The End is een nummer van de Amerikaanse band My Chemical Romance uit New Jersey uit het album The Black Parade (2006)
In dit album staat het thema 'de Dood' centraal. Gerard Way bezingt het verhaal van 'The Patient', een personage van een man wiens leven is geëindigd, en wie nu door de dood wordt ontvangen. In het nummer Welcome To The Black Parade wordt The Patient opgehaald door de dood. Het idee van de zanger was dat de dood men ophaalt in hun beste herinnering. Zo dus wordt The Patient opgehaald in de vorm van een parade waar hij als kleine jongen was. In dit album deelt Gerard Way behalve het verhaal van The Patient ook zijn eigen verhaal. Hij gaat in op zijn verleden met verslavende middelen en andere problemen in zijn leven.
Over het nummer The End schreef iemand:
"I see this song having two meanings, in a way.
Firstly, there is the printed meaning. It shows the death of The Patient and his feelings towards his funeral and people's reactions- 'I'd expect you won't cry.'
However, I see another vein running through the song- being transgender. As a trans guy myself, some of the lyrics in this song see extremely reminiscent of my own experience. 'You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not' is the moment when everything clicks, and you realise who you are and suddenly your body is even more of a stranger now you know yourself. Then 'If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see/You can find out firsthand what it's like to be me' is another really hard-hitting one. It's gender dysphoria, the feeling of your body being not you. It sums up the daily looking in the mirror and not seeing who you are but instead a distorted figure. 'Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag' to me represents acting as the gender you were assigned at birth when you know you're not, comparable to drag as it is acting as another gender from your own. Finally, the reoccurring 'Save me's' are a cry for help, getting the hell out of the prison your body is."
Now, come one, come all to this tragic affair
Wipe off that makeup, what's in is despair
So throw on the black dress, mix in with the lot
You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see
You can find out, first hand, what it's like to be me
So gather 'round, piggies, and kiss this goodbye
I'd encourage your smiles, I'll expect you won't cry
Another contusion, my funeral jag
Here's my resignation, I'll serve it in drag
You've got front row seats to the penitence ball
When I grow up, I want to be nothing at all!
I said yeah, yeah!
I said yeah, yeah!
Come on, come on, come on, I said
Save me! (Get me the hell out of here)
Save me! (Too young to die and, my dear)
You can't! (If you can hear me, just)
Take me! (Walk away)
"The End." in the album The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
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