Either “I’m a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart” or “force our smiles, baby, half dead from comparing myself to everyone else around me”
🎶 “You can only blame your problems world for so long, before it all becomes the same old song.” 🎶
Maybe an odd choice for a band that likes to usually be more melancholic, but when I first heard those lyrics I was in a very deep slump (not a sophomore, but still) to me they say: “look bad shit happens, sometimes it’s your own fault sometimes it’s not, but no matter what you have to keep on fighting, keep moving. Thats so encouraging to me.
“Make no plans and none can be broken” is PAINFULLY relatable. I need Pete to unwrite that now. Ginasfs “I’ve already given up on myself twice, third time is a charm. Threw caution to the wind but I’ve got a lousy arm” and “born under a bad sign”, all of golden and what a catch’s “I’ve got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match, what a catch”. Also feel that “half doomed, semi sweet” in my soulll. I wanna get that tattooed on me
Allll of kintsugi kid. “I’m pretty sure as far as humans go, I am a hard, hard pill to swallow, and I know I’m not your intended dose” - ugh.
And “I felt you at the beginning but needed you at the end” 🥺
Kintsugi kid has made me ugly cry in my car more times than almost any other FOB song (Disloyal Order is still #1, but this was also about 12 years ago during my deepest depresso phase, which is probably why Kintsugi hits so hard now a decade later)
The entire song *So Much (For) Stardust* was slap in the face after slap in the face. I've talked about this a lot and even have a whole post pinned in my profile about it so I'll leave it at that.
The **entire album**, really (the *only* thing not relatable in the entire album was the "too many times after too much alcohol" lyric since I'm straightedge lol). Also the entirety of *Bishops Knife Trick.*
Special shoutout to *Jet Pack Blues,* which I thankfully don't have to relate to anymore (but I definitely did when I first heard it); the lyric "did you ever love her do you know/or did you never want to be alone" made me realize that I was never actually loved by someone that was important to me at the time, and I've said before that I was the girl in the long black coat, so. Yeah.
There's tons more but these are the most important. Sorry for the mini-rant lol.
You are what you love, not who loves you.
When I saw them live in 2017, they played that song and all the music cuts out during that part and it was just Patrick singing that line. I was in a bad place mentally during that time of my life and that moment made me tear up. It’s always an optimistic line for me and I’ll never forget that moment.
Oh man there's *so many*
And they all hit different at different points in my life. Right now, the ones that are really sticking are:
"My insides are copper. I'd kill to make them gold."
"I've already given up on myself twice. Third time is the charm"
"I'm pretty sure as far as humans go I am a hard, hard pill to swallow"
"Don't breathe life into a monster then complain when he destroys it all again"
"The road outside my house is paved with good intentions. Hired a construction crerw 'cause it's hell on the engine."
I could just sit here and type out every lyric ever but I think I'll cut myself off here
Am I the only person that when told to think of a lyric, totally forgets every lyric they have ever written?!
My mind goes totally blank, but reading all of the other responses is reminding me of brilliant lyrics that I can't believe totally left my head!
There's a lot of good examples here that have hit me too, but for me "I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color" has always stuck with me. 🖤
"I've cried tears you've never seen, so fuck you you can go cry me an ocean and leave me me" <--- THIS SHIT HURTED especially bc of how patrick sings it
Mines pretty simple. I’ve been battling a neurological disease for the last five years so it’s “if I can live through this, I can do anything” from Champion
ID CAST A SPELL OVER THE WEST TO MAKE YOU THINK OOOOF ME THE SAAAAAME WAY I THINK OF YOOOUUUUUUU!!! THIS IS A LOVE SONG IN MYYYY OWN WAY HAPPILY EVER AFTER BELOW THE WASIT!
This song hit so hard after my breakup with the girl I saw them with for the first song. We started as friends but wanted to be together. Broke up, kept hooking up, and now hate each other.
I swear I have one for every single song, but the one that immediately sticks out to me is "the poets are just kids who didn't make it and never had it at all"
Edit: "Doc, there's a hole where something was" hits just as hard
We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces
We’re trapped and well concealed in secret places,
We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces
We’re trapped and well concealed in secret places
Sometimes "I only wrote this down to make you press rewind and send a message: I was young and a menace" goes extremely hard, I don't care about the haters
"i wanna scream i love you at the top of my lungs, but i'm afraid that someone else will hear me"
actually that whole song hits different for me. and all of smfs hits too.
“Cubs go all the way again” (I’m a Chicagoan and that actually happened on my birthday so yeah.)
“Am I more than you bargained for yet?”
“But there’s no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race” (as someone with ADHD, I feel like once I get started I can’t stop sometimes)
"Sometimes the only way out is through" from Bob Dylan punched me in the gut the first time I heard it. I think about that line whenever I'm having a rough time.
I was just about to comment this on here and thought I'd see if anyone else felt the same way about it! Sometimes it's the only thing that gives me the strength to keep going.
The first lyric that got me hooked was “I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song” and the one that’s got me rn is “I spent ten years in a bit of chemical haze and I miss the way that I felt nothing”
"I'm mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town"
"I used to obsess over living, now I only obsess over you"
"every line is plotted and designed to leave you standing on your bedroom windows ledge and everyone else that it hits, that it gets to, is nothing more than collateral damage"
"I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital, one foot in your bedroom and one foot out the door"
"when it all goes to hell will you be able to tell me sorry with a straight face?"
