CARL_1005 2006-03-27 19:15:13    

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I thoguht it was about a guy morally confused with his love for a girl with the use of "cock it and pull it". I thought he meant, I'm going to kill myself if I don't get this girl. I really don't understand the video at all with the dear legs on that man at the end, it's creepy anywho, let's be honest here thier new song clearly is better. If anyone can Interpret the video please post, or "Answer's on a postcard please". I think fall out boy are good though half and half, although thier are a little depression in thier songs. Which people would call 'emo' music.

darthjesus 2006-03-28 20:37:57    

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An enonomous person explained this song more fully and better than anyone else, but I'd like to offer my own two cents. In my opinion, I think this song is basically an expression of how love can drive a person both metaphorically and psycologically insane.

The girl in the song is obviously a slut, who sees him as nothing more than a "notch on her bedpost." Unfortunately the boy falls in love with her, and, despit claiming that she is "just a word in a song", stalks her ("watching you from the closit/wishing to be the friction in your jeans")with the intent of trying to make her want him as a boyfriend. This is most evident in the chorus: "I'll be your #1 with a bullet/I've got a loaded God complex, wanna cock it and pull it?". This song is a great depiction of someone descending into madness.

monroej05 2006-04-07 23:43:59    

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I think this is one of the greatest underdog stories like this guy would do anything for this girl and he wishes he could be someone else she liked

slitingthroats_tap16 2006-04-25 13:16:35    

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The music video tells the story of a guy who is hated by everyone because of his difference, but then he finds someone who loves him for who he is and the girls dad hates the boy just like evry one else. He comes to find out the dad is just like the boy at the end of the video you can tell that the dad accepts him.

anonymous 2006-04-25 23:59:51    

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Clearly none among you has taken "Introduction to Metaphysics" and as such I have a hard time trusting your lyrical exegesis. It is clear that the young chaps in Fall Out Boy (henceforth referred to as FOB) are heavily indebted to the philosophical thought of Karl Marx. While I am disinclined to say that they are actual communists, they clearly have communitarian leanings.

Take for example the following song verse: "We're going down (down) in an earlier round." This is clearly a reference to Marx's view on "Utopian Socialists" which he castigates harshly. Take for example this quote from "The Communist Manifesto"; "The founders of these systems see, indeed, the class antagonisms, as well as the action of the decomposing elements in the prevailing form of society. But the proletariat, as yet in its infacy, offers to them the spectacle of a class without any historical initiative or any independent political movement." The fact that they are going "down" refers to the "decomposing elements in the prevailing form of society".

There has also been much debate regarding the "loaded God complex." People who think it is loaded gun should be shot in the face. It is indubitably loaded GOD. This is another clear referenc to Marx. He tells us that religion is the opiate of the masses. Thus... loaded God complex.

I will end my interpretation with a quote from the great Argetinian moral philosopher, Alfonso Gomez-Lobo. I am sure you're all to ignorant to have read him, but I highly recommend his book "Morality and the Human Goods." He writes "The foregoing norms constitute a catalog of general injuctions that should be accepted by anyone who accepts the lists of basic goods and prudential guidelines, especially those of impartial respect and care and, ultimately, the first principle of paractical rationality." He is clearly operating in the Marxist tradition. The quote is too applicable to the song to merit further discussion, the connection is obvious. Especially when you consider the following lyrics: "I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song." They must have read his book immediately prior to composing this song.

I hope you half-wits and dullards are capable of wrapping your puerile little minds around the deep philosophical and metaphysical positions inherent in this work. Anyone who disagrees with me is not only a penis, but also a counter-revolutionary bourgeois swine.

anonymous 2006-04-28 16:47:44    

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Oh my! I never knew this song had so many meanings. I came here thinking I knew what this song meant but other people have so many different interpretations. Keep em coming. I love this site!

