The Hidden Story of The Black Parade: 6

This post is about the next three songs. The final two songs on the album deserve their own separate posts.

Disenchanted
Disenchanted is one of the sadder songs on the album, and it's also one of the slower songs. This song is about The Patient accepting the fact, he is dying and that in the end, it's okay. He also seems to show that after the events of I Don't Love You, he wonders if his lover even felt like their love meant anything. "You're just a sad song with nothing to say. About a life long wait for a hospital stay. And if you think that I'm wrong. This never meant nothing to ya." These lyrics really show how The Patient feels at this point, his life was simply a sad song about his life waiting for a hospital stay being his cancer diagnose. And that if anyone thinks he is wrong, his life meant nothing to them. This song really shows by the ending of his life, The Patient has nothing else to hang onto to, and decides that death ain't so bad.

Mama
Mama is finally introducing The Parader's backstory. The songs opens with bombs dropping and exploding as instruments painting the scene of a war. This gives all the info we need instantly, The Parader died in War, specifically World War I. This really begins to show that The Patient and The Parader aren't all too dissimilar, they both died young and with little to no meaning as to why they died. The Patient dying to a terrible disease and The Parader dying as another statistic in war. "And when we go, don't blame us, yeah. We'll let the fires just bathe us, yeah. You made us oh so famous. We'll never let you go. She said, "You ain't no son of mine. For what you've done, they're gonna find. A place for you and just you mind your manners when you go. And when you go, don't return to me, my love (that's right.)" The first half of these lyrics are the chorus are The Parader asking his mother to not blame them for going to war and accepting his death when it comes. The last half though, shows The Parader's mother telling him, for the crimes he has done in war, that he has no place to return to, and that he is no longer her son. This is absolutely heartbreaking because most soldiers go to war, to try and protect their country and return home to show what they tried to help protect, but the Parader has nowhere to go any longer.

Sleep
Quickly, before talking about the story of the album, the intro of this song is Gerard Way's experience in the Paramore Mansion where The Black Parade was written and recorded. This is a supposed haunted mansion and Gerard tells of his experience in the mansion. Back to the story, The Patient in Sleep completely accepts death and begins to wilt like a flower, but The Parader appears finally and instead of insulting The Patient, he begs him to hold on. "And through it all. How could you cry for me? 'Cause I don't feel bad about it. So shut your eyes. Kiss me goodbye. And sleep. Just sleep." These lines are The Patient asking how anyone can continue crying for him because he has accepted death finally, so everyone should stop crying and say their goodbyes, because he will now and forever sleep. During the end of the song, behind the wall of instruments, you can hear the Parader. "Just sleep. Just sleep. Just sleep. Just sleep. Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" The Parader yells and begs The Patient to wake up, to try and grasp every ounce of life because he couldn't and doesn't want to see another young person taken by the grasp of Death.

We're nearing the end of the album now.