u/MadisonDissariya

570 is a metal song, at its core, about the burning rage and desire for recognition of surviving harm and strafe through adaptation and integrity even when you don't know what it is you're staying integral to. Here's a few of the lyrics that pull at me the hardest:
> Strip me down, tear me apart, you’ll find one thing left / I fucking know where I came from

> For so long, it’s all I’ve known / I’m crossing over the undertow / For so long, no one was listening / Determined to make their deaf ears ring

> I’ve been to hell and back, with no promise of return / So I made friends with fire, to keep from getting burned / ... And when I’m facing a wall, I do not quit ...because if you mean it, you will make it

And then literally the entire breakdown:
> Pulled apart in a world so demanding
> I’m still here, still standing
> I’ve sweat blood from Stockholm to Scranton
> Still here, still standing
> You can always rinse the surface, but the stain will remain
>
> For so long, it’s all I’ve known
> I’m crossing over the undertow
> For so long no one was listening
> I did my time
> You live, you learn, you defy the terms, but this house will be my home
> Beguiled, betrayed, it’s the price we pay, as trust will be our tomb

> If you mean it, you'll make it..

The title of the song is the area code the band is from, so as an homage, I wrote "If you mean it, you will make it 313 - 502" on my jacket. Most of my abuse took place in Michigan. I would use the actual area code I was in because I wasn't in Detroit, but no one recognizes the area code and so I always have to explain it. 313 is more well known. 502 is the area code for Kentucky, which is where I ended up in the process of our family shifting and the abuse (mostly) ending. The abuse lasted for several years and I currently still live with my mother, the emotional abuser, which has kinda kept the wound open, but I didn't realize how broken I had become until much time after the initial violent environment subsided. CPTSD feels less like a wound and more like a malignant tumor forming where the scar should be. Well, anyway, the transition from Michigan to Kentucky to me is a symbol of my survival and journey in trying to heal but a reminder that there is a part of me left up there. For better and worse I am everything that happened to me and messages like these give me some catharsis when I can't feel anything. If I can't feel anything good like pride in my work or love from my partners and friends, I can consistently at least feel the rage and spite in that I still exist despite the world's best attempts to stop it.
Do any of you have songs that hit you the same way, or mean something on a similar level? I also have extremely vivid connectons to a song called The Foundations of Decay but this is the one I'm fixating on today.
Related note, as an autistic person with CPTSD it often feels like there is no artform I can find that captures the physical sensation of emptiness but learning to safely perform scream vocals has given me a physical catharsis on a similar level to sex or drugs. Being able to capture the amount of emotion that I know I should be able to feel and process but can't, and turn it into a sound with my voice, is one of the most validating feelings in the world.

I think I've figured it all out. The Gemini Process being alluded to in Long Live The Black Parade is in fact a severance procedure similar to the show Severance where the cast work for a corporation that features a "Severed" floor, where using complex neural surgery and hypnosugesstion, the characters' consciousness is split into two versions, one while on the Severed floor and one that's their daily home life. As soon as they walk through the door to the Severed floor, they switch from one to the other. They have no communication between each other, meaning that the person on the surface cannot ever learn what happens in the Severed floor and the person on the Severed floor is, from their own perspective, awake 24/7 in that lot, with occasional lapses in time between shifts being perceived as an instant jump to the next day.

A new teaser shows Sylvia with half of the gemini constellation as a scar. The implication is Marriane has the other half, probably. So why would they have used the gemini process on the band? Is it how they are kept in a loop? No. There is no time loop. They're being severed and they lose their memories of the events after the A Stage ends and the B Stage begins.

From the metatextual perspective, the A Stage isn't a performance being put on by the band as a fictional persona that they then drop, it's a separate state altogether - and once the next A Stage show begins, they're back on the Severed floor and it's like it's all starting over.

That's why when TBPID!Gerard sees the New Jersey postcard it fucks him up. It's an artifact that tugs at the edges of IRL!Gerard's memories.

Is it possible that maybe one or several of the characters know this? Is this the "secret"??

Aside from potentially performing a few TPK songs like they've now done with Fake Your Death and War Beneath the Rain, and the way they used elements of Dive and Paper Swords, I think they probably weren't going to put out a full new album. Instead, I think they were going to do a version of what they're doing now, but smaller. A costumed live performance with stories told mostly through imagery, not music, combining visual theater and traditional rock concert structure. Gerard once said that he wanted to revisit TPK but he wasn't sure if it'd be in the form of music, and we know from a statement made by the tour backdrop company that they were originally going for an angelic, magical, heaven-ascendant theme before COVID happened and they pivoted to SWARM. I think we were going to get a Paper Kingdom staegshow, hence all the visible and auditory references to things we now know are TPK, like how one of the members of the band said the imagery for marketing was going to be orange and they used a fuckload of orange in the tour promos, plus the obvious details of the Paper Swords chant.