I think I have even more respect for FOB now.

anonymous 2006-04-29 18:47:40    

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OK, I think this song is about how the guy loves a girl a lot, but she's with some other guy (I'm watching you two from the closet wishing to be the friction in your jeans) and I'm probably wrong, but I think he's sad that she doesn't feel the same, and is thinking of killing himself (a loaded god complex cock it and pull) like, cock the gun, pull the trigger. (take aim at myself take back what you said). I could just be negative, but it sounds like a son about suicide.

anonymous 2006-04-29 18:47:49    

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Ok, I think this song is about how the guy loves a girl a lot, but she's with some other guy (I'm watching you two from the closet wishing to be the friction in your jeans) and I'm probably wrong, but I think he's sad that she doesn't feel the same, and is thinking of killing himself (a loaded god complex cock it and pull) like, cock the gun, pull the trigger. (take aim at myself take back what you said). I could just be negative, but it sounds like a son about suicide.

anonymous 2006-05-12 21:25:44    

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Yeah, jealousy.

anonymous 2006-05-18 23:17:20    

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"OBVIOUSLY none of you love fall out boy as much as you say you do because any TRUE fan would know EXACTLY what they're talking about and what they mean. So I guess because I'm the ONLY one who's a true fan, I'll tell you what it all means.

Whis guy is TOTALLY messing with you and wanting you to get confused... but seriously... when he sings "we're going down, down" what he REALLY is saying is:
"We're going UP UP MY NOSE!" I mean, SERIOUSLY! LOOK AT HIS NOSTRILS! THEY'RE THUMBSIZED! THIS GUY DEFINITELY HAS A PROBLEM W/ NOSE PICKING!

And then, this whole "loaded god complex, cock it and pull it" he is SUCH a chicken slayer! He cuts off their heads!!! Hence the word, COCK! Then once he realizes that those chickens aren't going "down, down" that easy, he pulls out their tailfeathers ( ....and pull it) it's all a metaphor of how he used to be an all time champion boxer whose name was "the Almighty" (ahem... god complex anyone?) but had a horrible match w/ a guy whose fighter name was "Chicken X"... and he lost in round one! hence "we're going down, down in an EARLIER ROUND!" he thought he was going to beat this guy, but then got his butt kicked, so in return, plagued his revenge on his enemies alias! (a chicken)!

Okay, all of you are WRONG about "drop a heart..." it is SO "TRABAJAR!" LISTEN TO IT! he's singing.. WORK! IN SPANISH!

And "we're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team" that's all about how he goes to bed too late and sleeps in all the time because he hasn't invested in a good alarm clock, AND he keeps rooting for the wrong team! (i.e. Chicken X) and when it comes to rooting for the right team, he's always sleeping! Again, no alarm clock!

"I'll be your number one with a bullet" is him trying to boost his ego about his horrible loss to Chicken X, so basically he's trying to talk smack, saying that the NEXT round, he'll be swinging so fast that his fists will be like bullets and he'll win! Number 1!

So honestly guys, I know that you think life is about love and jealousy and relationships and all greasy things like that, but seriously... It's not. It's about boxing! Simply put. ALL of it. life is just one big boxing match!

And that's the rest of the story..."

^^
Wow. I don't know what you were on when you wrote that xxmisspiggyxx, but you were definitely VERY high on something, seriously.
On a better note, that post made me laugh so hard that I almost shit myself.

anonymous 2006-05-22 18:45:35    

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I'll try to explain this as easily as possible, but for some of you, this may be difficult to understand.

A few people here posted the real interpretation so far (although they didn't explain it thoroughly). Well, here it is: The song is not about a relationship at all. The lyrics symbolize something totally different. The intro lines set up the whole theme of the song.

"Am I more than you bargained for yet
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week"

Translation:
"Am I [the "I" being "Fall Out Boy", the band themselves] more than you bargained for yet [am "I" worthy of this #1 position on the billboard charts, and did I meet your expectations of having lyrics that only sound cool or humorous?]
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear [I've been adding in these nonsense words just to make the song funny, comical and more attractive to people who don't understand that it is supposed to symbolize something completely different]..."

