I once gave myself a migraine trying to study this song

@gnotednora565

6 жыл бұрын

i i i i got a migraine?

@SwitsaSwoo

6 жыл бұрын

Did your pain range from up, down and sideways?

@kelvinfalzon2931

6 жыл бұрын

as im reading this i have an ice pack on my head cause i bumped it really hard, :D its not a migraine but it's painful, this video makes me happy though

@inevera13

6 жыл бұрын

Nightmare omg yikessss hope u feel better soon 💘

@inevera13

6 жыл бұрын

Gaz Radley By golly, how did u know?????

And when you think you finally went through your emo phase, You bring it back.

This song kept me from ending my life. I had just gotten out of a bad relationship and the guy messed me up so bad, I felt like a worthless waste. The lyrics clicked with me and years later, Im watching this as my husband and our daughter play. It sounds cliche but MCR did save my life.

@watermelonsugar4478

Жыл бұрын

Same here. The first time i saw them play live at riot fest, i sobbed like a baby during famous last words. I’m so thankful that song kept me alive. “I’m not afraid to keep on living” is now tattooed across my chest.

okay this may seem a little far fetched but listen to one of my explanations: what if this song is the patient's girlfriend responding to the things he said in the rest of the album? like in the sharpest lives "now you can leave like the sane, abandon me" he sounds like he's trying to make her feel guilty, and "how could you cry for me??" "tell me I'm a bad, bad, bad man" but "without you is how I disappear" and "the hardest part of this is leaving you" he's sort of making her carry the weight of his sickness, his depression, his whole thing, and in famous last words she's saying, "well I know I can't make you stay" I understand you're sick and dying, and I feel for you, "but where's your heart" can't you see I'm suffering too? "so many bright lights... but can I speak... I'm incomplete" everything is about his suffering, but she supposedly loves him and is incomplete when he is suffering, or maybe she has her own problems and he's so focused on himself she never has a moment to speak about it, as well as "a love that's so demanding, I can't speak" he's asking so much of her, even if he doesn't MEAN to hurt her. then the chorus is saying I am not afraid to go on without you, if you stay I still care about you but I have to care for myself and you can't stop me. then the second verse "can you see my eyes are shining bright..." can you see that I am alive? because, I'm out here on the other side of a jet black hotel mirror- the patient being the mirror, or something, and she can't see herself through it because he is filling her every thought, "and I'm so weak" it is taking so much out of her (to focus on him). "these bright lights have always blinded me" could be referring to the hospital lights (her being constantly at his side, blinded by his issues), or any of the things mentioned in the above video. lastly, "I see you lying next to me" he's lying on his supposed death bed, "with words I thought I'd never speak" maybe what she's said in the rest of the song, like she never thought she'd have the nerve to put herself before him, or whatever, "awake and unafraid, asleep or dead" either she is awake, and not afraid, and he asleep, or maybe even dead (as I point out the obvious), or HE is awake, and she doesn't have to be afraid he is gone (you get the point). woah. okay, I hope someone actually had the patience to read through all that. if you have, what do you think? possible? plausible?

@catherinel.5100

6 жыл бұрын

Ivy Bauer DEEP REAL DEEP It's actually a really interesting theory

@Marie-rb2vy

6 жыл бұрын

I never thought about it this way, but this is seriously cool. Amazing deep interpretation.

@FileCode1459

6 жыл бұрын

i love that!!!!! it makes a lot of sense and to me it's even better than if it was about the patient

@bandobsessedloser318

6 жыл бұрын

Ivy Bauer Omfg.... *holy shit* !!! This actually makes a lot of sense and....wOw......woAh

@alyssas.3841

6 жыл бұрын

that's exactly what i was gonna say! i've always interpreted the bridge of this song to be from the girlfriend's point of view; seeing him on the table, is he asleep or is he dead? and so forth. continues the emotional turmoil that's not only goin on within the patient

Famous Last Words is actually about Mikey leaving the band and how Gerard did not want him to go

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

In part for sure.

