For what i understand the song is about aging while doing nothing, and see the world around you and everything you've built succumb to time and decay. In the end he says "it comforts me much more to lay in the foundations of decay". As if he feels more comfortable doing nothing, avoiding his fears and anxiety. But then he yells at himself "get up, coward", inviting himself to fight it and do something.

@ZUUL117

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering to myself "why was I tearing up " so hard to this song. Now I get it! I'm an OEF Vet dealing with (inser issue) and you just answered my question especially with the fall of Afghanistan. Thank you so much

@alannahstulois5065

2 жыл бұрын

He writes it so powerfully though 🖤 ‘if your convictions were a passing phase, may your ashes feed the river in the morning rays’ that lyric hit me right in the soul

@xterminathan

2 жыл бұрын

Have 🫵 found the Yellow Sign? HisStory awaits🐍🐉👁✍️💛🍋🐝☝️

@phoenixmastrogiovanni157

2 жыл бұрын

it's about 9/11 and all the negative impacts it had on an existing police state built on genocide and slavery

@moppenboek

Жыл бұрын

Maybe commenting on his doubts of doing a come back. In that light it's pretty cool having this line be the end of the teaser single of their new album!

5:05 The way Gerard says "You must fix your heart" it gave me goosebumps.

@loganchitty

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite line in the song

@laureliviprv1367

Жыл бұрын

Mine too!! I FELT this song in my chest , especially that line.

This guy stole my whole flow

@francisconobre19

2 жыл бұрын

Word for word, bar for bar

@ShreyasKr...

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@luizarthurbrito

2 жыл бұрын

you do know you can listen to the song by itself, right?

@no1u521

2 жыл бұрын

@@luizarthurbrito 😐

My favourite band giving me Three Cheers & I Brought You My Bullets vibes back and I want to cry all over again

@WTWAK

2 жыл бұрын

I cried 1st listen

@leanaburborough-meha8941

2 жыл бұрын

@@WTWAK same 😂

@susanahoria5039

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 🖤❤️

@cesarmounts3941

2 жыл бұрын

This is so brought you my bullets

@floristfindspeace

9 ай бұрын

i thought this was giving more like black parade and revenge, but more black parade than anything

This surprise release made my entire year tbh.

I literally cried when I heard it.

@jdrocks8605

2 жыл бұрын

i love this

@mafepa

2 жыл бұрын

I cry every time I have listened to this song ….I still can’t believe this is happening

@sunshinesteich4949

2 жыл бұрын

Same

i don't have the lyrics yet, but i think the song is literally about the decaying of society. 9/11 was a pivotal point in Gerard's life. he was working in NY when it happened and because of it, quit his job and started MCR. "he was there the day the towers fell, and so he wandered down the road. and we would all build towers of our own, only to watch the rooms(roots? idk) corrode. but it's much too late you're in the race. so we'll press, we'll press till you can't take it anymore."

@adamnoel3936

2 жыл бұрын

L y r i c s [Verse 1: Gerard Way] See the man who stands upon the hill He dreams of all the battles won But fate had left its scars upon his face With all the damage they had done And so with time, with age He turns the page Let the flesh Submit itself to gravity [Chorus] Let our bodies lay While our hearts will stay Let our blood invade If I die in pain Now, if your convictions were a passing phase May our ashes feed the river in the morning rays And as the vermin crawls We lay in the foundations of decay [Verse 2: Gerard Way] He was there, the day the towers fell And so he wandered down the road And we would all build towers of our own Only to watch the rooms corrode But it's much too late You're in the race So we'll press And press 'til you can't take it anymore [Chorus] Let our bodies lay While our hearts will stay Let our blood invade If I die in pain And if by his own hand his spirit flies Take his body as a relic To be canonized And so he gets to die a saint But she will always be the whore [Bridge] (Let's flip out!) Against fate (Antihero) Against all life (As if it must be pure) Against change (Wander through the ruins) We are free (Fifteen years ago) [Verse 3: Gerard Way] You must fix your heart And you must build an altar where it was When the storm decays at this dying rate Let it flood Let it flood Let it wash away At last, we'll stumble through your last crusade When you welcome your extinction in the morning rays And as the swarming calls to lay in the foundations [Outro] Yes, it comforts me much more Yes, it comforts me much more To lay in the foundations of decay Give up killing

@joebidenjr5902

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that tragedy

@derwake1

2 жыл бұрын

1000% it’s kind of the same feeling of back then. The Country (USA) trying to come out of a horrible event…in this case it’s new division of race, political division, Covid, WW3 on the brink…MCR is back. They have a purpose again and came out of the fucking ashes just like they did when the twin towers fell in 2001

@BryceNickersonAzrael

2 жыл бұрын

@@joebidenjr5902 JetBlue airlines winning number one in customer satisfaction is the true tragedy

@sschofield115

2 жыл бұрын

I so badly want this to be a first single from an upcoming album but it would also be THE PERFECT final MCR song. It would be such a full circle moment from "Skylines and Turnstiles" being 1st and about aftermath of the attacks and this about the aftermath of society.