As a few have already mentioned, this refers to Fall Out Boy being the #1 song on the charts, but still having a bullet by the song name, which basically means, Fall Out Boy's choice of words in their lyrics are not heard the way they want them to be heard, and they don't really deserve the #1 spot going by their own terms. They have always sufficed by adding in useless lines just to make the song sound more attractive to listeners, so yes, to the common music listener, it deserves the spot! But to Fall Out Boy, the message they are really trying to get across is missed, and they don't think they deserve it.

The whole song and the analogies within it are basically a self-fulfilling prophecy in the fact that what the song symbolizes in it's lyrics are misunderstood by the simpletons who listen to it. The majority of the interpretations posted here are a perfect example of how the lyrics are misunderstood! The misunderstandings of their lyrics are exactly what the song is about! They are misunderstood because Fall Out Boy uses words just to make it humorous/cool!

How...sincere!

Hope everyone understands now...

anonymous 2006-05-23 19:11:51    

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The song is this; This guy is in love with this girl and is trying really hard to get her attention. And the girl pretends she doesn't mind. So he asks her if he's more than what she really wants yet: "Am I more thatn you bargained for yet?" He wants to say everything she wants to hear, and says it's like an elementary school crush, and that'll only last a week or so, but inside he knows it's love: I've been dying to tell you anything you wanna hear cause that's just who I am this week." The next line took me a while to figure out. Lie in the grass next to the mausoleaum". A mausoleaum is in a cemetary, and there are grave stones next to mausoleaums, and beneath the grave stones there is grass, beaneathe the grass there are dead bodies. This obviously means he's planning on death. Then he says that he's nothing to her, "I'm just a notch in your bedpost," and he's saying that she's nothing to him, but he's twisting words around, saying she is very important. A certain line in a song is very important. In every song. "I'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song." "Drop a heart, break a name, we're always sleeping in and we're sleeping for the wrong team," He basically means that he can't do anything right anymore. The Chorus means, that they messed up a long time ago,and they won't give up. They'll be the first to volounteer for death, and if not they'll do it themselves with a gun to the head. The next lines mean he sees them ( The couple) all the time and he just wants to be the person in the dude's place. Besides that, it's all repeated. Then there are whispers in the backround that say he wants to shoot himself if the girl doesn't take back saying she doesn't love him. Then it just ends. You can all asume what happens.

emvob123 2006-05-25 22:39:44    

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The song is about a guy who wants to be with a girl that he can't have. He had been using this girl for a sexual relation bu then realizes he truly wnats her.

'We're going down, down in an earlier round and Sugar, we're going down swinging' means that they've been been together, but now are swinging between partners.

When he says "I'll be your number one with a bullet; a loaded God complex, cock it and pull it" He's saying that he wants more sexual realtions, she just has to want him. ( 'I'll be your number one with a bullet' is him saying he's the best and is ready to be set off', 'A loaded God complex' is referring to reproduction, and 'cock it and pull it' is her getting him.)

anonymous 2006-05-28 04:14:39    

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Good lord people! Can't you see that miss piggy is completely 100% right?? It's obviously about boxing and chickens...gosh...

anonymous 2006-05-30 16:56:16    

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Is it not possible for the song to have two meanings? meaning 1, wanting to be with someone you can't be with. maybe you've previously had a relationship, whether it was a one night stand or just a short thing, with them, or maybe you're just friends and want it to be more than that.
meaning 2, about fall out boy and where they stand.

I like the masturbation interpretation ^.^

anonymous 2006-06-02 12:40:00    

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That misspiggy chick is completetly dumb. What is wrong with her she calls herself a fan her intrepretation is a digrace to the song. Her dumb behind may think that life is fun and games or cutting chickens heads off but she needs to get a life and grow up and also relize sotimes you have to be serious and love is serious.this song is obvious abot the darkside of love. Misspiggy is an idiot and probably know this song isn't about chikens but she wants attention whether it's good or bad. Once again misspiggy please grow up, dumbass. Now I'll stop wasting my time talking about such an attenion whore.

anonymous 2006-06-12 09:40:24    

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It is evident that "sugar we're going down" is speaking of a whirl-wind adventure that a small rabbid dog took while he was but a pup. During this oddysey, he was searching for a bitch which he called sugar. When he found her, they fell off a cliff, hence the "going down". In case you didn't know, complex is another name for an over-sized russian mother. If she is loaded, she wants to shoot the rabbid pup. Therefore, a loaded god complex. but please my friends, don't cock her and pull her.

