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Dead! Lyrics
And if your heart stops beating
I'll be here wondering
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life
And if you get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, babe
Did you get what you deserve?
The end, and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this

Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand? It ain't exactly what you planned
And wouldn't it be great If we were dead.
Ohh dead

Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish
You never fell in love
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life
And if you get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, babe
Did you get what you deserve?
The end, and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this

Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand to take a pistol by the hand?
And wouldn't it be great if we were dead

And in my honest observation
During this operation
Found a complication in your heart
So long, 'cause now you've got
Maybe just two weeks to live
Is that the most both of you can give?

One, two, one two three four!

LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Well come on,
LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Oh motherfucker,

If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why are we laughing? (LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why are we laughing?
If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why are we laughing? (LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
If like ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why am I dead?
DEAD!

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taylorh
02-20-2008

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"No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway"
THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO AY AT SOMEONES FUNERAL!

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*ghost in the snow*
02-25-2008

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i love this song! i think its from the perspective of someone from the black parade telling him he's dead. and then the patient just being like "well... damn. ok then lets go..."

dead! always cheers me up, especially the la la la lala part....

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GerardWaysStalker
03-23-2008

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And in my honest observation
During this operation
Found a complication in your heart

I love that bit XD The accent .

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GerardWaysStalker
03-23-2008

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by taylorh on 02-20-2008 @ 11:18:59 AM
"No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway"
THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO AY AT SOMEONES FUNERAL!

That would be GOOD.
I want my funeral to be like the funeral onn the vid of Helena. With GERARD carrying my coffin down the steps

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ChemicalDeath
04-02-2008

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This song is made of awesome. It makes me crack up whenever I hear it. That heart monitor sound at the beginning is a very great touch to the song and it's meaning.

The honest observation part also makes me laugh just because of the accent. For real.

I love listening to this song when I'm down. Always manages to cheer me up a little. Great song.

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theunderclasshero
04-25-2008

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to me it seems like someone he absolutly hates is dead and he's wondering if he got wat he/she deserved (hell) or not (heaven) but i also may be wrong

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mcrallie
06-10-2008

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Yet another great song from MCR. I love it!

I agree with Matt Star. Concidering the entire concept of the album, I think it is the Patient's sarcastic look at life and death as he comes to terms with the fact that he's dead.

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Tha Magik Bum
07-02-2008

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I've always been a huge MCR fan, and I just finished listening to "The Black Parade Is Dead!"
Naturally, I finally started to wonder what the whole album was really about. I know all that crap about "The Patient" and his trip through death but I was hoping for something a little bit deeper.

When I listened to this song a few times and read the lyrics I think I've got this one figured out.

The beginning verse is The Black Parade's (as in the one that takes The Patient through death) introduction. It is speaking to The Patient before he dies (possibly while he is sedated during surgery, given the lyrics right before the guitar solo, which is a sweet-ass solo, by the way) and is letting him know that he might die and what will happen when he does. The line, "Did you get what you deserve?", refers to whether or not The Patient deserved to die, and the repetition of that line later in the verse refers to whether the Patient should wind up in heaven or hell.

The chorus is a conversation between The Black Parade and the Patient. Beginning with the first line and ending with "...liked you anyway.", The parade tells the patient that he will enjoy death because his life was so miserable. The Patient agrees with the line, "Oh take me from this hospital bed", and The Parade finishes the rest of the chorus by hinting that it would be great to be dead.

The second verse continues to tell the patient that his life was misearble ("...You never fell in love...") and continues to ask the same questions as the first vesre did.

The repetition of the chorus is the same as before, only this time the Patient finishes the verse (He speaks the line "Wouldn't it be great.....dead?". He also makes reference to a pistol, perhaps meaning that not only has he accepted death, but is welcoming it and perhaps hoping for it, perhaps even by suicide.

The part (third verse?) right before the guitar solo finally confirms that the Black Parade's reason for visiting is not to tell the Patient that he might die, but that he WILL, which explains why the Parade was trying to get him to accept death in the earlier parts of the song.

