| Fall Out Boy – The Phoenix Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is the "battle cry" of the album. Telling the younger generation that what they call music (i.e. rock and roll) isn't music at all. This is the head on the pike to serve as a warning to all. They are saying that the world is falling apart around us and the younger generation that were given the "torch" of rock to protest and disrupt aren't living up to their responsibilities. It's also the tough love lesson to those same misguided "young bloods". Kind of saying, "Hey Beiber! You fucking suck! Now let me show you how to be a rock musician you pussy!" "Hey young blood, doesn't it feel like our time running out?" Is a sarcastic line basically saying, "We need to get working at changing the world now or we lose our chance." "I'm gonna change you like a remix. Then raise you like a phoenix." is where they say, "We're going to show you how to do this. Take your musical queues and put meaning into them, and then it's up to you to carry the torch properly." It's the Kung Fu master using the young student's moves against him. Look at it in the context of the rest of the songs (except the last one, which is the other bookend where the torch is passed): Perfect example is "Just One Yesterday". Musically this is calling out to Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" which is shallow song about a jilted lover telling her ex how much he'll miss her. Fall Out Boy "remixes" it and then raises it to give it a deeper and more complex meaning, but still keeping in the same "jilted lover" vein. I mean holy crap: "And now I'm here to give you all my love, so I can watch your face as I take it all away." Brutal to say the least, and this is the warning in "The Phoenix" |
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