anonymous May 2nd, 2006 07:18AM  
It's funny how people remain anonymous when they're talking crap about the song. If you don't like it, move on. Anyway, your interpretations really helped me. I thought the song was a nothing but a bunch of random rubbish until I read the lyrics, and then these interpretations.

emvob123 June 11th, 2006 10:01PM  
She says she's no good with words but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out
"A joke of a romantic" or {just} stuck to my tongue
Weighed down with words too over-dramatic
Tonight it's "it can't get much worse"
Vs. "no one should ever feel like.."
I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
These words are all I have so I'll write them
So you need them just to get by

Here is the meaning of the whole "I'm two quarters and a heart down..."
Refer to falloutboyrock.com

asked by Kelly on 2006-02-01 14:35:00
What does "im two quarters in a heart down" mean?

answered by Peter on 2006-02-01 17:58:00
i was trying to through to someone on a payphone, it was a 50 cent call from where I was to them.

Then he's saying he's gonna write to relieve his sadness and express himself, as Pete does.

anonymous July 14th, 2006 12:57AM  
Erm, for people who think Pete Wentz is a guitarist...they are wrong. He's the bass. I know I'm not blind, and he has amazing vocals. He was the vocals in his last band if any of you people have heard them...

anonymous July 22nd, 2006 08:33PM  
Everyone is missing the point yess it's a phone call at first he hangs up...'i'm two quarts and a heart down' but I also think he is writing a letter cause he can't talk to her on the phone 'these words is all so I'll write them'

and I also think this girl didn't give it up to this guy cause 'why don't you show me the little bit of spine
you've been saving for his mattress, love' basically saying you didn't give it up and you are saving it up from him and 'i only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me' is saying he only wants sympathy if it's gonna result in sex of some kind

and dance, dance mean all you have to do is just dance cause you just got your heart broken so all you have to do is dance cause you can't dwell on it....

emvob123 July 29th, 2006 03:26AM  
Ok, no one has mentioned this yet, so I should.
It's mainly jsut about the title, "dance, dance"...
Many people say it is either about a dance or moving on, but I think it is about the girl in the song being controlling. Think about it - "dance, dance, and these are the lives you love to lead!" you know, like the guy is a puppet and she is the puppet master, or something along those lines. Then once you get that concept into your head, the rest of the song kinda makes more sense. Well to me anyways... Just a thought!

anonymous October 27th, 2006 12:29AM  
Look! I don't really know about much of the song but in the chorus dance, dance is used as a metaphor, you see in dancing the guy leads, and apparently he dosen't lead well the relationship or whatever it is, "this is the way you'd love to lead"

ultrasis November 26th, 2006 08:28PM  
this song isn't hard to get at all! it's obviously about the lead singer and how he was at a football stadium and had a sudden and STRANG urge to dance. He couldnt hold it in any longer and he just BURSTED during half time. duhhhhh that's where they get "dance dance we're falling apart to half time" get it now idiots ... gosh

anonymous December 7th, 2006 04:17PM  
Its about a girl breaking up with him

" She says she's no good wiht words but Im worse"

when somebody breaks up with someone there allways like, I don't now how to say this, but he is even more sshcocked and doesn't know what to say

"barely stuttere out a joke of a romantic or it just to my tongue"

he's not exactly sure what he said

" weighed down with words to overdramatic"

take that litterallly , his responses are all cheesy and cornny, like the next line

" tonight its I can't get much worse, vs. no one should ever feel like"

anonymous January 10th, 2007 04:25PM  
I think this song is more about not facing reality than "oh the girl cheated on poor Pete". Yeah, the girl was probably cheating. They clearly can't talk about it (she says she's no good with words but I'm worse) and he's hoping that she'll admit it (you always fold just before you're found out). But they may be too hesitant to change anything (these are the lives you love to lead). I always thougt of is as, well, our relashionship is just about finished but if we keep dancing -- or playing this game, as someone above said -- we can pretend that eveything is OK.

