Every My Chemical Romance Single Ranked Worst To Best

5. Famous Last Words

If Helena is the perfect song to open a record, Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance's heaviest track to date - was a fitting closer for The Black Parade, a final theatrical bow-out book-ending the journey the record took fans on while immediately demanding a re-listen.

"I am not afraid to keep on living / I am not afraid to walk this world alone" has essentially become the band's manifesto, a defining statement the band would struggle to recreate in both Sing and The Kids From Yesterday.

Musically, Famous Last Words is so good that the band went on to reproduce it twice, with Conventional Weapons' Surrender The Night and Burn Bright more or less emulating its structure, attempting to capture the same heights The Black Parade's final proper song effortlessly reaches.

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When Matteo isn't cashing in on a lifetime of devotion to his favourite pop culture franchises and indie bands, he's writing and publishing poems and short stories under the name Teo Eve. Talk about range.