Can anyone explain to me...?

Question

...what the Chemical Romance song (Black Parade or something) is about. Does it have some deep significance or is it is just a song?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patient

has EVERYTHING about the symbolic depth of the whole album.

Answer 2

I always thought it had some significance to the Elizabethan "Danse Macabre" (Dead Parade) a parade which morned and remembered those who died from the "Black Death" (Bubonic Plague). There were customs to not actually "see" this parade as a means of "protection' from the "Black Death." You were supposed to avert your eyes and pretend it didn't exist. "
The marchers would cover themselves from head to toe in all black costumes. They would parade around the town in a strange dance between life and death. Their movements were choreographed and they would carry noise makers to frighten off "Evil spirits" but if you as a regular towns person were to lay eyes on them and acknowledge their presence it was said to be a bad omen.

Answer 3

Welcome To The Black Parade.

The song's message is for everything to get better and for everyone to carry on.


After learning of his illness, reflecting on his life, and dealing with all the issues of mortality, the Patient's own mortality is quickly coming to an end. Here the Patient is drifting between life and death, and so death is coming for him in the form of his strongest memory. The Patient's fondest memory is of his father taking him to town as a boy to see a parade ("when I was a young boy, my father took me into the city, to see a marching band"). The Patient's father asks him as a boy "Son, when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?", perhaps preparing the Patient for his future illness, and asking him if he will have what it takes to mentally overcome it and be an example for others who follow in his footsteps to be strong. The Patient's father also tells him "someday I'll leave you a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." This hints that the Patient's father most likely died before the Patient, and will help him join the Black Parade (in other words be there when he dies to help him in the afterlife). The song also shows that the Patient most likely had a very good relationship with his father, since his fondest memory in life occured when he was with his father. This is the opposite of the relationship he has with his mother, which is further detailed in the song Mama.

The Patient passes into a realm of life and death, and sees the Black Parade. The Black Parade seems to take place in the city that he saw the marching band in his youth, only now the city is barren, and more macabre ("the bodies in the street". The reason why the city is all in ruins is that, if the My Chem site prooves relivent, that the parade was actually a trap set by forces (it's unknown if the forces are of the enemy or of the 'good guys') to lure people out into the streets so the enemy/good guys can bomb the people (If you play hidden game on the My Chem site, you'll eventually get to a section where there's a news paper article, if you read the article it fully explains 'The Black Parade' and the suspections behind the bombing and how 'the return' of My Chem could have something to do with it). Along with that, his father, in his dying breathes askes The Patient if he could be the savior of 'the beaten and the damned', here his father is probably refering to all the people that died in the bombing. The Patient probably took this a sign to join and help fight the war that was going on at the time. This could also be the reasoning behind Mama and a couple of other (such as the chorus in 'Sleep' where the Patient is talking to his dying girlfriend who was crying because she was scared for him when he joined the military, even though he doesn't feel the same worry-'And through it all, how could you cry for me? Cause I don't feel bad about it'). He sees the performers of the Black Parade, only they too are more macabre than those of the parade he saw in his youth, and seem to represent emotions and other parts of his life. The Black Parade tell him of "the disappointed faces of your peers", which have no effect on the Patient, as he states he "could not care at all", showing he will no longer let anyone dictate his actions, and hasn't quite repented yet (as he does in Famous Last Words). He still doubts himself ("I'm just a man, I'm not a hero" in reference to his father's question at the beginning of the song). He is still firm in his doubt of the world ("you can try, you'll never break me"). Finally The Black Parade assures him that his "memory will carry on", and though he may be dead and defeated his "weary widow marches on." Thus trying to encourage him that he isn't as evil as he thinks, and that if he joins them what he leaves behind in life will be fine.

The song visually represents the entire story (somewhat) in its music video (one flaw however is that "the patient" has hair, when a cancer patient suffering from chemo would be bald + the character in the album art is bald and paler).


[edit] Music Video
The video for the single was directed by Samuel Bayer.[4] The music video was released on September 26, 2006 in the UK and Canada, and was released on September 27, 2006 in the US. It features a man (played by Lukas Haas) dressed in a hospital gown, "The Patient" that the album is about, dying, and being taken by death in the form of a Black Parade. On the main float stands Gerard, Mikey, Bob, Ray and Frank playing "Welcome to the Black Parade". The costumes worn by the band members of My Chemical Romance in the music video are similar to the costumes worn by The Beatles on the cover of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a main influence for their new album. While the band is playing The Patient wanders throughout the parade looking at all the various characters within it. In the end he is given a medal, the medal could be symbolic of death itself or a life completed. After this, the parade leaves and The Patient is left alone.

The cover art for the single is a scene from the video, with the man in the bottom center being the Patient. He is flanked by two women in Gerard Way Revenge-era makeup, possibly signifying the band has not left their roots with their transformation. There has been a lot of conflict between fans over the video. Some state that the video is similar in style to "Minority" by Green Day, however upon further analysis, the video bears a more striking resemblance to Sigur Ros' "Vaka," which preceded both. Many people also claim that Gerard Way's mannerism are similar to those of Freddie Mercury.[citation needed]The setting of the music video goes from a hospital to a surreal cityscape, barren and destroyed as if from war with wreckage lying on the ground. The video features 4 of the main characters. The Patient, Fear, Regret, and Mother War. Fear and Regret are the two women that stand beside The Patient on the cover for the single. Mother War is the woman with the very large poofy dress wearing a gas mask. Liza Minnelli plays the character of Mother War in the second verse of the song "Mama".

Answer 4

WOW That's an amazing song. It's basically about the journey of life.

Answer 5

to me it's just a cool rocking song

Answer 6

It has no meaning. . .it is just your usual emo drivel and sniveling crap.