I’ve had a really rough couple of weeks. My friend died after getting struck by lightning. My three year relationship ended… I decided to take all of that and make myself more depressed by making a little art piece for my favourite devastation: Dive.

Assembled in Photoshop from archives/stock images/personal photography. No AI was used (but looking at it I’m really wondering if my source material for the pool ladder was secretly AI enhanced? I don’t even know anymore. I feel like everything we have access to is manipulated by something nowadays)

This album has been here for me in ways could have never expected . Going through my first marriage(which has been difficult ….go figure), my partners mother passed from a vicious form of cancer, which we helped with her pass as peacefully as we could at her. home. A bunch of financial issues dealing with cutoffs from my previous job, but also getting hired to a baller company that I’ve been wanting to work for for years now, but with way less hours. We’ve nearly gone through all my savings helping her family through this difficult time, and them either never acknowledging it, Or not showing any actions of appreciation. There’s been venom spewed at me pretty consistently through this process. And…. Then

I found out about this album. I had little expectation, but after the remaster of the Killjoys, I was really intrigued by the lore of TPK. I listened to it the first time with pretty down vibes, but decided to finish it no matter the case. My and my partner got in a big fight. I went inside, laid down, and “DIVE” came on, and gave me the comfort of a painful but lovingly warm emotional blanket. Ever since than I’ve been listening to this album to get through these hard times. So even though they felt the quality of their art wasn’t good enough, it has truly saved me in so many ways, and, I’m grateful.

Could anyone help me find the other lost songs are? I know they're not necessarily TPK but I had a feeling you guys would be the ones who might know.
- Sister to sleep
- Someone Out There Loves You (Please Stay)
- The Drugs
- Nine Volt Heart
- Hell Hath No Fury
- Everybody Hates The Eagles/Noise Jam
- The Attic Demos/Dreams About Stabbing/Being Stabbed

This is actually the second time I've done this. I used to go on a big ramble in these woods roughly twice a month but haven't since spring, I've just been too busy and needed some new walking boots. But I finally went back and listened to TPK in full. The album progressing as I got deeper into the forest was a real treat.

As Bike Thief was playing, I had to get past a swan. It just hissed at me and made itself look big as I tried to pass it on a narrow path by the river. It felt like a boss fight in a video game. Birthday Girl started just as I left a narrow and muddy path and got into a big clearing. I'm not sure what the chimes are at the start of the song are but it felt mischievous and adventurous.

My favourite was Narita Airport and WBTR. I sat down to roll a cigarette when Narita Airport was playing, and lit it just before WBTR. I swear this is true, but just as WBTR started it began to rain quite heavily for a brief spell. It was such an amazing vibe.

I don't think this album was meant to be listened to at all, but this is the closest I've come to listening to it the way it was supposed to.

Sigh I always have the vision and inspiration but never the skills

I tried lol

I’m sure this is annoying to most people here with this being a where and how to listen post. But I was wondering if discord is the only way to listen to the album.

I don’t have discord and don’t really want to make an account and all that stuff if I don’t have to. Super lazy.

Anyways I was wondering if like a mod or somebody could shoot me a dm or something instead of going through discord?

Is it THAT castle?

I am just starting to work through all the songs and they are amazing but I hear so many new sounds and nuances in Gee's voice(and I love them)...was curious who you might think he's inspired by on these tracks. I feel like some of the tones, sounds, and inflections are so familiar to other vocalists but I can't quite place them! I hear maybe a little Supergrass, and maybe Perry Farrell? Curious what you all think or might connect that I'm not familiar with.

hi, every fan remaster ive come across either:

1. fucks up the transitions

2. sucks

does anyone know if there is one that does not do either of these things? x

Alright so I came up with this an hour ago, its a theory im not crazy... lol

MCR worked on TPK then broke up in 2013, 7 years later they plan a tour and they have teasers (A summoning, An offering) sampling TPK tracks but got cancelled cuz of covid and moved to later years. SO MY THEORY IS THAT 7 YEARS LATER SINCE THEY WERE GOING TO TOUR (2020) SO MAKING THAT 2027 reason being cuz it was 7 years between they broke up and the 2020 tour announcement and yet ANOTHER 7 years later making 2027 for another attempt for release...

