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In the opening track to the dramatic album "The Black Parade", Gerard Way is beginning to take a new approach to everyone’s attitude towards him. He has broken badly and stopped caring about what anyone thinks. He refuses to live his life to the expectations of others and acts on his own terms.
In “MCR Welcomes You To The Black Parade,” a commentary featured on the deluxe edition of the album, frontman Gerard Way says:
"‘The End’ was basically the song where, I think, we, when we butted that up against ‘Dead!’ we realized we were making a really theatrical record that was also gonna be very big. We wanted something, I think we wanted ‘The End’ to feel a little bit like the beginning of "The Wall", there’s a song called “In The Flesh?,” question mark because it reprises later in the record. We wanted it to feel very much like that kind of beginning, that you were about to get taken on a journey, and I think that’s why that song is so big, and it tells a story right away. I think it just kind of pulls you in the story."
Guitarist Ray Toro adds:
"That song definitely set the tone of the record, you know, the entire record. We had written it in New York at S.I.R. Studios, and as soon as all the drums and all the guitars kicked in really loud from that first acoustic guitar at the start, we knew we were onto something."
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