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My Chemical Romance - Helena Acoustic Cover by Pat Noonan
After school one (back in the) day I caught the music video for Helena by My Chemical Romance and I was like, "whaaaaaaa was that?!" I had heard I'm Not Okay and I liked it but it was definitely Helena that pushed me over the line to becoming a big MCR fan. Fast forward to 2010, now I hear we're getting a new album from Gerard Way & Co. and instantly decided I'd cover an old favorite of mine to commemorate the occasion. Which finally brings us to now: after attempting to rotoscope all 1253 frames of the video (I got all the way to 53 and realized I wouldn't finish until their next NEXT album comes out haha) and trying my best to not make it too obvious that I had lost all the feeling in my fingers/nose/ears cause it was so damn cold when I attempted to film this, I now present to you my acoustic version of Helena, I hope you like it and even if you don't I hope it doesn't stop you from checking out Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (make it happen) Thanks for checkin it out!
UPDATE: There was a request for an instrumental version to sing over so here are the links:
MP3 http://tinyurl.com/HelenaInstrumentalMP3
WAV http://tinyurl.com/HelenaInstrumentalWAV
If you make a video with the backing track make sure to post it as a video response so I can check out your version!
My Chemical Romance Helena Lyrics
Long ago
Just like the hearse you die to get in again
We are so far from you
Burning on
Just like a match you strike to incinerate
The lives of everyone you know
And what's the worst to take
(The worst you take)
From every heart you break
(Heart you break)
And like the blade you stain
(The blade you stain)
Well I've been holding on tonight
What's the worst that I could say?
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long not goodnight
Came a time
When every star fall
Brought you to tears again
We are the very hurt you sold
And what's the worst you take
(The worst you take)
From every heart you break
(Heart you break)
And like the blade you stain
(The blade you stain)
Well I've been holding on tonight
What's the worst that I could say?
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long not goodnight
And if you carry on this way
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight
Can you hear me?
Are you near me?
Can we pretend?
To leave and then
We'll meet again
When both our cars collide
What's the worst that I could say?
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long not goodnight
And if you carry on this way
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight
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what software do u use?
JessePennock15 6 months ago
@JessePennock15 Logic Pro 9
PatDanNoonan 6 months ago
You can tell that you lip synced this entire song...take's the whole point out of playing acoustically :/ Did not like it for this fact alone. Sorry if i'm being an ass....
evilburrito69 10 months ago 2
@evilburrito69 I'm sorry the lip syncing ruined the song for you, I definitely would've rather spent a few thousand hours tracing over each frame of the original video like I had planned to, but unfortunately I was a few thousand hours short. My main objective when reshooting the video (what you see here) was to show the guitar playing for anyone wanting to learn the guitar parts with the tabs. But that shouldn't take the "point out of playing acoustically" My point was to play a song I love.
PatDanNoonan 10 months ago 9
some parts reminded me of imogen heap's "hide and seek" for some reason?
So this is extremely blatant but: do you have a girlfriend?
....yeah just thought I would ask haha
xiaoti606 11 months ago 2
@xiaoti606 My guess is the many layers of vocals at parts of this may have been what reminded you of Hide And Seek, which is a ridiculously good song btw. As for a girlfriend, I'm single for now but I'd love to find the right girl one of these days.
PatDanNoonan 11 months ago