Skylines and Turnstiles is the 7th track from 2002 album I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. It is credited as being the first My Chemical Romance song ever written. This song is about September 11th. Gerard saw it happen, when he was meeting in New York with Cartoon Network pitching an idea for one of the cartoons he helped co-create, "The Breakfast Monkey". Witnessing the event changed his life, leading him to start the band. After the event he and Matt wrote the song.