Talk:Famous Last Words (song)

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[edit] Wrong Single Release Date

The infobox says that Welcome to the Black Parade, the first single off of The Black Parade was released in 2005, but it was just released today in the U.S. Just wanted to inform people of this. --DevilSavior 22:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)



I've just heard this song on the radio. Does this mean that it has been released as a single? I'm in New Zealand and it was on the ZM radio station 19:55, 1 December 2006 (NZ time)

No, it has not. The only release date provided is January 22, 2007 at billboard.com, it was also played before I think The Black Parade came out on the radio in UK. Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean it's a single. Mama was played on the radio and that has not been confirmed as a single.  Orfen User Talk | Contribs 18:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
The video has now been released, in the US at least. So now, it is confirmed as the single. They use a radio edit of the song in the video though, during the second chorus, it cuts out the repeat, and the "I see you lying next to me" part is only 3x instead of 4x, and the final repeat of the chorus is cut out; instead of the instruments fading out in the album version with only organ, it ends with a guitar strum. MJB12 00:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


January 22? Wouldn't that be a time paradox or something, since, it's not yet Jan. 22 yet? -Zero R 12:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The bridge is cut out, and the last chorus, is that correct? Also, the guitar does fade out, but in the album version, it doesnt really fade out, its more of a halt, which has a very faint organ as well, I also think I heard Gerard's yelling on the very last "or dead" but it is sung out of tune in the edited version. Blkeddie! 08:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The bridge is the "I see you lying next to me, with words I thought I'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead" verse. It would be wrong to say the bridge is cut out, because it is sung four times in the album version, and in the edited version it is only sung three times, so one repeat was cut out. The last chorus was cut out, as well as one in the middle. After the second verse, the chorus is repeated twice, before the guitar solo and bridge, but in the edit, it is only sung once. MJB12 05:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Charts

This hasn't even been released and it's already in 40th place on the Modern Rock Charts. Wow. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 22:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

What's your point? SOADLuver 03:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
No idea. Just thought I'd say it because I had nothing better to say. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 12:46, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Patient Lives

If you go by the music video then it looks like he lives. The Black Parade was completely destroyed and it didn't look like they took him away since he wasn't in it.

if you play the game on their website (mentioned in the blood article), it seems as though he dies. Dizzydark 20:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

actually I'd say the indication is the opposite. If we are to take some form of continuity between the two videos, then it appears that the black parade have brought him into death, symbolised by the barren wreckage-laden wasteland. At the end of the first video he has to make his way on now in this new part of his journey, he continues walking off alone. Now with their job done, in the video for Famous Last Words, the black parade cease to exist, still taking the narratorial view via the lyrics, as their "transit" world collapses and burns around them.

and the destruction of the parade also could support the idea that he dies. Remembering that the parade is specific to the patient (death coming to him in the form of his strongest memory)it would seem logical that death's form (the parade) would cease to exist at the end of the patients consciousness. 86.134.148.70 20:35, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I think he survived. The Black Parade is his death, but he managed to destroy her, he "kill his death". --213.140.22.64 17:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Famous Last Words Cover

I got the Famous Last Words single cover. how i cen give it to you ? matan. http://www.amazon.com/Famous-Last-Words-Chemical-Romance/dp/B000LV6W28/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/105-3147057-2562015

Got it. Whoa, new song! My Way Home is Through You. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 13:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I have the EP cover ashould I put that up?>DarkAvenger280 21:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

There's another cover? You mean the one with fire? icelandic hurricane #12 (talk) 01:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Couple of comments

First off, the line about being on iTunes I feel should be removed. Yes, it's available on iTunes, but last time I checked it was only available on the Black Parade album and not as an individual single. So yeah it's available on iTunes but if we're going to mention it for this song we should mention it for every song off the album as they're all available on iTunes. Secondly, the different single versions, the first one is a CD single and the second one is a record according to the sources. The Interpunk website lists two different 7 inch record versions, one is already listed and the other is identical to the CD single listed. I've found what appears to be the Australian version of the CD single which includes FLW plus the two B-sides.[1] Maybe we could mention what the different versions are like "7" Picture Disc" or "UK CD Single" or "Australian CD Single". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.107.65.24 (talk) 22:40, 21 December 2006 (UTC).