Driver69eryaz 2006-06-16 07:01:43    

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wow...i can't believe no one has got it yet....

this song is in coorelation to "my heart is the worst kind of weapon"

the song is about getting revenge on his old girlfriend for cheating on him.

"I'll be your number one with a bullet"
-that could mean that he is as big as he can get to her. and she doesn't mean that much to him anymore
"a loaded god complex cock it and pull it"
-that means that he has so much power now that his band is big and he's gonna use his popularity to get back at her....he is using his lyrics to bring her "down"

everyingthing makes sense....especially the line

"i'm just notch on your bedpost"
-i'm just one of the many guys you screwed
"But your just line in a song"
-all she is to him is a line in a song.

Pete even said,in an interview,that this song was about his old girlfriend who is becoming a local celebrity because she brags about he role in the creation of "take this to you grave"

anonymous 2006-06-19 15:00:42    

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What most people don't realize about this song is it's many hidden shakespearean like messages that ultimately lead to "Sugar We're Goin Down"'s true meaning. If you look at the first line of the song -Am I more than you bargained for yet- If you take the first letter of every word in this line it spells, AIMTYBFY. For most people it is difficult to interpret such a clue as this, luckily I have solved it. Fall Out Boy doesn't like to make solving their song meaning easy, that's why an additional step to unscrambling AIMTYBFY is needed. It becomes MY BF TAIY, (TAIY probably being the BF's pet name in bed). According to Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Tai) "Tai" refers to *A member of any of the Tai-speaking peoples of Thailand* giving us the detail of the BF's race. So to sum it all up, this first line is a question to the lead singer's BF, asking if sex with a white man is all it's cracked up to be in Thailand. So now, after this careful analysis of the first line we understand the song is about mostly talking about racial sterotypes.

The sedond line -I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear- only futher supports this theory, as the lead singer talks about how he wishes he could tell his Thailand BF how he feels, but they don't speak the same language. Futher down the line -We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team- talks about the issue of being in a relationship with someone from the different race, and how when this happens it is as if they were on their own team, the "wrong" team because most people date someone their own race.

All these lines are important because they introduce how these two men feel like outcasts and looked down apon because of their multi-cultural love. This is why they decide to rob a bank together, the line -Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum- proves it. "Mausoleum" is not a common word, Fall Out Boy used it for a specific reason. Again, if you refer to the Acronym Attic search (http://www.acronymattic.com/results.aspx?q=MAUS) you will see MAUS stands for "Million Accounting Units" or millions of dollars. The grass is a metaphor for a "safe place", and when put all together this line talks about them in their safe place with the loot they stole.

So now put all these important clues together. This song is about two men, one being the white lead singer and the other his Thailand lover. They are frustrated about how they aren't treated well because they are two different races in a relationship, so they rob a bank. The majority of the rest of the song is about them sitting with the money, they thought they had gotten away and were safe or "on the the grass". Then they find out they're surrounded, hence the -We're going down, down in an earlier round- which means they thought they would get away but now will "go down" or be arrested "eariler" than they thought. The next line, -And Sugar, we're going down swinging-, shows they decide to go to down with a fight. -A loaded God complex cock it and pull it- talks about how they believe they need to die for racial persecution, therefore are cocking the gun and running out at the police officers hoping to die for the cause.

I know it's a sad song. ytrapkoobeton

anonymous 2006-07-05 03:04:32    

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Sugar we're going down is about a guy who slept with this girl,who already has a boyfreind and he never meant to fall in love with her but than something happened and now all he wants to is be the guy who is with her