Fall Out Boy - I've Got A Dark Alley and a Bad Idea.... Song Meanings
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FOBgirl32
October 30th, 2005 12:14PM
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I've noticed that in many other forums people are trying to find the meaning of this song and totally wrong. Only true FOB fans realize what this song means, and I thought I would post it for you!
Pete was going through a rough period of depression/anxiety before the release of "Cork Tree". Before they were even done recording he ended up taking a drug called Ativan to help with depression and to help him sleep. His condition became so bad that back in November, while sitting in a Best Buy parking lot, he took a mouthful of the pills, popped in "Take this to your grave" into his CD player, then called up his manager. While talking, his speech became slurred which panicked his manager. Pete then lost consciousness and his manager knew something was wrong because Pete wasn't responding and he could hear the music in the background. Pete's mother was called and she came to the aid of her son, finding him slumped over in the drivers seat. She took him to the hospital.
This song is like his personal song where he opens up his problem. Because its so personal, they won't sing it at concerts. If you listen to the words, you can hear about how he was worried that the album would bomb, "faking it for the airwaves, force our smiles..", wants to be "known for their hits and not just their misses," "reputations on the line" and how they would be considered as "the poets are just kids who didn't make it." "And the record won't stop skipping" is attributed to him passing out in the car with his bands record playing.
"Please put the doctor on the phone...." that whole part was considered the suicide note he fortunately never had to write.
...Hopefully this explains the song's deeper meaning to people better than the same old "boy/girl troubled relationship" storyline.
fatallyxyours09
January 4th, 2006 05:29PM
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^^^wow thanks I never knew that. I will totally think differantly from now on when I hear that song. Anyway, how do you know that's what its about?
anonymous
December 27th, 2007 01:25AM
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7 minutes in heaven is about pete's suicide attempt. I've got a dark alley... Is more in a sense the suicide letter he never wrote.
Wildwest814
January 28th, 2008 07:32PM
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Yes, this song is about Pete's suicide attempt. I think that anyone can relate to it if things in their lives are getting to them (comparing myself to everyone else around me)
anonymous
July 22nd, 2008 02:09PM
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I always thought Pete was listening to Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah when he OD'ed, hence the song hum hallelujah off of infinity on high.
Anyway, this song is about the best buy incident. I think that's pretty obvious.
-hanna.
Steelcity
August 2nd, 2009 10:19PM
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To clear the hallelujah mess. Pete was listening to hallelujah by jeff buckley when leaving the hospital in the car with his mom. In the car when attempting suicide he was listening to tttyg.
anonymous
August 30th, 2009 03:49AM
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'Wentz - who was on prescribed medication at the time - said: "I was completely lost and out of control. I got in my car. I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and sat there and took a bunch of [anxiety drug] Ativan in a parking lot.
"And I called up my manager because I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Ativan. And I was talking to him and I was slurring my words, so he called my mom and my mom called me and she came and got me and we went to the hospital." '
http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/celebrity/Articles/Pete-Wentzs-suicide-confession.html
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