anonymous February 10th, 2007 05:25PM  
The person above me has some really good ideas on what this song is saying. But "Fix Me In 45" is referring to a therapy session. Pete Says in a rolling stone interview that the average session is 45 mins. So knowing that the whole chours is clear. "Long-Live The Car Crash Hearts,Cry On The Couch Untill The Poets Come to Live" Usually people that go to therapy and have those kind of problems are that best writers. "Fix Me In 45".

anonymous February 10th, 2007 08:44PM  
I completely agree with the second person. That totally explains the whole song. I would also add that he says "we are not making our accepting speech" this means that they are not getting conceited or cocky. and "I have found the safest place to keep all of our mistakes. every dot com's refreshing for a journal update" this refers to their online journals

psPatrick2707 February 17th, 2007 05:55PM  
The second and third posts are amazing interpretations, but when I heard the song I thought that when they say "last summer we took threes across the board, but by fall we were a cover story" meant something else. I totally agree about their 3 big songs on the charts, but when they say by fall, I took it as by their mistakes and mess ups they became famous. I mean, they had 3 songs that blew up but from them messing up (like maybe Pete's naked pics on the web) they got tons of publicity but it wasn't from their music. I don't know, tell me if you disagree it was the first thing I thought though.

anonymous February 20th, 2007 05:28AM  
Everything sounds good. I do have to say though that when they say that they took "threes across the board" I feel like they mean they took ratings of 3 out of 10 across the board. As if there were a panel of judges judging them. At first I also thought it was talking about their 3 hits, but when I thought about it more I realized it says "threes". Then, sequentially in the song, they were "the cover story" meaning they got better recognition. Also, about the 45, I think that maybe it takes on both meanings. I tend to lean towards the idea that the cd's 45 minutes is a therapy session.

anonymous February 23rd, 2007 02:02AM  
"Cry on the couch, all the poets come to life. Fix me in 45" Totally excellent point with the therapy session. This ia probably the initial idea when this was written, however, the beauty of poetry is it's vast aspects. On that note, I believe it applies to a typical artist ending. A stereotypical artist never really comes to life until they have died. 45 to me refers to a gun ending a life, beginning of a poet. I don't know, perhaps too much thought for a fall out boy song.

anonymous March 2nd, 2007 10:12PM  
Thriller is truly a story of what happened to Fall Out Boy. As Jay-Z states in the start of the album version "We dedicate this album to everybody that people said they couldn't make it", it's about FOB's unlikely rise to stardom. In the beginning verse of the song it says "Make us poster boys for your scene, but we aren't making an acceptance speech." It basically is a fancy way of saying that they are the kings of the Chicago Emo Scene (Which they are), and that they don't like how the scene is (they aren't making an acceptance speech). In the chorus, "Cry on the couch where the poets come to life, Fix me in 45". It's describing a therapist session, as a psychaitrist session lasts usually around 45 minutes. "Crowds are won and lost and won again but our hearts beat for the diehards". FOB is trying to say that they know they lose fans with some of the albums and singles they publish, but they don't care and they only care for their diehard fans that have followed them since their start.

anonymous March 12th, 2007 06:48PM  
okay I agree with the 3 songs and the therapy

but the we are not making an acceptance speech part is a lie. Those boys are getting full of themselves and it kills me to see that happen. bands always say they won't be different when they're big but it happened.

the but our hearts beat for the die hards is about the fans that have been with them through thick and thin no matter what happened to them, and liked them for them, not for just peter.

anonymous March 26th, 2007 12:23AM  
Okay, so I totally agree with the whole 45 min therapy session thing, BUT I also kinda agree with the cd length thing. I kinda think of the cd as a therapy session, you kno, just a time to relax and tune out my crazy life. So those both fit right? & this is one of my fave songs on the IOH album. one of my others is don't you know who I think I am. I think I'm gonna start a thread on that now.......

anonymous April 14th, 2007 11:09PM  
I totally agree with the interpretations here. The one line "We took threes across the board" it could mean that all 3 of their albums had three major songs... or maybe it could be that the third song on each of their albums became a single... Take This to Your Grave- Grand Theft Autumn, FUCT- Dance, Dance, or Infinity on High- This Ain't A Scene, It's an Arms Race.... I don't know... just a random thought of a rambling teenager...

