Lyrics for Cancer as interpreted by deathb4birth

Cancer Lyrics
Turn away
If you could get me a drink, of water
'cause my lips are chapped and faded
call my aunt marie
help her gather all my things
and bury me in all my favorite colors
my sisters and my brothers still
I will not kiss you
'cause the hardest part of this
is leaving you

Now turn away
'cause i'm awful just to see
'cause all my hairs abandoned all my body
oh my agony
know that i will never marry
baby i'm just soggy from the chemo
but counting down the days to go
It just ain't living
And I just hope you know
that if you say
goodbye today
I'd ask you to be true
'cause the hardest part of this is leaving you
'cause the hardest part of this is leaving you

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d5xtgr
09-30-2009

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I just spent almost a half hour readin the comments here. Some truly inspirin stories here. Thanks uys, keeps me believin. And I infer my keyboard is broken now?

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WhoaRevenge
09-05-2009

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Beautiful... I can play this on piano....all I need is Gerard beside me, sitting on the piano bench, singing along with that amazing voice...sigh...a girl can dream...

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reidrox
08-29-2009

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Fuck all of you who say this song is gross and Gerard knows nothing about it, and this is a "shitty" band and this song isnt deep and your a fucking pansy to cry about it. And this isnt recycled you tards.
Number one: It isn't gross, its about cancer. Number tow: How the fuck do you know Gerard doesnt mknow about cancer? If you hate them, about you know shit about how his life has been. He knows about DEATH and cancer can be used as a metaphor. Number 3: They ARENT shitty, i hate hate people who think that "They're SO much more lyk hardcore and better" because they listen to metal bands, wtf? Number 4: Anyone who says this song isnt deep and you cant cry at it are stupid! Your being hyopcriitical, i bet anyone who said that hasnt had cancer either! So you're saying your on expert on cancer, but Gerard isnt? And lastly: How is it recycled? wtf?

I love this song, it's sad, yes it is sad to all haters with no lifes.

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beckasha
07-31-2009

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This is such a sad song. Gerard totally nailed what it's like to go through cancer. My grandmother died of liver cancer 7 years ago, and .. yeah this song pretty much is how it is..

