If you don't come from Chicago, you can't appreciate this song to the fullest. It's entirely about going back to Chicago. pocketofdeadliness got it right. "Lake effect" is how they describe weather coming off Lake Michigan, and no, there's no other possible way to interpret the term (ie, PrettyColeFury is very off the target). Molz017, it's not quite about Wilmette. Fall Out Boy is from Glenview, but you're very close. So, when he says I'm forever a Lake Effect Kid, he's saying he's forever a Chicagoan, no matter where he goes.
If you don't come from Chicago, you can't appreciate this song to the fullest. It's entirely about going back to Chicago. pocketofdeadliness got it right. "Lake effect" is how they describe weather coming off Lake Michigan, and no, there's no other possible way to interpret the term (ie, PrettyColeFury is very off the target). Molz017, it's not quite about Wilmette. Fall Out Boy is from Glenview, but you're very close. So, when he says I'm forever a Lake Effect Kid, he's saying he's forever a Chicagoan, no matter where he goes.
I dont think all these lyrics are correct, but there pretty close. but its "Opium den mother forget my head, at the dead end OF unsteadiness"
I think this is another song about drugs. "Pocketful of deadliness"--Narrator has drugs in his pocket/with him.
"Opium den mother forget my head"--Den Mother=Supervisor. And I guess this supervisor didnt care about the narrator taking opium.
"Dead-end called unsteadiness"--Ridiculously Unsteady, pretty self explanatory
and I really dunno, boxed blonds, Im guessing that might mean a blond that dyed their hair?
So thats about all I think about the song. Great great song though, its the best of there demos they released, love the main riff.
If you don't come from Chicago, you can't appreciate this song to the fullest. It's entirely about going back to Chicago. pocketofdeadliness got it right. "Lake effect" is how they describe weather coming off Lake Michigan, and no, there's no other possible way to interpret the term (ie, PrettyColeFury is very off the target). Molz017, it's not quite about Wilmette. Fall Out Boy is from Glenview, but you're very close. So, when he says I'm forever a Lake Effect Kid, he's saying he's forever a Chicagoan, no matter where he goes.
If you don't come from Chicago, you can't appreciate this song to the fullest. It's entirely about going back to Chicago. pocketofdeadliness got it right. "Lake effect" is how they describe weather coming off Lake Michigan, and no, there's no other possible way to interpret the term (ie, PrettyColeFury is very off the target). Molz017, it's not quite about Wilmette. Fall Out Boy is from Glenview, but you're very close. So, when he says I'm forever a Lake Effect Kid, he's saying he's forever a Chicagoan, no matter where he goes.