10 Most Underrated My Chemical Romance Songs

10. The Light Behind Your Eyes - Conventional Weapons

As far as the mainline albums for MCR are concerned, Conventional Weapons doesn't really have too much to offer. Outside of the occasional fun song like Boy Division, there's a lot of leftovers that feel more like they should have stayed B-sides instead of the band's true swan song. In between them all though, there's a ballad that deserves a spot alongside the band's best.

From a band that was always known to be on the theatrical side of the spectrum, the Light Behind Your Eyes is about the most heartfelt power ballad you could have expected from My Chemical Romance, with Gerard Way giving an impassioned vocal performance. There's also a lot of bombast behind him as well, with the rest of the band not veering onto autopilot and making a sweeping backing track that sounds like it should be at the end of a movie.

Granted, since this thing doesn't really tie in to any of the major plot points of Danger Days or The Black Parade, it makes sense why it never really fit on those more theatrical experiences. Then again, we could have had the entire MCR story go a different way. In an alternate universe, this is one of the highlights on the next extravagant concept album that My Chemical Romance took on during the 2010's.