anonymous April 15th, 2007 02:47PM  
All off the stuff so far could be (in my opinion) correct. But I wanted to bring two things to light that I had noticed. "Car crash hearts" could possibly be a reference to the car (van) crash the boys had in thier early days they often talk about it when asked about significant moments for the band. It was a big obstacle for them at the time when it happened. "Cry on the couch till....fix me in 45" to me is about getting upset crying on a couch (possibly in front of a therapist) and then, after you're done crying, being stimulated by how upset or angry you are and writing (poets coming to life). The fix me in 45 thing was a tough one until I saw this half of us interview with Pete about depression and he said that playing a show is like his therapy because after getting upset (crying on the couch) and then writing about it (poets coming to life) when he eventually comes to tour every time he plays the songs live he gets to vent and relieve himself of those emotions. Therefore "fixing" him and these days aren't thier sets about fourty five minuets including the talking and dirty coming on and then the encore? Thats just the way I see it the other interpretations are really good though and made me think alot.

xxxthedreamer May 1st, 2007 10:51AM  
That summer we took threes across the board
But by fall we were a cover story
"Now in stores"
^^ before they really hit it big they "took threes across the board" meaning like ratings. but by that fall after they really hit it they were cover stories everywhere hence.."now in stores'

Make us poster boys for your scene
But we are not making our acceptance speech
^^ you can interpret them however you want to. That's what they want you to do. Inspiration. and that's what they did til everyone fell in love with them. and they beceame "posterboys" and they're saying you can make us that but we're not accepting it

I have found the safest place to keep all our old mistakes
Every dot-com's refreshing for a journal update
^^ www.fallotuboyrock.com their site. petes updated the journal activly and always has been. If you read their old journal entries...you'll find lyrics from their new songs. They talk about everything on there. and the active supporters check for new entries.


So long live the car-crash hearts
Cry on the couch all the poets come to life
Fix me in 45
^^ hearts broken by "accident". Sitting at home and crying on your couch and listening to the music that helps you, and having that music come to life in your eyes, the music being the poets. an estimated running time for the average cd is 45 minutes...so listening to that one cd that helps you, and having it "fix you in 45"


I can take your problems away
With a nod and a wave
of my hand because that's just the kind of boy
That I am
^^ tahts the boys they've been made into. They've helped so many kids out there and just a nod and a wave would do so much for one kid. Then there's the little "lyykee ommhzz p3t3 is so HAWT" kids. who think that all their problems will be fixed from a nod and a wave..

Only thing I haven't done yet is die
And it's me and my plus one at the after life
^^ pretty self explainatory. They feel all they haven't done is die. They've done everything esle

Crowds are won and lost and won again
But all our heats beat
For the diehards
^^ they can't win them every time. the fans that are only with them because its the popular thing are won and lost and won again. but the die hards are always there. and that's what keeps them going

anonymous May 17th, 2007 03:29PM  
Personally, I think it's about them as a band..but also sending a message to all their fans to just be yourself.

"Make us poster boys for your scene"
In this line, I think they're saying is that people say, "To be successful in this scene you must act, talk, sing, play and dress like this guys"
"But we are not making an acceptence speach"
They're saying that's not right, but they can't stop it.

I think the 3's across the board is either way.
I think that's what makes their lyrics so great is that they can have so many meanings and their all somewhat correct...and the used of catchy phrases!

anonymous May 17th, 2007 04:12PM  
Basically this song is about how famous FOB became in a short period of time, "Last summer we took threes across the board but by fall we were a cover story" and how everyone is trying to change them but they won't let them, "make us poster boys for your scene but we are not making an acceptance speech" and how people flip-flop liking them, "the afterlife crowds are won and lost and won again"

anonymous May 30th, 2007 11:25AM  
I think the line
Last, summer we took threes across the board- is a pun on words
meaning last summer we released the third best thing/ album,, an evening with your girlfriend, from under the cork trew and take this to your grave, to the rest of the world.
But by fall we were a cover story
"Now in stores"- meaning that their new album - story, will be big in stores
make us poster boys for your scene- I think is saying make us popular

