songs like early sunsets over monroeville, desert song and demolition lovers are so genuinely my chemical romance. the somber guitar. gerard’s soft vocals building up throughout the songs until he just. breaks. growls. yells and screams. throws all musicality and semblance of control over his own voice right into the wind. it’s beautiful, cathartic and it’s completely, juxtaposingly angry. mcr was a band built on tragedy. despite the tragedy. built spite and being in terms with all that shit. embracing the hysteria and the ugly, the human and the dyspeptic. and it’s unapologetic, and real, how i like most things. they shoved that in your faces. and it spoke to people. gave them voices. something to yell to in collective outrage. and continues to this day to be a comfort zone. i truly love my chemical romance.