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Fall Out Boy – From Now On We Are Enemies Lyrics 16 years ago
Okay so the whole song is about this intense rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

The first verses,

"I just want to be better than your, your head's only medicine
A downward spiral just a pirouette
G-g-getting worse til there's n-n-nothing left
What good comes of something when I'm
Just the ghost of nothing, nothing?"

This whole verse is talking about how Mozart wanted to speak to people
through music, but then through the pollution of alcohol in his mind,
he began crashing towards the ground, until he was so polluted that the
alcohol killed him.

"I'm just the man on the balcony singing,
"Nobody will ever remember me,"
Rejoice, rejoice and fall to your knees"

At the beginning of the movie Amadeus, a movie based on this epic
rivalry, Antonio is seen singing on his balcony about nobody will
remember him because of how popular Mozart has become.

"(For! A!)
Lunatic of a god or a god of a lunatic?
Oh, their faces are dancing
They're dancing 'til,
'Til they can't stand it"

This God line is interesting cause it has a double meaning. In one
sense, it's a play on how religious Antonio was, and through the movie
he loses his faith in God, and curses him for giving Mozart such talent.
On the other hand, it could be Pete simply asking out, "Is God crazy? or are we crazy for not understanding God?"

"A composer but never composed
Singing the symphonies of the overdose
A composer but never composed
Singing,
"I only want what I can't have"
"I only want what I can't have" "

Here Antonio is grieving in these lines, and the line "singing the
symphonies of the overdose." is referring again to Mozart succumbing to
alcohol, and yet still everyone knows his music and not Antonio's.
Obviously "I only want what I can't have." is talking about how Antonio want's Mozart's genius, but can't have it.


"Heralded as a king before I had a birthday
With double (double) digits (digits)
Fit the crown to my head but I was only a kid
Yeah I was only a kid!
Yeah I was only a kid!"

This verse talks about how Mozart was famous before he was even 10, writing his first masterpieces at 4-6.
"Fit the crown to my head but I was only a kid" explains why Mozart
wasted himself with alcohol, because he was a child and didn't know any
better.

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Fall Out Boy – She's My Winona Lyrics 17 years ago
^^
that's a good point but i'm still thinking it's about his son
even though the thunder part was written before he was born

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Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics 17 years ago
i'm still hearing imperfect
i agree with the lizard scales part now though
still hearing ploys too
i'm also still hearing
"Little girl
You got my staring eye"
but i hear telescopic camera nod.
and i hear pretty dolls not painted,
maybe it's just me, idk

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Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics 17 years ago
i didn't get a booklet in my deluxe version
and i agree with joe
it could be guard
guard or gun
it's not god
i don't hear god at all

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Fall Out Boy – (Coffee's for Closers) Lyrics 17 years ago
actually i think it has to do with both Bush and Obama
mainly with Bush though
the only Obama reference I see is the part where he says
change will come

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Fall Out Boy – She's My Winona Lyrics 17 years ago
I think the thunder part is talking about Pete wanting his son to be as successful or even more successful than himself,
and that if you wanna get somewhere, you have to bring it all.

"Hell or glory, I don't want anything in between."

It means you either get it all and live or die with nothing,
imo

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Fall Out Boy – Lake Effect Kid Lyrics 17 years ago
Opium den mother forget my head,
at the dead end of unsteadiness
Boxed blondes have less fun

i think that should be

Opium dinner then forget my head,
Got the dead rid coke, unsteadiness
Faux blondes have less fun

it makes more sense cause Opium would clear you mind
then the coke high would make you unsteady

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Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics 17 years ago
Little girl
You got my staring eye*
oh! or was that just a telescopic camera lie*
p-p-p-pretty dolls*
on the highway truckstop stalls*
Lock-less jails to deny my rules *
All the rookies leave your badge and your gun on the desk*
When you leave the room

and it is ploys, not lives.
Pete's talking about how they started as a little band with nothing and what not
but their perfect ploy of music got them somewhere
and then the line that says
"nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy"
he's talking about the people that don't like their music cause they're "whiney"

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