@beepbeep1116

6 жыл бұрын

what? mikey didnt leave the band

@beepbeep1116

6 жыл бұрын

oh sorry, for a second i thought you meant permanently leaving, but i know what you mean now

@kiralynshealy9581

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@friendly-neighborhood-tras581

6 жыл бұрын

Mariethegamer6 didn't Gerard say at one point that the lyric awake and unafraid asleep or dead was written about Mikey

It's another My Chemical Romance Monday

I’ve been waiting for you to do another mcr video for the past 500 years

Happy National MCR day Professor!Also, for other My Chem songs to explain, I recommend “ Demolition Lovers.”

@inevera13

6 жыл бұрын

That Yeemo ghhh i would love that one

@ghoulishruru

6 жыл бұрын

That Yeemo YES I LOVE THAT SONG!!

@pliskan

6 жыл бұрын

OH GOD PLEASE MY FAVORITE ONE

@DenizBadeAkkoyun

6 жыл бұрын

My favorite song of all time 💞

@trayusv1211

6 жыл бұрын

here's a quick explanation of demolition lovers. my understanding is that the demo lovers are shot in "early sunsets...", and end up in the hospital in critical condition and probably in comas. the girl dies first and "cubicles" is the male demo lover realizing that he's all alone, stuck in a coma in a hospital. "demo lovers" is the male demo lover reflecting on the story and his regrets, wishing how his life with the female demo lover went down, or what he would do had they both survived "early sunsets...".

Enjoy this My Chemical Romance Monday! It probably won't be a regular thing, but this one is for you guys. :)

@alexis.0569

6 жыл бұрын

PLEASE DO THIS MORE!

@mayshinar2570

6 жыл бұрын

More, gimme more, gimme more!

@Anna-jl7gy

6 жыл бұрын

Yay PLEASE DO MORE The killjoys live on

@dragonaise2417

6 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@gageboan3961

6 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor can you do riptide please

If you haven't heard, Gerard Way's "Hesitant Alien" album is phenomenal I would suggest listening to it if you haven't already. It's one of my favourite albums

@joshd7671

6 жыл бұрын

Wait Gerard has solo stuff? I thought he was working on umbrella academy

@wraith6654

6 жыл бұрын

Josh D Yep! From what I hear, we are getting new music around November or December. I would definitely recommend his solo album. He's working on comics as well

@joshd7671

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation m8 :) ill be sure to look out for that new music

@m.f.5991

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree! It's so so good!

You should do Bohemian Rhapsody, no one knows the meaning of it

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

I did already!

@jakegripp5321

6 жыл бұрын

The Pop Song Professor whoops, forgot to check

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

Don't underestimate me. haha

I'm a simple woman, I see MCR and I click. ❤️ Also the intro is a *mood* 😫😭

@allaboutanonymity4658

6 жыл бұрын

Completely my interpretation, but I guess I always thought of the black parade as being an album that seems like one of the themes is a downward spiral. I always think the part where he sings "I see you lying next to me, with words I thought I'd never speak. Awake and unafraid. Asleep or dead." It always sounded to me like it is someone whose problem is so close that it literally lies in bed with them. And he makes a choice to live instead of have that problem control him to his death.

*goes by Pop Professor* *does songs from MCR*

@Pedro-ix8kd

6 жыл бұрын

tunnel times he should change his name in yt to music not pop

My interpretation of the ending (in the context of the album) is the patient slipping in and out of consciousness. You can hear the “I am not afraid to keep on living” chant and the “asleep or dead” (mostly the dead part of that) in the background overpowering each other, just as his will to live and cancer are overpowering each other. And, since it ends with the “I am not afraid to keep on living” chant, I interpret that as him surviving.

The last time I was this early, I was still in the womb.

@lillyrose991

6 жыл бұрын

Baka CIEL

@Soup-man

6 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@astralauthority8959

6 жыл бұрын

Last time you were this early, mcr were still a thing :/

This is may most favorite song of all time

I WAS LITERALLY JUST LISTENING TO THIS I AM S H O O K

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

@beatuplexus

6 жыл бұрын

Well that's how KZread suggestions work Algorithms sure are nuts

@amyevans1917

6 жыл бұрын

hate to be that guy I’m subscribed 😂

My ChEmIcAl RoMaNcE

@cherryboop5680

6 жыл бұрын

TwentyOneMyChemicalRomanceFallOutBoysPanic ur username.....

