Disenchanted

I think it has to do with the patient. He was born happy, but died in the hospital.

But it's very vague. Because if it's about the patient, saying "You're just a sad song, with nothing to say about a life long wait for a hospital stay" wouldn't make much sense.

This is the song meaning I used in my reviews in my school paper (yes there's a column on new cd song interpretations. only in jersey...):

...Although the meaning of any song is debatable, to me, this song can be described as a bunch of kids using underage IDs to purchase alcohol then getting drunk. They are then followed by the police and end up getting in an acident and killing themselves. The driver sees his life flash before his eyes and swears that if he gets out of this alive, he would never do anything like this again, but his repetition of apologizing to no on in particular has stopped his from getting to safety and another car hits them killing them all. The driver was upset and wished that he could have apologized to some one before he died. The song is then followed by Famous Last Words...

at first this song didn't mean much to me until i got mad at my freinds now it really touches me...

this song is definately to do with the patient, but it's hard to pinpoint exactly how it fits in with the rest of the concept. i think it says a lot, but means different things to different people. i think everyone can relate to this song in some way

When this song starts, it sounds very sentimental as Gerard's, or the Patient's voice comes in. "I was there on the day they sold the cause for the Queen." This could possibly be the same memory as in Welcome to the Black Parade. And as he joined the Black Parade, died, you could say, "The lights all went out, we watched our lives on the screen," meaning that everyone was reflecting on the path that their lives took and maybe regretting some actions. The Patient obviously wishes that his life could have ended in a different way, "I hate the ending myself, but it started with an alright scene." This implies that he was raised well. The point of view shifts though, and it seems like Gerard is speaking to us instead of The Patient when "It was the roar of the crowd that gave me heartache to sing," possibly telling us that maybe he doesn't feel like he deserves what we as fans have given to him, but flickers back to The Patient with "It was a lie when they smiled and said 'You won't feel a thing." Talking about operations or the administration of pain medications to treat his ailment, possibly. He starts to reminisce about his rebellious teenage years that he spent running from police and laughing about it later with his friends. But then he starts to wonder. If he's really wrong, then why did people listen to him? If his message was wrong, then would it really have impacted people the way it did? Would it matter, now that he was dead? Would anyone learn anything from him? All these thoughts run through his head, and he starts to bring himself down with "You're just a sad song, with nothing to say about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay, and if you think that I'm wrong, this never meant nothing to you." His ego-voice at the back of his head is pulling him down, telling him that his message wasn't important and his life was nothing but waiting for death. After this, he looks back on his life more bitterly, and how he was brainwashed during school, and made to conform, and all it got him was sellout role models and doubt in people that he used to admire. His ego-voice in the back of his head goes through its schpiel again, and taunts him, telling him to run away from his fate, but mocks him, with "But where did you run to, and where did you hide? Go find another way, price you pay." His ego-self basically beats him down, and repeats, "At all," at the end, possibly to say, "You were nothing," over and over again.

Dujo:

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gerard says when he sings live this song: This is a song about living your dream, and then one day you wake up and realize that fream is not there.... and it will happen to all of you one day!!.....

its really sounds weird... gee wouldnt say that but he did... just search on youtube and the song live.. he doese say that!!
he i kinda tells the truth

bellevillexx:

When this song starts, it sounds very sentimental as Gerard's, or the Patient's voice comes in. "I was there on the day they sold the cause for the Queen." This could possibly be the same memory as in Welcome to the Black Parade. And as he joined the Black Parade, died, you could say, "The lights all went out, we watched our lives on the screen," meaning that everyone was reflecting on the path that their lives took and maybe regretting some actions. The Patient obviously wishes that his life could have ended in a different way, "I hate the ending myself, but it started with an alright scene." This implies that he was raised well. The point of view shifts though, and it seems like Gerard is speaking to us instead of The Patient when "It was the roar of the crowd that gave me heartache to sing," possibly telling us that maybe he doesn't feel like he deserves what we as fans have given to him, but flickers back to The Patient with "It was a lie when they smiled and said 'You won't feel a thing." Talking about operations or the administration of pain medications to treat his ailment, possibly. He starts to reminisce about his rebellious teenage years that he spent running from police and laughing about it later with his friends. But then he starts to wonder. If he's really wrong, then why did people listen to him? If his message was wrong, then would it really have impacted people the way it did? Would it matter, now that he was dead? Would anyone learn anything from him? All these thoughts run through his head, and he starts to bring himself down with "You're just a sad song, with nothing to say about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay, and if you think that I'm wrong, this never meant nothing to you." His ego-voice at the back of his head is pulling him down, telling him that his message wasn't important and his life was nothing but waiting for death. After this, he looks back on his life more bitterly, and how he was brainwashed during school, and made to conform, and all it got him was sellout role models and doubt in people that he used to admire. His ego-voice in the back of his head goes through its schpiel again, and taunts him, telling him to run away from his fate, but mocks him, with "But where did you run to, and where did you hide? Go find another way, price you pay." His ego-self basically beats him down, and repeats, "At all," at the end, possibly to say, "You were nothing," over and over again.

