My Chemical Romance lanza ‘The Foundations of Decay’: letra de la canción

My Chemical Romance acaba de detener nuestro corazón emo al estrenar su primera canción en 8 años, algo que de cierta manera se veía venir desde que anunciaron que regresarían a los escenarios y comenzaron a cambiar las fotos de sus perfiles en redes sociales, sin embargo, sin previo aviso, soltaron “The Foundations of Decay”.

Se trata del primer lanzamiento de la banda desde su separación en 2013 y “Fake Your Death” del álbum recopilatorio "May Death Never Stop You" en 2014, por lo que cada vez hay más expectativas de un disco inédito con una nueva era de la banda.

Este es el primer adelanto del grupo ante la gira que emprenderán la próxima semana en Inglaterra, seguido de shows en Europa y Norteamérica en agosto, con festivales como Riot Fest, el emo de When We Were Young y más, lo cual nos deja esperanzas de que en algún momento My Chemical Romance confirme su regreso a México y Latinoamérica.

De acuerdo a Pitchfork, “The Foundations of Decay” fue producida por Doug McKean, Gerard Way y el guitarrista de la banda, Ray Toro.

Letra de "The Foundations of Decay"

[Verso 1]
See the man who stands upon the hill
He dreams of all the battles won
But fate had left its scars upon his face
With all the damage they had done
And so time, with age
He turns the page
Let the flesh
Submit itself to gravity
[Coro]
Let our bodies lay
With our hearts, we stay
Let our blood and pain
The forgotten pain
If your conditions are a passing phase
May your amnesty forever in the morning race
And as the vermin crawls
We lay in the foundations of decay

[Verso 2]
He was there, the day the towers fell
And so he wandered down the road
And we would all build towers of our own
Only to watch the roots corrode
But it's much too late
You're in the race
So we'll press
And press 'til you can't take it anymore
[Coro]
Let our bodies lay
What our hearts will say
Let our blood and pain
Forgotten pain
And if spirit fly
Take his body and
To be canonized
And so he gets to die a saint
But she will always be the whore

[Puente]
Let's flip out
Against fate
Against all life (As if it must be pure)
Against change (Wander through the ruins)
We are free
[Verso 3]
The guiltiness is yours
You must fix your heart
And you must build an altar where it was
When the at this dying rate
Let it flood
Let it flood
Let it wash away
At last, we'll stumble through the last crusade
When you welcome your extinction in alarming ways
And as the swarming calls to lay in the foundations

[Outro]
Yes, it comforts me much more
Yes, it comforts me much more
To lay in the foundations of decay
Give up coward

Como era de esperarse, el Internet y especialmente Twitter se llenó de reacciones por "The Foundations of Decay", con los memes más ocurrentes.