Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance Song Meanings Lyrics:
She says she's no good with words but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out
"A joke of a romantic" or {just} stuck to my tongue
Weighed down with...
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 Top Rated Interpretation
2005-11-28 17:59:21
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.
ultrasis
2006-11-26 20:28:12
this song isn't hard to get at all! it's obviously about the lead singer and how he was at a football stadium and had a sudden and STRANG urge to dance. He couldnt hold it in any longer and he just BURSTED during half time. duhhhhh that's where they get "dance dance we're falling apart to half time" get it now idiots ... gosh
anonymous
2006-12-07 16:17:34
Its about a girl breaking up with him
" She says she's no good wiht words but Im worse"
when somebody breaks up with someone there allways like, I don't now how to say this, but he is even more sshcocked and doesn't know what to say
"barely stuttere out a joke of a romantic or it just to my tongue"
he's not exactly sure what he said
" weighed down with words to overdramatic"
take that litterallly , his responses are all cheesy and cornny, like the next line
" tonight its I can't get much worse, vs. no one should ever feel like"
anonymous
2007-01-10 16:25:52
I think this song is more about not facing reality than "oh the girl cheated on poor Pete". Yeah, the girl was probably cheating. They clearly can't talk about it (she says she's no good with words but I'm worse) and he's hoping that she'll admit it (you always fold just before you're found out). But they may be too hesitant to change anything (these are the lives you love to lead). I always thougt of is as, well, our relashionship is just about finished but if we keep dancing -- or playing this game, as someone above said -- we can pretend that eveything is OK.
Oh, yeah, someone also said that Patrick Stump wrote the lyrics: no. He writes the music.
anonymous
2007-02-08 01:14:34
ok ok. you frickin idiots. yes pete wentz is the bass player but he does write the majority of the lyrics including this song and patrick who is the lead singer writes the music. ya know the music that the instruments make not the actual words.
anonymous
2007-02-10 00:39:08
its about a guy who goes to homecoming with a chick then gets ditched and is two quarters(the cost of a vending machine condom) and has a broken heart
anonymous
2007-02-12 14:27:54
I agree with the whole ex girlfriend breaking up over the phone thing...but this song is so catchy and awesome like every other fall out boy song, does it really matter?? I mean its interesting to know but it aint a big deal as long as you can rock out to it who fukin caress :P xxxx FOB RULEEE xxxxxxxxxxxxx
gerardwayfan4life94
2007-03-06 23:41:03
This means that this boy was a nerd and he wanted to go out with this popular girl, but was to afraid to ask her out because he was afraid of what she might say.
JayJayKayo_88
2007-03-10 09:51:38
By the way....
for anyone that has ever watched 'the simpsons' Fall out boy is the name of a character that is the sidekick of radioactive-man (a comic that bart collects). It's of the episode where bart auditions for the part to be 'fall out boy' in a radioactive-man movie.
Quite intresting!
anonymous
2007-04-05 02:58:56
The guy felt sad that he forgot his fried chicken, so he went down to KFC, divebombed Elliott Davis in the drive-thru, and stole some chicken from the black guy in the window. The guy was happy once he got his fried chicken fix.
anonymous
2007-04-13 03:52:21
Whats the whole "She says she's no good, with words but I'm worse. Barely stuttered out a joke of a romantic or stuck to my toungue" Thing about?
anonymous
2007-05-20 08:33:36
I think it's about how this school has a prom and then this boy there sees this hot teacher and he falls in love with her. So he tries to impress her.
so he sidles to her and tries to tell her a joke but his tongue was stuck and he just make, 'ph-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b' noises instead of telling a real joke. and then he says,"oh well, it can't get any worse."
but then the chorus starts up and everyone starts jumping on the floor and it DOES get worse because they make a huge hole in the floor and everyone falls in and then the boy falls into the punch bowl and breaks his spine and blames it on his matress.
And then he says, "THIS CANT GET ANY WORSE!"
But it does and more people start jumping on the floor because the chorus starts up again only there's NO MORE floor becos they destroyed it already so they jump really high .... and fall through the hole and die. and misery loves them.
anonymous
2007-05-21 17:15:44
The song is about always finding yourself in messed up situations. Pete explains it in an issue of KERRANG!.
mikhail
2007-05-30 12:30:43
*She says she's no good with words but I'm worse.
-lol, this line means that she says she not a good person and she says even better than the narrator, at least that's what I think it means.
*Barely stuttered out, "A joke of a romantic," stuck to my tongue.