I agree

That long explanation up there^^^ by bellevillexx--I think it has some excellent points; however, I don't know if it's accurate. You see, it seems to jump back and forth quite a lot. Almost as if she's trying to force the pieces into the puzzle. I think most of MCR's songs have double meanings; however, I don't think that there's just a line here, and another there, that applies to the meaning. It's just in my opinion that every line would help to add to each meaning behind it.

I still think bellevillexx has some excellent points, and this assessment should definitely not be discarded.

I usually don't get involved in these kinds of discussions...I feel that the author is the only one that truly knows the meaning behind the song/book/play/movie/whatever. However, while I'd listened to the previous CD, I really heard, and felt this CD very viscerally, so I thought I'd share what it meant to me.

A little background - I'm 38, married with two kids. I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis, a rheumatoid arthritis disease that fuses your spine from the bottom to the top. You don't die from AS, you die with it, we who suffer it like to say, although some of the complicating factors can be fatal as well. It manifests in as many forms as people who are diagnosed with it.

Last year, shortly before The Black Parade was released, I was put on permanent disability by my team of doctors (Family Practictioner, 2 RA Specialists, Pain Specialist/Psych), ending a promising 18 year career in the technology field - it wasn't the technology that was my passion, my passion was using it to help people, both personally via volunteer work, and commercially via making folks lives less stressful through proper planning and implementation of it. Additionally, due to the financial burden this put on my family, we wound up moving in with my father-in-law, originally at his request, as he's 79, and having trouble maintaining a country home, but due to skyrocketting costs, there was some financial incentive to do so as well.

I couldn't figure out for a long time why this CD touched me so deeply, as I'm not given to emotional responses...but touch me it did. Particularly I Don't Love You, Disenchanted, and Famous Last Words.

Disenchanted means to me that the things we're holding on to, and the things we think are important to us are nothing and meaningless, when it comes right down to it when we die. Living as a "disabled" person put all kinds of negative connotations into my life, and I was looking backwards at everything I'd loved and sometimes hated about my life, as well as my passions, in the end, were at an end - life was at an end as I knew it.

My wife was particularly negatively affected by this news, and what it meant to our family - that's the meaning of I Don't Love You to me (another post, if anyone's interested, at a later time).

Listening to - not just hearing - the song, touched me deeply, bringing me to tears. I couldn't figure out why, and during a lengthy battle with depression and suicidal thoughts (not related to the song of course, but of what was and is going to continue to go on in my life until that last hospital stay), along with other things I did to try and pull myself out of that deep dark hole, I decided if this song was affecting me, I had to figure out why.

I believe Gerard is saying exactly that - in the end, we can look back on our lives, mourn the passions we can no longer pursue, and the bad things that happen to us, but when we die, it's all meaningless.

I choose to also take this as a prompt to make our time here count for whatever we can, in worthwhile ways. I can still have a positive influence on the lives of the people around me - my wife, my kids, my extended family and friends...and if I can stabilize the daily pain enough someday and figure out how to fund it, I can at least on a part time basis put my skills to use to encourage more research, and begin a support and activism group in my area for AS Survivors.

Famous Last Words again applies with my wife...but in the end, first I have to be willing to go on, on my own if need be, and begin and keep on living again, as more than a "disabled" person (someone here said labels are for soup cans, I've been using that). It fills me with hope, and the line "I am not afraid to keep on living" fills me with courage and resolve each and every time I hear it. For the record, she's come out the other side on this as well, and she's sleeping beside me as i write this...so it did turn out well in the end

MCR is playing here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Thursday...my wife and kids are going with me, and if it were possible to wear out a CD, we'd have done it (in addition to our MP3 rips, we have 2 retail copies, one in the car, one in the house)...I know I'm going to get choked up when these songs are played, I hope the guys realize how profoundly they've touched some of their fans in a very real way.