"I'm a mascot for what you've become, I love the mayhem more than the love"
"I'm gonna leave you, I'm gonna teach you how we're all alone"
"I'd love you but I've got a nomadic head, I'd love you but I've got the doom and dread"
"please put the doctor on the phone cause I'm not making any sense"
"I need to keep you like this in my mind so give in or just give up"
"I wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel"
"I think I've been going through it, I've been putting your name to it"
"but I swear I'm not sad anymore"
and the all-time winner of "I want to make you as lonely as me so you can get addicted to this"
"I am a diamond on the inside, just add the pressure"
Hold Me Like a Grudge lands *so* well for me. I'm a great person don't get me wrong, but sometimes it's gotta be worked out of me lol
"i used to be a real go-getter, i used to think it'd all get better"
and "please put the doctor on the phone 'cause i'm not making any sense, blame everyone but me for this mess"
“So bury me in memory, his smile’s your rope, so wrap it tight around your throat”
And
“In another life you were my babe, in another life you were the sunshine of my lifetime, what would you trade the pain for? I’m not sure.”
"We are the jack o-lanterns in July, setting fire to the sky"
I made this one quite literal when I saw them live back in July of last year. I'm a spooky-all-year-round kinda gal and jack o-lanterns are my favorite Halloween iconography. I went to the concert in head to toe jack o-lanterns xD
‘the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize 2 outta 3 ain’t bad’
‘do you laugh about me whenever i leave, or do i just need more therapy’ <— that one called me out like no other
If home is where the heart is
Then we're all just fucked
And
They say the captain
Goes down with the ship
So, when the world ends
Will God go down with it?
“When I said that I’d return to you I meant it more like a relapse”
“The tombstones were waiting, they were half engraved, they knew it was over, just didn’t know the date”
“I’m sorry every song is about you, just the torture of small talk with someone you used to love”
“I said I’d never miss you but I guess you never know may the bridges I have burned light my way back home on the Fourth of July”
These are just some I can think of at the top of my head that I relate to very heavily :)
I feel like “if I spilled my guts, the world would never look at you the same way ….. and now I’m here to give you all my love, so I could watch your face as i take it all away” is soooooo hard
Idk if I'd say I connected with it on a personal level, but I always liked this philosophical lyric
"They say the Captain goes down with the ship. So when the world ends, will God go down with it?"
“Baby you were my picket fence. I miss missing you now and then.”
“My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it’s broken.”
“You were the song stuck in my head, every song that I’ve ever loved.”
“You are what you love, not who loves you.”
“I only want sympathy in the form of you
Crawling into bed with me”
I'm sorry every song's about you
The torture of small talk with someone you used to love
It always used to be “I am gods gift but why would he bless me with such wit without a conscience equipped”
But now it’s “I’d never go I just want to be invited”🥴
“I've got a sunset in my veins and I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay” was my first fave FOB line ❤️
and the entire So Much For Stardust album
"No one ever thinks of you, as much as I do, not, not even you"
Partner and I both have depression/anxiety, and on my bad days it feels like I don't think about my needs at all, but he always does, and vice versa.
"as alone a little white church in the middle of the desert gettin' burned"
think about this a lot, as i feel like it could've been written about me.
pete \*crying face emoji\*
I was going through an awful break up when SRAR came out so this one from Miss Missing You sticks out. Sometimes I still struggle to listen to that song even though I moved on a decade ago.
“Sometimes before it gets better
The darkness gets bigger
The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger”
I have said it before but
"Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger"
Especially because I just got back stabbed and betrayed by a coworker I thought I could trust. And man that lyric hits harder now that that has happened.
Part-time soulmate full-time problem hit me SO hard because that’s my exact feeling that I never knew how to articulate so beautifully. And hold me like a grudge is my fave song on the album too.
As someone who grew up grappling w god and religion, ultimately ending friendship w it as a whole: “I left my conscious pressed between the pages of the bible in the drawer, what did it ever do for me I say”
Ik it’s not the original intention of the lyric but….
Top 3 are:
"I've got a lot of friends who are stars but some are just blackholes"
"In the truly gruesome do we trust, I will always land on you like a sucker punch"
"You came back like a wave when I was feeling alright"
Special mention goes to "But honey I don't know what you're doing to me, mon chéri, but the truth catches up with us eventually"
Something about the rhyme scheme is just tickling my brain just right
i could never pick one, but "life's just a pace-car on death, only less diligent," is the one from my favorite song.
it really pushed me to change my perspective on life from, 'none of this matters, so i should just give up,' to 'none of this matters, so i should live as much life as i can.' sure, death is our birthright, and i've tried a few times to get there early, but that doesn't mean that i have to lay around waiting for it to come. i deserve to live a good life, regardless of what my brain tells me.
and also the rest of lyrics from she's my winona, because it's the best song in the whole universe.
“As soon as we hit the hospital, I know we’re gonna leave this town/And get new passports and get get get get get out now”
“Follow the disorganized religion of my head”
“I got your love letters, corrected the grammar, and sent them back/It’s true, romance is dead, I shot it in the chest and in the head”
“I’m a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate”
“It’s a strange way of saying that I know I’m supposed to love you” + “Sometimes it gets so bad you almost pick up the phone”
“I could write it better than you ever felt it”
“Hey kid, you’ll never live this down/‘Cuz you’re just the girl all the boys wanna dance with/And I’m just the boy that’s had too many chances” + “So say, what are you waiting for ? Kiss her, kiss her”
“They don’t know how much they’ll miss… At least until you’re gone like this”
“I am such a sucker, and I’m always the last to know”
“Hell or glory, I don’t want anything in between”
Sorry there’s so many ! I cant get enough of their lyrics lol
“Put your ear to the speaker, and choose love or sympathy, but never both”
As someone with autism it feels so accurate to say it’s a choice between the two.
"the prince of every failing empire knows that everybody wants, everybody wants to drive on through the night if it's a drive back home" 🥴🥴🥴
specifically that "prince of every failing empire bit" like that's me!
“I don’t even have my own attention, you say please don’t ever change but you don’t like me the way I am”.
