Sat outside my front window
This story's going somewhere
He's well hung and I am hanging up
There's a song on the radio that says
"Let's get this party started"
So let's get this party started

What you do on your own time's just fine
My imagination's much worse
I just never want to know
What meant the world had folded
Like legs and fingers holding onto what escapes me
What he has: a better kiss that never lasts

You said, between your smiles and regrets
"Don't say it's over"
Dead and gone, dead and gone, yeah

The calm before the storm set it off (set it off)
And the sun burnt out tonight
Reception less than warm set it off
And the sun burnt out too

This is me standing in the arch of the door
Hating that look that's on your face
That says there's another fool like me
There's one born every minute
There's one born every minute

What you do on your own time's just fine
My imagination's much worse
I just never want to know
What meant the world imploded, inflated then demoted
All my oxygen to product gas
And suffocated my last chance to say

Between your smiles and regrets:
"Don't say it's over"
Dead and gone, dead and gone whoa oh oh

The calm before the storm set it off (set it off)
And the sun burnt out tonight
Reception less than warm set it off
And the sun burnt out too

Calm before the storm (set it off, set it off)

Calm before the storm set it off
And the sun burnt out tonight
Reception less than warm set it off
And the sun burnt out tonight, yeah
Sun burnt out tonight, the sun burnt out tonight


Lyrics submitted by Last Action Hero, edited by tye1144

Calm Before the Storm Lyrics as written by Joseph Mark Trohman Andrew John Hurley

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    i love this song. shame i'm too embarrassed to have them on my ipod now

    bec0105on October 25, 2008   Link
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    ok so this song starts out the same but has a different ending... any ways i like patrick singing this song alot! how ever i really like this version too. pete does a very good job of singing it. its kinda cool to here the part where both pete and patrick sing in both this version and the take this to your grave version are almost like the same sounding.

    dRoPx3ax3HeArTon October 15, 2006   Link
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    WOAH! PETE SINGS THIS SONG??! DOES PETE SING THIS WHOLE ALBUM?!?!?! i think im going to go shoot myself for not noticing that now.

    australianprincesson November 24, 2006   Link
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    Pete says Patrick sang it... "The next time, the phone can ring my neck"... Lol..

    SetMyClockEarlyon December 15, 2006   Link
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    idk im confussed now i know patrick sings the one on TTTYG but for AEOWYGF i think it might be both? im not so sure though cause my comp wont let me listen to the EOWYG one and i didnt have enough money on me to buy it from borders but from the 30 sec intro it sounded alot more like pete? idk though i could be wrong

    dRoPx3ax3HeArTon December 28, 2006   Link
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    idk im confussed now i know patrick sings the one on TTTYG but for AEOWYGF i think it might be both? im not so sure though cause my comp wont let me listen to the EOWYG one and i didnt have enough money on me to buy it from borders but from the 30 sec intro it sounded alot more like pete? idk though i could be wrong

    dRoPx3ax3HeArTon December 28, 2006   Link
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    i'm pretty sure it's pete, but i could be wrong too. idk.

    XcleverXlittleXemoXon December 28, 2006   Link
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    NO, sorry, Patrick does lead vocals on this as he always has.

    IEATFOODOKAYGUYon February 17, 2007   Link
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    gosh there are 2 versions that explains a lot!! well anyway... i dont know what this song is about... Ive got the other version but this one sounds a LOT more interesting!!

    musicmadon April 14, 2007   Link
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    This song is typical old fall out boy. It makes me smile because I almost forgot this stuff still exists. And it's pure. No expectatopm-type-pure.

    It's about a failed relationship, her cheating, and the girl wanting him back. That's all. Read the lyrics.

    deepwater03on April 26, 2007   Link

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