The Foundations of Decay - My Chemical Romance (Lyric Video)
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2022
- Lyrics for My Chemical Romance's "The Foundations of Decay" - their first single in eight years. As this song only dropped today, it has been hard to locate accurate lyrics for it, so I'll add any corrections to the comments section as they're identified (or I'll just upload a more accurate version later).
I am SO excited about this song, let me know what you think of it in the comments, and as always I hope you enjoy the vid!
Background by Phil Botha via Unsplash: unsplash.com/photos/a0TJ3hy-UD8 - Hudba
OFFICIAL LYRICS are now out on Spotify so here are the final corrections:
1:10 - “And so TIRED with age”
1:24 - “Let our bodies lay, while our hearts WILL STAY”
1:36 - “Now, if your convictions were a passing PHASE”
2:22 - “Only to watch the ROOTS corrode”
2:40 - “Let our bodies lay, while our hearts WILL STAY”
3:25 - “(You look stressed out!)”
4:19 - “And you must build an ALTAR where it rests” (this one was just a typo my bad lol)
You are an MVP for coming back to comment this! Thanks man!
@@CCSierra no worries 💕 i knew there would be variations bc i rushed to get it out so i wanted to fix it up :)
flightless jade you did a great job and whereas Gerard does say “you look stressed out” in the live performances he definitely said “let’s flip out” in this recording. Spotify isn’t always right. Also I’m personally convinced he sings and so time , with age , also it makes more sense .
Lyrical perfection.
I'd take Spotify lyrics with a grain of salt. They're drawn from Musixmatch, and since their lyrics are often uploaded and curated by regular users, they're sometimes wrong.
This song could not have came out at a better time I am not afraid too keep on living I am not afraid too walk this world alone
I can’t believe this, it’s been almost 10 years
My little emo heart
100% ... anyone who knows and is paying any attention would agree I'm sure...
Keep running
ok
In my mind, I see My chemical romance as the old League of superheroes who had protected us all those years ago and are battle worn and tired, yet they came out of retirement to save us again when we truly needed them the most. I will always love them
Golden comment right there, dude. 👍
I think *a lot* of us My Chem fans feel the same way.
I can honestly say I’ve been going through the ringer for the past several years, but even moreso the past two years… So the timing of them dropping a new track that hits like this is insane.
@@kattastrophe7240 Thank you for taking the time to reply. I was hoping there was someone out there who felt this way too. I'm sorry to hear you've been struggling. I'm in a similar boat myself the past few years, so I get it. I hope they put out more tracks soon, but for now this is more than I ever expected again, and I'm super grateful.
@@stevemarsh1856 You’re 100% not alone in feeling that way. 😉
This song feels like an opener to a full album. I feel pretty confident there’s a new full album incoming. (I can only hope I’m right in thinking that.) But I do agree, this was more than I ever could have expected at this point. 🖤
excuse me, how can you speak from MY heart? I don't even know you
@@AndreafromBudapest We're all just really one collective heart. -Sora (probably)
I’ll never overcome the part where it says “he was there the day the towers fell and so he wandered down the road and we build towers of our own” referring to the 9/11 which Gerard witnessed and pushed him to create the band and then when everyone tried to follow their paths but it was hard. Like if I thought this song was gonna be good, it’s even better than that and higher than my expectations by a lot. Now excuse me while I cry.
I know!!! The first time I listened to it I couldn’t understand the words but after knowing the lyrics I just want to cry after listening to it
I actually think this song is about Trump and the mark he left on America and the world.
"See the man who stands upon the hill." The hill is Capitol Hill, also a high echelon of society as in Working Class Hero, *wanna be like all the folks on the hill".
"He dreams of all the battles won."
Trump prided himself on perceived victories, and also promised many things he failed to accomplish.
"If your convictions were a passing phase
May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays"
Trump changing his stances constantly, and also the political conservatives and right leaning people's idolization of him, only to turn on him later when he suggested things like people getting vaccinated. Also sounds a bit like wishful thinking that he or anyone who supported Trump and now regrets doing so should lie in the bed they made. It also comes across as a bit of a death wish.
"And as the vermin crawls
We lay in the foundations of decay"
Trump continues to have support on fringe platforms, while our country was left picking up the pieces after he left office, and we are regressing as a society, his term serving as a catalyst for the beginnings of a societal collapse.
"He was there, the day the towers fell
And so he wandered down the road"
Trump was famously in New York City on the day the Twin Towers fell, and his office was a few blocks away. He walked out and a reporter interviewed him, and he boasted about his building (incorrectly) now being the tallest in Manhattan.