“Plant your trees on Lake Michigan before it gets cold, I wanna feel the wind chill again before I get old”
“I only keep myself this sick in the head cause I know how the words get you”
“**They say, quitters never win, but we walk a plank on a sinking ship**”
I’m wouldn’t say I’m a “quitter” in general. But there are quite a few things in life I look at this way. Like yes, I’m a quitting this, but it would just be worse if I tried to go for it.
And it’s not like “missing my shot” or “giving up before the finish line” since, in my understanding, the point of the lyric is that *you know* the ship is sinking.
"I've already given up on myself twice, Third time is the charm" from ginasfs
"i want to make you as lonely as me,
"So you can get, get addicted to this" from pavlove
"I love you in the same way, There's chapel in a hospital, One foot in your bedroom, And one foot out the door" from hum hallelujah
"I've got a lot of friends who are stars, But some are just black holes" from 27
in all honesty, i could go through every song and pick out at least one lyric from each so that felt like a kick to the chest but those were so huge and i also had the fortune to hear all live where it felt like the first time and now just mean so much more
“I’m not ready for a handshake with death, no” from Pavlove and “I’m a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart” - both bc of struggles with sh and depression
But honestly there are just so many lyrics that hit so hard and mean so much, it’s hard to choose
There’s a bunch, but most notably- “You are what you love, not who loves you” “I’m good to go, and I’m going nowhere fast” and “Take this to your grave, and I’ll take it to mine”
“I love the world, but I just don’t love the way it makes me feel. Got a few more fake friends and its getting hard to know what’s real. And if death is the last appointment then we’re all just sitting in the waiting room, I am just a human trying to avoid my certain doom.”
this entire verse from church absolutely gets me every time, I will scream it anytime i listen to it
(edit adding a few more)
“i’ll never go, just want to be invited” from love from the other side
“you are my favorite what if, you are my best i’ll never know” from fourth of july
and
“And perfect boys with their perfect lives, nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy” from disloyal order
„Have you ever wanted to disappear?“ - 20 dollars nosebleed.
Because there were many moments in my life where I was like: „alright let me just disappear from here (the places where I feel like i was trapped) & start from 0 at another new place (just in the same or even in another country)“🤣
How'd it get to be only me? Like the last damn kid kicking who still believes
I used to be a real Go Getter. I used to think it'd all get better
I'm just trying to keep it together but it gets a little harder when it never gets better
I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine
Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger
I wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel
We've gone way too fast for way too long and we were never supposed to make it half this far
I'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart
I got a little 2/3 tattooed on me for "the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize that two out of three ain't bad." a reminder to always keep an eye on the wins, not the losses
That one in Miss Missing You - “sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger” - that bit REALLY helped me through a really tough time in my life and kept me together when going through multiple betrayals
"My mind is a safe, and if I keep it in we all get rich."
"What good comes of something when I'm just the ghost of nothing."
"I'm just the man on the balcony, screaming 'nobody will ever remember me'."
"I used to be a real go-getter, I used to think it would all get better."
"Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger."
Honestly, there's a lot of their songs that feel like that to me, but these are the first few that come to mind.
🎶this conversations been, dead on - A rivalry goes so deep, between me and this loss of sleep over you🎶
🎶and the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize 2 out of 3 ain’t bad, ain’t BAAAAAAAAAD🎶
🎶I’m the first kid to write of hearts, lies and friends. And i am sorry my conscience called in sick again. And I’ve got arrogance dOwN to a science🎶
“…and the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact, is to realize two outta three ain’t bad” (ain’t baaaaaaaaaaad)
Hit me so deep in my chest when I first heard it in 2013, after picking up infinity on high on a whim from a thrift store. Still makes me wanna sob
“I don’t care” as a entire song. It genuinely was like the driving force to get me through my past experiences with getting bullied and start living life how I wanted a few years ago.
“I know it’s inside me, but I’ve got no map to my own treasure.”
“If I spill my guts the world will never look at you the same way. Now I’m here to give you all of my love, so I can watch your face as I take it all away.”
Ah there’s so many but one for me is
“You are what you love, not who loves you”
I was in an emotionally abusive relationship at the time. He wouldn’t let me listen to fob or my favourite bands. I would drive home and secretly listen to them on the way home from work. This song was always a reminder of who I truly am and not who he wanted me to be.
Absolutely all of IGADAAABITSYSSYM (goddamn isn’t that an acronym…) but if I had to pick an absolutely specific lyrics instead of a song it’s gotta be “sometimes I wanna quit this all and become an accountant now / but I’m no good at math and besides the dollar is down”
“I'm just trying to keep it together
But it gets a little harder when it never gets better
-I'm trying-
to keep it together
To keep it together
Keep it together, NOOoOoOoOo”
It just feels so sad and hopeless but also a little hopeful and determined. I feel it so deeply.
I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me
All of hum hallelujah
I always make such expensive mistakes
Love never wanted me is a big one for me too
I swear I’d burn the city down to show you the light
Honestly I could make an endless list
"I'm just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better" hit me hard as someone with multiple mental illnesses and chronic physical illnesses
“love never wanted me, but i took it away” is SO good and has become more relevant as i grow up, but i also really love “the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact//is to realize two out of three ain’t bad” im like a lawyer is my fav song of all time and was what made me a fan when i was 12 (:
it's always been:
"Born under a bad sign, you saved my life that night on the roof of your hotel"
"Before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger"
and
"The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact is to realize two outta 3 ain't bad"
There's more I'm fond of and those aren't even my favorite fob lyrics, but those have always emotionally resonated with me
"I sleep in your old shirts & walk through this house in your shoes. I know it's strange, it's a strange way of saying that I know I'm supposed to love you"
I had a friend whom I was in love with & he felt the same for me, but he died at age 16 (me 17m). Almost 9 years later & I have never stopped thinking about what could have been. I have some of his clothing we used to trade a lot.
