| My Chemical Romance – Disenchanted Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song's about us. (be patient, I'll lead into that) It's about dreams not working out the way you thought they would. More specifically, I think it's about a moment in time where MCR didn't feel like the whole 'rock band' thing was all they initially believed it would be. It's not so much of a magical fairy-tale happy ending and is more like another chunk of life to deal with. Context: they went through a lot and became very successful, and yet, as they were writing The Black Parade, they still felt incredibly depressed. "they sold the cause to agree" "watch all my heroes sell a car on TV," those lines are about how the recording industry is all money and no 'soul' (now getting back to my original point) "If I'm so wrong/how can you listen all night long.... you're just a sad song with nothing to say..." Those lines are some of my favorites, because I think they're about the MCRmy. A lot of us are very young teens, we're naieve, and we sometimes see only what we want to see. This is very personal to me, but I think it's about we see the band, how they know we see the band, and how, no matter how much they break their backs over it, we can't be saved. They can't save us, we're not going to listen to their advice, even if we think we are, and, even if we do listen to their advice, we probably won't interpret it the way they meant it. "So go, just go, run away.... but where would you run to, and where would you hide?" this sounds like it's about someone trying to run away from reality and themselves. This is something many people do - I did it, many of you do it, and I'll bet anything the band members were doing it for a very long time as well. When you're trying to 'save' someone (and it's not that uncommon of a practice) the last thing you want is for them to be running from reality, but they will, we will, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. In this song, MCR is disenchanted with us, and their whole recording career. More evidence: Gerard said this song was written during a time when they were very down on things, and it almost didn't get put on the record. I've written countless poems of disenchantment for things I hold dear (or once held dear) and I never want to show them to anyone because I feel like the emotions are silly and temporary (which isn't true: disillusionment is important, it helps you see reality), this carries the same feeling. Again, this interpretation is deeply personal to me and my personal fan-to-artist connection with MCR; I saw them like human ideals — supermen, or even gods, you could say — for a long time, and didn't really understand their lyrics or message (I mean, really, I completely overlooked “I'm just a man/I'm not a hero.”), and when I started to realize they — and the rest of my life — can never be a fairy-tale, that there are no ideals, I became incredibly depressed; life was meaningless without 'perfection,' I was on the verge of killing myself it upset me so much. I found new meaning in MCR then. I like to think they went through a similar journey, maybe around when they were writing/recording The Black Parade. I think the overall metaphor of a patient with cancer is about that kind of extreme depression, when all your dreams just fall away, when they lose all their meaning, when you stop believing they're going to 'save you' from the 'hell' you're living in now. |
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