"But it's much too late
You're in the race, so we'll press
And press 'til you can't take it anymore"
The seed of Trumpism already spread throughout society, and as he vies for a second term, all the liberal left can do is put pressure on him and his campaign, and hope that he gives up on another term in office.
"Take his body as a relic to be canonized, now
And so he gets to die a saint"
Trump became more than a man, but a symbol of society's worst traits and impulses. If he died now, many followers would still idolize and worship him. It also seems like wishful thinking that he would die literally or figuratively.
"But she will always be the whore"
Could be Melania, but probably is Stormy Daniels. Given how much the right hates abortion and female sexuality, she is probably seen this way by them.
"You must fix your heart" Trump has shown himself to be callous, racist, ethnicist, zealous, and misguided several times.
"And as we stumble through your last crusade"
Society caught up in his last bid for power, in a man as aged as he is, it will probably be the end for him.
"When you welcome your extinction in the morning rays"
Waking up and feeling like you'd rather be in the eternal peaceful sleep.
"Get up coward"
Gerard doesn't want him to just lay down and die, but to answer for the things he has done without hiding away or finding refuge in death.
@@sifi699 Ooo that’s an interesting take on the song, I personally disagree but your analysis does make sense!!
The trump theory does make sense but it doesn't. This is a reflection on Gerard and all the band members! Anyone who has done their research on My Chemical Romance knows they have had some rock bottom moments and some very very high moments this isn't a take on politics this is a never give up on urself even when the foundations of ur life decay and die
I choked up the first time I listened to that line, and then sobbed reading the lyrics and listening. This song SOUNDS like MCR. Like good old MCR.
I took my daughter to the Raleigh show a couple weeks ago, this was their opening song. I've never heard their music before and I was blown away. I scolded her the next day for not playing ANY songs for me prior to the show. And she knows I love punk and metal. I have been playing this song on repeat
i love hearing new fan stories, welcome to the club man!
My only critic of this song is I wish the vocals were turned up so it was easier to hear without a lyric video. But other then that mcr is making a good comeback.
Yeah the first time I heard it I couldn’t understand much prior to the first chorus
I was thinking the same thing! Had thought it was my phone for a sec
@@raviolies4me I had the same issue. Using headphones helps a little but I still couldn't make out much aside from the chorus.
they need to fire whoever mixed it. It's mixed fucking horribly, ruins the song
@@YOUMADSTAYMAD considering the band mixed it themselves in quarantine guess they better quit making music. No need for you to be so bitter over a song.
all the MCR fans with auditory processing issues are crying in gratitude thank you 🙏
The way he says " the foundations of decay" reminds me of "the kids from yesterday"
I knew it sounded familiar somehow!
Thoughts...
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎹
His vocals remind me of three cheers for sweet revenge♥️
I'm definitely getting some major I Brought You My Bullets vibes too
@@CalamityBlaine i was thinking a metal version of hesitant alien
There’s def vocal tendencies from Black Parade here too, sounds like they returned to form
@@r_a_w_g_e_r They always change form. There's no form to return to.
@@r_a_w_g_e_r definitely some black parade there
i cant listen to anything else after absorbing this song because nothing is as good
big agree
Vouch
Well Kendrick Lamar dropped a whole album so yeah
@@jayp7552 did they stutter?
@@starforgalaxy6453 something like that smh
I was in my teens when I first heard MCR..I'm almost 37 now...this song is everything!!!
I went through my first break up when I found MCR, we would drive around aimlessly listening to 3 cheers. when we broke up my saviour was sitting on a wall near my parents listening over and over. I'm going through a break up rn and this came out at the right time. "cool" people would always say "lol MCR fan cut yourself". hell no. this band saved my life before and they're doing it again. best band of our generation. not only the music but the legions of lives they saved
I just wish i'd been born a decade earlier. I'd have been just in time to have my emo phase at 16.
And still saved our lives
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎹
"You must fix your heart.."
-Gerard Way
A constant truth for us humans. We're always in need of repair. I'm so ready to hear the rest. Bravo. 🔥🔥
This song sent me back to a teenage mindset, upon hearing it I immediately scrawled this quote on my arm like I used to do as a suffering teenager listening to their songs to survive
Beautiful
That hit hard.
that's my favorite part of the song.
you think that there will be other songs?
I'm glad I didn't kill myself. I raise my glass for the ones who didn't make it.
This song stunned me into silence. A new MCR Song!?! And its 6 Minutes of Pure Musical Bliss!?! And the Lyrics ripped my fucking heart out in two seconds flat!?! Holy shit. This has been a rough timeline to live in, but at least we’re in the one where MCR rose from the ashes and brought us this masterpiece.
