THE END.\. 01

Now come one come all to this tragic affair Wipe off that makeup—what’s in is despair So throw on the black dress | Mix in with the lot Yo u m i g h t w a k e u p a n d n o t i c e

you’re someone you’re not

If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see | You can find out firsthand what it’s like to be me | So gather ’round piggies and kiss this goodbye | I’d encourage your smiles

I’ll expect you won’t cry

Another contusion, my funeral jag | Here’s my resignation, I’ll serve it in drag | You’ve got front row seats to the penitence ball | When I grow up I want to be nothing at all! | I said

C’mon C’mon C’mon I said | Save Me! | Get me the hell out of here | Save Me! | Too young to die and my dear | You Can’t! | If you can hear me just walk away and | Take Me!

AHHHHHH! AHHHHHH!AHHHHHH! AHHHHHH!

YEAH! YEAH! I SAID—YEAH! YEAH!

DEAD!\. 02

The ending of your life | And if you get to heaven | I’ll be here waiting, babe | Did you get what you deserve? | The end | And if your life won’t wait | Then your heart can’t take this

Have | You heard the news that you’re dead? No one ever had much nice to say | I think they never liked you anyway | Oh take | Me from the hospital bed | Wouldn’t it be grand? | It ain’t exactly what you planned

AND WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF WE WERE DEAD?

DEAD.

Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish | You never fell in love | Did you get what you deserve? | The ending of your life | And if we get to heaven | I’ll be here waiting babe Did you get what you deserve? | The end

And if your life won’t waitThen your heart can’t take this

Have | You heard the news that you’re dead? No one ever had much nice to say | I think they never liked you anyway | Oh take | Me from the hospital bed | Wouldn’t it be grand

To take a pistol by the hand?

AND WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF WE WERE DEAD?

And in my honest observation | During this operation | Found a complication in your heart | So long | ’Cause now you’ve got

Maybe just two weeks to liveIs that the most the both of you can give?

LA LA LA LA LA! | LA LA LA LA LA! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!

AND IF YOUR HEART STOPS BEATINGI’LL BE HERE WONDERINGDID YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE?

Oh, motherfucker if LIFE ain’t just a joke Then why are we laughing?

Then why am I dead?DEAD.

By streetlight | This dark night | A séance down below | There’re things that I have done

You never | Should ever know

And without you is how I disappear | And live my life alone | Forever now | And without you is how I disappear | And live my life alone FOREVER NOW

Who walks among the famous living dead Drowns all the boys and girls inside your bed And if you could talk to me | Tell me if it’s so

That all the good girls go | To heavenWell heaven knows

That without you is how I disappear | And live my life alone | Forever now | And without you is how I disappear | And live my life alone FOREVER NOW

Can you hear me cry out to you? | Words I thought I’d choke on | Figure out | I’m really

not so with you anymore | I’m just a ghost

So I can’t hurt you anymoreSo I can’t hurt you anymore

And now | You wanna see how far downI can sink? | Let me go!

And without you is how I disappearAnd without you is how I disappearFOREVER

FOREVER NOW

THIS IS HOW

I DISAPPEAR\. 03

To un-explain The unforgivableDrain all the blood & give the kids a show

SO * YOU CAN * WELL NOW SO * YOU CAN I’M SO FAR AWAY FROM YOU

WELL NOW SO * YOU CAN

THE SHARPESTLIVES\. 04

If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes? | ’Cause I’ve spent the night dancing I’m drunk, I suppose | If it looks like I’m laughing I’m really just asking to leave

This alone, you’re in time for the show | You’re the one that I need | I’m the one that you loathe | You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose | ’Cause I love all the poison Away with the boys in the band

I’ve really been | On a bender and it shows So why don’t you blow me a kiss before she goes?

