remi lebeau October 31st, 2005 08:42AM  
This song is about Fall out boy warning their fans about how great they are about Lying to people using music. When I say Lying, I mean how all artist use music to lie to people for various reasons-popularity-sex-money. The reason why this song is awsome is because they are actually telling us the truth by telling us they are lying.

This song rules

PunkRockMayhem November 23rd, 2005 11:52AM  
Brothers and sisters put this record down
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose

I think this part is FOB telling the listener that they are not like other bands. 'Put this record down/the hearing you will loose' is that your friends are going to argue with you cause fob is not like other bands (they are awesome live).

We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense

I think here they are talking for other bands...saying that they are liars because they are fake but people think they are the best...they go out of style guickly (latest trend)...We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends is their friends use them becuase they are famous.

Brothers and sisters, yeah, put these words down
Into your notebook (spit lines like these)
We're friends when you're on your knees
Make them dance like we were shooting their feet

We're friends when you're on your knees is that when you need help from me you are my friend but when you can survive on your own you take advantage of me.

anonymous November 23rd, 2005 11:29PM  
The "were only friends when you're on your knees" part is like were only friends when I'm getting what I want... pleasure.

jetbluuu January 29th, 2006 07:38PM  
This song is about myspace. nuff said. listen to each lyrics hahahah. It describes the average person who uses myspace.

"Brothers and sisters put this record down
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose"

Pete is talking about how you don't have to bother listening to us because it will go in one ear and out the other. He is simply implying rebelious teenagers who don't listen to authority that tell them other wise

It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "Do not open before Christmas."

Again he is targeting teenagers who all into the fad thing and what not by saying the ribbon on my wrist. Simply, he takes it to that persons perspective and describe the average bopper who has them wristbands that have lines or sayings. Plus the time, "just past 8," majority of teenagers uses the computer at that time.im a teen so I know these things lol

"We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense"

Now this is obvious, well to me it is. were only liars but were the best. uhmmm if you used myspace before you know that that the truth is mostly pushed might just be full of lies on your myspace. don't lie cus I do it too, in some cases. were only good cause you can have almost famous friends, this is simple. people add that person even though not knowing the who the person is. This makes people feel wanted and liked because they accpted your thingy ...-_-, example: popular kids and celebrities.

I love this song because it tells the truth about the average myspace "whore." Also this songs original title was "I loved you before you were a myspace whore" lol I love myspace ....... myspace.com/sbdunkless plz don't spam me

anonymous March 17th, 2006 11:59PM  
One song title that wasn't just a goof was "Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued," because that's what really happened. The band was planning to call the track "My Name Is David Ruffin and These Are the Temptations," but higher forces intervened.

"It was kind of supposed to be our nod at a bio piece on the Temptations and David Ruffin and where the separation lies between being a superstar and a megalomaniac," Wentz said. "But our label said, 'You're going to get sued for doing that,' and our lawyer said, 'You're definitely going to get sued for doing that,' which totally sucked. So we said, 'OK, why don't we immortalize you in a song?' "

darthjesus March 28th, 2006 08:07PM  
The ribbon on my wrist says, "Do not open before Christmas."

Although this isn't the full meaning of the song, this line is actually a morbidly, humurous jab at cutting one's wrists as a method of suicide. If you look more closely at a lot of FOB songs, you'll see a lot of black humor. Suicide is only one of the many dark topics they hint at though.

anonymous July 30th, 2006 09:52AM  
Myspace whoring refers directly to adding friends for adding friends sake. To up your friend count, to add countless bands and 'celebs'.

Was a bit disappointed to not hear any direct reference to myspace in the song actually, but its cool :)

anonymous September 5th, 2006 03:28PM  
It's about temptations ('make them dance like shooting at feet' is an actual quote from the temptations). There was vh1.Com article about it a while back. Go back to your myspaces, children.

anonymous October 30th, 2006 04:31PM  
Interesting article (in of all places the wall street journal's online law blog) on the true meaning of this song:

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/08/08/law-blog-rocker-of-the-day-fall-out-boys-pete-wentz/

interesting stuff for fob fans, imho...

anonymous November 2nd, 2006 09:36AM  
brothers and sisters put this record down
take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
we will leave you high and dry
it's not worth the hearing you'll lose

basically, it means what he's singing. Put down a hard copy of this, we're gonna tell you what we think is the truth, we'll give you nothing you're just making yourself more deaf.

it's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
the ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before christmas."

nonsense. It's there to make the song sound good and reinforce the point of leaving you high and dry with nothing but less aural skills.

we're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
we're only good for the latest trend
we're only good cause you can have almost famous friends
besides, we've got such good fashion sense

we're only popular for now. If we add you back on myspace, you'll have almost famous friends, and hell, we dress spiffy.

brothers and sisters, yeah, put these words down
into your notebook (spit lines like these)
we're friends when you're on your knees
make them dance like we were shooting their feet

you put our lyrics on your profiles, your handles, everything. It's just regurgitated from our songs. We're friends when you're bringing me off. You love our songs cos you dance your head off to them.

anonymous November 4th, 2006 09:54PM  
In my opinion, fob is pretty much telling everyone not to idolize them, or any band for that matter. A lot of people literally live for bands and music, and this is their way of saying get a life!

