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This song is one of the more emotionally vulnerable songs on the album, exposing themes of self-doubt and fear. Instead of standing strong, defiant and unafraid, Gerard exposes a more delicate side of the Killjoys. He becomes more aware of his looming mortality, and when he dies, he wants only to be remembered as a champion of the rebellion.
MCR frontman Gerard Way told Billboard:
“‘The Only Hope For Me Is You’ is another song that was off the first session, and I think there’s four total. Again, this was the hardest – we knew we loved this song. We knew it was an amazing song, so how are we going to get this into Danger Days world which, at this point, had become very electronic retro thrash rock album, and this needed to live on there. This went through a lot of incarnations, a lot of exploration, a lot of programming, and we settled on this version that was kind of split up the middle. It had programming, it had these big sweeping ‘Blade Runner’ keyboards in the beginning, but then ultimately it’s a rock song and we kept that about it.“
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