Music / I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

All we are is bullets, I mean this

I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is the debut album by My Chemical Romance, released on July 23, 2002. This album has a raw, Post-Hardcore-based sound that makes this album their most aggressive one, musically, while also making it the closest thing to a true emotive hardcore album the band has done. Rhythm guitarist Frank Iero joined the band late in the recording sessions, and only appears on two songs as a result.

Followed by Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

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Tracklist:

1. "Romance" (1:02)
2. "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" (3:51)
3. "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" (5:26)
4. "Drowning Lessons" (4:23)
5. "Our Lady of Sorrows" (2:05)
6. "Headfirst for Halos" (3:28)
7. "Skylines and Turnstiles" (3:23)
8. "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" (5:04)
9. "This Is the Best Day Ever" (2:12)
10. "Cubicles" (3:51)
11. "Demolition Lovers" (6:06)

Musicians:

My Chemical Romance

• Gerard Way - Lead vocals
• Ray Toro - Guitar, backing vocals
• Frank Iero - Additional guitar, backing vocals (tracks 2 and 8 only)
• Mikey Way - Bass
• Matt Pelissier - Drums

Additional Musicians

• Geoff Rickly - Backing vocals (track 9)

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Can you trope me before the sun goes down?:

• Album Closure: "Demolition Lovers" is the longest and most climactic song.
• Album Intro Track: "Romance", a short classical guitar piece of an unknown authorship.
• Careful with That Axe: Gerard screams in short bursts throughout the album.
• Cluster F-Bomb: "Our Lady of Sorrows"
  "Stand up fucking tall, don't let them see your back
  And take my fucking hand and never be afraid again"
• Concept Album: A loose one about a Bonnie and Clyde-esque couple that is eventually shot down in the desert. The theme would be expanded on in their next album.
• Dying Alone: "Cubicles" is about coming to terms with the idea of dying alone.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: This album is rawer and less theatrical than even Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, which still sticks mostly their post-hardcore roots. It also has prominent screamo influences that are mostly absent in subsequent releases.
• Emo Music: This album is probably the closest thing to straight-up emo that MCR has done, despite the mainstream recognition of the following two albums making them the notorious faces of "emo" to the general public, with this album abiding the most by the initial definition of "emo" (a more emotional variant of Post-Hardcore and Hardcore Punk).
• Epic Instrumental Opener:
  • "Romance" is an instrumental.
  • "Headfirst for Halos" has a mostly-instrumental first minute, save for a brief scream.
• Epic Rocking: "Demolition Lovers" (6:06).
• Holy Burns Evil: Implied in "Vampires Will Never Hurt You", in which the protagonist wants to be staked to death to avoid being turned into a vampire.
  "Someone get me to a doctor, someone get me to a church."
• Longest Song Goes Last: "Demolition Lovers", which is also one of the only Epic Rocking songs MCR has done.
• Lyrical Dissonance: "Headfirst for Halos" is oddly upbeat for a song that describes a gory suicide.
• Mesodiplosis: Two segments in "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us"
  • I'm:
    "The amount of pills I'm taking
    Counteracts the booze I'm drinking
    And this vanity I'm breaking
  • "the" into "I'm":
    Well, I'll choose the life I've taken
    Never mind the friends I'm making
    And the beauty that I'm faking"
• Non-Appearing Title: None of the song titles are mentioned in the songs.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: "Skylines and Turnstiles" is about the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Frontman Gerard Way's witnessing of the attacks were what motivated him to form MCR.
• R-Rated Opening: The first lyrics of the album:
  "The amount of pills I'm taking counteracts the booze I'm drinking."
• Record Producer: Geoff Rickly of Thursday produced the album.
• Same Content, Different Rating: The 2015 Reprise Records vinyl reissue has a Parental Advisory warning that was not given to the original album, which was released by independent label Eyeball Records.
• Song Style Shift: "Demolition Lovers" starts out as a slow and quiet ballad that builds into faster and louder part, stops for a soft section, and then returns to the faster and more punky part in the finale.
• Whole-Plot Reference: "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" is this to Dawn of the Dead (1978).
• Wooden Stake: The protagonist of "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" wants to be killed this way.

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I mean this forever!

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