Can't tell you how happy I am it's good. Like so many people who went from kids to late teens/early 20s through the 2000s, MCR were one of the main bands, along with Linkin Park and a few others, that acted as a gateway drug to lead me in a heavier direction in my music taste. It's such a biting nostalgia that gives me so many mixed emotions to hear them come back with not just a good song, but a fairly heavy song for the modern mainstream scene.

@adamgibbons5715

2 жыл бұрын

P

Can we all just shed a tear for Ray Toro's soul searing shredding ability? No, literally .... It is so so so I'm sorry, I'm just at a loss for words. I'm just gonna go back to playing this on repeat and tearing up at that epic Toro crescendo.

@great_hawk2

2 жыл бұрын

And that atmosphere that Frank Iero brings to the rythym. He and Ray harmonizing together. It's one of a kind.

All I can tell you is that I am still in complete disbelief. It has been 8 years since they've dropped any new music and I feel like my brain can't compute what I am hearing, what I'm experiencing. I will say that I think that this is a brand new evolution, new era of My Chemical Romance. This is going to be life-altering.

@alannahstulois5065

2 жыл бұрын

It’s so exciting!!

@cindyv9422

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, they have been a huge part of my life. My prayers have been answered.

This song really hits you if you know the story of what inspired Gerard Way to get into writing music. Gerard Way said a long time ago that the collapse of the twin towers had a major impact on why he started writing music. This song seems to have multiple layers of meaning. I can see it being partially about what it was like when the towers fell but even more than that this song is using that as a metaphor for how life can be sometimes. Its also so refreshing to see them not go for a stereotypical "popular" sound and instead this song feels much more reminiscent of their early work but with the experience of a group that knows how to write!

Hearing this new song legit made me cry in the middle of the laundromat

@bibbumblebee

2 жыл бұрын

For me it was in the parking lot of my apartment building, a package toilet paper under my arm

@victoriatrue2080

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I bawled when I heard it! Gerard was on my 16th birthday cake. Like…super fan right here. And my life has seemed unfair that everyone else’s favorite bands kept making music and mine didn’t. BUT THEYRE BACK!!!!! 🫠🫠🫠

@aiyanmurshed9632

2 жыл бұрын

made me cry in the middle of sonic (my job) i screamed

@bibbumblebee

2 жыл бұрын

@@victoriatrue2080 Right? I remember being in grade school, trying to sneak downstairs late at night to look up black-parade-era interviews on KZread

@great_hawk2

2 жыл бұрын

Standing in my living room, thinking about my youth and how inspired I was listening to them around 2004-2007.

gerard way actually was there during 9/11 commuting to work on the ferry - he saw the bodies falling. the first mcr song, "skylines and turnstiles", is about 9/11, which actually inspired him to call up some of the other members and start the band. these guys are fucking legends. they just wanted to make some music and change some peoples lives, and they sure did

@noname-ng6sj

2 жыл бұрын

Why do people keep saying this? You can't commute to a job you don't have yet. It was an interview for his dream job. His own Adult Swim show. Clueless people.

@KateSylvesterMusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@noname-ng6sj yaaaaas king go off 😌

@gemmamalo96

2 жыл бұрын

@@noname-ng6sj he was already working there when he pitched the show, and i'm pretty sure the show was pitched and rejected before 9/11 (they thought it was too similar to aqua teen hunger force). it was just a normal day for him.

@nevermorapurge8371

2 жыл бұрын

@@noname-ng6sj breakfast monkey I think?

@bonbon2225

Жыл бұрын

He wasn’t on the ferry he was taking the PATH from Hoboken into the city.

"he was there the day the towers fell" I think this line is a reference to when they started the band, which was directly after the 9/11 bombings, saying they wanted to "make a difference."

@5DollarGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know that. Really cool fact. Thanks!

@doom3798

2 жыл бұрын

yeah gerard was there at the time

@thomasdubois4383

2 жыл бұрын

He was going to be a comic book writer and that changed everything

@user-yl8yv6bp6b

2 жыл бұрын

He had seen them fall he was there

@jillian5899

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasdubois4383 he thankfully did that too!

