Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lesbifobfans 

Cover art for Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) lyrics by Fall Out Boy

So the speaker in love with someone and they never stood a chance but they knew it in the first place, so saying it doesn't even seem to matter. Waves are attracted to the moon by gravity so the begging for big moons is likely about boobs. Hes sending letters to "adresses in a ghost town", or people who wont get it, so he feels hes expressing his feelings for no reason. The ex-bae of this story had a secret that was revealed that wasnt even a good one and their obsession or discomfort with the secret was trival in the first place. Saying this was intended to hurt their feelings. The "we're all screaming into microphones" part seems to talk about how people view singers now and how they expect the lyrics to be meaningless. The speaker is tired of songs about sex and romance. The speaker used to obsess worry about normal things but now only on the person the song adresses. The person is a good flirt. "Tell me you like boys like me better in the dark lying on top of you" Petes poem is a nice note about how meaningless things can be.

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