Yesssssss
^^
It is without a doubt a breathtaking masterpiece! Utterly magnificent work.
😭😭😭😭😭😭
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎹
It seems there's small parts of old mcr songs here, that's why the first time I listened to it sounded so familiar, they're simply amazing
This couldn’t have come out at a better time,
As a long time MCR fan, I'm in tears
Hard song to sing and memorize, great for the times we live. Can’t wait to hear more too.
I discovered MCR during really hard times when I was like 10 or 11 and their songs carried me through it all. I'm now 19 tuning on 20, working for the first time ever, facing a lot of new things that really stresses me out, and they're back again. What a great time to be alive.
If your only 10 or 11 by the time you start listening to MCR songs then that means you won't know shit about them and your still a child even now.zal la machi liek la in rahhh i sie tret trut!!!lalchawimawi ka ngai kucu nel tila!!!😤😏
likely actual lyrics:
See the man who stands upon the hill,
He dreams of all the battles won.
But fate had left it’s scars upon his face
With all the damage they had done.
And so, time, with age,
It turns the page.
Let the flesh submit itself to gravity
Let our bodies lay,
Mark our hearts with shame,
Let our blood in vain,
You find God in pain.
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 roots 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,
Mark our hearts with shame,
Let our blood in vain,
You find God in pain.
And if by his own hand his spirit flies,
Take his body as a relic to be canonised.
Now,
And so he gets to die a saint but she will always be the whore.
(You look stressed out)
Against faith (cage all the animals)
Against all life (cause the message must be pure)
Against change (you can wander through the ruins)
We are plagued (but the poison is the cure)
You must fix your heart.
And you must build an altar where it swells.
When the storm it gains,
And the sky it rains,
Let it flood,
Let it flood,
Let it wash away.
And as you stumble through your last crusade,
Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?
And as the swarm it 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.
[these lyrics are so perfect everyone say thank you my chemical romance]
These are the lyrics. Someone else slowed it down. Definitely "Mark our hearts with stain, you find God in pain."
Hands down their best comeback song ever
I love how this like a combination of all they're past albums so beautifully mixed together to make the most amazing come back song. They couldn't have done it better.
3:14 is where I head banged so hard that I lost my glasses at their concert last night. Worth it.
They're music understood me when I was a teenager now that I am 30 years and I don't know wtf i'm doing with my life and feel Lost they came back and save me again!
💜💜😭😭😭😭
MCR I have always loved your music and so happy that your singing again. I'm not your typical teen. I'm 62 and enjoy it all. ❤
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎹
Wow
He was there the day the towers fell hit hard.
I was in middle school about 30 minutes away.
I know that day changed the world forever, but I remember never being the same that day. So many loved ones and friends who had loved ones were lost that day.
And I remember finding My Chemical Romance a year later… they were a small band from Newark across the river from where I lived..
Damn I’m so glad they’re back. Crazy how things happens. We all ended this crazy two years with the pandemic. Much needed
“he was there the day the towers fell” *
Skylines And Turnstiles is also about 9/11, if you didn't already know
Suddenly. I’m back in 2004, sitting behind my old elementary school smoking a cig I stole off my older sibling ….
Holy heck you move fast! You've my favourite channel for MCR lyric videos, thank you so much for this, it looks awesome!!
omg i appreciate you 💕
it’s the first lyric vid i’ve made in like a year but the moment i heard the song i knew i needed to smash this out :)
@@flightlessjade that speaks for most of us!!❤️❤️❤️
this song is like three of their first album mushed in together and my god it sounds like heaven.
Just got to hear this live last week or so… I’m so glad I held onto life just to get to hear them 1) release a new song and 2) hear it live
some corrections based on my hearing:
1) Let our blood IN VAIN
2) unsure - it could be "if your convictions were a passing phase" since this is a closer rhyme and the S sounds similar to "th" even on the next line on "rays" but "faith" sounds more on theme so idk
3) "so we'll press AND PUSH 'til you can't take it any more"
4) Altar (not alter)
There are a few others I'm 50/50 on but I hope an official lyrics gets released soon bc this song is too good and I need to know I am shouting the right words lol
i know that the genius says “in vain” but i definitely heard “in pain”, but yeah the others make sense. and SHIT altar was a typo on my part rip :(
@@flightlessjade no worries, in pain makes sense too - I think the video says "invade" but in vain / in pain both sound closer. (Also I feel like working out new MCR lyrics for a video is such a nostalgic feeling lol)
@@tokidoki3405 definitely hard when there aren’t official lyrics out yet 😣
official(?) lyrics have been released on spotify so i just pinned my final corrects :)
Nostalgic vibes. Reminds me of their original stuff. Demolition Lovers 🔥
I can't believe I'm hearing my Chem again. High school days just blowing speakers out walking with the black parade
don't even say! I was like 13 when I first heard them and it was in 2008. I'm crazy about them since day 1. And om Thursday I'm going to my first MCR concert! It's crazy!!!