Makes me wanna listen to The Black Parade another 500 times.

@gemin.r.j

2 жыл бұрын

but this sounds nothing like TBP is more like TCFSR

@ARWG

2 жыл бұрын

@@gemin.r.j Saying in general, not musically. Haven't thought about MCR in a good minute. Just hearing that they're dropping new stuff makes me wanna go back.

To me, it’s about getting older, seeing everything you’ve built over your youth slowly rot and being too afraid to push on and build new. It resonates so much in me, so I think I’ve allowed it to slot into my own difficulties in life. But it really is so much more comfortable to sit in the past sometimes because starting again new means the possibility of facing more, new pain, and at my time in life that terrifies me. I needed this song so much, the last lyric ‘get up coward’ is now my new motto….and once again mcr saved my soul ❤️

Honestly my first listen I was missing the more up front and catchy vocals but literally just putting it on for a second spin with the lyrics up, totally hit. So happy! The next 24 hours for music is legit overwhelming.

@aidandoyle3570

2 жыл бұрын

Where’d u find lyrics? I use Apple Music and they dont have the lyrics uploaded yet

@5DollarGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@aidandoyle3570 Genius had em.

I can't believe they are back, and I'm going to see them so soon! Never thought this would ever happen to me, feel like I'm in a fever dream

@mizzle2

2 жыл бұрын

same it's so crazy, I thought id never see the day

@a.h.1035

2 жыл бұрын

same!!!! seeing them in less than a month and i was already screaming but now i am SCREAMINGGGG

@patricksfedora1357

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I'm seeing them in a month or so! :)

@alannahstulois5065

2 жыл бұрын

It’s going to be so amazing can you even imagine what the atmosphere will be like?!?!?

This totally feels like Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and im SO HYPED AB IT. This feels like a holiday, i cant believe we are so lucky to have MCR back :’) My inner child is screaming so loud right now over this moment

Definitely has and feels like all of the albums mixed together. Got a Danger feel in the beginning but definitely moves into more of the earlier album feels.

@aaisha4106

2 жыл бұрын

and I love that it displays who they are so well

@fairydoom7311

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I really get ‘bullets’ vibe from it, like but more mature and refined. Gorgeous.

@evermartin3364

2 жыл бұрын

it gets me the i brought you bullets vibe

@evermartin3364

2 жыл бұрын

@@fairydoom7311 yess, i feel the same

It's definitey MCR, but deeper and a little darker. Love this song.

I HAVE MISSED RAY TORO. One of the most underrated, best guitarists in the game today.

I am so glad you started covering rock music on this channel right before this came out. That is such great timing!

@jdrocks8605

2 жыл бұрын

crazy huh

genuinely can't express how this makes me feel - this band was there for me when nobody else was, through rock bottom and all. absolutely loving this song and i'm so excited to see them live next month, for the first time since 2011!!!!

We are most definitely getting a much needed new album from them. Listening to this again, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a heavier album from them this time around. I think we got a mix of the guys’ side projects fused together to make a pretty solid blend of each of their four albums + the set of Conventional Weapons on this track. Also- willing to bet this will be the first track of the new album whenever we get it. Edit: I have waited for long, not knowing if this day of new My Chem music would ever come… and it finally has. Oh, and they disbanded in March 2013. Last full album was 2010, not counting Conventional Weapons.

@alexburchell1891

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, MCR aren't one for making small moves without a bigger context, I strongly doubt it's just a stand-alone track.

@aaisha4106

2 жыл бұрын

yes 100% I agree with this. You get this undercurrent of their solo albums and projects, threaded through with their old sounds and all of it collates to form something entirely new

Been a fan since the day I saw "Im not Okay" playing on MTV all those moons ago. I can't believe after all this time they make a comeback with a song like this. If the rest of the album matches this energy It could very well be one of their best ever. Absolutely shocked the old dogs did it!

I so badly want this to be a first single from an upcoming album but it would also be THE PERFECT final MCR song. It would be such a full circle moment from "Skylines and Turnstiles" being 1st and about aftermath of the attacks and this about the aftermath of society.

I’m a longtime MCR fan, and cannot deal with how well this comeback is going 🖤🖤 Not only are they back, but the song is so damn good :’) I’m seeing them for the 3rd and 4th time this upcoming tour, cannot wait now!

I had a literal panic attack because I saw they had a new single last night. So to celebrate I read some comics and listened to the entire danger days album

Astonishing. It was like a shockwave went off when that dropped yesterday.

lol they knew they could get away with a 6 min song. love it

I love, love, love this! It’s got everything I love in a song - dark and light and that heavy rock sound. So glad they came back! Just WOW!

