anonymous 2007-01-11 23:04:35    

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The song reminds of the smiling skeletons during Dios de los Muertos. Day of the dead. They're all smiling because they're laughing at the living; everything that was such a big screaming deal is like who cares to them. It's liberation in total.
I'd join the black parade if I could, and be the misfit army for what matters.
"Defiant to the end, we hear the call: to carry on"
Something about that gives everything a luster.

popcrotch 2007-01-12 23:50:01    

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I agree with the previous comments but there seems to be more to the song than just death. It is not only the memory of his father but also the sorrow of his fathers death(black parade) which may suggest the many forms of death but more importantly emphasizes it's unpredictability.

I believe that part of the message is not only death but that of life as well. A kind of Carpe diem. Buddhism believes life is suffering... even though we have good intentions, they can be subdued by the miseries of the world (i.e. The loss of a loved one). But if you live a principled life, you are survived by the memories you leave behind.

With all of the shallow music being released today, the lyrics of this song offer a profound complexity that I feel deserves to be acknowledged.

anonymous 2007-01-13 22:00:49    

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This song is sooo obvious!
"when I was a young boy, my father took me into the city, to see a black person. He said son when you grow up would you kill, all the black people, the women and the kids. He said will you defeat them, the nigers, and all the none believers, of the KKK! because one day I'll leave you, a rifle, to go there in the summer, and kill the black parade!!" it's about me! I'm a racist

anonymous 2007-01-14 15:10:40    

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This song is really about George W. Bush going into Iraq. When he talks about his father taking him to a parade in the city it was the memory when his father (the first george bush) went into desert storm. The black parade is the U.S. army of death going into Iraq and killing people. The "carry on" part is meaning that no matter what happens george w. bush is not going to quit and withdraw troops from iraq, he is going to carry on and kill the terrorists in iraq

anonymous 2007-01-15 04:36:10    

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When I was a young boy,
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band.

Ok here I believe is pretty much self explanatory

He said,
"Son when you grow up, will 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 leave you,
A phantom to lead you in the summer,
To join the black parade."

This bit I believe is about his father dying becoming a phantom and in the summer somthing must be hard in the boys life it could be any time but I time in which the father beleives he needs to help hi out even tho he is dead the black parade spirits or ghosts in whihc help their loved one the people who believe in them

will you help people beleive that thy ahve people helpin them
will you defeat your enemies and fears and ignore the non beleivers in your life?

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me.
And other times I feel like I should go. Through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets.
When you're gone we want you all to know We'll Carry on,
We'll Carry on
Though your dead and gone believe me Your memory will carry on
Carry on
We'll carry on
And in my heart I can't contain it
The anthem won't explain it.

he feels that someone doesn't want him to forget them she is watching over him he wants to remember her and she wants to be remembered but sometimes he believes that he can't believe in someone who isn't there
after you die you still have a life you carry on in peoples memories the good times and the bad

nihilistik 2007-01-15 16:41:41    

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Well this is quite long and many may not like it but this is is it. The first imagery is implicitly a scenic cross reference to when the devil took jesus up on the mountain and promised to make him lord of all he surveyed.
How the writer presents himself here is as a messionic figure. Though not necessarily a bad thing, he makes clear that he is not the type which will fit the cliche version of god as perfect. He is as imperfect as his followers are and this is what will make them worship him.

in fact you know what that's the general theme of the song deuce further what you wish.

anonymous 2007-01-23 04:28:24    

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well gee said that it's about a young guy dying and the fondest memory he has is of his father taking him to see a marching band so wen he dies he goes or is picked up by the black parade

anonymous 2007-01-25 23:30:15    

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Someone made a comment about the song being about 9/11 and the aftermath of the bombings. I agree this could be part of the interpretation especially if you look at the actual release date of September 11, 2006.
He (the patient) did not want to be a hero after this and didn't want to go to war.
The lady with the mask (mother war I think they call her) is an odd twist but the character is in another video as well....just odd....

anonymous 2007-01-27 14:43:09    

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Its clearly a guy dying and joining the black parade (dead people) if you watch the video, every body in the video has sunken black eyes (e.g. dead) in the beginning, he's on his death bed, he looks fine one minute, then shakes and fits holding the nurses hand, as he does, his eyes become sunken and black, showing he just died, and has entered the black parade!
Max

satanslilwhore_666 2007-01-30 16:31:17    

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Welcome to the black parade. It's about the patient dying and seeing life in the form of a parade because his greatest memory is of his father taking him into the city to see a parade. The black parade is about his life through death and how it comes to him.

anonymous 2007-01-31 19:41:58    

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I Just figured this through a music video on you tube.