Give me a shot to rememberA d k ll h i f

WELL IT RAINS AND IT POURSWHEN YOU’RE OUT ON YOUR OWN

When I was a young boyMy father took me into the city

to see a marching bandHe 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 non-believers | The plans that they have made? Because one day | I’ll leave you A PHANTOM

To lead you in the summerTo join the black parade

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? Sometimes I get the feeling | She’s watching over me | And other times I feel like I should go And through it all | The rise and fall | The bodies in the streets | And when you’re gone we want you all to know- We’ll carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re dead and gone believe me | Your memory will carry on | We’ll carry on

And in my heart I can’t contain itThe anthem won’t explain it

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And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender

The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead

A light to burn all the empires | So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be | In love with all of these vampires | So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

There’s a place in the dark where the animals go | You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow | Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands | Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands | Romeo

I’ve really been | On a bender and it shows So why don’t you blow me a kiss before she goes?

Give me a shot to remember | And you can take all the pain away from me | A kiss and I will surrender | The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead | A light to burn all the empires | So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be | In love with all of these vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

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A world that sends you reeling | From decimated dreams | Your misery and hate will kill us all So paint it black | And take it back | Let’s shout it loud and clear | Defiant to the end we hear the call To carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re dead and gone believe me | Your memory will carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re broken and defeated | Your weary widow marches On and on we carry through the fears Disappointed faces of your peers | Take a look at me | ’Cause I could not care at | All Do or die | You’ll never make me | Because the world | Will never take my heart | Go and try | You’ll never break me | We want it

all | We want to play this part I won’t explain | Or say I’m sorry | I’m unashamed | I’m gonna show my scar | Give a cheer | For all the broken | Listen here |

Because it’s who we are I’m just a man | I’m not a hero | Just a boy Who had to sing this song | I’m just a man

I’m not a hero | I | Don’t | Care! We’ll carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re dead and gone believe me | Your memory will carry on | We’ll carry on | And though you’re broken and defeated | Your

weary widow marches on

WE’LL CARRY ON.

I DON’TLOVE YOU

WE LL WH E N YOU GODon’t ever think I’ll make you try to stay

And maybe when you get backI’ll be off to find another way

And after all this time that you still owe You’re still a good-for-nothing I don’t know So take your gloves and get out | Better get out | While you can

When you go | Would you even turn to say I DON’T LOVE YOU | LIKE I DID | YESTERDAY

Sometimes I cry so hard from pleading | So sick and tired of all the needless beating But baby when they knock you | Down and out | Is where you oughta stay

And after all the blood that you still owe Another dollar’s just another blow | So fix your eyes and get up | Better get up

While you can

When you go | Would you even turn to say I DON’T LOVE YOU | LIKE I DID | YESTERDAY

When you go | Would you have the guts to say | I don’t love you | Like I loved you

y e s t e r day

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I KNOW A THING ABOUT CONTRITIONBECAUSE I GOT ENOUGH TO SPAREAND I’LL BE GRANTING YOUR PERMISSION’CAUSE YOU HAVEN’T GOT A PRAYERWell I said hey hey hallelujah | I’ma come on sing the praise | So let the spirit come on through ya | We got innocence for days

Well I think I’m gonna burn in hellEverybody burn the house right down

c h o r u sAnd say | What I wanna say | Tell me I’m an angel | Take this to my grave | Tell me I’m a bad man | Kick me like a stray | Tell

me I’m an angel | Take this to my grave

You play ring around the ambulance | Well like you never had a care | So get the choirboys

around you | It’s a compliment I swear

And I said ashes to ashes we all fall down I wanna hear you sing the praise

And I said ashes to ashes we all fall down We got innocence for days

Well I think I’m gonna burn in hellEverybody burn the house right down

c h o r u s

You better run like the devil ’cause they’re never gonna leave you alone

You better hide up in the alley ’cause they’re never gonna find you a home

And as the blood runs down the walls

You see me creepin’ up these halls

I been a bad motherfuckerTell yer sister I’m another

c h o r u s

TELL ME I’M ABAD | BAD | BAD | BAD | MAN.

