I'm Not Okay (I Promise) Lyrics

Well, if you wanted honesty that's all you had to say
I never want to let you down or have you go
"It's better off this way"
For all the dirty looks
The photographs your boyfriend took
Remember when you broke your foot from jumping out the second floor?

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out

What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems (I'm not okay)
I've told you time and time again you sing the words but don't know what it means (I'm not okay)
To be a joke and look, another line without a hook
I held you close as we both shook
For the last time -
Take a good hard look

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
You wear me out

Forget about the dirty looks
The photographs your boyfriend took
You said you read me like a book
But the pages are all torn and frayed now

I'm okay
I'm okay
I'm okay now (I'm okay now)
But you really need to listen to me
Because I'm telling you the truth
I mean this
I'm okay (trust me)

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
Well, I'm not okay
I'm not o-fucking-kay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay (okay)
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Gerard himself has said that the song is about the fact that he kind of had this thing with some girl...and he was like in love with her...but she had a boyfriend. And she took all these slutty pictures with her boyfriend, and Gerard got all upset.

The song's about him just...not being okay, at all, mentally nor emotionally. It's an answer to the ever-so-frequent question "Are you okay?" Most people will say that they're fine...even if they aren't. Gerard's just like "Fuck that, No, as a matter of fact, I'm not okay"...I'm just kind of rambling now.

Good song...lYkE OMgZzZ McR T0talLY RawX Fo ReEl!1!!

Har Har har.

@You\'ll be a memory i like how this comment was made when i didnt even exist and now this song has been my fav for 10 years :)

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Wow, 2014 and I'm still rocking to this song. It brings me a lot of high school feels. I so miss my high school batchmates. I remember rocking this song in all of the corners of our school! That moment when the teachers were like "What's with you people?!" and we're just "I'm okay. Trust me!" with all the eyeliners and black jeans. haha. MCR's music has been an inspiration and guide to us until now. Not because of their dark and sharp lines, but the message it conveys. It's all about the real world. It surprisingly makes us good people if we just get the real lessons from their music. They're excellent!

@FairyAlonto It's 2017 an I'm still in love with this song xD

@FairyAlonto It's 2022 and I'm still rocking to this song!

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love it when he says "trust me."

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i love this song so much it's unbelievable =D it really gets the party going and whenever me and my friends hear it we go crazy!!! i love the bit in the song where it goes 'i mean this. im okay. trust me!' and then it carries on. the trust me bit is probably the bit everyone waits for lol. it's a song i think everyone can relate to when your feeling pissed off or having a bad day. it's like you feel really upset but you can't say to your friends 'hey, im not okay.' it's like this song is just about letting all your anger out. i think this song is a legend and will still be loved in years to come (: x x x

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there was this one guy and he recommended me this band so i started to listen to them a lot. he was my best friend at the time and we were "friends on the verge of becoming more" so everytime i listened to them I thought of him. We did all kinds of crazy things together... We smoked, drank, partied, and committed various criminal acts. I had the time of my life. He influenced me in so many ways (good and bad) and at one point we were going to do something too extreme "you wear me out" and I just couldn't keepup with him. In the end i got my shit together and I we started going crazy together. all was swell and it was all I ever wanted. We were not even 16 ha. Then he met this one girl and everything fell apart. He wouldn't spend time with me anymore even though he promised we would be friends for life. I started my hoe phase and now if you are reading this I hope you are happy you fill me with so much rage I trusted you and you left me for some 18 year old girl you never met huh

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@lithium420 Dammmm thats absolute shit fuck that guy. if he just gonna do that to u fuck him.

@lithium420 I feel just very similar way. In the summer of 2007 I was introduced to the girl of my dreams probably the first to actually take some real interest in me. Friends at first because I was a little older than her but as the year passed we became a lot more, started going to a lot more gigs with each other some of my favourite some of her's everything was rosey. This girl had two other friends and around the same time one of them found love too, which left one of them out on her own, unfortunately...

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Sounds like Queen at points....can't go wrong with that. wonderful song.

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The songs about how he felt when he was in highschool. He only had one real friend and he was really in love with this girl, and she took all these pictures with her boyfriend and he was really upset, I also read that this is like a part 2 to headfirst for halos.

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Probably the most "poppy" song they have done, but very good. I love the video too. Did everyone participate in Talk Like A Pirate Sunday? I sure did, haha fun times with MCR.

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To me, this song is, basically, my life now and forever <3 Can't diss them...MCR 4 ever!! <3

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i listened to this song so hard and on and on in the street when i had this fucking summertime sadness

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