@emilylopez6550

4 жыл бұрын

Hobi? Also, SI

@LS-bf8ly

4 жыл бұрын

@@cherryboop5680 TwentyØnePiløtsMyChemicalRomance🖤🙂

i love how you did this on national mcr day

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know. lol

@jasperdrawings

3 жыл бұрын

There’s a NATIONAL MCR DAY??!!! I love it. My life is complete now.

So the meaning of this seems complicated and I used to sit there pondering it but I found out a couple years back that it's about Mikey leaving the band and Gerard not wanting him to go, Mikey was going through a lot of depression and addictions and it didn't receive as much as support and attention to the problem by the fans as Gerard got, but Famous Last Words was also written to comfort him in that, a LOT of people talk about listening to Famous Last Words in the comments of some of their sadder songs like Early Sunsets or Desert Song because of Gerard's message to Mikey and how if you know the song's true meaning, it's really comforting. The lyrics "asleep or dead" are also something a TON of people get confused about. It was written because My Chem stayed at the Parmour Mansion (Correct if I'm wrong about that name) and it was really haunted and with Mikey's sweet sweet luck, he got put in the most haunted room. He would get so uncomfortable at certain nights that Gerard would wake up to Mikey sleeping on the floor in his his room because he was so scared, and Gerard obviously knew he was asleep but he couldn't shake the feeling that he was dead, he looked dead. Hence "asleep or dead". Their song Sleep is also about that house. Frank and Gerard and maybe Mikey but we don't know, got horrible night terrors due to that house. It's also Gerard's favorite song off of Black Parade. So there yee go. Correct me if any of my info is off but that's what I've gathered.

Famous Last Words is my favorite MCR song!!!

@jasperdrawings

3 жыл бұрын

Same

YES!!! I’ve been waiting for you to explain this! 😆

"Sorry to trigger you twenty one pilots fans" "You introverts know what I'm talking about" I'm being targeted!

@hannahklunk5998

6 жыл бұрын

gee sus same 😂

MY FAVORITE BANNNND YAAAAAAAAAAAY YOU ARE AWSOMESAUCE

“So many lights to cast a shadow” I’ve always thought of that as in like so many people with talent that it’s easy to live in the shadow of other people

Yasss! Thanks for doing another MCR song!

Pretty sure Gerard's ligaments were torn when Frank tackled him

Thank you for another awesome MCR Monday! Could you possibly explain some Barns Courtney songs such as Golden Dandelions or Little Boy?

Dude, that song is easy peaay pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie muhfukah.

@avamaria8319

4 жыл бұрын

PARANOID ANDROID thanks gee

We need some video about Of Monsters And Men. Such an underrated band!

I LOVE YOUR INTERPRETATIONS OF MY FAVORITE BAND!! PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE DO MORE!!!

Yes I Have Requested This So Many Times! Thank You!

Yes, sure, do some more of MCR.

Can you explain some more nf or a Jon Bellion song? I’d be fine with any song lol

This is my favorite band more MCR please, great video!!

Love your videos!!

I'm waiting for of monsters and men vid explanation

Brain: do your homework Me: ok Me: what was that one song by that band about

The bridge refers to when they we're recording the album somewhere and Mikey was too scared to sleep in his own room so he slept in Gerards.

Whoa I'm so early! Love you Pop Song Professor!

Can you explain "Blood"?

@lanie5759

5 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHA. Now I want to see THAT

@keeganwalker1733

4 жыл бұрын

I’ll give you an easy answer, it’s why put effort into anything if it will never be enough.

@aishaha.b8007

4 жыл бұрын

@@keeganwalker1733 but why chose the word blood tho

Living for MCR content👌🏻

One of my favourite songs of my favourite band explained by one of my favourite youtubers. Thanks. You're awesome.

YES!!! I"VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS>

Ive been waiting for this for a while! YAY

This is the first video I watched. I can’t wait to see more. ;) ... (side note: I found the background music to be to loud and I had to focus on listening to you. Although it could be because it to early in the morning for me) Anyway I’m off to watch more of your videos :D

*hears about Gerard getting hurt* Thanks, Frank.

More cavetown please ❤

The Black Parade is my favorite album of all time. I learned the lyrics and guitar almost all by heart at this point. The narrative starts at the end hence the first two song titles of the album. From there it goes through the whole “your life flashes before your eyes” and we see how the patient lived his life and when we get to famous last words its him saying he’s not afraid to continue living and fighting, but also giving encouragement to his loved ones if he does goes. That’s at least how I think of it.

