What is the True meaning of the song Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance?

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Answer 1

This is according to Wikipedia...
"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. This illness is most likely heart cancer, since many references at cancer are made throughout the album, and in Dead!, the doctors tell the Patient "they found a complication in your heart". 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 may be the opposite of the relationship he has with his mother, which is further detailed in the song "Mama". However, the band has stated that "Mama" represents Mother War, a mother who lost her child(ren) in war. She also represents loss, and so may simply be another figure in the Black Parade.

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. 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 is visually represented by its music video. Some have argued that there is a flaw with the actor portraying the Patient, in that he is not bald, when most people who have cancer and go through chemo are bald. This however is not always the case, so its not necessarily a flaw."

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Answer 3

You do realize that the person who made the video on YouTube made the video up. Just because they think someone stole someone elses songs doesn't mean anything. And a lot of songs use the exact same chords, take Rap for instance, all of it sounds the same. But when you have thousands of artists in this world, eventually something is going to get copied. It's not even that much alike, that girl pointed out 2 similarities that lasted for about 3 seconds. The beginning and one word was copied. I think you have to have a little more than that to accuse someone of stealing it. And MCR hasn't said anything about it, if it doesn't bother them, don't let it bother the fans either. I love MCR better, of course, but give Avril a break, it's not like she purposely used a word from their song! If 2 songs started off with the first 3 chords being the same, and you didn't like the band you wouldn't care. But since you like MCR so much, you're first action is to defend them, in this case it is for a stupid reason. And the person that made that video isn't even famous, she just made a video because she was bored. She just likes to watch fans bash eachother, and everyone who is fighting about this is really bored, you are too blind to see the truth, or you just hate one of the people. It doesn't matter people get over it. Enough said.

Answer 4

the black parade is a grand event that took place on earth several times since thousand years ago..it is about a great leader/emperor/shaman who threatened his people to worship them and if they don t, he will kill him..so, before the end of the world, this black parade will occur once more and the people who do not believe in Allah will follow the parade..Wallahualam..

Answer 5

How I interpret this is that maybe Gerard lost a loved one (most likely his father considering the entire first verse of the song is his father talking to him) and maybe he is (was) contemplating his own life but deciding against it and this is talking about the cherished memories with his father and even through the tragedy he will carry own living his life for his father.

Answer 6

Gerard (lead singer) believes that when you die, you get to choose how death comes to you. In this song, the main character-the patient-dies, and he finds death as a black parade, because his dad took him to a parade when he was little. The rest of the song after the intro is basically saying everyone wiil remember him.

Answer 7

That's right

Answer 8

The song is actually a part of an attempt at a mini rock opera. If you listen to the rest of the album it tells the story of a child going through his father's death and how when you die you leave in the form of your greatest memory (hence, the parade).

Answer 9

TRIGGERED also it's supposed to be about feelings because it's emo NOT GOTH

Answer 10

It's like, during the entire CD Gerard's singing about this one guy's journey through death.

SO- WTTBP is about Gerard's "father" dying and how he feels about it.

AND how his father wants him to be a great person, which he said when he was a kid- "Will you defeat them, your deamons, the plans that they have made, because one day I'll leave you, a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join teh Black Parade." and how he'll leave him one day.

AND how we'll carry on from his death, even though he loved his dad a ton.

Hope this helps.