Between-songs transcript - São Paulo, Brazil (night 2) (6 February 2026)
Sorry this one took ages LOL suddenly four days passed… alas. Alas! Under the cut 🙏
FIRST SET
(Before Draag National Anthem)
[Projection Guy]: Hello my friends, and good morning. It is another beautiful day in Draag. A chance, once more, to get things right; and push beyond our best. So, rise with the sun, and take your medication. Here is your schedule for today, and we will start by observing the Draag National Anthem.
(Before Sharpest Lives)
[Gerard]: Good news, America! There’s a sale on lawnmowers! Ha! Lawnmowers! Good—good news, America! The Black Parade is back in action!
(Before WTTBP)
[Projection Guy]: The humourous thing about learning to be what you hate, and learning to do what you fear, is that someone you’ve been your whole life doing something you’ve always been good at could feel so entirely new. That brutality, so second nature, could feel so alien, so foreign to you; it’s astounding to witness firsthand. So let’s remind you, for a moment, exactly what you are and the thing that you do best. The lesson is, a man knows how to forgive, but a leader knows how to instruct. And since, through pain we learn, let’s be student then be a teacher. Now, take your place, use your words, and produce for the crowd a respite.
(During Mama interlude)
(Dagger part)
[Gerard]: Hello! How we all doing tonight? You know, it’s really good to be here, usually we’re on the run from the mob. Gambling debts, you know what I’m saying? You know what I’m saying, right? That’s not a joke, but we got lots of jokes for you, right? Well, what’s funny right now? I don’t know! Is it, uh, my suit? Is it my creepy suit? Is that funny? I know, it’s a mess. We’re all a mess up here. But that’s okay. At least we’re good-looking, right? Alright, alright. No more jokes, no more jokes. We play songs, too, as you people know, here at the Catskills. No, we do, we do, we play songs. And this is a song i learned from a friend from a long time ago, small little guy, maybe this high, we met in jail. And he said, hey, I got something for ya. And I said, what? He said, you trade me that pack of cigarettes, and I’ll teach you a song. Being the kind of guy I am, and I like to share and all that, I said, here. You have these cigarettes. He started blazing like a motherfucker. Just—[hacks and coughs]—smoking too many cigarettes. As he coughs through the smoke, he leans in close, and he said to me…
(Introducing Sylvia)
[Gerard]: Alright, people! [laughs] first of all, make some noise for this brave young woman here. Her name is Sylvia. Comes all the way from Coca-Cola, Texas. ‘Cause the other thing about us, if you’re a fan, and you know us, we are powerful magicians. Yeah, she knows it. And we cast all kind of magic spells. So, Sylvia here, our assistant, has agreed to let us make her disappear. Do you wanna help out with that? Alright, then, let’s get ready! By the power vested in us by The Great Gazoo, from the underbelly of hell…!
(Outro)
[Gerard]: [screams] [wails] I’m done now, you can have that back, Doctor! [retches] [screams] [giggles] [coughs] Oh, God!
[during big sky]
[Projection Guy]: There is a planet, so it spins. And it’s moving so fast, it’s not worried at all. Very busy. People, people hurry. And the child, who has the chalk, and sang: let me sing. So we see them. We say, let me see who loves you. And the chalk, it moves in circles. Many circles, great big circles! Hugging arms and smiling eyes! And we tell the child, let’s subtract, and again, and, what if we subtract them all? Who is left to love you? There is only the hands that wipe the chalkboard clean.
(Before Sleep)
[Projection Guy]: And I feel, all this time you are making drawings someone else must now erase. But I’m glad that we are friends, and that now you understand—this is the worst day of your life, but the first day of yourself.
(Before Disenchanted)
[Projection Guy]: Come close, my friend. I see you. But, no, we’ve never met. They gave to me a picture, and I’ve had it quite some time. In fact, before you said a word, I’ve always heard your voice. Have you heard mine? That makes me smile. There is one last seat, and one more ticket. It’s hiding in your coat. Yes, you. You’re here. So take your seat, get comfy. Here is my hand.