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xscenelovex3
06-07-2009

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I do agree that the melody isn't all that new, but the lyrics definitely are!
This song clearly means a lot to them, and anyone who has/had, or has/had a loved one with cancer. It makes me tear up. Especially at, "bury me in all my favorite colors."
I've been obsessively writing that on my hand for like a month. I love it.
~~~GO MCR <3~~~

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LittleMissVampire
05-28-2009

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real sad.
one of MCR's most meaningful songs.
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Samasaurus
05-28-2009

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I've liked this song for about three years now. I've listened to it over 3000 times, and it STILL makes me cry every single time.
It is beautiful. My favourite song off TBP if not out of all MCR songs.

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reeblite
04-06-2009

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sooo many people can relate to the emotions of this song. i wonder if it was someone he went out with or a close friend whom he watched go through this.

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bear_hug20
10-07-2008

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SAD!

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jackizzle805
10-06-2008

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my best friend sang this song to me when they told him he only had a couple months to live. unfourtunatley he died sooner than that butyea. this is an awesome song.

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JMJ4492
09-06-2008

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I just heard this song and started crying the hardest I have ever cried in my life and I am a guy. See my father who i was close with died of cancer in may the worst part is he had it it went away came back and killed him. I have not really cried about my father until now because I could not except he was gone. This song helped me alot. When I was crying I realized I had to say goodbye and move on because thats he would have wanted me to do. R.I.P Dad I will always rember you.

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Miera
09-01-2008

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My nan died of thyroid cancer; this song is just so beautful. It never fails to make me cry.

"I will not kiss you"
I just bawl at that part. I remember when she was just a day or so off of dying, and the last time I went to visit her she didn't say anything, just kissed my hand. "(

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axnewxeraxbegins
08-09-2008

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well, i dont see why it wouldnt be. this long term condition is not one to be taken lightly. the fct that so many people have been claimed is just sickening. i myself am unusually prone to cancer. i know the fright because of the precautions and because of many of the days when your so sure you have it.

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LittleD3
06-25-2008

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I seen a video of this song. and it looked like Way was having alot of trouble singing it(it looked like it was upsetting him)

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MyChemicalSweetness
06-12-2008

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'Kay,I think the lyrics are pretty self explanitory.Its about maybe the Paitent or perhaps just some person with cancer who's dying and knows it and is telling how they'll miss someone and stuff when they die.Pretty simple.

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BloodySacrifice
05-21-2008

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OMGG I love this song! It has my name in it! Marie! ^-^

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emchapps
04-25-2008

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I love songs that can bring any sort of emotion out of me, but this one is just too hard to listen to. I immediately deleted it off my ipod after I first heard it, not because it's a horrible song, but it's just far too much of a touchy subject for me, since my mother suffered from cancer recently. Although it's a sad song, it doesn't even begin to symbolize just how hard it is to watch a loved one slowly deteriorate from this horrible disease.

add me to msn if you ever want to talk. emily.chappell@hotmail.com

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mcrvamp08
03-23-2008

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I've had so many family members die from Cancer (my aunt who I was real close to, and her son - whom my father was real close to) died from it. Everytime I hear this song it reminds me of them (and other's I know/have known).

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xXxedgy_angelxXx
03-05-2008

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wow... =*(... this song makes meh cry...

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swyrbrwn
02-02-2008

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you know im almost positive his father or something had cancer, and thats why he wrote the song.

i could be wrong.
just adding my input.

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tef
01-20-2008

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this song's too strong... overwhelming, i just cant stand it... i feel it so bad

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numb3rschick
01-10-2008

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This song takes on a completely different meaning when you actually know someone with cancer. I can't listen to this song without crying anymore because it reminds me of my late great grandmother. It's a beautiful song, though, and it's one of my favorites on the album.

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xhateyourpityx
12-25-2007

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although im sure many people have a similar story to my own...

my father just recently died of cancer.
he only had a few months after he was diagnosed.
and this song reminds me of him every time i hear it.
coincidentally, he loved my chem, but i made sure he never got to listen to this song, so it wouldnt upset him.



'cause the hardest part of this is leaving you'


wow.

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foundthevelvetsun7
12-20-2007

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This song has truly done wonders for me. I don't know if it's like this for everyone, but I grew up scared of death. Ever since I knew what it was, I think, I've been afraid to die and afraid of my family dying. Not like a phobia or obsession or anything; it's just that kids have bad ideas about death. It always seems horrible to them.

Sometime last month, I was riding the city bus to school like I always do, listening to my MP3 player and looking out the window. "Cancer" came on, and I listened like I normally do. But I could somehow sense that this time was different. The song almost hypnotized me, and I realized at that moment that the bus was passing a cemetary. It was so chillng, but for the rest of the song I got this peaceful feeling. The only way I can describe it is that after that moment I am no longer afraid of death like I used to be. I can accept it, and know that when I do die, it will be at the right time.

This song ends so bitterly... it doesn't have a happy ending, it ends with saying how hard it will be for this person to leave their loved one. It's not the cancer that bothers them, or dying, really, it's the simple fact that they can't stand leaving the person alone.

I used to think that this song wouldn't affect me, because I'm not the humanitarian type and seeing that other people are suffering doesn't bother me as much as I would like it to, but "Cancer" has truly changed my life.


What can music do for you?

--Mari

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SkelloJello
11-23-2007

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My school is doing this "poem summary" thing. It could've been on a song, so I did cancer. This is what i turned in:
This is a song by My Chemical Romance (but written by Gerard Way, the lead singer) called "Cancer." It describes the horrors and effects that cancer, gives to a person. I chose this poem because it seems really humane, and describes what it probably feels like for the person with the disease in a brutally honest way. I heard that cancer is diagnosed to one out of three people and that really terrifies me because it's such a high rate. The poem is written in first person, by a person who has cancer.
In the first verse, it says how a person with Cancer would probably not want you to look at them because you might think that they look awful and sick. It makes you feel like he is always thirsty. Either literally, or metaphorically- thirsty to live a normal life. It says how he might have to call up his relatives and accept death, because it may come sooner than he'd like. And finally, it shows how hard it is for him to leave his loved ones if he needs to die. In the second verse, it again, repeats "Now turn away", again referring to the hate of the way he may look, and how all his hair is fallen out from the illness and chemo therapy, which he's sick and tired of. The poem shows that he actually feels agony. Again, either literally from the illness or metaphorically- the agony of saying good bye to the ones he loves and cares about. The poem says that he knows that he may not live to see his wedding day,"Know that I will never marry". This song also stresses the fact that a person with cancer must get used to the fact that they may die. "But counting down the days to go," tells the reader that he is dreading death, and somehow expecting it. The line, "It just ain't livin'" shows that he isn't living the way he wants to. The final verse of this song might be held on the person with cancer's death bed. "That if you say/ Good bye today/ I'd ask you to be true", it's like saying a final "good bye" and a "take care". In the end, it finally repeats, how hard it is to leave the ones they love, "Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you."

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