I figure, that, the man dying is the singer's father, and he took the singer to see a marching band when he was a young boy, and his father is about to die. When his father dies he will join the black parade aka a place where (as in the song) you join when you die. This explains the whole song. And the carry on part. Think about it.

radical_pixie 2007-02-01 09:41:25    

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This song is an inspiration to me, for some reason. Whenever I listen to it I feel like ... doing something to rebel. mostly just because of the part that starts out "do or die, you'll never make me..." and so on. Ha, anyone else out there feel the same way? :D
i love MCR!

anonymous 2007-02-01 22:29:32    

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It doesn't need to be interpreted this deep. It is a song by an emo band about (you guessed it) DEATH. Big surprise. What else is new? Stop cutting yourselves, your pathetic souls are already damned to hell.

anonymous 2007-02-03 15:51:25    

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This song is about a boy whose padre is dying and needs help dealing with it. while his padre is dieing, he tells his son that he will help him through all of the depressing times he has to go through after he is dead. I think it resembles how when loved ones die, they are still with us... In our hearts.
'sob'
toodles

anonymous 2007-02-04 21:11:59    

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I was so far off: I thought it referred to the OLD belief that some people's souls rise at night to fight witches during full moons, etc. as werewolves in order to protect the crops. Those people (and the witches) don't get to go to heaven/hell until the apocalypse and thus wander the world at night as a sort of dead "black parade." Although, the real meaning is just as strange.

anonymous 2007-02-05 16:24:22    

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wow, I've read some of the interpretations, which are all pretty much the same. I've never seen the video, so I don't have the advantage of that insight, but I just thought the song was about the underdog. you know, like the message is that even though were pressed down by society and all the popular people and their little cliques that we matter an to join the black parade because were not alone, and not to let yourself be supressed by all that stuff, keep fighting. " we'll carry on"

anonymous 2007-02-05 21:01:42    

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wow maybe i, wrong but I didn't really take this song the same way as everyone else. I know this album is about the patient but I don't think this song is about his best memory as much. I think its more general and saying that after you die you will live throught people's memories and the black parade. I think the black parade is the everlasting march of all the dead people who's memories keep them "alive". and I think its the guy's (gerard?) responsibility to keep the black parade going and not let the memories die. He's saying reassuring the dead people that he and the world will keep them living through the parade.

i could be completely wrong but that's kind of what I thought. and I think this song is amazing. I know its overplayed now because a lot of people think they like because they listen to whatever is on MTV but it really is a good song. not to offend anyone or anything, I just thinks it kind of annoying.

anonymous 2007-02-09 06:11:25    

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i think that the black parade is a symbol for the youth of the united states to stop listening to emo bands, to get off their asses, and do something with their lives...not to sit and listed to a song, as well as analyze every stanza to try to understand the lyrics that probably don't even make sense in the first place. Stop being emo

blackparade 2007-02-10 01:59:12    

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I think this song is about a The Patient who is dying from Cancer. He dies and remembers when his father took him to a marching band. He joins The Black Parade which is a sign of death. The Black Parade leads the Patient to like My Chemical Romance heavan, "Will carry on, will carry on." That's just a guess.

anonymous 2007-02-14 10:48:59    

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This is according to Gerard. When you die, death comes to you in your fondest memory. For The Patient, his fondest memory was going to a parade with his father when he was young. "When I was a young boy my father took me into the city, to see a marching band." So when death comes for him, it comes in the form of The Black Parade. Also, the father says "Will you defeat them, your demons and all the non-believers? The plans that they have made? Because one day I leave you, a phantom to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." This suggests that his father may have been preparing him for his upcoming life and that the father died before the Patient and will help him join the Black Parade. In the chorus when they say "We'll carry on," they are saying that even though The Patient is dead, everyone will carry on. "And though your broken and defeated, your weary widow marches on."