@@sandra1995 right on!
@@sandra1995 you should have been there when at Warped Tour when three cheers for Sweet Revenge released
@@demnbrown I hope they will come with just one more album. I want to have just one more chance to see them live and this time I'll be waiting even 3 days in queue to be right in front of them 😅 Hope they will come to Europe again. This concert was something more than just normal gig for me personally. 😉
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎹
The refrain sounds like, "Give me a shot to remember so you can take all the pain away from me." hahha
I WAS THINKING THE SAME OMG, i think they did it on purpouse and i love it
Yes exactly what I thought
I think there’s a few past songs in here
After afew replays I can already sing along to this song, My Chemical Romance you knew we would Carry on, and your going to Carry the Torch for us this time.
Still in disbelief 😭 God I love this band they walked me out of dark places many times they're the saviors of the broken ❤️
Today at 25 years old, I'm finally seeing them for the first time. I've been waiting for this day since I was 8. Fucking BANGER
Me too in Paris. it's today! I've waiting for it since i am 16 and i'm 27. Enjoy !! 🥰
There's a pretty much be my second time seeing them and I'm 30
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎹
I actually love you. Thank you.
I STILL CANT BELIEVE THEY’RE BACKKK
Why oh why didn't MCR get nominated for a Grammy I will never understand for this beautiful song.
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎧
This is so fucking deep. Gerard is a genius.
4:02 is the best part no cap ! truly brilliant
the roller coaster of emotions i've just went through, cannot be explained
There's so much of I brought you my bullets in this song 🖤🖤 back to our roots
i get so much of every era from it honestly! starts with danger days vibes, but then the harder parts definitely remind me of the earlier stuff. it also reminds me a lot of b-sides like bury me in black and all the angels!
YESSSSSSSSSS first album reminiscent which is what I’ve always missed from them!
i cannot express how badly I needed this. Ive hit my mid 20s and this still feels the same.
Your u
Foundations of Decay is the 1990's song that the 2020's didn't know it needed. This song is incredible.
This came out after 9/11
The screams 😍
We are not afraid to keep on living
We are not afraid to walk this world alone
Great song! Really pulls on the heart strings. I’m not gonna lie though I was really hoping to see Gerard pursue more heavy vocals like he did with Matt heafy ! Can’t wait to see hear more new MCR though
Same. I was waiting for the screeching he was doing on Ronin.
They opened with this in Vegas and it was so insane when the song got harder everyone screamed and died simultaneously lol his screaming is even better now than in bullets 😍😍
Emo is not dead 🤟🏽🖤
😅🤣🤣
It feels like this song was written specifically just for me it's bizzarre how much I can relate to 2022 MCR
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎧
This is easily one of my favorite mcr songs, when I heard it live I literally just stood there with my mouth wide open while everyone was singing along it was one of the best experiences of my life, literal insanity..
The verses sound very similar to "echoes" from Pink Floyd to me... which is one of my favorite songs from them
I thought the same!!
BRO! MY EXACT GOD DAMN THOUGHTS!
see the man who stands upon the hill- foundations of decay
witness the man who raves at the wall…
over the mountain, watching the watcher- set the controls for thts
I was thinking sounds like Pink Floyd and old MCR
MCR is the band of my teenage days, there is no single fucking emo rocker that doesn't know these amazing guys. Oh my gosh, this is the new wave of rock music, it was Kings of Leon last year 2021, now My Chemical Romance and the great Red Hot Chili Peppers, fuck this is the reborn of rock music💯🤘
Hearing this playing on SiriusXM Alt-Nation and I thought it sounded like MCR at first, then realizing that it is really Gerrard's voice. In my head "What the hell? Why I havent heard this song before?" I looked into my phone and check the title, googled it and found out that it's a new single.
A sudden jolt of happiness and excitement rushing through my veins, I never thought hearing a new song from this legends. Here I am, at 34 rocking and blasting my audio like I'm in my High School and College years.
Thank you for the memories and for moments like this. MCR for life.
It’s interesting that this year is the year I’ve decided to listen to mcr instead of during my high years when mcr was the most prominent. I’m definitely someone destined to always be out of the loop.