(( I apologize for the wall o' text, but I felt I had to post this somewhere it might be appreciated without being flamed or trolled...thanks for your patience ))

maybe its about gerard or some one else in the band who have had really strong memories in the past which they regret and they moved one but that memory is still in their head

lyrics to describe -
"i hate the ending myself but it started with an alright scene" - the memory had made a huge mark on them, but it started okay.

"your just a sad song with nothing to say" - the memory could be very sad and painful...

well, i know that what i've written is nothing close to what the song actually means but............thats just what i thought.

well, i think it's like this...

WELL I WAS THERE ON THE DAY...one day, on the mall...
AND WHEN THE LIGHTS ALL WENT OUT WE WATCHED OUR LIVES ON THE SCREEN...brownout on the mall, then everybody panics and runs in circles...
BUT IT STARTED WITHAN ALRIGHT SCENE...a guy bumps into a girl...
weeks later...they became bf and gf, and now they are on a date...and the guy asked permission if he could take a break first...girl agrees...then guy goes outside and kissed another girl on the cheek and that girl was his sister...the gf saw and she thought it was another gf of him, so she left and went home...guy sees her walk away and so he goes to the gf's house...guy tried to explain...
IF IM SO WRONG, HOW CAN YOU LISTEN TO IT ALL NIGHT LONG?girl doesn't believe him and the girl demanded a break up...guy was sad , so he left...then guy had an accident and died that night...few nights later, girl read the news in the newspaper...she was surprised and turned back and saw guy...girl was scared, but the guy was only there to explain AGAIN. SO GO, GO AWAY, JUST GO RUN AWAY...girl ran away, but because of fright, she didn't know where she was going..
BUT WHERE DID YOU RUN TO?AND WHERE DID YOU HIDE, GO FIND ANOTHER WAY...girl hits the busy streets, but she's still very scared...so...PRICE YOU PAY...girl gets hit by a truck and died instantly...now, that's the meaning!!!

this song is abut some one who sold somthing to earn something but as they were killed they wached there lives and they lied and said this is a goog thing and they dont like the way there live ended because they sold there life to the queen but they liked the way there lives started when they dident sell themselfes




jordan collins

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i know thts isnt going to follow what everyone else is saying, and i dont know if this males sense or like..means anything.. but when i went to the Topela concert, during this song when Gerard wasnt singing.. he turned to Mikey and it looked like he was asking if he was ok or somehting and Mikey nodded..
i duno if that means anything or not i just wanted to say it ^_^

Mikey_Way_is_my_hero:

i know thts isnt going to follow what everyone else is saying, and i dont know if this males sense or like..means anything.. but when i went to the Topela concert, during this song when Gerard wasnt singing.. he turned to Mikey and it looked like he was asking if he was ok or somehting and Mikey nodded..
i duno if that means anything or not i just wanted to say it ^_^

That is so sweet. I sometimes forget that they still struggle with stuff. Perhaps this song has special meaning for Mikey.

Solitary Style.:

Mikey_Way_is_my_hero:

i know thts isnt going to follow what everyone else is saying, and i dont know if this males sense or like..means anything.. but when i went to the Topela concert, during this song when Gerard wasnt singing.. he turned to Mikey and it looked like he was asking if he was ok or somehting and Mikey nodded..
i duno if that means anything or not i just wanted to say it ^_^

That is so sweet. I sometimes forget that they still struggle with stuff. Perhaps this song has special meaning for Mikey.

yah thats what i thought too.. it means something else to Mikey.

okay ive got one or 2

1. i think this is about after he dies and about his girlfriend that said she didnt love him realising she still does and recounting theyre past together. she ust sitting in her room crying

2. i like mikey mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm it makes me think of him (soz friend says that

he is think about after a breakup bout the good times and the troble they got in that was so funni "and as we ran from the cops we laughed so hard it would sting

This song is really depressing and really got to me. It talks about ruined relationships. It makes me cry everytime i hear it.