I'm Not Okay (I Promise) lyrics by My Chemical Romance

i think this song is about how some people will maybe say that they're okay just to get people to leave them alone.. thats what i do.. and they say that but its really not true... they may be screaming on the inside but they don't want anyone to know

dood... i agree with most of you people on here but also this song is about his life in high school and how he had a crush on one of his friends and she ended up taking really slutty pictures with her boyfriend and that really crushed him but she was his only real friend during his high school career and how he was living in this pit of lonliness, alcholism and despair. by the way mcr is NOT an EMO band, they actually stood out on tv and announced it and Gerard says that that is fucking shit so yahh... newayzz...

When he says " the photographs your boyfriend took" he is refering to a girl which he had a huge crush on and later found out that she took slutty pictures with her boyfriend and that broke gerard's heart and he wrote this song about that.

that is the way i feel so revenge is on my way when i get into high school and this song goes to my stupid boyfriend

The song's lyrics deal with emotional issues relating to relationship break ups, in particular those of lead singer, Gerard Way and his high-school experiences of adolescent loneliness and angst. The song's overtly senimental lyrics ushered people to label the band as 'emo'. The plot of the song is believed to be about the protagonist of the album confronting a teenager at a high-school who has commenced a school shooting. The protagonist takes the life of the students as part of his deal with Satan. The song supposedly is sung from the student's perspective. The lines 'The photographs your boyfriend took' is about how the girl Gerard had a crush on, she let her current boyfriend take sleazy pictures of her and they managed to get out onto the internet, and Gerard found out and lost all respect for her, which crushed him.

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