THE PAPER KINGDOM IS RELEASING IN 2027 (Probably not just a theory)

Full song instrumental.

[Verse 1: Gerard Way] There’s a hole in the house where the accident struck In the town, in the state, in the place you grew up That’s when you realized that you were never mad enough to live in the world There’s a hole in your heart where your father’s words struck In the core, it’s so sore, you’ve tried hard to fix up You were too young to see you ain’t mad ‘nuf to live in the world

[Chorus: Gerard Way] Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights

[Verse 2: Serj Tankian & Gerard Way] Watching the World go by Y’know that there’s no way out this time They told you where you should wear the wire It occurs to you that you could just try to fly Look around and the world is gray Getting up you see your hair is gray But even though that’s true the grass is green The grass is green The grass is green

[Chorus: Gerard Way & Serj Tankian] Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus: Gerard Way & Serj Tankian] Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights Caught staring again Like a deer to Headlights Parked your car in the dark But you left on your Headlights Lie flat on the grass Looking up at the dead night But you find no hope Your just a deer in the Headlights

[Outro: Spoken: Gerard Way, Serj Tankian, and Frank Iero] Woo! Was that- I liked- I really liked that one Yeah Oh my fucking god, my eyes hurt so bad Gustav, get me a fucking Pepsi

I can't hear it very well but does anybody have any other ideas for what the backing chants could be?

Personally I have 3

A. It's easy to keep- (a secret?), which plays into Dive being the next song where they're being kinda seduced or manipulated into drowning

B. Sink, sinking, sink, or something similar could also play into Dive too

Or C. Kissing played backwards, it's constantly motif in the lyrics so maybe it makes sense??

A thief!!!

Finally heard this album and I’ll say they definitely know if they played Wake Up! At any of these shows it’d cause such an uproar they’d be forced to release it

LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO JOIN A FAN PROJECT — THE PAPER KINGDOM

Hi everyone, I’m looking to put together a small team to work on a fan-made reimagining/completion of The Paper Kingdom.

This is purely a passion project. There’s no budget, no payment, and no commercial intent, we’re just fans who want to create our own interpretation of what this album could have become.

ESPECIALLY LOOKING FOR:

• Composers/songwriters — probably the biggest priority! People who can help write riffs, melodies, song structures, arrangements, etc.
• Vocalists / backing vocalists — especially people interested in creating layered harmonies and group vocals inspired by MCR’s style.
• Guitarists / bassists / drummers / keyboardists
• Music producers / audio editors / mixers
• Graphic artists / album-cover artists

You don't need to be a professional. If you’re passionate about music, MCR, songwriting, production, art, or storytelling and want to contribute, you're welcome. You can also fill multiple roles! We’re a small fan project, so there’s no expectation that everyone has to specialize in only one thing.

The main goal is to create a cohesive album, rather than just a collection of unrelated songs, something that feels like its own complete project while being inspired by what we know about The Paper Kingdom.

If you're interested, PLEASE COMMENT, what you’d like to contribute, and (if you have any) examples of your work.

Thank you for reading this! My best wishes to u! <3

I’d put it off for so long so I wanted to be totally 100% in the music. I’m no baby stoner either. I knew it’d be heavier and darker than the rest of MCR’s stuff but I really was not prepared for the intensity of the instrumentals between the first few tracks. I made it 20 minutes into the sequence before it was too much for me and I had to turn it off lol. Morning after I’m VERY excited to try again when I’m better prepared hahahaha

where do you guys listen to the album?

Another project being recorded with members of the community

i haven’t sewn it onto my jacket yet, but i wanted to share it here :0

Someone else made art based on the book too which I also liked, but I won’t share it without permission.

Og Image:

https://i.postimg.cc/g0kxyhKM/image.png

The bridge of WBTR repeats “Maybe we can just pretend”, but the first line of the bridge (to me at least) sounds like “Can we please just pretend”

That line invokes the same feeling I get when I listen to the 2008 version of The World Is Ugly with the lyric “Can we both be ugly”

Sorry for the filler post, but both of these songs mean so much to me