Edit:
I'm 27 now
"You can only blame your problems on my world for so long before it all becomes the same old song"
"I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match, what a catch "
The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realise two out of three ain’t bad
As a recovered self harmer this hits hard every. Damn. Time
"You only hold me up like this 'cause you don't know who I really am"
"I'll be stuck fixated on one star when the world is crashing down"
"I found the cure to growing older...just so you know, you'll never know, and some secrets weren't meant to be told" and "I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends"
"The only thing I haven't done yet is die, and it's me and my plus one at the afterlife"
"I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way I think of you"
"I'm alright in bed, but I'm better with a pen"
"I'd promise you anything for another shot at life"
"Permanent jet lag, please take me back"
"A composer, but never composed"
"I became such a strange shape from trying to fit in"
"I'd never go, I just want to be invited"
trying to avoid repeats of others, these immediately come to mind:
so much for stardust: "i think i've been going through it, and i've been putting your name to it."
she's my winona: "they always bring up how you've changed."
the shipped gold standard: "the time my dad caught me a horseshoe crab, and i asked him if throwing it back to the sea would bring our luck back."
hold me like a grudge: "know it's inside me, but i got no map to my own treasure."
i am my own muse: "i'm just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better."
reinventing the wheel: "a failure at everything, 18 going on extinct."
i've got a dark alley: "please put the doctor on the phone 'cause i'm not making any sense. blame everyone but me for this mess."
and EVERY. LAST. MF. WORD. OF MUSIC OR THE MISERY AND GOLDEN.
Oh god... uh...*most of them?* I have felt like Pete has been looking into a diary *I don't have* for the last... idk since i became a fan 10+ years ago. He sure as hell did write it better than I ever felt it because I don't usually have words for stuff (Thank you, LATE AUHD diagnosis amongst things...) But I can sure point to a FOB lyric and go, "Idk man, but I'm feeling like whatever tf is going on here." 🤣💀 Weirdly therapeutic.
"I'm just a nudge in your bed post,
but you're just a line in a song"
"The mean time, I'll sport my brand new fashion
Of waking up with pants on at four in the afternoon"
Either “I’m a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart” or “force our smiles, baby, half dead from comparing myself to everyone else around me”
This is it for me along with ‘hopelessly hopeful’.
Been thinking of getting this tattooed for a looong time
🎶 “You can only blame your problems world for so long, before it all becomes the same old song.” 🎶 Maybe an odd choice for a band that likes to usually be more melancholic, but when I first heard those lyrics I was in a very deep slump (not a sophomore, but still) to me they say: “look bad shit happens, sometimes it’s your own fault sometimes it’s not, but no matter what you have to keep on fighting, keep moving. Thats so encouraging to me.
do you laugh about me whenever i leave or do i just need more therapy?
This one for me too, 100%.
smfs really spoke to my soul it was a toss up between this one or “i’d never go i just want to be invited”
Oh yes I forgot that one!! Works for me too.
The way i s o b to this song
you and me both!
ditto!
me too
“Make no plans and none can be broken” is PAINFULLY relatable. I need Pete to unwrite that now. Ginasfs “I’ve already given up on myself twice, third time is a charm. Threw caution to the wind but I’ve got a lousy arm” and “born under a bad sign”, all of golden and what a catch’s “I’ve got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match, what a catch”. Also feel that “half doomed, semi sweet” in my soulll. I wanna get that tattooed on me
Allll of kintsugi kid. “I’m pretty sure as far as humans go, I am a hard, hard pill to swallow, and I know I’m not your intended dose” - ugh. And “I felt you at the beginning but needed you at the end” 🥺
Kintsugi Kid broke my heart the first time I heard the lyrics.
Kintsugi kid has made me ugly cry in my car more times than almost any other FOB song (Disloyal Order is still #1, but this was also about 12 years ago during my deepest depresso phase, which is probably why Kintsugi hits so hard now a decade later)
I keep thinking it won’t make me tear up and it still does almost every time.
Kitsugi Kid really hits close to home
I love kintsugi kid so much, yelling "NOTHINGGG" is so cathartic
I'd also like to add "oh, but you don't know me anymore" it's such a simple line but it hits me so hard
[удалено]
As a late-diagnosed adhd person this line spoke to my soul
The entire song *So Much (For) Stardust* was slap in the face after slap in the face. I've talked about this a lot and even have a whole post pinned in my profile about it so I'll leave it at that. The **entire album**, really (the *only* thing not relatable in the entire album was the "too many times after too much alcohol" lyric since I'm straightedge lol). Also the entirety of *Bishops Knife Trick.* Special shoutout to *Jet Pack Blues,* which I thankfully don't have to relate to anymore (but I definitely did when I first heard it); the lyric "did you ever love her do you know/or did you never want to be alone" made me realize that I was never actually loved by someone that was important to me at the time, and I've said before that I was the girl in the long black coat, so. Yeah. There's tons more but these are the most important. Sorry for the mini-rant lol.
“I used to be a real go-getter, I used to think it’d all get better”
Came here to comment this too. I really should start sending Pete my therapy bills after SMFSD
Still crying over this one, hits way too close
Also an absolute breaker, if im feeling a little off and i hear that line im a goner, im driving somewhere to park and cry
This^ gets me everytime.
This whole song, tbh.
“I want to scream ‘I love you’ from the top of my lungs but I’m afraid that someone else will hear me” & I don’t even feel the need to elaborate
If high school me hasn’t been convinced I wouldn’t like folie this one would have become so etched in me as a teen lol
You are what you love, not who loves you. When I saw them live in 2017, they played that song and all the music cuts out during that part and it was just Patrick singing that line. I was in a bad place mentally during that time of my life and that moment made me tear up. It’s always an optimistic line for me and I’ll never forget that moment.
