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"Our Lady of Sorrows" is the fifth track on My Chemical Romance’s debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.

Meaning[]

This song is about an experience Gerard Way had with a nun while in Catholic school as a child. The original attic demo, with just Gerard, Ray an Matt, was named 'Bring More Knives' and had a different timing. Mikey Way heard the song and fell in love with it. Afterwards, he managed to teach himself bass in just four days to play in the band.

Audio[]

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Our Lady of Sorrows - My Chemical Romance

Lyrics[]

[Verse 1]
We could be perfect one last night
And die like star-crossed lovers when we fight
And we can settle this affair
If you would shed your yellow take my hand
And then we’ll solve the mystery of laceration gravity
This riddle of revenge please understand it has to be this way and

[Chorus]
Stand up fucking tall
Don’t let them see your back
Take my fucking hand
And never be afraid again

[Verse 2]
We’ve only got one chance to put this at an end
And cross the patron saint of switchblade fights
You said we’re not celebrities, we spark and fade, they die by threes
I’ll make you understand and you can trade me for an apparition

[Chorus]
Stand up fucking tall
Don’t let them see your back
Take my fucking hand
And never…

[Verse 3]
Trust, you said
Who put the words in your head
Oh how wrong we were to think
That immortality meant never dying

[Bridge]
Stand
Take my fucking hand
Take my fucking…

[Chorus]
Stand up fucking tall
Don’t let them see your back
Take my fucking hand
And never be afraid again

[Outro]
Just because my hands around your throat

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