My chemical romance (mcr) question about their lyrics

I love mcr muisc but when I look at the lyrics its mostly about a girl dieing so did the lead singer mom or grandma die or something? And what catorgiroe would you place them in punk rock? or gothic rock ?

I know for a fact that some of lyrics are used symbolically. Check out this website to get the lyrics to their songs. http://www.plyrics.com/m/mychemicalromance.html. However I've tried looking far and wide to see if any member has had a female death in their life and no interview has stated it. Way was quoted saying that the band's lyrics were a great way for him to deal with the problems he had been going through (which included severe depression and a serious illness in his family).

Their music has been catorgorized by MTV as alternative pop/rock and punk-pop. They combine punk-pop's musical aggression with introspective, confessional lyrics.

Thanx :-)

'Helana' is about the lead singers Grandmas death

someone told me their whole album was dedicated to Gerard's (lead singer) grandmas death iono if thats true. also I heard on the radio that they can be called an emo band as well. either way I think they ROCK!!

http://www.imnotokay.net

It has boards where the song meanings are explained

well there lyrics rock some of the song on the black parade and for his grama and I like the song

the song HELENA is dedicated to the grandmom of gerard way and mikey way..

EMO

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the song Helena is based on there ( mikey way and gerard way ) grandmother ,elen, who was there greatest musical infulence, passing away.

the lyrics in helena ' things are better if I stay ' arent that symbolic. After the death of his grandmother gerard became overly depressed and was thinking about suicide.

As for the genre of the bands music. they call themselves punkrock/rock. but on my upstage phone I downloaded there whole ' black parade ' CD into there and the genre was ' emo '

so it depends on how you look at it.

hope I was able to help
any other questions feel free to ask.

Yes Gerard Way is vocals. And his granmother did die. So yes you were correct and also their type of music is 'alternative rock.' Trust me I would know. And they are NOT emo. Btw... Mikey Way is the bass player & little brother of Gerard Way, so it's his grandmother also.

Hope that helped.

their songs always mean something.
helena was about gees and mikeys grandma, elena.

and they are alternative.

yes the song Helena was dedicated to Gerard and Mikey's grandma, Elena Lee Rush who died.
Any other questions about their lyrics, I'm sure you can do a search and get some answers online =]