Demolition Lovers

The song, which serves as the album's closing track, is a six-minute long punk rock ballad that goes through several different movements throughout its runtime.

It is also considered representative of and a precursor to the more grand-scale, narrative-driven songs that the band would create in the future, and has been noted as a fan favorite.

My Chemical Romance was formed after the band's frontman, Gerard Way, witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.

Eli Enis of Paste described these movements as: "a slow moody intro, frenetic verses, a breathless bridge, a metallic guitar solo and a snarling gang-chorus".

[15] Lyrically, the song follows the titular Demolition Lovers couple as they go on a crime spree,[13][16] ultimately dying in a "hail of bullets" in a desert.

[14] The latter wrote that "Demolition Lovers" made "good use" of its six-minute run time, as an "emotional rollercoaster" that was well captured by its "effective changes of pace and structure".

[19] Mala Mortensa of Alternative Press wrote that "Demolition Lovers" was an "essential" song from My Chemical Romance's discography, describing it as a "six-minute fireworks display of all the successful dynamics present in its preceding tracks".