Now Come One Come All to This Tragic Affair

THE END-MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

"You've got front row seats to the penitence ball,
When I grow up I want to be nothing at all!"

YOU MIGHT WAKE UP AND NOTICE YOU'RE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT

Stop trying to fit in. Do what you want to do. Stop trying to impress everyone. If you wanna pull off the "Hobo Chic" look, then fucking do it. Fuck what everyone has to say about fashion and beauty. You know what I think is beautiful? Being fucking comfortable as fuck.

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

I fucking hate those days when you try on like 13 different thinks 'cause you look like a god damn beached whale with its blubber oozing out all over the place. It's not like I was in a hurry or anything. Fuck.

I'D ENCOURAGE YOUR SMILES, I'LL EXPECT YOU WON'T CRY

I don't want people to be sad when I die. I want them to celebrate a life and what I did during my lifetime. I want them to share stories and stuff their faces with food. Hell, I want people to sing and dance on my grave.

                                                                                                                                                                TOO YOUNG TO DIE

I don't understand why such young people have to die. And I never understood why the most kind-hearted people had to go and not the shitty people. Until my friend explained it to me. My friend has a rare from of MDA. Each day, his hands, spine, etc., become even more crippled. They have no cure, but only ways to subdue the pain, so he's constantly hooked up to morphine. He won't make it much longer. I asked him, angry at the world, why he out of all people had to suffer and go so early when he's one of the sweetest, most gentle people I've ever met. He explained to me that there has to be bad in the world to equal out the good. The good people have to suffer because they can continue to be good people despite their conditions. Bad people would only take their anger out on the world. Never until then had anything made any sense. Although it saddens me, I feel more enlightenment toward the subject.

THE BLACK PARADE

I recently learned of the following: "The album is a "rock opera" centering on a dying character with cancer known as "The Patient". The album tells the story of his apparent death, experiences in the afterlife, and subsequent reflection on his life.The opening track on The Black Parade, this song, originally titled Father, is about the final moments of The Patient as he dies. The listeners can hear his ECG monitor beeping, counting down towards his death. In the next song, "Dead!," the ECG is flatlined. This is based upon Gerard Way's belief that death comes for a person in the form of his or her fondest memory, in this case seeing a parade as a child. Lead singer Gerard Way has cited the bands Queen and Pink Floyd as major influences on the album. Gerard Way has also stated that one of their biggest influences were The Smashing Pumpkins, often giving them credit for their thematic videos. The band wore black marching uniforms similar to those worn by The Beatles for the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). A third version of the normal album has a picture of the parade drawn and painted by Taiwanese-American comic artist James Jean."

   This band and this whole album is amazing. Definitely go check it out.