I love them so very much and this was a gorgeous reaction video!

I was already excited to full-fill my teen dream of seeing them live for the first time in just 2 weeks... but now with a new song, I’m even more excited. This is more than I could have dreamed of. I get major bullets vibes from it- I love it.

Seems to me Gerard writes a lot of auto biographical stuff. Loads of imagery (he's SO good at that!) and he paints a magnificent picture, but there is usually a true story there. Maybe about the band's breakdown? Wouldn't that be great?

@alannahstulois5065

2 жыл бұрын

Or him facing getting older? There’s definitely an acceptance of that in this song

@robinbradbury6493

2 жыл бұрын

@@alannahstulois5065 So, since I finally found what seems to be accurate lyrics...I guarantee it's autobiographical. I also am pretty sure the "She" he is referring to is MCR.

@alannahstulois5065

2 жыл бұрын

@@robinbradbury6493 with the reference to the twin towers….and building towers on they’re own only to watch the roots decay….I totally agree.

massive respect for getting this out on kendrick eve lol, so quickly too. it’s a great night for music !!

Absolutely amazing!!!

Let’s go it came back keep up the good work

oh my god this is how you do a comeback record. absolutely insane

I was so HELLA excited when this came out. My god, all My Chem coming back was incredible enough and then they drop this 😍

God this was so awesome! I needed this so much. The prophet at it again with the great reactions. Now I got this and Kendrick to keep me excited.

Nostalgic af! Has first/second album vibes🔥

I like all the different places the song goes in one track

MCR is f*cking amazing!!! I love them!!

I'm so happy they're back ! Their music means so much to me and lots of people 🥲

Grateful for this masterpiece!! So epic return!

This song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I feel like he threw the towers in there because that's what started MCR and I feel it's symbolic of them restarting their band. Like it literally screams without a doubt "we are back."

I'm glad to see you doing a rock/metal channel again! Love both stuff. This song rocks.

Sogood . seeing them live next week at Milton Keynes, so excited as been waiting over 2 years due to covid

Saw it live 2 weeks ago - a - blooming-mazing!!!

Have you checked out the song he was featured on with Matt Heafy? Gerard can scream!! ❤ Decay is absolutely incredible! I fell in love instantly! Welcome back boys,you've been missed.

So happy this channel exists! Now let's watch it grow!

I'm really excited to see them perform this, whether on tour or in a music vid I just want to see them do this song

Such a great comeback

I love MCR so much! also I'm gonna subscribe and give like to all the videos you upload in this channel cause' I as a massive hip hop fan but also a rock / alternative fan I really want you to keep reacting to this kind of music too

I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS ALL FUCKING DAY LONG, This almost feel surreal, I was so young when I listened to them and as I got older I kinda grew out of my emo phase and headed for heavier stuff which I don't complain, but this year I downloaded all the emo songs and holy crap I had forgotten MCR IS THE BEST, and I've been listening to their songs again and it even felt better in 2022 and then this came out and it felt jus like a miracle, my head's literally spinning

This was every bit as good as I expected it to be 🤘 This song almost functions as a spiritual successor to “Skylines and Turnstiles”

OMG, this sounds killer! When is the album coming out!?!

this song brought me all the feelings of the first albums, it makes me so happy

My first time ever listening to MCR and this was phenomenal

Man I got the shivers when he mentioned ' the day the towers fell'. It was a beginning of a new era, and now that it was mentioned again, we have a return -- a new era, of MCR

It’s actually been since 2010 that they put out music that was new at the time of released and not previously recorded for a scrapped project. Really exciting and I think they came back a 10x better band than ever before

Was at their first show in MK last night and can confirm it was fucking amazing

I'm freaking out rn I'm seeing them next weekend been waiting for them to drop something for so long with covid postponing the tour and all just so glad to have my favourite band back man

@andalltheangelssay212

2 жыл бұрын

Milton Keynes?❤️💖❤️

@morgana3797

2 жыл бұрын

Yep on the 22nd

@andalltheangelssay212

2 жыл бұрын

@@morgana3797 same!

@laurenrolfe3808

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@morgana3797

2 жыл бұрын

Genuinely thought I couldn't get more excited to see them and they drop this can already tell it's gonna be amazing to hear live

this song is as good as i could have possibly hoped for from them!

🔥🤟😢 aquí vamos nuevamente

This song is about the entire history of MCR, I think that genius has most of the information about the lyrics on there. “He was there, the day the towers fell” refers to the fact that MCR came into existence due to the 9/11 incident, and so on

So great to have them back 🙂

youtube me recomendó esto, y confirmo que reaccione igual que este man haha mcr lo más grande

My friends a guitar solo in 2022... rock/emo music was amazing and to experience it all over again 🙌 To have that same feeling in your chest 5:01 enjoy.