I love this song and mcr and your Chanel!

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sage!

It's nice to know and understand what the artist's main intentions and inspirations are... but we as the listener can interpret its meaning in various ways. Ultimately, it's up to us on how we want the song to mean to us and how it can make us feel. We can have aspects of the lyrics mean what they want for us with what's happening in our personal lives or trigger past memories. The backbeats and vibes of a song can make you feel certain emotions regardless of what the artist initially intended.

I need to share your channel with my friend who shares my love of mcr

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

Please do!

As someone who hasn’t gone super deep into MCR lyrics’ official meanings, I wasn’t aware of the story of the album, but I’m definitely going to listen again to this with this in mind! Also, while I think this is far from a viable interpretation, when I hear “I see you lying next to me, with words I thought I’d never speak.”, I think along the lines of this song’s motivational themes, with it being “I’m here with someone who loves me and I love them and I never thought I would say I love you but I am.” I guess that’s my inner optimist still present despite my pessimism! Great video!

Btw I think you are one if the best KZreadrs I love when you roast songs I think you should do a "Gucci gang is really deep" video where you take everything way to serious and make up symbolic meaning behind everything he says like maybe he is "expressing all the repetition in his own life" or something. I would love it if you could explain the meaning behind some 80s or 90s songs you could do like a series. But anyways thanks for making videos and keep up the awesome work.

@Arlo5.13

6 жыл бұрын

Ben Feldman he kind of did that with Lil pumps song "drug addicts", if you want to see something like that 😅

@benfeldman8361

6 жыл бұрын

Kaden Sanderson thx😁

i read somewhere (i may link source later) that the lines “i see you lying next to me/with words i thought i’d never speak/awake and unafraid/asleep or dead” are about how Mikey would get nightmares while staying at the Paramour Mansion and sleep in Gerard’s room, so Gerard wrote about seeing Mikey sleep next to him and those specific lines were his encouragement to Mikey during that time.

Well this is my favorite MCR song so this should be interesting.

I just lve that you do deep research on the songs and even find out what the members of the bands and sonwriters had in mind while doing this. I can't think of the time you spend doing that!!! I love that you share your thoughts and leaving the person behind the screen thinks. Personally for me the song has this meaning. The patient is on the balcony and remembers all the time he spent with his girlfriend. how he told her, how she was next to him when he falls into depression, when she sleeps next to his (maybe hospital) bed... even some words exchanged between them are spoken in his flashbacks from the time she says she wants him in her life as long as she can, as he watches the sunset and gets the courage to fight and be happy with her for all that's left of his life.

I can't believe it, I was just praticing that song on the piano!

Yesss finally! one of my favorite songs😍please do house of wolves/mama next!!

Perfect day to upload this ahah. Happy belated mcr day.

ITS MY CHEM DAY HHDHSJSKF

Thank you for explaining it, even thought this song was really difficult to understand you helped a lot. Could you do another song from "tree cheers for sweet revenge"

AWESOME VIDEO!!! TØP, PATD, MCR... THANK YOU!

What about frank in the injuries bit? Because you said all of them had an injury and you never said frank did.

Loved the video, it was a great explaination! I'd really love if you could do one on "Mama" which is also by Mcr and I'd love to know how it ties in. Thanks!

This video deserves more views. Period.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG BY THEM And Odin says "Borrrruff" which means "Hello"

This is and always will be my favorite band

This video is making me question everything I've written for my lyric analysis for school but it's due in a few hours so there isn't really any way to go back.

YES THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!! Could you maybe explane The ghost of you by MCR

Would you consider a metallica song ? I know you dont like hard stuff so maybe you could do a ballad like nothing else matters or the unforgiven the latter of which has some very deep relatable meaningfull lyrics in my opinion thanks for your time and great video!

Your videos are always the best

@ThePopSongProfessor

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The bridge is actually a switch of perspectives from the patient to the lover, possibly shown by the change in urgency, octave, and vocal tone

YAAAAAAAAS please explain more MCR songs

Can you explain "Carolina Drama" by The Raconteurs

Happy MCR day!!!! You should explain more songs from Bullets!!! :D

I really like your thumbnails. Also Could you just explain the whole album?

