Just One Yesterday Lyrics

Lyric discussion by travistee 

Cover art for Just One Yesterday lyrics by Fall Out Boy

I think that he wronged this girl the past and he knows he hurt her and he also knows that she can do better than him, but he'd give anything to go back in the past just so that he could have her again. He remembers how good they were together and seems to regret what he's done to her, and wants to make it up to her. She on the other hand, remembers this hurt he inflicted upon her and tells him that if she would tell people how he hurt her, then he would be ruined, because everyone would be disgusted at the things he's done. She wants to take advantage of the situation: that he wants her once again, but she doesn't intend on going back to the way they were. She's been over him for a while now. This time, she wishes to make him fall for her all over again, just so she could leave him and hurt him the way he hurt her. That's just my interpretation, I could be totally wrong haha.

My Interpretation

I agree for a lot of it. The one thing that I have to add is that I at first thought of this as them talking to their fans and to today's popular music instead of any real woman or lover. Similar to how Eminem talks about hip hop in "25 to Life". The past few years I know FOB has not been as "popular" as they were mid 2000 and for some, who you said you listened to defined you to a point, and so not many would say FOB. I don't know, just my take.