4th blog "Cancer" by MCR

Today I was listening to MCR on my ipod. I usually skip this slow and boring song, but today it caught my attention. It is titled “Cancer”. I went home and looked up the lyrics. I assumed that the title was just an attention grabber to have people listen to a stupid and pointless song that had nothing to do with Cancer. I hate it when a title doesn’t have the same meaning as the song. I read the lyrics to the song and realized that they were very touching. It was about this person who was dieing from cancer. He realizes that he is infact going to die no matter what. He doesn’t talk about how horrible it is for him, but instead talks about his love ones. He repeats over and over about how the worst part of everything is leaving “You”. He is talking to a love one and says that he will not kiss you, because it would be too hard for him to let go. The lyrics also include details of what is happening to him. For example, “Cause I'm awful just to see, all my hairs abandoned all my body”. It gives a visual description of what is happening to him and you can tell that he is dieing of cancer, since people lose their hair when going through chemotherapy to fight cancer. These lyrics really got to me because my grandma died of cancer, so I can relate to it. It was very hard for my mother to let her mom go, and so I know how the love one is feeling because my mom had to go through that too. I hope that when others listen to this song, they will understand the trued meaning of it, and that it will touch them in some way.