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WOLVESHOUSE OF

I don’t love you | Like I loved you | Yesterday | I don’t love you | Like I loved you

y e s t e r day

CANCERTURN AWAY

If you could get me a drink | Of water ’cause my lips are chapped and faded | Call my Aunt Marie | Help her gather all my things | And bury me in all my favorite colors | My sisters and my brothers still | I will not kiss you

’cause the hardest part of thisis leaving you

Now turn away | ’Cause I’m awful just to see | ’Cause all my hairs abandoned all my

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MAMA WE ALL GO TO HELLMAMA WE ALL GO TO HELLI’m writing this letter and wishing you wellMAMA WE ALL GO TO HELLOh well now | Mama we’re all gonna die Mama we’re all gonna die | Stop asking me questions | I’d hate to see you cry | Mama

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE

And when we go don’t blame us | We’ll let the fires just bathe us | You made us oh so famous | We’ll never let you go | And when you go don’t return to me my love

Mama we’re all full of lies | Mama we’re meant for the flies | And right now they’re building a coffin your size | Mama

WE’RE ALL FULL OF LIES

Well Mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue | You should have raised a baby girl | I should have been a better son | If you could coddle the infection | They can amputate at once | You should have been

I COULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER SON

And when we go don’t blame us | We’ll let the fires just bathe us | You made us oh so famous | We’ll never let you go | She said “You ain’t no son of mine” | For what you done they’re gonna find | A place for you and just you mind | Your manners when you go And when you go don’t return to me my love

Mama | We all go to hell | Mama we all go to hell | It’s really quite pleasant | Except

for the smell | Mama we all go to hell

2 - 3 - 4MAMA! MAMA! MAMA!

And if you would call me your sweetheart I’d maybe then sing you a song | But there’s shit that I’ve done with this fuck of a gun

You would cry out your eyes all along

We’re damned after all | Through fortune and flame we fall | And if you can stay then I’ll show you the way to return to the ashes you call | We all carry on | When

our brothers in arms are gone

SO RAISE YOUR GLASS HIGHFOR TOMORROW WE DIE

and return from the ashes you call

MAMA\. 09

body | Oh my agony | Know that I will never marry | Baby I’m just soggy from the chemo | But counting down the days to go

it just ain’t livingand i just hope you know

That if you say | Goodbye today | I’d ask you to be true | ’Cause the hardest

part of this is leaving you

’cause the hardest part of thisis leaving you

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They’re gonna clean up your looksWith all the lies in the booksTo make a citizen out of you

Because they sleep with a gun | And keep an eye on you, son | So they can watch all

the things you do

Because the drugs never work | They’re gonna give you a smirk | ’Cause they got methods to keep you clean | They’re gonna rip up your heads | Your aspirations to shreds | Another cog in the murder machine

Chorus: | They said all | Teenagers scare The living shit out of me | They could care less | As long as someone’ll bleed | So darken your clothes | Or strike a violent pose Maybe they’ll leave you alone | But not me

The boys and girls in the clique | The awful names that they stick | Yer never gonna fit in much, kid | But if you’re troubled and hurt What you got under your shirt | Will make

them pay for the things that they did

Chorus

SOME SAYNOW SUFFER ALL THE CHILDREN

AND WALK AWAY A SAVIOROR A MADMAN AND POLLUTED

From gutter institutions | Don’t you breathe for me | Undeserving of your sympathy ’Cause there ain’t no way that I’m sorry

for what I did

And through it all | How could you cry for me? | ’Cause I don’t feel bad about it | So shut your eyes | Kiss me goodbye | And

Sleep | Just sleep | The hardest partIs letting go of | Your dreams

A drink | For the horror that I’m in | For the good guys and the bad guys | For the monsters that I’ve been | Three cheers for tyranny | Unapologetic apathy | ’Cause there is no way that I’m coming back again

And through it all | How could you cry For me | ’Cause I don’t feel bad about it | So shut your eyes | Kiss me goodbye | And

Sleep | Just Sleep | The hardest parts | The awful things that | I’ve seen

JUST SLEEP.