But we are not making an acceptance speech
I have found the safest place to keep all our old mistakes
Every dot com's refreshing for a journal update-they don't need to make an acception speech because they believe that they are already accepted by the fans and all the old bad stuff will be shown off on the internet.

so long live the car crash heart- I think , I may be wrong but this is what I think, it is trying to say that all the people who don't like them anymore to bad

Cry on the couch all the poets come to life- I don't think this was fall out boys intention but do you remember I've got
dark alley and bad ideas , well the line poet are kidz who did not make is, I think this line is a comparison saying that people who could become famous as them , enjoy.

Fix me in forty-five- is a tricky line but this is my opiniion again , I think it means , take my place when he gets to old

dont know the rest but you get the point

anonymous May 31st, 2007 12:55AM  
45 might refer to vinyl records... am I really that old that no one else saw the connection? maybe, maybe not, I'm not the one that wrote it.

marie72093 June 15th, 2007 01:34PM  
This song is about how hard they worked until they got what they wanted. Also about how much people work to get what they want, but some people don't make it.

"Yeah, what you critics said would never happen.
We dedicate this album to anybody, people said couldn't make it.
To the fans that held us down till everybody came around.
Welcome. It's here."


Last summer we took threes across the board
But by fall we were a cover story "now in stores"
Make us poster boys for your scene
But we are not making an acceptance speech
I found the safest place to keep all our old mistakes
Every dot com's refreshing for a journal update
^^
when they are talking about how hard and such. They still want to remember all the fun they had. Awards and such don't really matter to them. They are doing what they love.

anonymous September 29th, 2007 09:01PM  
NO NO NO this song is about the internet. Pete said this in a show that it is about all the BS about that he reads about himself or Patrick..
"its like you find a lot of shit abut yourself in the internet that you sometimes want to go like Blog This MotherFucker *sticks Middlefinger*" -Pete Wentz

anonymous October 3rd, 2007 08:47AM  
Last summer we took 3s across the bord but by fall we were a cover story now in stores- is like they got 3 outta 10 from judges or sumthing meaning no1 liked them but by fall they were really big and all. "make us poster boys 4 your scene but we r not making an acceptance speech" means you can make them poster boys and all but there still not really caring that there famus and all. "so long live the car crash hearts" is saying long live evry1 that's been thru tuff times (car crashes) "cry on the couch all the poets come 2 life" meanz lke cry as much as you want but its not gonna make things any better. "fix me in 45" is referrng 2 therapy (45 min) "I can take your problems away with a nod and a wave of my hand" means I can take your problems away by killing u. "the only thing I havnt done yet is die" means he's done like evrythng but die... kinda self explanitory and I'm just gonna stop now because I'm getting bord.... byz!

anonymous October 18th, 2007 09:41AM  
I agree with a lot of the interps so far... I just have one thought... That differs... everyone is saying 45 minute therapy... 45 minute album length .45 caliber gun.... okay those are all valid... but I always thought of the band as really being about the music and having quippy double meanings so it may mean all of those things but what I thought about when I first heard the song was an actual LP record... 45... like a way to connect themselves with music immortality.

The 45 rpm single records are made from vinyl plastic that is flexible and unbreakable in normal use.

sheen4444 December 27th, 2007 12:59AM  
Ok so you guys keep getting parts of it wrong, I just got the CD yesterday(xmas) and it has lyrics in it ....it says

Last summer we took threes across the board
but by fall we were a cover story "now in stores"
Make us poster boys in your scene but we
are now making our acceptance speech
i found the safest place to cheat all of our mistakes
every DOT COMs refreshing for a journil update



so LOng live the car-crash hearts
cry on the couch all the poets come to life
fix me in 45




i take it as like some1 at some sort of therapist becuase a therapist has ou sit on a couch and you get like 45 mins

the beggining is like he is tellin his story....
later it says

I can take your problems away with a nod and a wave
of my hand because that's just the kind of boy that I am
the only thing I havnt done yetis die
and its me and my press my press one at the afterlife
...meaning its the therapist and he is sayin he's taking away the stress and how he is tired of his job and he calls in his next person to hear something new