(Before Famous Last Words)
[Real Boy]: A figure sits in a chair made of wood. And it’s sobbing. You think it’s you. You’re pretty sure it’s you. But it’s weak, it’s broken. And it’s covered in gasoline. Now, picture yourself.
SECOND SET
(Before Bury Me In Black)
[Gerard]: We’re My Chemical Romance from New Jersey!
(Before Sing)
[Gerard]: Thank you! São Paulo, Brazil, how are you? Obrigado. We have established that that is the one word I know. And I’m gonna use it. Obrigado. So, um, we haven’t been here for eighteen years, that’s not fun, right? And, uh, I don’t know who—who—who was here at the very last time, many many years ago, we were here? But, uh, if you were there, thanks for coming back, and if you weren’t even born yet, and you’re here today, thanks for coming today, you know? Maybe—maybe you were born, maybe you were—you know, maybe you were into, like, uh, indie rock or something for a while, maybe, you know? Maybe—got one of those haircuts, um, thank you for coming to this tour we w— we want to thank one of the greatest rock and roll bands in the world, The fucking Hives. We’re very lucky, we’re very fucking lucky they came out on this with us. And they’re the sweetest guys, and they’re fucking animals on stage, and I love them. And, um, there’s lots of thank-yous, you can do that stuff too, but, um, I’m just gonna thank Jarrod Alexander right here, who’s been with us a very long fucking time, Jamie fucking Muhoberac right here, also been with us a very long time, ooh! Slippery! The bacon’s slippy. [?] That’s what I keep saying. Please make some noise for our amazing auxiliary band too, in the A-set, and that’s Clarice Jensen, phenomenal musician, who played a little [indistinct], the amazing Kayleigh Goldsworthy, who fucking plays the violin and vocals, and the amazing Tucker Rule, who plays in a band with Frank called L.S. Dunes. And we wanna thank the cast of our A-set, and we wanna thank the crew, so very much. Thank you guys. You guys fucking killed it. This is a lot of fucking fun, and that has a lot to do with you guys, so thank you. And, uh, we might have played this once on this tour. Oh—great, just—Ahh! Alright, we’re gonna play you guys a song off Danger Days.
(Before Helena)
[Gerard]: Obrigado! That was very fucking powerful, thank you. I could see and feel that shit, thank you very much. It’s been nice to play that song, when, uh, since we got back together, it’s been really nice, but, man, we really enjoy playing this one. So glad to see you guys were too. Yeah, sounds good. São Paulo, Obrigado! I think we started doing this for this song on Swarm tour, I think that’s where it started. It’s a singalong. It’s like, kinda like this…
(Before Planetary Go)
[Gerard]: Ray Toro requested this one. It’s a Ray Toro request. This goes out to you, Ray Toro. I got a good feeling. Do you like to dance?
(Before To The End)
[Gerard]: I want this next song to go out to my—my good friend Gabriel Bá, his family, his brother Fabio, you probably know him, they’re here again tonight. And you all know him as a very famous artist here in Brazil, with his brother, and worldwide, really, and we did a comic book called The Umbrella Academy together. It was a lot of fun. It’s still happening, so. Thanks for that. It’s persevering. Thanks, Gab. We’re gonna play this song off Revenge. It’s for you, Gab. Don’t read into it.
(Before Destroya)
[Gerard]: Obrigado. Uh, I shoulda put this next one out to you, Gabriel. S’alright. This next one’s out to you. I changed my mind.
(Before Not Okay)
[Gerard]: São Paulo, you showed that song who the fucking boss was, you know what I mean? Some of the largest collection of fists ever seen in that song. And now, to cool you off, a summer jam, the best of all time.
(Before Foundations)
[Gerard]: You beautiful fucking people! Obrigado. Beauty. Beauty. Greatness. Death. Ah! This is our first song in many years. It’s called “The Foundations of Decay”.
