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people are saying that the song is about gender identities and wars like ww1 and ww2, but for me, there is actually a war between the mother and the son. A fight between the two characters. The reason why they fought wasn't said (although based in the song it sounds like the mother's son going to war), but the war was already happening, leading the two to fight each other, some even through letter when they don't want to talk to each other (I do that). Behind the lyrics, "Stop asking me questions, I hate to see you cry," it sounds like the fight was a really serious one as if they are going to lose each other. By the chorus (And when we go don't blame us) it means of the son planning to leave his mother, and from the line "You made us oh so famous (correct me if I'm wrong)," I'm guessing this from my own experience, the neighbors heard all the awful things they said to one another, causing some to team up to either the son or the mother.

"Well Mother, what the war did to my legs and to my tongue"

That part somehow seems metaphoric to me, as if to say, "Mother, my legs are weak because of the awful things I have said to you."

To raise a baby girl would be better in the son's opinion because his mom wouldn't have a rought time with her son, thus the son saying, "I should've been a better son."

"If you can coddle the infection
They can amputate at once."

I'm not entirely sure what those mean, but if you refer the infection to gender identities, that'll make sense.

"She said you ain't no son of mine"

This is where the mother finally looses her shit, and apparently, the son looses his shit too, at the bridge of the song, thus leaving her house. But by the part where the singer (of course everyone knows it's Gerard) counts to four (which may be the son counting down the days since he left), it may sound like the son is calling out for her.

"And if you would call me your sweetheart, I'd maybe then sing you a song."

This part means that the mother might be forgiving her own son.

"But that shit that I've done with this fuck of a gun, you would cry out your eyes all along!"

This is where the son confesses every bad thing he has done for the past four days, leading to a stage 4 cancer that was unnoticed by both, and he went to the hospital to have a check up, the doctor saying that he only has a few days left. And so, the news shocked his mother, and then it leads to another light scolding from her, but instead of talking back, he said that they're damned after all, through fortune and flame they fall.

"If you could stay, then I'll show you the way to return from the ashes you call."

That means that the son is asking his mother to stay by his side until the day he dies.

"We all carry on when our brothers in arms are gone."

The son mentions his dead brothers to his mom, saying that everyone will move on from someone's death, pointing out that he is gonna die soon and he wants his mom to "carry on" with life if that happens.

"Raise your glass high for tomorrow we die."

If you put it in the mother's perspective, it sounds like she doesn't want to be left alone and decides that she will die with him. The crying at the end is the mother loosing her son, and when the crying ceased, she was dead already. Either from heart attack or killing herself, what matters is that she gets to be with her son in the Black Parade, the mother earning the title "Mother War" and the son "The Patient."

And they all lived happily ever after.

The End.

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