My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
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My Chemical Romance
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My Chemical Romance & Liza Minnelli
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The Black Parade takes listeners on a journey through the death of a man dubbed “The Patient.” This track reveals the driving force behind the protagonist’s death — cancer. It expresses his agony as he asks to be told the truth.
In an interview, frontman Gerard Way said that, while the song is lite...
[Verse 1]
Turn 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
[Chorus]
My sisters and my brothers, still
I will not kiss you
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you
[Verse 2]
Now turn away
'Cause I'm awful just to see
'Cause all my hair's abandoned all my body
Oh, my agony
Know that I will never marry
Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo
[Chorus]
But counting down the days to go
It just ain't living
And I just hope you know
[Outro]
That if you say (If you say)
Goodbye today (Goodbye today)
I'd ask you to be true (I'd ask you to be true)
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you
Cancer was written by Bob Bryar & Frank Iero & Ray Toro & Mikey Way & Gerard Way.
Cancer was produced by My Chemical Romance & Rob Cavallo.
My Chemical Romance released Cancer on Mon Oct 23 2006.
In an interview with NME Gerard Way spoke about the tragic, bleak tone of the song.
Speaking about the track ’Cancer’ in a statement, Way said that he wanted to write “the darkest song ever.”
It’s not a poetic track. It’s very direct, very brutal, but that’s the way disease is. Obviously, cancer i...
In an interview, Frank Iero said that “Cancer” was his favorite song on the record.
[“Cancer” is] one of the most stripped down songs. I think it’s a song where we really listened to each other—and listened to what the song wanted to be, and what it needed to be. […]
It’s really just vocally and p...