_zoe_ January 17th, 2007 03:05PM  
I don't know the whole song meaning,
but I do know that the line "the ribbon on my wrist, says do not open before Christmas" is often misunderstood.
It's a very subtle way of getting at self harming.
The "opening" being the cutting.

anonymous January 23rd, 2007 03:26PM  
Umm, wasn't this one originally called "I loved you before you were a MySpace whore?" If so, then that is what the title is alluding to, They're saying that..well, take a look at myspace now. There's a billion and one bands selling there souls to it lol

anonymous January 26th, 2007 12:12PM  
They are in legal trouble. They wanted to put a "bad word" in the name of the song. However, their lawyer believed they would get sued by someone. Instead of putting the "bad word" in the song, they are saying "hey, we're fall out boy.. and even though we couldn't put that bad word in the title, we can still piss everyone off by making an extremely long title for the song. We might still get sued though, which would suck because then we'd have no more money. Even though we have tons. we'd have less if we were sued. This is why we didn't put the bad word in the song. But what if people knew we were going to put a bad name in the song and they sued us anyway, just for the heck of it? We would get our lawyer... and we would get lots more money. Then, we'd eat cake."


the actually title is My Name is David Ruffin... And These Are The Temptations so they in no way had issues



The song that was going to be there is on IOH as I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always trying to get you off

trunks059 February 7th, 2007 01:59PM  
At there show in Denver about a year ago Patrick said that he wrote this song about a band that "in his mind" was awesome, then they sold out after "in his mind" stealing FOBS sound and in the background they had been playing Panic at the disco on the projector screen. So I think this song is about sell out bands, but I think they had Panic in mind when they wrote it

anonymous March 4th, 2007 02:05AM  
I did research and the original name was "I Liked You Before You Became A Fucking MySpace Whore", and their lawyers really did make them change it.

Angelmisty March 16th, 2007 09:46PM  
It's about a band selling out

anonymous March 24th, 2007 03:47PM  
Co-Counsel reached out for Pete Wentz, the frontman for Grammy-nominated pop-punk band Fall Out Boy, to see what was up with their song, “Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued,” the first track on “From Under the Cork Tree,” the band’s multi-platinum breakout album.

Wentz called Co-Counsel back over the weekend, thanks to some prodding from his dad, Pete Wentz, Sr., former GC of Helene Curtis and now an executive at APCO Worldwide. The 27-year-old rocker cheerfully dished on the song and other legal matters. “Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued” was originally called, “My Name is David Ruffin and These Are the Temptations,” Wentz says. After Ruffin broke with the famed Motown group, he kept attending shows and would steal the microphones away from his former bandmembers, unable to wean himself from the limelight. Wentz says his original song title, “was a play on Ruffin’s egomania and general narcissism.” Here are the song’s lyrics.

Wentz’s father advised his son against using the song title, for fear that the group would be sued. Did the younger Wentz listen? “No, because he was my dad. He advised me against a lot of things that I do,” he said with a playful hint of mischief in his voice. According to Wentz the Younger, the band’s lawyers also told them they’d be slapped with a hefty lawsuit, and offered up a few options — they could sign a waiver; include a reference to Ruffin in the song (which somehow would shield against a lawsuit); or change the name of the song. Fall Out Boy went with the third option. Says Wentz: “We just decided it was a good idea not to get sued.”

Though it may have avoided a lawsuit from the ex-Temptation, Wentz says the band gets hit “with a lawsuit a day.” He says that when fans get hurt at concerts, they sue and name the band as defendants. And then there’s the occasional inflammatory statement. “We’re always running our mouths and saying something stupid,” Wentz says, adding that the band employs an attorney half-time.

anonymous June 5th, 2007 09:10PM  
This song's just about all those kids in garage bands, underground who are somewhat famous ("we're only good because you can have almost famous friends") that are in my opinion greatly unappreciated that are trying to hit it big and just being in that place in their life and music; young wreckless and such things.

anonymous September 12th, 2007 07:45PM  
About the beginning of the song, I'd like to note that it starts with light bulb flashes and on the first track on take this to your grave it started with a dial tone. on tttyg the dial tone represented how they weren't really popular yet and they were being ignored by the mainstream music world. On the FUNCT it starts with light bulb flashes representing stardom--that they were no longer ignored.