-meaning he thought she almost said that the relationship they are in does not make sense and is a joke, stuck to my tongue means he was about to say it.
*Weighed down with words too over-dramatic.
-she talks about their relationship in a complaining tone
*Tonight it's "It can't get much worse" vs. "No one should ever feel like..."
-hmmmm, I am not sure once again but I think this means that he is wondering if it is better to think about things getting worse or wondering about no one should have to go through what he is going through.
*I'm two quarters and a heart down.
lol, this is big line , you know why, he did not say half of half but he says two quater not becuase he was trying to make the song kewler its because he is trying to show she is tearing his heart very slowly that it is going away in quarters.
*And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds.
- she going away so much , he seems to forget how she is, probally because she is a sleeping around a lot with other guys
*These words are all I have so I'll write them.
So you need them just to get by.
- I have no idea but I will tease the line by saying taht it means , that he has nothing to say but a few stuff and she need them to keep anything left in the relationship.
*Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time.
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead.
Dance
This is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me.
-conselation for the fact that his girlfriend is sleeping around, he says dance dance, forget about worries, these are the lives - is pural for spit to show more than one life with more than one man.
*You always fold just before you're found out.
Drink up it's last call, last resort, but only the first mistake.
- lol , this is saying she always try to cover before she is found out but drin up - enjoy, its last call- its the end and but only first mistake means - only the first time she has really been caught in the act.
*Why don't you show me the little bit of spine,
You've been saving for his mattress, love.
-lol, this means that all the sex time , she has been saving for the other guy, give it to me and just may be!
mikhail_stewart@hotmail.com
picklesnhappycrack
2007-06-03 19:47:33
"you always fold just before you found out
drink up its last call
last resort"
for so odd strange reason when ever I hear this I think of Folgers.. The coffee company...
just a thought
anonymous
2007-06-13 18:54:09
The "two quarters and a heart down" is an obvious reference to The Legend of Zelda video game series, you know, like 1 heart down, and 2 quarter hearts down?
machs
2007-06-15 22:08:05
I agree with the zelda guy/girl. In fact, the whole song is about zelda. Geez can't you people think outside the box! Me and the zelda guy/girl are here to rattle cages and expand minds. open your eyes people. Life is a game! It's all a game! It's all a dream! you're dreaming, you're dreaming, you're dreaming, you're dreaming, you're dreaming..................
anonymous
2007-08-07 17:27:18
First, I think it's about a guy and a girl who are about to enter on a destructive relationship. They warn each other, incoherently, (she says she no good/with words but I'm worse). He tells her he's very romantic, but he has problems expressing his feelings for her, so instead he uses melodramatic cliches (Tonight it's it can't get much worse/Vs No one should ever feel like)
The relationship they have, on the boy's side at least, is tight. He feels that she has his heart, but is taking his money. However, he doesn't want to leave her. (I'm two quarters and a heart down, and I don't want to forget how your voice sounds)
He feels like he is is losing grip, and the only thing keeping him sane are the things he writes (these words are all I have so I'll write them/so you need them just to get by)
The chorus is him attending a party, and seeing everyone getting wasted. He sees kids who have lost their dreams, and he thinks they're happy because they know he's not. (this is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loved me)
In the second verse, he suspects that the girl is cheating on him, and he knows her quite well, or well enough to know that she will dump one of the boys just before the find out she's cheating (you always fold just before you're found out)
They go out to have a drink, and he tries to get her drunk to make her confess that she's cheating. (drink up, it's last call, last resort)
But he makes a mistake, a slip of the tongue, ans she finds out his plan (but only the first mistake and I...)
They argue, and she denies it all. He gets angry and asks her why doesn't she ever stand up for herself, saying she probably uses it all with the guy she's cheating with (why don't you show me/ the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress?)
It ends with them going to a party and him seeing all the people dance, and wondering how they can be so happy, concluding that they must know all about him and his girlfriends problems.
anonymous
2007-08-11 15:22:28
I think it interprets to high school. "two quarters and a heart down, and I don't wanna forget how your voice sounds" I think, means that he's gambling for someone's affections as in putting chips down. It's classic that it's like a nerdy guy crushing on the most popular girl in school, but she feels bad for him, hence" I only want sympathy in form of you crawling into bed with me".
anonymous
2007-08-27 21:12:33
"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!"
Umm, I believe what was said was that Pete wrote the lyrics, so why don't YOU get it right?? And he does back-up vocals, FYI.
anonymous
2007-10-25 00:34:22
I think they were stoned beyond the PNR...
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