I'm kind of on an alternative roll lately, and figured it's time for a trip down memory lane. I was fourteen when My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade came out, and even though my tastes have changed since then, I still enjoy the band's efforts six years later. Who would have thought? The albums is rife with gems ("Welcome To The Black Parade," "Mama," "Famous Last Words," "Dead!" etc.), but it takes something special to craft a shortened opening track that quite possibly outshines everything else on the album. In the beginning, there is "The End."
Clocking in at one minute and fifty-three seconds, "The End" does serve as a fitting intro the album, beginning with a soft acoustic guitar and working into an epic in the short time it has. And Mr. Gerard Way...he always knows how to put power into every word he sings. He invites the misfits of the world over to his singing circle, as the album revs to full capacity. If only other bands could make intros like this...we'd all be listening a lot happier.
Now come one, come all to this tragic affair
Wipe off that makeup
What's in is despair
So throw on the black dress
Mix in with the lot
You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see
You can find out firsthand what it's like to me
So gather 'round piggies and kiss this goodbye
I'd encourage your smiles
I'll expect you won't cry
Another contusion, my funeral jag
Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag
You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up I want to be nothing at all
I said
Yeah
Yeah
I said yeah
Yeah
C'mon c'mon c'mon I said
Save me
Get me the hell out of here
Save me
Too young to die and my dear
You can't
If you can hear me just walk away and
Take me
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