OK, so I'm a big fan of My Chemical Romance's new album, The Black Parade. However, there is one song that, while it is insanely catchy, is a little unnerving. Here's the lyrics....

They gonna clean up the looks,
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you son
so they can watch all the things you do

Because the drugs never work
They gonna give you a smirk
'Cus they've got methods of keeping you clean
Their gonna rip up your heads,
Your aspirations to shreds,
Another cog in the murder machine

They said now
Teenagers scare,
The living shit out of me
They can care less as long as,
Someone will bleed
So darken your clothes,
Or stike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me

The boys and girls in the clique,
The awful names at the stick,
Your never gonna fit in much kid
But if your troubled and hurt,
What you got under you shirt,
Will make em pay for things that they did!

They said now
Teenagers scare,
The living shit out of me
They can care less as long as,
Someone will bleed
So darken your clothes,
Or stike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone
but not me
whoa yeah!

They said now

Teenagers scare,
The living shit out of me
They can care less as long as,
Someone will bleed
So darken your clothes,
Or stike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone
but not me

All together now!

Teenagers scare,
The living shit out of me
They can care less as long as,
Someone will bleed
So darken your clothes,
Or stike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone
but not me

Teenagers scare,
The living shit out of me,
They can care less as long as,
Someone will bleed
so darken your clothes,
Or stike a violent pose,
Maybe they'll leave you alone
but not me
Now, maybe they were trying to be ironic or something, but the lyrics particularly this part.....

But if your troubled and hurt,
What you got under you shirt,
Will make em pay for things that they did!

....really seems, to me, anyway, to be trying to glorify teen violence. I'm not one of those "blame the music" types, but lyrics like these can't possibly be good for a screwed-up teen to be listening to. And, it's weird, because the rest of the album seems to indicate that the songwriters are at least relatively smart people. Hell, even Marilyn Manson made the attempt to make his lyrics seem at least a LITTLE cryptic and open to interpretation.

What's your take on this?