorite memory from his life- his father taking him to a parade.
8. anonymous

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   Sep 30th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is about a father who shows his son when he is young that one day there will be a black parade ( the devil and his followers) and that they will come and beckon him, but he has to be strong an carry on. Then when his dad dies, who was a believer, the son begins to doubt his belief in God, like the "her" and "the widow". So when the son dies, he doesn't go to heaven and see his dad, he will forever remain with the widow in the opposite of heaven.
9. anonymous

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   Sep 25th 2007 !⃝

   Theres No Such Song...
10. anonymous

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    Sep 20th 2007 !⃝

    There is no getting away from it. The scenes in the video look like the aftermath of 9/11 in New York. It obviously has religious overtones i.e. will you be the Saviour. The band are dressed in military uniforms which is significant to the war that followed. The dead man is just one of thousands killed that day. I don't see anything else here.
11. anonymous

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    Sep 17th 2007 !⃝

    I interpreted the song as a story of a boy whom had lost his mother. His father had promised him that when he died he would lead him as a ghost, to join a parade, who would march to save the souls of those who too had lost others. Spreading the message to carry on regardless. They would be the saviours of the broken, the beaten and the damned. The Black Parade. The theme of the song is the message to carry on in the face of death. If you've lost someone don't let it get to you, just march on. I think if you read the true lyrics (i.e. The one's in the CD case - not the many wrong one's on the net) you may pick this up. If not then they it was just my interpretation. I think with songs like this you can't take the lyrics too literally. Otherwise interpretations come out really stupid!
12. anonymous

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    Sep 9th 2007 !⃝

    During an interview with him, they had asked him what inspired him to write this song and it was the death of his mother I believe. If not it was a close member of his family. And how painful it was to lose such a wonderful person.
13. anonymous

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    Sep 3rd 2007 !⃝

    THE SONG IS ABOUT MCR WELCOMING A DEAD PATIENT TO THE BLACK PARADE! WHEN YOU MEET THEM LIKE I DID, ASK!
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    Aug 26th 2007 !⃝

    To me "disappointed faces of your peers" kind of makes "the black parade" sound like a metaphor for becoming an emo.
    
    Either way this song is awesome
15. anonymous

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    Aug 25th 2007 !⃝

    I think, instead of posting these interpretations, someone should just get backstage passes to a MCR concert and just ask them what the song is about.

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