Yeah but I see that it's already up...DarkAvenger280 21:10, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bob Bryar's sayings

I looked at Bob Bryar's mouth and it said "I can't take this ------- shit anymore." Did you guys see it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.80.34.145 (talk) 22:43, 22 December 2006 (UTC).

Yup. He badly burnt his leg. It says more about it on the Black Parade page.

[edit] "another alternate meaning"

This has no place here. It is crudely written, is clearly original research, and there is no need to put words in CAPS. It just makes wikipedia look shoddy and and gives an unproffessional edge to it. Moreover, most, if not all of the points could be argued against very convincingly. This needs proper citations pronto or it should be deleted.

because everyone can interpret a song in a completely different way, the only people's interpretations that should be here are the band members' etc. For the same reason the "song meaning" section should at the very least be condensed, a lot of it appears to be conjecture. 86.134.148.70 18:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Until the band actually says "In Famous Last Words the Patient..." it's just speculation and therefore shouldn't be on wikipedia. I think it should be deleted, but I'll wait until one of the higher-ups say the word. DDR1 20:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The another alternate meaning section was already deleted it, I removed it a little while ago.  Orfen User Talk | Contribs 21:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bryars burns

The version mentioned where he mouths the words is here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oo8BC62guA
It should be mentioned in the article. --Plankton5005 07:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

YouTube however is not a reliable source.  Orfen User Talk | Contribs 20:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow an actual video of something that happens isn't reliable? Just because it's on YouTube?
Here's another video with it at another angle.
--Plankton5005 07:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please see WP:EL as this is most likely a violation of copyright by posting the music video even though this is no longer the current version.  Orfen User Talk | Contribs 23:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments from User:82.18.56.224

This is just one readers own opinion. I feel that the meaning behind the MCR song, famous last words is a suicide note, from a lover, or a past lover shall we say. The name gives hints of this, "famous LAST words". there is a bunch of other litle sniplets in the song that could back up my opinion on this, the main one being, "as I lay here, with words I fort id never read", He could be lieing next to his wife, who has taken her life, and left her husband a suicide leter, of which he never expected to ever read. as I said at the begining, this is just my opinion, have an open mind, think carefuly, and read between the lines.

The lyric from the song is "I see you lying next to me/With words I thought I'd never speak". Just to clarify the lyric. It's not read, it's speak.  Orfen User Talk | Contribs 01:54, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
"as I lay here, with words I fort id never read" Wow, sorry, but you really messed that lyric up, it is "I see you lying next to me/With words I thought I's never speak" Sorry, but how did you mess up those lyrics so much? What does 'with words i fort i'd never read' mean anyways? And, nothing you siad there was true, or even made sense, because you completly ruined those lyrics. the song is about the fact that the Patient does not want to give up the will to fight for life. He wants to stay, and he is telling his lover that.--MCRluvr 09:54, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
LOL, I'm sorry, I just have to say this....User 82.18.56.224, that definition and "repeated" lyric is really messed up... like MCRluvr said, you really messed up the definition of the song. I know it's your personal opinion, but it's totally and utterly wrong. But "as I lay here, with words I fort id never read"? What the..? Maybe you were in a hurry or couldn't be bothered to type the proper lyric, but, sorry, that is completely insane... Ss112 05:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Good someone agrees with me. I laughed so hard when I read this. It's like, somewhere, I read the lyrics to Cancer, and they got every word wrong. How do you get every word wrong, when the majority of the song is just Gerard and a piano. I didn't stop laughing for weeks. I also have to add that, you have the complete opposite of the song meaning. The true meaning, as Gerard has told many times, is that He WANTS to live, it isnt a suicide note. hence the lyrics "I am not afraid to keep on living/I am not afraid to walk this world alone"He wants to live, and it is the Patient. In Welcome To The Black Parade, he dies, or at least he thinks he dies. As Gerard said, at first he thought he did. But the more he though about it, he didnt, and he had the willpower, and the choice to either live or die. In Famous Last Words, he decides, he isn't going to stop fighting. Which is shown when he abandons The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance) Who are death, so he chooses to live.--MCRluvr 08:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TRL Countdown

Did Famous Last Words last 31 days or 32 days on TRL? I need this infor for an article. Thank You --MCRluvr 08:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)