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SLEEPWell I was there on the day they

sold the cause for the queen And when the lights all went outWe watched our lives on the screeni hate the ending myself but it started with an alright scene

It was the roar of the crowd that gave me heartache to sing | It was a lie when they smiled and said you won’t feel a thing | And as we ran from the cops | We laughed so hard it would sting

If I’m so wrong | How can you listen all night long | Now will it matter after I’m gone | Because you never learn a goddamned thing

You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never

meant nothing to ya

I spent my high school career | Spit on and shoved to agree | So I could watch all my heroes | Sell a car on TV | Bring out the old guillotine | We’ll show them what we all mean

If I’m so wrong | How can you listen all night long | Now will it matter after I’m gone | Because you never learn a goddamned thing

You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never

meant nothing to ya

So go | Go away | Just runRun away | But where did you run to?

Where did you hide?Go find another way | Price you pay

You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never meant nothing to ya | C’mon | You’re just a sad song | With nothing to say | About a lifelong wait for a hospital stay | And if you think that I’m wrong | This never meant

nothing to ya | At all

DISENCHANTED\. 12

Now I know | That I can’t make you stayBut where’s your heart | But where’s your heart

BUT WH E R E’S YOU R

And I know | There’s nothing I can say To change that part | To change that part

to change

So many | Bright lights they cast a shadow | But can I speak | Is it hard understanding I’m incomplete | A life that’s so demanding | I get so weak | A love that’s so demanding | I can’t speak

FAMOUSLAST WORDS

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chorusI am not afraid to keep on living | I am not afraid to walk this world alone | Honey if you stay I’ll be forgiven | Nothing you can

say can stop me going home

Can you see? | My eyes are shining bright ’Cause I’m out here on the other side | Of a jet black hotel mirror | And I’m so weak | Is it hard understanding | I’m incomplete | A love

that’s so demanding | I get weak

chorus

These bright lights have always blinded me These bright lights have always blinded me

I said

I see you lying next to me | With words I thought I’d never speak | Awake and unafraid

asleep or dead

chorus

all songs written and performed by my chemical romance, ©2006 blow the doors off the jersey shore music, inc. bmi | lyrics reprinted by permission. all rights reserved.produced by rob cavallo and my chemical romance | engineered by doug mckean recorded at eldorado recording studios, burbank, ca | assistant engineer: chris steffenstrings and horns recorded at capitol studios, hollywood, ca | assistant engineer: jimmy hoyson | mixed by chris lord-alge at resonate music, burbank, ca | assistant engineer: keith armstrong | mastered by ted jensen at sterling sound, ny | strings

and horns arranged by david campbellguest vocals on “mama”: liza minnelli as mother war | additional vocals on “mama”: linda iero,

donald james & donna lee wayadditional musicians: rob cavallo – acoustic piano | jamie muhoberac – b3 organ, synthesizers, wurlitzer; piano on “blood” | cheech iero – additional percussion on

“welcome to the black parade”additional protools: lars fox | guitar techs: andrew “hans” busher, tyler dragness | drum tech: mike “sack” fasano

production coordinator: cheryl jenetsmy chemical romance/the black parade use the following: epiphone, c and c custom drums, seymour duncan, fender, sit strings, sabian, vic firth, best tronics,

missybroome.com, ampeg management: brian schechter/riot squad legal: stacy fass | agent: matt galle/ellis industries (usa) geoff meall/the agency

group (uk & europe)a&r: craig aaronson

photography: chris anthony | art direction: gerard way, ellen wakayama and matt taylor

design: matt taylor — mattvarnish.comillustrations: james jean

m y c h e m i c a l r o m a n c e . c o m theblackparade.com | repriserecords.comCP2006 reprise records. made in u.s.a.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCEAPPEARING AS

THE BLACK PARADEBOB BRYAR � FRANK IERO � RAY TORO

GERARD WAY � MICHAEL WAY