peteisprettyinpink January 28th, 2006 11:45AM  
Emily was written for Sonny's girlfriend and for Jon's but it's a song in the past now because Sonny and his girlfriend broke up.

AngelsWithDirtyFaces April 21st, 2006 06:05PM  
Sonny Moore wrote this song for his girlfriend Emily. But it's a song in the past now as Sonny and Emily broke up.

anonymous October 7th, 2006 09:04PM  
No you guys are idiots. Its about his girlfriend who died! I looked it up. And how he still loves her. Like seriously, wow.

anonymous November 15th, 2006 12:08AM  
The person up there was right.. Sonny didn't write any of the lyrics.. He wasnt even supposed to be the singer of the band...

anonymous November 23rd, 2006 04:04PM  
you guys are dumb its true the old singer wrote all the songs to dear diary EXCEPT emily and One armed boxer

anonymous December 2nd, 2006 11:20PM  
I thought Matt wrote all the songs for 'Dear Diary..'

anonymous February 7th, 2007 12:43AM  
grr!!! fucking hell!! you guys arnt helping anyone!! now who the fuck am I gonna believe, your all dumb and don't know anything, so shut the fuck up!!!!

anonymous March 5th, 2007 07:03PM  
lets all stop arguing, sonny has left the band.
the end!

anonymous April 27th, 2007 12:41AM  
Ok so uhhh. This song is about Sonny's girlfriend that died and yes, he wrote only Emily and one armed boxer

anonymous June 13th, 2007 12:08AM  
Ok so here's the deal. you are all wrong, those of you who say Emily isn't a real person. She is real. I know because I met her in march when I met Sonny Moore. The song is a song that Sonny wrote for Emily when they were going out. The are broken up now, but the still remain really close friends. btw, Sonny and Emily are some of the sweetest people you'll ever meet!

anonymous July 16th, 2007 01:04PM  
I thought that Emily was the girl that cheated on Sonny and got pregnant with another guy....but I don't know. I'm hearing all the other things...so I don't know what happened anymore. Is she dead? Is she imaginary? Idk. GRR!

anonymous September 25th, 2007 09:21AM  
It doesn't matter who it was about or whether they are real or dead or even who wrote it. It's a song about someone being in love with someone and that person being the most important person in the world to them. They've waited so long for a love like this and they hope it was worth the wait because they mean so much to them.

anonymous October 24th, 2007 12:52PM  
BASICS, MATT wrote the lyrics, NOT SONNY. Nothing to do with sonny whatsoever.

figuer84 May 5th, 2008 02:29AM  
Yes, it is true that Sonny didn't do any work with any of the songs, EXCEPT for Emily. Emily was a song that Sonny originally wrote when he was 16 years old. He wrote the music and the lyrics. The proof that any of you need would be that if you go to see FFTL live now, they don't play Emily, but Sonny sings it (usually the toyshop remix) live at solo shows. Emily is the only song that Sonny wrote for Dear Diary.


Funny thing about the song: Since Sonny was 16 when he wrote it, he wasn't good with grammar and spelling, and made up the word coldens. If you hear him play it live he says "the winter makes me cold" instead of "coldens me."

anonymous May 29th, 2008 08:06PM  
Basically, Matt Good wrote this song. He wrote all of the songs on Dear Diary in two weeks. Halfway through production, Sonny joined the band as lead guitarist and Matt was lead singer. When they were doing "Featuring Some of Your Favorite Words," they realized how amazing Sonny's vocals were, so they switched, Matt to lead guitar, Sonny to lead vocals. Sonny was 15 when they were recording, so I don't see how he could've been 16 when he wrote the song. Anyway, enough with the history of From First to Last that apparently 1 or 2 of you know, and on with the meaning of the song. This information is in multiple bio's of them all over the internet.

Regardless of what was happening in this person's life, he was definitely in a long distance relationship, and madly in love with the person, probably having been together a while, and having just become so distant. Things are still happy because neither of them are doubting their relationship yet, and they're waiting to see each other again.
Basically, it's the cliche, "We'll make it no matter what," that always inevitably ends.

derek September 7th, 2008 02:40PM  
The song Emily is about Sonny's dead girlfriend its common sense, and cause even look it up.

anonymous October 25th, 2008 08:42PM  
FFTL's old singer left the band during the record, so the band found Sonny through MySpace and asked him to play guitar. Matt Good was gonna be the lead singer, but Sonny had singing parts in the song "Featuring Some Of Your Favorite Words", and when the rest of the band heard him singing it they decided he should be lead vocals, therefore Matt played guitar and sang backup vocals. Sonny wrote the songs "Emily" (proof: he sings it solo now and fftl doesn't sing it at all) and "The One Armed Boxer Vs. The Flying Guillotine" (proof: last lines of the song are;
"How do I address a letter to my generation?
'SONNY', she said, 'save yourself the postage'
How do I address a letter to my generation?
'SONNY', she said, 'sing it in person'

Now that that's all cleared up, I'm not sure exactly about specifics but I THINK (emphasis on the think) that Sonny wrote "Emily" for a girlfriend he was dating long distance. They broke up, but it is NOT a song of the past, he has sung it since then but changed the lyrics to "Hillary" (I think it's his new girlfriend) instead of "Emily".

There, that's my thoughts/opinions, you don't have to agree with them, I'm just saying.

anonymous December 24th, 2008 11:02AM  
Ok well I don't know whether it was written by Sonny or Matt, but I don't care. I'm just gonna say what I think it's about. To me, it sounds like it's about a long distance relationship. As he sung in the song, "he will never give up trying cause you're everything to me." And when he sings, "Thunder storms could never stop me." It sounds like he would try visiting her no matter how horrible the weather was. Even when he says "days seem like years in this month of December." It sounds like he is saying how slow life goes by when he doesn't see her. And the most obvious line, "Regardless of our distance...and our hope grows greater." "I hope it's something worth the waiting." Sounds like they don't always get to see each other very often. "Because there's no one in the world like Emily," he was willing to keep trying to have a long distance relationship with her.

hellox December 27th, 2008 09:55PM  
Its about more than the singer just missing Emily. She commited suicide and left him behind (Thunderstorms will never stop me)

anonymous July 6th, 2009 11:44AM  
FFS. Read the extract from Sonny Moores blog you IDIOTS. you people drive me crazy. that song in particular was written for Emily Gauthreaux and Jon Weisberg's girlfriend, also named emily. Him and sonny wrote it TOGETHER. sonny found long dstance relatinships hard and cheated on emily so they decided to end it. thats it. if there was a dead emily, or a pregnant emily, this song wasnt written about them. its possible there was another girl like that, but THIS song was written for Emily G and Jons girlfriend also named emily.