Listen to this when
Cancer
For the truths about being sick nobody says out loud 🖤
Who it's for
Part of The Black Parade's story, it's sung by a dying patient struggling with cancer and speaking to those he'll leave.
Bleak and frightened→Less alone in it
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Cancer" is a piano ballad and the eighth track on My Chemical Romance's 2006 concept album The Black Parade. It is narrated by the album's dying protagonist, The Patient, as his life flashes before his eyes, and it reveals that his illness is cancer. Gerard Way has said the cancer is partly a metaphor.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: Lyrics about terminal illness and dying.
Age: Suggested 13+
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay
