My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay

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[JohnnieGuilbert]

This is the reason I never stopped wearing eyeliner and dying my hair black.

[NateIsLame]

I remember listening to “Fake Your Death” in 2013 and thinking to myself “I need to savor this moment because I’ll never hear a new MCR song for the first time ever again.” I’m so glad I was wrong. Welcome back.

[Spazeyxo]

2 years without a new MCR song I’m thirsty ☹️

[vjcoconutsluv]

The fact Gerard's voice sounds exactly the same as it did in 2002 is crazy. He doesn't really look any older, either. Really makes me think that if vampires were hiding amongst humans, he would definitely be one.

[crackedantagonist]

listening to this song feels like hugging an old friend you haven’t seen in years. i’m so proud of all of us for sticking around long enough to be here.

[SlurmpMergatroid]

This is legitimately one of the most exciting moments in music history

[davidnissim]

This song feels like it’s got elements of all their previous albums. It’s got the progressive elements of The Black Parade, the dark lyrics and “emo” vocals of Three Cheers, the heavy riffs and screaming of I Brought You My Bullets, and the synthesizers/electronics of Danger Days.

[amymbeauty]

MCR was never just a band, they're a movement.

[sandrajokennedy]

Honestly, MCR keep secrets better than most governments. How do you keep something this grand and glorious hidden??? But now, it's out. And fabulous.

[PurposelessRabbitholes]

Gerard’s got such a fucking incredible and expressive voice man. So good to hear these dudes again

[highway_roadkill]

"And as you stumble through your last crusade, will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays" is such a raw line that goes so fucking hard. please give us more of this

[rawbean]

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 time, with age
He turns the page
Let the flesh
Submit itself to gravity

Let our bodies lay while our hearts we'll save
Let our blood invade if I die in vain
Now, if your convictions were a passing faith
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 we'll save
Let our blood invade if I die in vain
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

(Let's flip out!)
Against faith (Antihero)
Against all life (As if it must be pure)
Against change (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
Get up, coward!

[ifanythingiwant]

The fact that Gerard's voice still sounds so good after twenty years is insane. He sounds the same as he did in 2002.

[katherinethompson]

A year ago when this was released, I was going through heroin withdrawal, determined to get clean. I caved and used. And used for months more. Every time I did, “GET UP COWARD” would play in my head. I just lowered my methadone dose for the first time… on the anniversary of this song’s release. I couldn’t have achieved sobriety without it.

[RavenNewsWatch]

I missed your era, I’m 60 70's and 80's was my music. 90's-2005, I was all over the world in the USAF. Found MCR in 2009 when my wife died. I was in hell. This music was all i had. Saw you in Raleigh August 2022, was up close on the floor. Best concert in all of my 60 years.

[cassiepeake]

as a younger fan who only became a fan after they’d already split up, i cant even begin to describe how i feel being able to experience them releasing a new song. it feels surreal i cent believe this is really happening

[NPLife]

I sit here as a grown man, 33 years old, in my house, looking at baby toys all around my living room. I realize MCR gives me the same feelings as it did 17 year old me. 2 completely different people, loving the experience in different ways.

[LarrySmith-yphk]

I'm 50.. this is what Floyd felt like in my youth..MCR is high art

[sillypigeonstudios]

this live in 2022 was fucking crazy. i cried so hard. we were the first audience to hear this live ever!😭😭

[Brootnoodle]

I know MCR will never see this, but if there was one thing I could let them know, I’d want them to know: my best friend Erika took her life 4 years ago and she and I were some of the most obnoxious MCR fans on the planet. It broke our hearts when we heard that the band broke up. Before COVID, I got tickets to honor her and get that experience that she and I never got. She would be losing her mind over all of this right now. It’s so bittersweet, but I’m glad to see them back again.