The final part of the song, the cathartic series of "La La La's and what not, is the part where the Patient is finally beginning to die. He has already accepted it and is now mocking the living ("If life ain't just a joke......laughing?") and expressing a sarcastic attitude towards his life. The "La La La's" perhaps serve as another form of insult, as the Patient enters death without a care in the world and sings a happy tune to himself in the form of La's.

The final scream of "DEAD!" at the end is the nail in the coffin. (pun very much intended) It indicates that there is no turning back, you're dead.

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Tha Magik Bum
07-02-2008

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I've always been a huge MCR fan, and I just finished listening to "The Black Parade Is Dead!"
Naturally, I finally started to wonder what the whole album was really about. I know all that crap about "The Patient" and his trip through death but I was hoping for something a little bit deeper.

When I listened to this song a few times and read the lyrics I think I've got this one figured out.

The beginning verse is The Black Parade's (as in the one that takes The Patient through death) introduction. It is speaking to The Patient before he dies (possibly while he is sedated during surgery, given the lyrics right before the guitar solo, which is a sweet-ass solo, by the way) and is letting him know that he might die and what will happen when he does. The line, "Did you get what you deserve?", refers to whether or not The Patient deserved to die, and the repetition of that line later in the verse refers to whether the Patient should wind up in heaven or hell.

The chorus is a conversation between The Black Parade and the Patient. Beginning with the first line and ending with "...liked you anyway.", The parade tells the patient that he will enjoy death because his life was so miserable. The Patient agrees with the line, "Oh take me from this hospital bed", and The Parade finishes the rest of the chorus by hinting that it would be great to be dead.

The second verse continues to tell the patient that his life was misearble ("...You never fell in love...") and continues to ask the same questions as the first vesre did.

The repetition of the chorus is the same as before, only this time the Patient finishes the verse (He speaks the line "Wouldn't it be great.....dead?". He also makes reference to a pistol, perhaps meaning that not only has he accepted death, but is welcoming it and perhaps hoping for it, perhaps even by suicide.

The part (third verse?) right before the guitar solo finally confirms that the Black Parade's reason for visiting is not to tell the Patient that he might die, but that he WILL, which explains why the Parade was trying to get him to accept death in the earlier parts of the song.

The final part of the song, the cathartic series of "La La La's and what not, is the part where the Patient is finally beginning to die. He has already accepted it and is now mocking the living ("If life ain't just a joke......laughing?") and expressing a sarcastic attitude towards his life. The "La La La's" perhaps serve as another form of insult, as the Patient enters death without a care in the world and sings a happy tune to himself in the form of La's.

The final scream of "DEAD!" at the end is the nail in the coffin. (pun very much intended) It indicates that there is no turning back, you're dead.

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BetterDeadOnRed
09-09-2008

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After TBP came out, I couldn't stop listening to this song. Everyone covered it’s meaning pretty well. An awesome tune, the ‘La, La, La’s’ make it what it is.

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boysnextdoor
09-28-2008

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this is just more fabulous MCR sarcasm. If it is about a heavier subject (like death, dying, general existentialism) its really well toned down. Thats the great thing about them- as they've gone on they've just gotten more and more subtle. Its still kind depressing when you think about it, but its not as slit-your-wrists as it used to be. Its almost a satirical kind of emo.

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JackieOfCourse
06-09-2009

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I think this song is about a girl who is afraid to die, but this boy is telling her how it was like for him to die.

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HallelujahK3
06-13-2009

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its about a man that nobody loved, and so there all happy that he died

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HallelujahK3
06-13-2009

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lalalalalallala lalalalalal allal

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WhoaRevenge
09-05-2009

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Does anyone notice how at the start of The End, a heart can be heard beating through a heart rat monitor, then at the start of Dead!, the heart is dead?

Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm right. I have no idea what I'm going on about so I'll shut up now.

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