After a few years, I'm listening to this and I'm happy their coming back... 😊
I have a feeling this will grow on me 💗 I adore the angst in their old stuff
I gather from this song that… the world is a shitty decaying place, but its far too late you’re already in the race. So we will carry on, just as he always said. And with the roe vs wade going on, the ending seems heavily reflective on that.
The closest anyone will ever get to a time machine
This is so joyful and wonderful for me because a few years down the line after they broke up, I was still insisting they would get back together some day. NOBODY believed that they would after so much time and thought that I just couldn’t accept it (which was partly true, but even aside from that, I truly believed in general). I just had a feeling about it, and it finally happened!!! The day has finally come for us to once again, join the black parade ☠️ 🖤
"He was there, the day the towers fell" I remember about Gerard witnessed 9/11, thats why he started mcr. Their first song is Skylines and Turntiles, inspired from that tragic event.
However, I'm so happy theyre back and this new song is f amazing.
This is so amazing it reminds me of their early days. They are coming baby and hopefully they can take their old sound and add a little more. But this songs reminds me why I fell in love with their music in the first place. Welcome back my chemical romance the black parade is coming back and we are ready.
This came just 3 days after I got "awake & unafraid" tattooed on me 😂
I'm obsessed.
as soon as i saw this i cried, i really needed this
weeks of listening to The Rumbling prepared me for this 😅
HELP
After many years, My chemical romance comes back just as good as all the other times they left and they came back.
i heard this song live on 21st May and I loved it so much! good job MCR, welcome back, you've brought me back to the emo side!
The more I listen to this song, the more I realize this is a love song to the older Emo generation like me. We have been with MCR for so long and this is an anthem to how we're so tired now of everything. However, no matter how long we keep walking, MCR is with us.
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎧
I have a family, a career, and a grip on my mental health because of this band. 18 year old me was in it when Three Cheers came out and they gave me an angry, romantic, catharsis to vent my boiling frustration. Thanks boys 🥂
I like how the title is both literal and metaphorical to the song.
This is so good but you must hear “Whispering Wolf” or “Live Not Survive” by SLT 🎶🤘🎧
Just when you thought that your beloved band that had splitted away so many years away, was never going to be releasing anything new, they came with probably one of their best songs ever. I really miss them so much.
PS: Maybe is not going to happen, but I wish they are going to release/perform again soon.
i was just having a good time existing and i saw a new mcr song and was like. AYOOOOOOOO
Ok i might sob now. This is now one of my favorite songs
I listened to this song thinking it was one that I missed, only to just now realize it’s new oml 😍😍
I love you MCR.
What a masterpiece released since everything else from more a decade ago.
Another masterpiece from MCR! What a legend!
HOLYYYY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING!
omg your absolutely amazing
Wow...these lyrics...incredible!!! Welcome back MCR!!!
I can't even speak about this amazing song without getting all choked up! It rips my heart out! Never has a bad made me feel this way! Thank you MCR for always being authentic! I can't wait to see what comes next!
Damn. This is just on another level. Love u MCR
I like that I'm not the only one who thinks this song came at the right moment in their lives, I've been through so much already this year, this feels like I'm being pushed to carry on
I appreciate this video because I couldn't make out half the words at first.
Ive cried to this and screamed my heart out
This is just exceptional. As always
As a person who was heavily involved in the Church, I interpreted this deeply. I still believe, but I am not able to be looked at like I'm a part of the Church by my inconsistent attending, or lack of reading and praying.
That said, the lyrics that said, "and if by His own hand His spirit flies, take His body as a relic to be canonized
And so He gets to die a saint, but she will always be a whore."
The bride of Christ is the Church.
I guess in writing this I have a deeper take than I'm willing to go after writing this much lol, the internet is brutal.
But this song has struck me. The sound caught me, but then the words drew me.
Absolutely love MCR... And it started looooonnng ago
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Totally addicted to this song.Raging I couldn't get to see them.
Leaving my comment here before this blows up nice vid man 👌
thanks homie 💕
I knew this was mcr!! I heard a small snippet of it on the radio once, but didn't catch the name. I knew it was them however because of Gerard's voice. I tried googling lyrics but got no result. I'm so happy CZcams randomly recommended it to me
aaa you're so fast lmfao. this has such PK vibes I can't wait for the official lyrics to be released
Released just before Friday 13 (in UK), I immediately clicked the notification for this song when I saw it
Omg I love this so much!!! I love how long it is ❤️❤️❤️
1:09
2:25
4:02
I cant believe its been a year since this came out.. i love mcr sm
Thanks for uploading this. I heard it on kerrang and found this. Its now a part of my playlist 👍🦋😁❤
"early sunsets over monroeville"-vibes
that last line should be my alarm.
Thank U for this 🖤🖤🖤🔥