Tool and Deftones told Gerard “this the one”

My favourites, they are back. 🙏🏽

Good video mate!

That smile when the chorus was about to hit

I'm buzzing. I'm going to see them on Monday in Cornwall. I'd assumed they'd of toured promoting something new. I couldn't of wished for a better come back. As for the lyrics life & death as they have always done the best.

Listened to it like 37 times already

The ending sounds like Muse's Plug In Baby with that Fuzz Factory effect at the end of Muse's song. And another think I'd like to mention is the out ot the scale note that appears in the part that Gerard sings "we wander through the RUINS" at 4:53 when he says RUINS. The same for the last word "coward". That's just unexpected and amazing.

this song is so good omg

Ngl, I was hoping for a long time for Gerard to make a follow up solo album to Hesitant Alien (which I legitimately thought was great), but new MCR is dope!

@gemin.r.j

2 жыл бұрын

i'm still waiting for the studio version of "kid nothing"

My favourite band when I was a teen😍💛

SO GOOD! MCR IS BACK. what a time to be alive.

Long live My Chemical Romance ♥️

MCR OF ALL PEOPLE??? I thought a new chemical romance coming out would be like a myth we will never see again, or even if we saw, would fail like arcade fire or something... This was actually a great song...

i cant tell you how much i wanted to cry first listening to this song it made me so happy

the look jd gives at 1:21 when the build starts

lyrics: See the man who stands upon the hill He dreams of all the battles won But fate had left it's scars upon his face With all the damage they had done And so time, with age, he turns the page Let the flesh submit itself to gravity Let our bodies lay While our hearts will stay Let our blood in vein Feel forgotten pain, now If your convictions were a passing phase May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays And as the vermin crawls We lay in the foundations of decay He was there, the day the towers fell And so he wandered down the road And we would all build towers of our own Only to watch the rooms corrode But it's much too late You're in the race, so we'll press And press 'til you can't take it anymore Let our bodies lay While our hearts will stay Let our blood in vein Feel forgotten pain And if by his own hand his spirit flies Take his body as a relic to be canonized, now And so he gets to die a saint But she will always be the whore Against faith (antihero) Against all life (as if it must be pure) Against change (we wander through the ruins) We are free (the guiltiness is yours) You must fix your heart And you must build an altar where it rests When the storm decays and the sky it rains Let it flood, let it flood Let it wash away And as we stumble through your last crusade When you welcome your extinction in the morning rays And as the swarming calls, we lay in the foundations Yes, it comforts me much more Yes, it comforts me much more To lay in the foundations of decay

Are you into Metalcore,Jon?I recommend Northlane's latest album Obsidian.It got a nice mix of metalcore and techno sounds.

This song is amazing

Gerard's voice is legendary.

This is perfect and real

I think Gerard Way is mentioning the fact that we all built towers with him when he created MCR, we all built a community. And when they broke apart, we let our towers corrode and watched it happen. They finally got back together after years. And now that he sees all that's going on in the world this year, and how the US isn't really doing anything, he's yelling for us to make a stand, even if it's more comfortable for us to just sit there and hope in the foundations of our decaying towers.

When this came out my mom was sick and I was ignorant and now she’s in the hospital and I’m always high on something but the “fix your heart” and the “get up, coward” hits so much I’ve been sober for only a couple days and she’s still in the hospital and this song is now my favorite I’ve always loved them since 5-6 grade when I was down And here they are again when I’m in this situation. I could have helped my mother sooner but I was a coward and still am.

hey Jon, great reaction as per! do you plan on doing anything from the new chili peppers album on the channel? love!

What a fucking moment. Yes JD

On first full listen with proper headphones I might have cried a little.

Yo sick shirt! Love Harvmcm!

MCR is my all time favorite band

@therealflr

2 жыл бұрын

Right now I love Pierce The Veil Sleeping With Sirens Fall Out Boy YUNGBLUD MGK jxdn LiL Lotus too

LO PRIMERO QUE SE ME CRUZO POR LA CABEZA DESPUES DE ESCUCHAR EL TEMA FUE, "FALLING IN REVERSE". EL SONIDO ES MAS HEAVY Y GERARD HACE GUTURALES (NO MUY PRONUNCIADOS), PERO ANTES NO LOS HACIA.... ME GUSTO MUCHO EL TEMA

Damn, was not expecting this but the song is definitely good