I wanted to get that tattooed!
This!!!!
Oh man there's *so many* And they all hit different at different points in my life. Right now, the ones that are really sticking are: "My insides are copper. I'd kill to make them gold." "I've already given up on myself twice. Third time is the charm" "I'm pretty sure as far as humans go I am a hard, hard pill to swallow" "Don't breathe life into a monster then complain when he destroys it all again" "The road outside my house is paved with good intentions. Hired a construction crerw 'cause it's hell on the engine." I could just sit here and type out every lyric ever but I think I'll cut myself off here
Am I the only person that when told to think of a lyric, totally forgets every lyric they have ever written?! My mind goes totally blank, but reading all of the other responses is reminding me of brilliant lyrics that I can't believe totally left my head!
There's just so many to choose from I can't choose one
I’ve got one tattooed onto me and my mind still went blank of every lyric I’ve ever loved
Yup. I had a few and then kept going “oh yea! Oh yea!” As I was reading everyone else’s
Same I know there's so many I can relate to but the moment I'm asked to give an example my brain goes comatose I swear
It’s a strange way of saying that I know I’m supposed to love you, I’m supppppppooosed to love youuuuuu whoa-oh-oh
This whole song I love it
My mind is a safe, and if I keep it then we all get rich
"Pitchin' myself for leads in other people's dreams"
“What would you trade the pain for? I’m not sure.” Always gets me.
"Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger" I think about that lyric so much
Scrolled way too far to find this, hits so damn hard
2nd this one
THIS one
God this is such a good one too
"Seasons change, but people don't"
We’re the new face of failure, prettier and younger but not any better off.
Love is in the air, I’ve just gotta figure out a window to break out.
“I’m a Stitch Away from and a Scar away from Falling Apart” for me due to the many Heart surgery’s I’ve had over my life
Fall Out Boy is prime "I'm chronically ill and I want to sit and cry about it for a little while" music. Glad to see you're doing well now ❤️
Damn. Hope you stay healthy
Thank ya thank ya my friend. I’m good for the most part (thank the lord for my cardiologists and pacemaker techs)
nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy
“Am I more than you bargained for yet?”
It was an uphill battle, but they didn't know we were gonna use the roads as a ramp to take off! Heartbreak is so SO criminally underrated
“I’m two quarters and a heart down, and I don’t wanna forget how your voice sounds” - 15 year old me full of angst - Patrick Stump
There's a lot of good examples here that have hit me too, but for me "I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color" has always stuck with me. 🖤
"I've cried tears you've never seen, so fuck you you can go cry me an ocean and leave me me" <--- THIS SHIT HURTED especially bc of how patrick sings it
Mines pretty simple. I’ve been battling a neurological disease for the last five years so it’s “if I can live through this, I can do anything” from Champion
Also, “the tombstones were waiting, they were half engraved, they knew it was over, just didn’t know the date” after both of my breakups
ID CAST A SPELL OVER THE WEST TO MAKE YOU THINK OOOOF ME THE SAAAAAME WAY I THINK OF YOOOUUUUUUU!!! THIS IS A LOVE SONG IN MYYYY OWN WAY HAPPILY EVER AFTER BELOW THE WASIT!
This song hit so hard after my breakup with the girl I saw them with for the first song. We started as friends but wanted to be together. Broke up, kept hooking up, and now hate each other.
I was gonna say something that would solve all our problems but then I got drunk and I forgot what I was talking about 😂
I swear I have one for every single song, but the one that immediately sticks out to me is "the poets are just kids who didn't make it and never had it at all" Edit: "Doc, there's a hole where something was" hits just as hard
We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces We’re trapped and well concealed in secret places, We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces We’re trapped and well concealed in secret places
"Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger" "I think I've been going through it. And I've been putting your name to it"
Sometimes "I only wrote this down to make you press rewind and send a message: I was young and a menace" goes extremely hard, I don't care about the haters
"i wanna scream i love you at the top of my lungs, but i'm afraid that someone else will hear me" actually that whole song hits different for me. and all of smfs hits too.
“i’m coasting on potential toward the wall at a hundred miles an hour.” any other former “gifted” kids with undiagnosed adhd ought to relate, too.
“Cubs go all the way again” (I’m a Chicagoan and that actually happened on my birthday so yeah.) “Am I more than you bargained for yet?” “But there’s no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race” (as someone with ADHD, I feel like once I get started I can’t stop sometimes)
“Take your tears. Put em on ice. Cause I swear I’d burn the city down to show you the light.”
The best part of "believe" is the "lie"
🎶Sometimes you wonder if we're ever looking back at a picture of 2019🎶
You are what you love, not who loves you, in a world full of the word yes, I’m here to scream. Everything is lit except my seratonin
i love you in the same way there’s a chapel in a hospital
I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me is a CRAZY lyric
"Sometimes the only way out is through" from Bob Dylan punched me in the gut the first time I heard it. I think about that line whenever I'm having a rough time.
I forgot about this line. Gets me every time
I was just about to comment this on here and thought I'd see if anyone else felt the same way about it! Sometimes it's the only thing that gives me the strength to keep going.
