whenever they sang helena and i got to do the call and response in person i could feel the decades of tradition stretching out behind us, holding us tight. tethering us to the past and out into the future.
sometimes you’re a teenager hearing helena live on your cd player and gerard from 10 years ago asks you to respond so you sing back, and sometimes you’re an adult with gerard way 4 feet from your face and you sing WOAAAHHHH back to him with all your heart because he asked you to, just like he did on that old recording. and some day. we’ll both be older once again. and we’ll do the exact same thing