Oh, yeah, someone also said that Patrick Stump wrote the lyrics: no. He writes the music.

anonymous February 8th, 2007 01:14AM  
ok ok. you frickin idiots. yes pete wentz is the bass player but he does write the majority of the lyrics including this song and patrick who is the lead singer writes the music. ya know the music that the instruments make not the actual words.

anonymous February 10th, 2007 12:39AM  
its about a guy who goes to homecoming with a chick then gets ditched and is two quarters(the cost of a vending machine condom) and has a broken heart

anonymous February 12th, 2007 02:27PM  
I agree with the whole ex girlfriend breaking up over the phone thing...but this song is so catchy and awesome like every other fall out boy song, does it really matter?? I mean its interesting to know but it aint a big deal as long as you can rock out to it who fukin caress :P xxxx FOB RULEEE xxxxxxxxxxxxx

gerardwayfan4life94 March 6th, 2007 11:41PM  
This means that this boy was a nerd and he wanted to go out with this popular girl, but was to afraid to ask her out because he was afraid of what she might say.

JayJayKayo_88 March 10th, 2007 09:51AM  
By the way....
for anyone that has ever watched 'the simpsons' Fall out boy is the name of a character that is the sidekick of radioactive-man (a comic that bart collects). It's of the episode where bart auditions for the part to be 'fall out boy' in a radioactive-man movie.
Quite intresting!

anonymous April 5th, 2007 02:58AM  
The guy felt sad that he forgot his fried chicken, so he went down to KFC, divebombed Elliott Davis in the drive-thru, and stole some chicken from the black guy in the window. The guy was happy once he got his fried chicken fix.

anonymous April 13th, 2007 03:52AM  
Whats the whole "She says she's no good, with words but I'm worse. Barely stuttered out a joke of a romantic or stuck to my toungue" Thing about?

anonymous May 20th, 2007 08:33AM  
I think it's about how this school has a prom and then this boy there sees this hot teacher and he falls in love with her. So he tries to impress her.
so he sidles to her and tries to tell her a joke but his tongue was stuck and he just make, 'ph-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b' noises instead of telling a real joke. and then he says,"oh well, it can't get any worse."
but then the chorus starts up and everyone starts jumping on the floor and it DOES get worse because they make a huge hole in the floor and everyone falls in and then the boy falls into the punch bowl and breaks his spine and blames it on his matress.

And then he says, "THIS CANT GET ANY WORSE!"

But it does and more people start jumping on the floor because the chorus starts up again only there's NO MORE floor becos they destroyed it already so they jump really high .... and fall through the hole and die. and misery loves them.

anonymous May 21st, 2007 05:15PM  
The song is about always finding yourself in messed up situations. Pete explains it in an issue of KERRANG!.

mikhail May 30th, 2007 12:30PM  
*She says she's no good with words but I'm worse.
-lol, this line means that she says she not a good person and she says even better than the narrator, at least that's what I think it means.
*Barely stuttered out, "A joke of a romantic," stuck to my tongue.
-meaning he thought she almost said that the relationship they are in does not make sense and is a joke, stuck to my tongue means he was about to say it.
*Weighed down with words too over-dramatic.
-she talks about their relationship in a complaining tone
*Tonight it's "It can't get much worse" vs. "No one should ever feel like..."
-hmmmm, I am not sure once again but I think this means that he is wondering if it is better to think about things getting worse or wondering about no one should have to go through what he is going through.

*I'm two quarters and a heart down.
lol, this is big line , you know why, he did not say half of half but he says two quater not becuase he was trying to make the song kewler its because he is trying to show she is tearing his heart very slowly that it is going away in quarters.
*And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds.
- she going away so much , he seems to forget how she is, probally because she is a sleeping around a lot with other guys
*These words are all I have so I'll write them.
So you need them just to get by.
- I have no idea but I will tease the line by saying taht it means , that he has nothing to say but a few stuff and she need them to keep anything left in the relationship.

*Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time.
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead.
Dance
This is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me.
-conselation for the fact that his girlfriend is sleeping around, he says dance dance, forget about worries, these are the lives - is pural for spit to show more than one life with more than one man.

*You always fold just before you're found out.
Drink up it's last call, last resort, but only the first mistake.
- lol , this is saying she always try to cover before she is found out but drin up - enjoy, its last call- its the end and but only first mistake means - only the first time she has really been caught in the act.
*Why don't you show me the little bit of spine,
You've been saving for his mattress, love.
-lol, this means that all the sex time , she has been saving for the other guy, give it to me and just may be!

mikhail_stewart@hotmail.com

picklesnhappycrack June 3rd, 2007 07:47PM  
"you always fold just before you found out
drink up its last call
last resort"

for so odd strange reason when ever I hear this I think of Folgers.. The coffee company...

just a thought