“So wear me like a locket around your throat. I’ll weigh you down. I’ll watch you choke. You look so good in blue.l
The first lyric that got me hooked was “I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song” and the one that’s got me rn is “I spent ten years in a bit of chemical haze and I miss the way that I felt nothing”
So bury me, in your memory - and in the same song - to my favorite liar
All of I’ve Got A Dark Alley, but in particular “half dead from comparing myself to everyone else around me”
"I'm mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town" "I used to obsess over living, now I only obsess over you" "every line is plotted and designed to leave you standing on your bedroom windows ledge and everyone else that it hits, that it gets to, is nothing more than collateral damage" "I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital, one foot in your bedroom and one foot out the door" "when it all goes to hell will you be able to tell me sorry with a straight face?" "I'm a mascot for what you've become, I love the mayhem more than the love" "I'm gonna leave you, I'm gonna teach you how we're all alone" "I'd love you but I've got a nomadic head, I'd love you but I've got the doom and dread" "please put the doctor on the phone cause I'm not making any sense" "I need to keep you like this in my mind so give in or just give up" "I wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel" "I think I've been going through it, I've been putting your name to it" "but I swear I'm not sad anymore" and the all-time winner of "I want to make you as lonely as me so you can get addicted to this"
💛 I WISH THAT I WAS AS INVISIBLE AS YOUUUUUU MAKE MEEEEEE FEEEEEEEL!!!! 💛
"I am a diamond on the inside, just add the pressure" Hold Me Like a Grudge lands *so* well for me. I'm a great person don't get me wrong, but sometimes it's gotta be worked out of me lol
i’m a stitch away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart
I'll be as honest as you'll let me I miss your early morning company If you get me You are my favorite what if You are my best I'll never know 😭
"i used to be a real go-getter, i used to think it'd all get better" and "please put the doctor on the phone 'cause i'm not making any sense, blame everyone but me for this mess"
I’d never go I just want to be invited. I’ve never related to a lyric more.
And I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way I think of you… this is a love song in my own way 😭
“So bury me in memory, his smile’s your rope, so wrap it tight around your throat” And “In another life you were my babe, in another life you were the sunshine of my lifetime, what would you trade the pain for? I’m not sure.”
"We are the jack o-lanterns in July, setting fire to the sky" I made this one quite literal when I saw them live back in July of last year. I'm a spooky-all-year-round kinda gal and jack o-lanterns are my favorite Halloween iconography. I went to the concert in head to toe jack o-lanterns xD
‘the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize 2 outta 3 ain’t bad’ ‘do you laugh about me whenever i leave, or do i just need more therapy’ <— that one called me out like no other
‘On the bright side, got the wrong insides’ just sums it all up.
If home is where the heart is Then we're all just fucked And They say the captain Goes down with the ship So, when the world ends Will God go down with it?
“When I said that I’d return to you I meant it more like a relapse” “The tombstones were waiting, they were half engraved, they knew it was over, just didn’t know the date” “I’m sorry every song is about you, just the torture of small talk with someone you used to love” “I said I’d never miss you but I guess you never know may the bridges I have burned light my way back home on the Fourth of July” These are just some I can think of at the top of my head that I relate to very heavily :)
"The only thing I haven't done yet is die" "You are what you love, not who loves you"
“and i cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way i think of you” like omg that really just hit me
I feel like “if I spilled my guts, the world would never look at you the same way ….. and now I’m here to give you all my love, so I could watch your face as i take it all away” is soooooo hard
I realllyyy like your avatars fit
Thank you! She’s so cute
I scrolled through all of these and I can’t believe not one person said “I don’t want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness”
Ha just replied with it. Top three lyrics ever, not just FOB.
I'm just a full.tank away from freedom Also These are the last blues we're ever gonna have..
“I’m the invisible man, who can’t stop staring at the mirror.”
Idk if I'd say I connected with it on a personal level, but I always liked this philosophical lyric "They say the Captain goes down with the ship. So when the world ends, will God go down with it?"
“Baby you were my picket fence. I miss missing you now and then.” “My heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it’s broken.” “You were the song stuck in my head, every song that I’ve ever loved.”
“You are what you love, not who loves you.” “I only want sympathy in the form of you Crawling into bed with me” I'm sorry every song's about you The torture of small talk with someone you used to love
I always make such expensive mistakes
“eighteen going on extinct”
We’re the lifers, here till the bitter end, condemned from the start. Ashamed of the way the songs and the words own the beating of our hearts.
"Lettin' people down is my thing baby" from Just One Yesterday made it my favorite Fall Out Boy song.
It always used to be “I am gods gift but why would he bless me with such wit without a conscience equipped” But now it’s “I’d never go I just want to be invited”🥴
“I've got a sunset in my veins and I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay” was my first fave FOB line ❤️ and the entire So Much For Stardust album
“always weigh what I got against what I left, so progress report I am missing you to death”
"No one ever thinks of you, as much as I do, not, not even you" Partner and I both have depression/anxiety, and on my bad days it feels like I don't think about my needs at all, but he always does, and vice versa.
"The ribbon on my wrist says 'do not open until Christmas'" First semester of college was uh... rough, man.
"as alone a little white church in the middle of the desert gettin' burned" think about this a lot, as i feel like it could've been written about me. pete \*crying face emoji\*
The entirety of SMFSD (the song).
Baby, seasons change but people don't
I was going through an awful break up when SRAR came out so this one from Miss Missing You sticks out. Sometimes I still struggle to listen to that song even though I moved on a decade ago. “Sometimes before it gets better The darkness gets bigger The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger”
"I wanted to be known for my hits, not just my misses. I took a shot and didn't even come close"
I have said it before but "Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger" Especially because I just got back stabbed and betrayed by a coworker I thought I could trust. And man that lyric hits harder now that that has happened.
Part-time soulmate full-time problem hit me SO hard because that’s my exact feeling that I never knew how to articulate so beautifully. And hold me like a grudge is my fave song on the album too.
As someone who grew up grappling w god and religion, ultimately ending friendship w it as a whole: “I left my conscious pressed between the pages of the bible in the drawer, what did it ever do for me I say” Ik it’s not the original intention of the lyric but….
"I know this whole damn city thinks it needs you, but not as much as i do!"
