Gerard has mentioned in multiple interviews what this song is about. In the “Pink Station Zero” interview/skit Gerard stated:
The message with “No Shows” is not needing to fit in in order to belong to something. You don’t need the lights, you don’t need the stage, you don’t need the band playing in...
[Verse 1]
Been weeks I been living
And your smiles are giving me all types of treble
Weak knees I been given
And those nights are making me star-struck and metal
[Pre-Chorus]
Stay free, don’t go
'Cause we don’t need no
[Verse 2]
Try to be living as your vice
And can you be my type?
'Cause we need to be given a good life
And can I be your type of metal?
[Chorus]
Stay free, don’t go
'Cause we don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
[Verse 3]
Pay for the devil, a plug to a pedal
I’m your type
Weak knees from the level, I’m sick from the treble
I’m your type of metal
[Pre-Chorus]
Weak knees don’t go
'Cause we don’t need no shows
[Bridge]
She’s sweet as battery, man, I got nothing
You kiss an enemy’s hands, I got nothing
We got an animal band and that’s something
It’s not love if it’s just fucking
[Outro]
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
We don’t need no shows
No Shows was written by Ian Fowles & Gerard Way.
No Shows was produced by Doug McKean.
Gerard Way released No Shows on Tue Aug 19 2014.
The most important song to me is “No Shows,” and I think that’s the song where I realized I was in fact making an album and it was in fact going to be ambitious. It wasn’t just going to be a simple noise rock record that I just kind of put out quickly. It was something I wanted to spend a little mor...