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Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance Song Meanings

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I don't think that it's possible to interpret some of Fall Out Boy's lyrics because some of them just don't make sense, like this one. The reason they called it Dance, Dance is because it makes you just want to get up and dance.

Submitted by: cherryxbliss
Added: 2005-10-31 16:43:31     Rating:

This song is definitely not just nonsense. It's clearly about a guy in a destructive relationship, where the girl spends too much time with other men (or so it is seen by the narrator), and the narrator isn't sure how to deal with it. He wants to get into a huge fight (note the acusitory tone of the words "Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress"), but realizes that it's not going to solve anything ("Weighed down with words too overdramatic"- obviously shows that the girl spends too much time either making elaborate stories of whining/complaining). The chorus shows how it is so much simpler in this situation to just act like nothings happening, to be carefree and innocent, but that it's not possible for him.

Submitted by: punkrocker1405
Added: 2005-11-01 18:09:32     Rating:

I think this song is about this guy who loves this girl and she doesn't love him back. He also feels like everyone is haveing fun at his misery. Also, he loves her so he doesn't want to see her hurt by this guy she likes.

Submitted by: x0BreakDance0x
Added: 2005-11-07 16:25:24     Rating:

This song is clearly about a guy in love with a girl who doesn't know how to act around her. She is fooling around with other guys. He finds out about it and is heatbroken but he doesn't want to forget about her. He thinks that misery is the only thing that loves him and she leaves him alone because she knows he is about to find out that she is messing around.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-11 18:15:22     Rating:

Dance, Dance, in my opinion, is about a guy who doesn't like a girl for his own reasons and he basically is calling her a slut..."Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress" that part means that he wants her to quit complaining and being dramatic, and to show him she has nerve enough to face up to him instead of running to her current flame and showing HIM spine, (only in a different *cough cough* way).

"I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me" means he would use her only for physical satisfaction. basically every song on the FUCT album has to do with the same girl. Her cheating, him wanting her back, ect...it's about real situations that fall out boy fans and otherwise can relate to. Their songs can be taken a million different ways and still be right, but Pete Wentz is taking his interpretations in his own personal way. some people can relate and some can not. No one has to flip out just because someone didn't interprete a song correctly. Thanks people, if you want to IM me or send me a message about fall out boy then you can at KTRocks05@yahoo.com

Submitted by: kadokalan
Added: 2005-11-13 16:29:29     Rating:

Correct! The song is about a self-destructive guy who found out his girl is cheating on him.
'She says she's no good with words but I'm worse' she is offering an excuse of why she can't explain her cheating, but he is having a more difficult time calling her out on it, or can't control her anger. She says she can't explain it, but he might just explode with rage.
'Weighted down with words too over-dramatic' is a clue to how he uses his words.
'I'm two quarters and a heart down' the conversation is obviously on the phone (50 cents a call) and he is crushed.

The chorus moves into the self-destructive thought:
'dance dance' is him ignoring the reality, good call on that by the way.
'And these are the lives you'd love to lead' is him wishing he was living the life of the man who his girl is cheating on him with.
'This is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me' is him believing that his girl and her new man don't love each other as much as he did, but they would if they knew the degree of pain it caused him to find out about their escapade.

'You always fold just before you're found out, drink up it's last call, last resort, but only the first mistake.' is more self destructive thought. He feels is always drops the ball (fold before you're found out), waits until the end to live (drink up last call/last resort), but he doesn't change (only the first mistake).

'Showing some spine' is a comment about him finally calling her out to take blame for her action, returning to the first verse where she could offered the excuse of 'i can't explain, I'm not good with words'.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-18 17:08:01     Rating:

It doesn't really matter what this song means, the video is good and the song is fun to dance to. What else matters?

Submitted by: EmoKing
Added: 2005-11-21 10:32:25     Rating:

From what I can see, Pete's singing about a chick he likes, but keeps messing up with her, and tries harder and harder to win her back, while she has another guy she likes more (Little bit of spark you've been saving for his mattress).

He's just saying "Screw it, just do the same dance that all lovers do" and dumping on himself (misery loves me).

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-21 19:53:03     Rating:

'You always fold just before you're found out, drink up it's last call, last resort, but only the first mistake.'
I think this part is more about the self-destruction of others. The girl always gets out of the jam before she's exposed for cheating. The other part is just saying that drinking is ignorant and solves nothing. This is Pete's straight edge side shining through bright and clear.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-26 14:51:03     Rating:

This song is about joyful babies dancing to a beautiul song. DUH! What do you think it's about, hot dogs?!

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-28 17:59:21     Rating:

I think you're all right to a degree, but here's my take on it:

The title "Dance, Dance" itself is referring to the "game", or in this case Dance of relationships/life.

In the first verse, "She says she's no good with words but I'm worse" is her attempting to put the blame for her breaking up with him on him. She doesn't really know what to say, but to her, it's clearly his fault. Not to him. The "joke of a romantic" is him vainly attempting to win her back, but he's "Weighed down with words too over-dramatic," meaning there's so much he wants to tell her, but he just can't get it out. After they talk, "Tonight it's 'it can't get much worse' Vs. 'no one should ever feel like..' " is him relating his now current situation to old cliche's. "I'm two quarters and a heart down" means they broke up over the phone (gay). After the breakup, he immediately starts to cling to his memories of them together, not wanting to forget how her voice sounds, etc. He then turns inward, saying "These words are all I have so I'll write them," which is his plan for his final attempt to bring closure to his situation... which sets up for the chorus.