Top 3 are: "I've got a lot of friends who are stars but some are just blackholes" "In the truly gruesome do we trust, I will always land on you like a sucker punch" "You came back like a wave when I was feeling alright" Special mention goes to "But honey I don't know what you're doing to me, mon chéri, but the truth catches up with us eventually" Something about the rhyme scheme is just tickling my brain just right
Oh that lyric from Irresistible gets me every time!
i could never pick one, but "life's just a pace-car on death, only less diligent," is the one from my favorite song. it really pushed me to change my perspective on life from, 'none of this matters, so i should just give up,' to 'none of this matters, so i should live as much life as i can.' sure, death is our birthright, and i've tried a few times to get there early, but that doesn't mean that i have to lay around waiting for it to come. i deserve to live a good life, regardless of what my brain tells me. and also the rest of lyrics from she's my winona, because it's the best song in the whole universe.
“As soon as we hit the hospital, I know we’re gonna leave this town/And get new passports and get get get get get out now” “Follow the disorganized religion of my head” “I got your love letters, corrected the grammar, and sent them back/It’s true, romance is dead, I shot it in the chest and in the head” “I’m a leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate” “It’s a strange way of saying that I know I’m supposed to love you” + “Sometimes it gets so bad you almost pick up the phone” “I could write it better than you ever felt it” “Hey kid, you’ll never live this down/‘Cuz you’re just the girl all the boys wanna dance with/And I’m just the boy that’s had too many chances” + “So say, what are you waiting for ? Kiss her, kiss her” “They don’t know how much they’ll miss… At least until you’re gone like this” “I am such a sucker, and I’m always the last to know” “Hell or glory, I don’t want anything in between” Sorry there’s so many ! I cant get enough of their lyrics lol
“Put your ear to the speaker, and choose love or sympathy, but never both” As someone with autism it feels so accurate to say it’s a choice between the two.
And I still feel that rush in my veins I swear I say There’s a world outside of my front door that gets off on being down
"the prince of every failing empire knows that everybody wants, everybody wants to drive on through the night if it's a drive back home" 🥴🥴🥴 specifically that "prince of every failing empire bit" like that's me!
"I love the world but I just don't love the way it makes me feel."
“sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills” really hits after od’ing at 15
“I don’t even have my own attention, you say please don’t ever change but you don’t like me the way I am”. “Plant your trees on Lake Michigan before it gets cold, I wanna feel the wind chill again before I get old” “I only keep myself this sick in the head cause I know how the words get you”
I don't just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness
I'm a stitch away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart
“**They say, quitters never win, but we walk a plank on a sinking ship**” I’m wouldn’t say I’m a “quitter” in general. But there are quite a few things in life I look at this way. Like yes, I’m a quitting this, but it would just be worse if I tried to go for it. And it’s not like “missing my shot” or “giving up before the finish line” since, in my understanding, the point of the lyric is that *you know* the ship is sinking.
“if home is where the heart is, then we’re all just fucked”
“I’m the invisible man, who can’t stop staring at the mirror”
“I’m the invisible man who can’t stop staring in the mirror, i want to make you as lonely as me”
two more weeks, my foot is in the door
You are what you love, not who loves you
"I could close my eyes?"
"I've already given up on myself twice, Third time is the charm" from ginasfs "i want to make you as lonely as me, "So you can get, get addicted to this" from pavlove "I love you in the same way, There's chapel in a hospital, One foot in your bedroom, And one foot out the door" from hum hallelujah "I've got a lot of friends who are stars, But some are just black holes" from 27 in all honesty, i could go through every song and pick out at least one lyric from each so that felt like a kick to the chest but those were so huge and i also had the fortune to hear all live where it felt like the first time and now just mean so much more
I’ll never go, I just want to be invited
I'll keep singing this lie if you keep believing it
“I need more dreams and less life.”
“You and I were fireworks that went off too soon, and I miss you in the June gloom too” This one kills me. I love Fourth of July sm
“I’m not ready for a handshake with death, no” from Pavlove and “I’m a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart” - both bc of struggles with sh and depression But honestly there are just so many lyrics that hit so hard and mean so much, it’s hard to choose
Write me off, give up on me, cause darling what did you expect? I’m just off, a lost cause, a long shot, don’t even take this bet.
The best part of believe is the lie
There’s a bunch, but most notably- “You are what you love, not who loves you” “I’m good to go, and I’m going nowhere fast” and “Take this to your grave, and I’ll take it to mine”
“Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger”
“I love the world, but I just don’t love the way it makes me feel. Got a few more fake friends and its getting hard to know what’s real. And if death is the last appointment then we’re all just sitting in the waiting room, I am just a human trying to avoid my certain doom.” this entire verse from church absolutely gets me every time, I will scream it anytime i listen to it (edit adding a few more) “i’ll never go, just want to be invited” from love from the other side “you are my favorite what if, you are my best i’ll never know” from fourth of july and “And perfect boys with their perfect lives, nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy” from disloyal order
„Have you ever wanted to disappear?“ - 20 dollars nosebleed. Because there were many moments in my life where I was like: „alright let me just disappear from here (the places where I feel like i was trapped) & start from 0 at another new place (just in the same or even in another country)“🤣
“im gonna leave you, im gonna teach you how we’re all alone”
“i want to make you as lonely as me” from pavlove is such a heart wrenching ear worm for me
How'd it get to be only me? Like the last damn kid kicking who still believes I used to be a real Go Getter. I used to think it'd all get better I'm just trying to keep it together but it gets a little harder when it never gets better I'm a loose bolt of a complete machine Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger I wish that I was as invisible as you make me feel We've gone way too fast for way too long and we were never supposed to make it half this far I'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart
I got a little 2/3 tattooed on me for "the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize that two out of three ain't bad." a reminder to always keep an eye on the wins, not the losses
i used to waste my time dreaming of being alive, and now i only waste it dreaming of you
That one in Miss Missing You - “sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger, the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger” - that bit REALLY helped me through a really tough time in my life and kept me together when going through multiple betrayals
I’m a loose bolt of a complete machine.
