Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Song Meanings Lyrics:
I am an arms dealer
Fitting you with weapons in the form of words
And don't really care, which side wins
As long as the room keeps singing...
(See the rest of these lyrics)
 Top Rated Interpretation
2006-12-23 19:00:17
I think it's about record companies who take advantage of bands to make money.
The first verse is about how they race to find the best bands and sign them to their own label before someone else can.
The second verse is about how when the band's popularity starts to wane, they dump them (the bombshells have already sunk) and move onto worse bands. (we're painting your trash gold).
The title line is pretty obvious the meaning: the scene isn't us trying to hit it big, it's the record labels trying to use us to make a buck.
anonymous
2007-08-08 23:34:46
I think it's about a bunch of young kittens frolicking in the meadows in alaska..but its an arms race because the kittens grew arms
anonymous
2007-08-23 03:22:03
I purely and simply think this is a song about war.
Throughout the whole song its like there talking about a pointless war and how everyone is fighting for nothing??? You never know...
anonymous
2007-10-20 14:29:31
I think this song is about Pete and what happened to him in the last yesr. I mean wach the music video.
sheen4444
2007-12-27 01:03:35
I agree about the record because one...if you see the music video it supports that..also the record because make the bands change when they don't want to and FOD is totally against thaat
sosantney
2008-01-02 15:08:11
No offense to Fall Out Boys... but they did redefine the scene and in a trendy way. I mean, I get it, "This ain't a scene, its a God Damn arms race" As in, this so called scene is BS and it's a Arms Race (War). I'd rather have the song have it's own meetings to myself, like America (this ain't a scene) it's a God Damn Arms Race, because were at War, especially an Arms Race.
anonymous
2008-01-03 01:59:58
On the post that was given on Feb. 21, it talks about the people at the end at Pete's funeral. The guy dancing is one of the guys dancing from dance dance. The girl said to be portrayed at Britney Spears is actually the girl from the "where is your boy" video. The guy emptying the wine bottle looks kind of like Dirty, one of Pete's good friends. and the girl making out with the deer guy is the girl from the dance dance video. and the deer guy is obviously from the sugar we're going down video. This scene has other meanings, but the people in it have obviously been in their previous videos.
anonymous
2008-04-27 04:01:30
Actually Deli Beli it's vise versa, if it weren't for Pete Wentz signing their contract they wouldn't have been this famous (Panic).
anonymous
2008-07-02 03:05:54
Patrick said himself this song was just a big laugh. It was just a song making fun of themselves.
*Hint the whole Pete Wentz scene.
[His nude pics leaked out, & that was a joke about it.]
They have the making of the video on youtube. Watch it.
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