First things first, the song title is incorrect. It's just called "Rat a Tat" featuring Courtney Love.
One thing I'd like to point out is the lyric "Are you ready for another bad poem?"
The almost-last songs on their past 3 albums have had verses by Pete Wentz in which they were delivered almost in a prose-type way. This is him poking fun at those emotionally driven speeches, calling them "bad poems" and noting that he is a creature of habit in that sense. However, this chain is broken in this album when he simply acknowledges the past habit, which reminds me of the "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light em up)" music video in which their old albums are burning, symbolic of the "old" Fall Out Boy. Also, when they came back together, they released a statement that included:
"The future of Fall Out Boy starts now."
So in essence, this lyric is demolishing what happened in the past by poking a little fun at it but acknowledging its presence.
I may have just analyzed the shiiiiiiit out of that, but I wouldn't be shocked if Pete Wentz did put all of that thought towards one line.
First things first, the song title is incorrect. It's just called "Rat a Tat" featuring Courtney Love.
One thing I'd like to point out is the lyric "Are you ready for another bad poem?" The almost-last songs on their past 3 albums have had verses by Pete Wentz in which they were delivered almost in a prose-type way. This is him poking fun at those emotionally driven speeches, calling them "bad poems" and noting that he is a creature of habit in that sense. However, this chain is broken in this album when he simply acknowledges the past habit, which reminds me of the "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light em up)" music video in which their old albums are burning, symbolic of the "old" Fall Out Boy. Also, when they came back together, they released a statement that included: "The future of Fall Out Boy starts now." So in essence, this lyric is demolishing what happened in the past by poking a little fun at it but acknowledging its presence. I may have just analyzed the shiiiiiiit out of that, but I wouldn't be shocked if Pete Wentz did put all of that thought towards one line.