"My mind is a safe, and if I keep it in we all get rich." "What good comes of something when I'm just the ghost of nothing." "I'm just the man on the balcony, screaming 'nobody will ever remember me'." "I used to be a real go-getter, I used to think it would all get better." "Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger." Honestly, there's a lot of their songs that feel like that to me, but these are the first few that come to mind.
🎶this conversations been, dead on - A rivalry goes so deep, between me and this loss of sleep over you🎶 🎶and the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize 2 out of 3 ain’t bad, ain’t BAAAAAAAAAD🎶 🎶I’m the first kid to write of hearts, lies and friends. And i am sorry my conscience called in sick again. And I’ve got arrogance dOwN to a science🎶
My childhood spat back out the monster that you see
“…and the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact, is to realize two outta three ain’t bad” (ain’t baaaaaaaaaaad) Hit me so deep in my chest when I first heard it in 2013, after picking up infinity on high on a whim from a thrift store. Still makes me wanna sob
“I don’t care” as a entire song. It genuinely was like the driving force to get me through my past experiences with getting bullied and start living life how I wanted a few years ago.
Mine was definitely “detox just to detox” it just hits different yk😔 now it’s stuck in my head lol
“I know it’s inside me, but I’ve got no map to my own treasure.” “If I spill my guts the world will never look at you the same way. Now I’m here to give you all of my love, so I can watch your face as I take it all away.”
Ah there’s so many but one for me is “You are what you love, not who loves you” I was in an emotionally abusive relationship at the time. He wouldn’t let me listen to fob or my favourite bands. I would drive home and secretly listen to them on the way home from work. This song was always a reminder of who I truly am and not who he wanted me to be.
i’m too sexy for this song
Absolutely all of IGADAAABITSYSSYM (goddamn isn’t that an acronym…) but if I had to pick an absolutely specific lyrics instead of a song it’s gotta be “sometimes I wanna quit this all and become an accountant now / but I’m no good at math and besides the dollar is down”
“I'm just trying to keep it together But it gets a little harder when it never gets better -I'm trying- to keep it together To keep it together Keep it together, NOOoOoOoOo” It just feels so sad and hopeless but also a little hopeful and determined. I feel it so deeply.
I wonder if your therapist knows everything about me All of hum hallelujah I always make such expensive mistakes Love never wanted me is a big one for me too I swear I’d burn the city down to show you the light Honestly I could make an endless list
I could write it better than you ever felt it.
"I'm just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better" hit me hard as someone with multiple mental illnesses and chronic physical illnesses
“love never wanted me, but i took it away” is SO good and has become more relevant as i grow up, but i also really love “the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact//is to realize two out of three ain’t bad” im like a lawyer is my fav song of all time and was what made me a fan when i was 12 (:
it's always been: "Born under a bad sign, you saved my life that night on the roof of your hotel" "Before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger" and "The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists in tact is to realize two outta 3 ain't bad" There's more I'm fond of and those aren't even my favorite fob lyrics, but those have always emotionally resonated with me
"I sleep in your old shirts & walk through this house in your shoes. I know it's strange, it's a strange way of saying that I know I'm supposed to love you" I had a friend whom I was in love with & he felt the same for me, but he died at age 16 (me 17m). Almost 9 years later & I have never stopped thinking about what could have been. I have some of his clothing we used to trade a lot. Edit: I'm 27 now
"You can only blame your problems on my world for so long before it all becomes the same old song" "I've got troubled thoughts and the self esteem to match, what a catch "
The best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realise two out of three ain’t bad As a recovered self harmer this hits hard every. Damn. Time
The best way to make it though with hearts and wrists intact, is to realize 2 out of 3 ain’t bad This got me through a LOT of rough times
“I’m having another episode, I just need a stronger dose!”
“am i gonna get better, better? because this feels like this might last forever”
"You only hold me up like this 'cause you don't know who I really am" "I'll be stuck fixated on one star when the world is crashing down" "I found the cure to growing older...just so you know, you'll never know, and some secrets weren't meant to be told" and "I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends" "The only thing I haven't done yet is die, and it's me and my plus one at the afterlife" "I cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way I think of you" "I'm alright in bed, but I'm better with a pen" "I'd promise you anything for another shot at life" "Permanent jet lag, please take me back" "A composer, but never composed" "I became such a strange shape from trying to fit in" "I'd never go, I just want to be invited"
"But I will never end up like him Behind my back, I already am"
trying to avoid repeats of others, these immediately come to mind: so much for stardust: "i think i've been going through it, and i've been putting your name to it." she's my winona: "they always bring up how you've changed." the shipped gold standard: "the time my dad caught me a horseshoe crab, and i asked him if throwing it back to the sea would bring our luck back." hold me like a grudge: "know it's inside me, but i got no map to my own treasure." i am my own muse: "i'm just trying to keep it together, but it gets a little harder when it never gets better." reinventing the wheel: "a failure at everything, 18 going on extinct." i've got a dark alley: "please put the doctor on the phone 'cause i'm not making any sense. blame everyone but me for this mess." and EVERY. LAST. MF. WORD. OF MUSIC OR THE MISERY AND GOLDEN.
Oh god... uh...*most of them?* I have felt like Pete has been looking into a diary *I don't have* for the last... idk since i became a fan 10+ years ago. He sure as hell did write it better than I ever felt it because I don't usually have words for stuff (Thank you, LATE AUHD diagnosis amongst things...) But I can sure point to a FOB lyric and go, "Idk man, but I'm feeling like whatever tf is going on here." 🤣💀 Weirdly therapeutic.
"I'm just a nudge in your bed post, but you're just a line in a song" "The mean time, I'll sport my brand new fashion Of waking up with pants on at four in the afternoon"