anonymous May 28th, 2007 02:52AM  
I think it's about "the patient" talking to all his loved ones. As he's dying he tells them:
"So shut your eyes. Kiss me goodbye. And Sleep."

He's telling his loved ones, goodbye, and not to feel bad about whats happening to him, because he doesn't. And to just.... Sleep.

anonymous July 8th, 2007 02:12PM  
I think it's about someone in a position where they're fighting for their lives and they're about to just let go,...and "sleep"

anonymous October 1st, 2007 09:54PM  
Gerard said that while they recorded the Black Parade, they stayed in a haunted mansion. Gerard said that whole they stayed there he suffered from night terrors like he said in the song.

anonymous October 4th, 2007 03:21AM  
All MCRs songs can be interpretated in many different ways like with this song it can be pulled back to the patient but also has many other meanings like the night terrors or it could be about war and how many people die in war. That’s what I believe and many of their songs are like this they have many interpretations and the stories the they put with the albums just give us more to think about though deep down we know that its all about their feelings and experiences. Any ways I absolutely love this band great work no matter what the interpretation.

peteinmypants November 24th, 2007 11:55AM  
First off, the recorded parts are from Gerard. while recording the black parade, the band stayed in a haunted mansion. Then Mikey had his little breakdown and left. after Mikey left, Gerard starting having nightmares and night terrors. He would record these and that is what you hear on the song.

but to take the song into account, it's about what the patient has done bad in his life. and now that he's dead, he can't do anything about it.

to take it into another perspective, where the black parade is something evil, you could assume that the patient was once supposed to be taken before. He struck a deal with the parade to save his own life, and now the parade is coming to take the ones he loves as per agreement and there isn't anything he can do to save them, and he's next.

ablack13 January 17th, 2008 10:51PM  
Well, I get it, in a way, as The Patient thinking about how people used to see him ("Some say, now suffer all the children and walk away a savior, or a madman and polluted from gutter institutions"). He's remembering the things he did (... "There ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did"), realizing that this is the end, and that there's nothing more he can do("The hardest part is letting go of your dreams"). He wants to say goodbye to people he loves, but he doesn't want them to feel bad about him leaving ("How could you cry for me, 'cause I don't feel bad about it"), so he tries to convince them, and himself in a way, that he's not afraid of dying, and that that's what is supposed to happen ("There ain't no way that I'm coming back again.").
So there. Oh and I read somewhere that Gerard's voice recordings are about the nightmares he had when they were spending time in the haunted recording studio (Paramour). Doesn't really have much to do with the song, but fits really well.

FrankiesProperty May 8th, 2008 03:09PM  
I read in a book that the beginning is about this haunted studio that they had stayed in that had caused Mikey to have all these "terrors", three days grace also wrote a song called Scared that is about the same haunted recording studio... and I believe panic at the disco even mentioned it once.

anonymous July 30th, 2008 02:22AM  
I read that it was about how when My Chemical Romance was staying at the Paramour mansion in Los Angeles while recording this album. They felt spirits were trying to haunt them and Mikey would get really depressed at night. Gerard would have sleep terror feeling as if someone was choking him (because of the recording of Gerard in the beginning of the song describing it).

jackjohn920 October 8th, 2008 08:39PM  
It's about insanity, and not accomplishing your dreams. The person does something bad, but doesn't want help, he's insane but thinks everybody else is wrong.
There trying to say that you shouldn't worry about things so much, because people feel so bad for this guy but he doesn't care. It's about having different opinions, and sticking to your own so much, and not caring about what other people think.

jackjohn920 October 8th, 2008 08:39PM  
It's about insanity, and not accomplishing your dreams. The person does something bad, but doesn't want help, he's insane but thinks everybody else is wrong.
There trying to say that you shouldn't worry about things so much, because people feel so bad for this guy but he doesn't care. It's about having different opinions, and sticking to your own so much, and not caring about what other people think.

anonymous January 20th, 2009 09:13PM  
If you guys ever read Anne Rice you would probably agree that the song captures the character Lestat de Lioncourt perfectly. Lestat was the beautiful, golden-haired bisexual vampire that was the main character in the majority of the Vampire Chronicles books. At the start of the song, a guy on a tape recorder describes how feels that someone is griping his throat. In the 1st book Interview with the Vampire, the character Louis de Pointe du Lac describes while being interviewed by a young man with a tape recorder how he was turned into a vampire by Lestat, becoming his boyfriend and fledgling forever. The part that goes "Some say now suffer a the children and walk away a savior," reminds me of how Lestat turned a 5 to 6-year-old girl into a vampire, and even though she suffered because she could never physically grow up, he never regretted making her into one. In his mind he was still a savior. "Or a madman and polluted from gutter institutions." Lestat almost exclusively fed from madmen and killers. "Don't you breathe for me. Undeserving of your sympathy, cause there ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did." It sounds like something he would tell Louis about the making of the vamp girl Claudia and his lack of remorse. "And through it all how could you cry for me? Cause I don't feel bad about it." He has said many things like this throughout the series of books to various people(mostly lovers and people he wronged). "So shut your eyes, kiss me goodbye, and sleep. Just sleep" It's like he was talking to Louis at this point. "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 ain't no way that I'm coming back again." He has been known to love being evil and would probably pour blood into a wine glass a toast to it. He is a bit of a tyrant and at one time claimed he loved his vampirism. "The hardest part's the awful things that I've seen." He has seen some very traumatic things in his 200-and-counting year life. [Voice recording:]"...Sometimes I see flames. And sometimes I see people that I love dying and... It's always..." Louis telling the interviewer about the demise of Claudia whom burned to death in the sun.

_guff_ June 3rd, 2009 10:56AM  
I always pictured this being about someone saying goodbye to their dying loved one. Saying all he has to say to that person, then kissing them goodbye and then they "sleep", or pass on. Then that person suddenly regrets everything and feel the loss of his loved one dying, and paniccs, telling them to "wake up!". But yeah, the mcr guys probably meant it to be about the patient dying.

anonymous August 2nd, 2009 07:49AM  
At the beginning it has Gerard's 'remixed 'recording of when he witnessed the the 9/11 terrorist attacks... and I believe that it is too say forget about your worries and just sleep...

anonymous August 25th, 2009 05:37PM  
I think this song is about the views The Patient (or anybody really) has on death and its reality. I think he's saying that its not dying thats the scary part, it's living. Because by the time you know your gonna die, you've already seen so much and suffered so much, that dying just isn't scary anymore, its just like going to sleep after a long hard day. He talks about all the things he's done wrong and all the wrong done to him, all the terror and fear of the unknown in the world, and he thinks that dying isn't the only part of death, life is the beginning and middle of death and dying is only the end. He thinks that the hardest part of death isn't dying at all... it's living!

anonymous December 2nd, 2009 09:09AM  
I think that this song is about having good dreams and not wanting to wake up from them (the hardest part is letting go of your dreams).