My Chemical Romance [REVIEW]

My Chemical Romance
“I Don't Love You”
[Reprise; 2006]
*****

For all the talk of MCR's newfound love of 1970s rock operas and leukemia shortcuts, the most Maxell-tastic blow-dryer-to-the-face track on their new gloomsday LP is firmly rooted in the hair-raising 80s. Heck yeah, it's the band's first proper power ballad and, well, they should definitely think about writing dozens more. Like, tomorrow. Everything's here: the two-tick guitar scratch right before the hook, the muskrat-in-a-trap yelping, the "ahhhh" heaven's gate back-ups, the super-neat Slash-style solo, the take-it-down break, the eat-the-sky big finish. By the book, and better for it. Sure, it starts off exactly like "Yellow", which seems lame after a zillion soccer-dad spins but-- don't get it fuck'd-up-- "Yellow" is classic power ballad, too. Bonus: The lyrics are actually kinda sorta great. Chronicling the final throes of a relationship, Gerard Way puts on an arena snarl for the chorus: "When you go, would you even turn to say, I don't love you like I loved you yesterday." Put that cell phone down and pick up a Bic-- this one deserves the real thing.

ARTIST : My Chemical Romance
SONG : I Don't Love You

When you go
Don't ever think I'll make you try to stay
And maybe when you get back
I'll be off to find another way

When after all this time that you still owe
You're still, the good-for-nothing I don't know
So take your gloves and get out
Better get out
While you can

When you go
Would you even turn to say
"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday"

Sometimes I cry so hard from pleading
So sick and tired of all the needless beating
But baby when they knock you
Down and out
It's where you oughta stay

And after all the blood that you still owe
Another dollar's just another blow

So fix your eyes and get up
Better get up
While you can
Whoa, whooa

When you go
Would you even turn to say
"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday"

Well come on, come on

When you go
Would you have the guts to say
"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday"

I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday

I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday