Famous Last Words (My Chemical Romance song)

"Famous Last Words" is the second single and thirteenth track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade. It was released on January 22, 2007. It is also the band's ninth overall single. The music video premiered on December 12, 2006 on MTV2 and on December 13, 2006 on the Much Music program, and on MuchOnDemand in Canada. The video was officially premiered in the United States on the January 11 episode of Total Request Live, and debuted on the countdown the following Tuesday at #5, the band's highest TRL debut for a video. It went onto become their third #1 video on the countdown (following "Helena" and "The Ghost of You"). On March 26, 2007 the video retired at #5 on TRL. On March 12, 2007, they performed this song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. It was made available for download for the Xbox 360's Guitar Hero II game on August 15, 2007, along with "Teenagers", and "This Is How I Disappear", adding to their song shipped with the game, "Dead!".

In the United Kingdom and other territories, the single was released as a two-part square shaped vinyl picture disc. Part one came in a gatefold stickered clear sleeve, with a space to 'slot' part two into.

Music video

The official video for Famous Last Words was directed by Samuel Bayer and was filmed before the band had even named the song. The music video shows the Black Parade float that My Chemical Romance were performing on in "Welcome to......
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