In the chorus, He's saying that during the game of life, we're all falling apart half the time, it's just how we pick ourselves back up again that makes us who we are. We see all the happy people everywhere in tv, etc., and those are the lives we want to lead. However, he knows that it's never going to be that simple, and just wants her to be happy. He loved her the only way he knew how; with everything he had. She, however, decided to move on, and he wishes the best for her, comparing that the way she feels with the other guy as the complete polar opposite of how miserable he feels.

Second verse is actually part of their conversation on the phone. This is him calling her out because she has a knack for folding under pressure, or when someone sees her for who she really is (which is exactly who she DOESN'T want them to see, since she in fact hates herself and is insecure). So, "Drink up its last call, Last resort, But only the first mistake and I..." Is him taking a stand and forcing her to make the next move. He's seen through her crap, and her excuses and pathetic attempts at rectifying her actions.

The third and shortest verse is him telling her to "man up" and show some backbone, because he knows exactly why she wants to break up with him... She's been cheating (or at least thinking about it... 'saving' could mean both in the sense that she doesn't do anything for HIM because she's either ALREADY doing it with the other guy, or she's ABOUT to). Regardless, he already knows... which is kinda his fault for not saying anything earlier, since now she's breaking up with him, when he had the perfect reason to do it earlier to her, but my guess is he just loved her too much.

The final blurb in the finale "I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me," is saying that he only wants her if she can realize just how much he loved her, and return to her "rightful place"... or he just wants a las "good-bye screw," hahahaha.

Finally, the song fades out with the title "Dance, Dance," signifying that regardless of what happens with them, the game of life goes on and on.

...but that's just what I think.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-11 00:14:24     Rating:

A guy who's in a relationship with some chick and...NO!!! Will you losers please look PAST the LESS THAN SKIN DEEP storyline and actually interpret the MEANING of the song?!?! Stop with this guy/girl crap.

Submitted by: worldseriesgood
Added: 2005-12-16 13:55:10     Rating:

Just an addition. Half time is a count used in music and in dancing. When he says, "We're falling apart TO half time" it's like they are in a dance. I guess you could interpret it literally or figuratively. Either they are physically dancing to a half time beat or they’re relationship is just a dance a charade and they are really just falling apart.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-16 19:59:05     Rating:

It's a good thing anonymous who said stop looking just on the surfance is anonymous. Because if you really think this is more than just a song about a guy and girl, your overanalyzing the song.

Submitted by: christian317
Added: 2005-12-19 18:09:21     Rating:

I believe most of the above are true. It is about a guy singing what he can't say to a girl that's cheating on him. I could see the two quarters being a phone call, but perhaps it has a double meaning of some athletic event, 'two quarters and a heart down' 'dance dance, we're falling apart to halftime..' You can take that for what it's worth.

I don't see the last lines of the chorus analyzed correctly yet, however. 'Dance, this is the way they'd love' They'd (cheating girlfriend and other guy) dance, 'if they knew how much misery loved me' if they want him to be miserable, basically. The songwriter just uses a backward method of saying it, which makes these lyrics that much better poetry and causes people to think that they're just random. If they knew how much misery wanted me, they'd dance so misery could be.

Too bad for the guy though. Let his mistakes serve as a warning to us all, too much physicality in a relationship can rip it apart, causing more hurt than worth. It is a lesser love that goes too far.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-26 14:39:45     Rating:

Everyone has different interperetations of different songs, so just go with whatever you yourself thinks it means and you may be wrong and you may be right with what it actually means according to Pete but if you think it means something that's just your imagination at its best work and you can have it mean whatever you want it to mean because that's what YOU get out of it and defferent people get different meanings from different songs, but that's just my opinion also.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-29 00:33:06     Rating:

Frankly, I don't know what this song is about. Good tune, hints slightly at having sex, and the words Dance Dance are repeated quite a bit...all and all, great song, but The only one who does know what this song is about is the guy who wrote it (Pete Wentz). Oh and P.S. To all of you out there who keep saying Pete Wentz is the one singing this, you're a little off... It's Patrick Stump (Who wrote the music)...GET IT RIGHT!

Submitted by: fatallyxyours09
Added: 2006-01-04 17:20:50     Rating:

I think sometimes you people think too much about it...theres a huge possibility it means what it says. I mean come on its not like their led zeppelin lyrics or anything.

Submitted by: PitPaige
Added: 2006-01-09 02:16:19     Rating:

I don't know but listening to the song and watching the music video, I get the feeling that he is doing ALL he can to impress this girl who is a total tease and just kinda feels bad for him, she is basically breaking his heart and leading him on and he knows it. So he's like why don't we just get it on, if your gonna pity me at least give a pity F**k , like you give it out to the guys that you are so impressed by. Finally she Gets it that he is a great guy, but at that point its a little late (even though in the music video they kiss and are happy at the end...)

Submitted by: cheerfool68
Added: 2006-01-11 13:29:08     Rating:

I think this song is about a girl who likes a boy but is scared of what people will think of her because he's kind of punkish. So, then the boy turns prep but the girl still won't be with him because he changed himself.

The quote "Why don't you show me a little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress" is kind of a boy trying to tell the girl be brave enough to not care what people think of you. Stand up for yourself, grow a spine. It also indicates that the girl is somewhat of a slut and tries to win the attention of the wrong boys by sleeping with them. And the saying after, "I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me" means that don't feel bad that your not with me but treat me like you treat other boys and get in bed with me too. Kind of throwing in her face that she sleeps around.

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