I still love MCR, wish they'd return !

Thanks you so much man thanks

The band stayed at the haunted Paramour Mansion during the recording of the Black Parade. Mikey got the most haunted room. He ended up staying with the band's lawyer. Weird things would happen in the place. Doors were slamming in Frank and Gerard's faces, Bob's bathtub filled up with water in the middle of the night, and the creepiest thing was that Mikey's room, the blue room, was lit only by a faint blue light. Gerard started having night terrors and used a recording device as a kind of self-therapy. You can hear some of the recordings in Sleep. I recommend the vocals only version. He didn't think he would wake up from the terrors (words i thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid). Mikey went into manic depression (also know as bipolar disorder) from being stuck in some creepy room, not to mention the lack of air conditioning, heating, cell service, or TV. I think he may have relapsed into drugs and/or alcohol, but i'm not sure. He slept on Gerard's floor a few times (i see you lying next to me) because he couldn't handle being alone. Sometimes he would get so still that Gerard couldn't tell if he was asleep or dead. I think many of the lyrics in the song, including the first few, are Gerard telling Mikey that he's having problems too. Gerard was terrified, but Mikey almost went insane. Wow. Multiple triggering emo fanfic references. I digress. Gerard wanted to comfort Mikey, but he couldn't really do that when he needed comfort too. He's asking Mikey "i can't make you stay with me and help me through this, but where's your heart? There's nothing i can say to change the fact that you have issues, too, but where's your heart?". That sounded like a really interesting fanfic, but i assure you it's 100% real. Read about the Paramour. Pretty cool and heartbreaking story,

Mcr is the best yass💕❤️

Love the video and analysis.Can you do Mama and House of Wolves as well please?

Yes MCR

i interpreted this song differently. it was the most relatable song i heard even though it wasn’t meant to relate to my situation, the “honey if you stay you’ll be forgiven” hit me after being abandoned by someone i still love

@sarah-le9hj

5 жыл бұрын

but i am still okay being alone. even if my heart breaks every day. but if they came back into my life, i will always be there for them.

YAYYYYY ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS

I generally rationalize Black Parade songs by imagining the story as a stage or film musical. Without in mind, I view this song as a duet between the Patient and his Lover. It kind of helps things make more sense.

My fave band and fave song!

In my interpretation, throughout the most of the album, he is on death's doorstep. He can see what his life could have been, and how disappointingly little he achieved. At this point, he promises to himself that he will survive, and improve his life.

I don't find it confusing at all tbh and it honestly has helped me in the same way you've said 1-800 has helped others

I absolutely love that song!

I believe the bridge is a memory the patient is having while on his bed. "I see you lying next to me with words I thought I'd never speak" possibly implying that he's dreaming of a memory of him and his SO lying next to each other and he says "I love you" which he, for most of his life, thought he would ever say to anyone and that he is thankful for her for bringing that out in him.

I am almost sure that the "I see you lying net to me" part is about death as a person or a thing because it is so close he can practically see it and he probably like most of us never thought that he would be speaking (facing ) it

my all time favourite song from mcr..

can you do i never told you what i did for a living or the jet set life is going to kill you by my chemical romance

I don't know if you've already done it yet, but I'd love to see you analyse The Ghost of You or Na Na Na

I also heard that awake or dead thing was also about Mikey because Mikey would sleep in the same bed as Gerard and he didn’t during the hiatus or something

Great vid! Pls do some OMAM songs P.s (The ocd in me is silently screaming.)

i think it suppose to essentialy be the climax of the patients inner fight he looked back on his life and has come to terms with it and his condition and from there the ending is abigous on wether the patient accepts death or decided to fight to keep living as seen with the lyrics "awake and unafraid, asleep or dead"

Its a song that talks about mental health addiction and other really personal things they went through in the early days

For me, I've always seen this as living on after losing someone. It's shitty because losing a loved one permeates everything. When my papa was dying from cancer it he was in so much pain and I felt selfish wishing he'd just wake up and be okay again. Towards the end he couldn't speak to us but he was welding in his sleep (he was a pipeline welder) and we'd catch mumbles every now and then. Watching hospice keep him "comfortable" was hard.