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Fall Out Boy - The Take Over, The Breaks Over Song Meanings

I'm almost sure this song is about a married couple who got a divorce, (Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?) and the ex wife trys to cover up how much she misses him(Don't pretend you ever forgot about me.) by going into the modeling business. (Style your wake for fashion magazines.) She has a million thoughts about her ex running through her mind all day, every day, (They say your head can be a prison.) and masks it with a smile. Apparently, the couple is still having with one another (We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces.) on the downlow. (We're dropped and well concealed in secret places.)

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-03-31 17:44:20     Rating:

It's about fame and divorce. "I'm boring, but overcompensate with headlines and flash, flash, flash photography," "wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?" As in, wouldn't you rather have your spouse die and have everyone pity you than have a divorce give you a bad name? "Style your wake for fashion magazines." Still famous until you die.

"Don't pretend you ever forgot about me-" They're still hitting it big, so you can't wonder "who was that, again?"

"Baby, seasons change but people don't." Their significant other will never change, so they'd "rather be a widow than a divorcee" (it would be better for them to just die than file for divorce and ruin their reputation)

"We don't fight fair." In Hollywood, people fight dirty to keep their claim to fame.

"We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces." Putting on a good face for the cameras but still fighting.

All-in-all, it's celebrity vs. celebrity in a divorce case.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-04-02 20:54:42     Rating:

This song isn't really about marriage/divorce. Those are both metaphors.

The girl he wants is with another guy. So he's saying wouldn't you rather be a widow (that one is pretty self explainitory) than a divorcee (her having to get rid of him). That's also what he means when he says "We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces" and "We don't fight fair". He's taking him out of the picture.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-04-14 00:41:26     Rating:

"Baby, seasons change but people don't.
And I'll always be waiting in the back room."

I think this means this guys ex-girlfriend is acting like she changed and he knows that she hasn't. But he will still always care about her in some way always, no matter what she does.

"I'm boring but overcompensate with
Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography."

No interpretation needed here. He's a normal guy that gets all this press.

"But don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me."

Again no interpretation really needed. She acts like she doesn't care, or she forgot about him when he know that they were to big a part of each others life to not care or forget about each other.

"Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?"

He has moved on from the person he was when he was with her so that person is dead. So she would be a widow rather than him just breaking up with her making her a divorcee.

"Style your wake for fashion magazines."

A wake is associated with a funeral. She helped with 'killing' that part of him which led to songs which led to him being in magazines and her being known for it.

"We don't fight fair."

Rather than calling her up and telling her to her face about these songs (not just this one, but all the songs before it. I think it's his way of moving on and apologizing for it), he's going to make a song about it for public humiliation. She she has also done her part to gossip about him instead of going to him and talking about it.

"They say your head can be a prison.
Then these are just conjugal visits."

They can't stop thinking about times when they were together. conjugal meaning being together or married.

"People will dissect us till
This doesn't mean a thing anymore."

You can take this two ways. The obvious, what we are doing now. Or people dissect them meaning to take them apart. If you take the couple apart then they won't mean a thing anymore because there is no them.

"We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces.
We're dropped and well concealed in secret places"

I'm not going to take the obvious sex here. I going to refer back to what I said before they think about each other before they go to bed, in the dark. They have smiles on their faces because they no longer have bad feelings toward each other. They don't tell anyone they still think about each other, and on top of that, that they are good thoughts. So they are well concealed in secret places in their minds.

Submitted by: peteinmypants
Added: 2007-06-20 19:50:51     Rating:

What this song means is that just because a person changes and becomes something more than you planned them to be, doesn't mean that you should bring them down and pretend that they are nothing because everyone changes and that's what life is about. It's about making changes and going for your goals.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-09-01 21:14:55     Rating:

There talking about how people think that they've changed has a band and how they abandoned the style of music that they started with. And that there only doing it because its the popular style of music

"Baby, seasons change but people don't.
And I'll always be waiting in the back room."

There saying that there music changed but there still the same people and the same band. We'll always be waiting for our fans to return

"But don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me."

there saying even though we've change don't pretend that you don't like our style of music or that you hate us.

"Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?
Style your wake for fashion magazines.
Widow or a divorcee?"

Would you rather our band die out of pop culture or would you rather us change something little and keep making music. Cause if your not popular then you can't afford to make music

"People will dissect us till
This doesn't mean a thing anymore."

People are turning against FOB because of necessary changes almost to the point where its not worth it anymore.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-09-06 16:58:39     Rating:

You guys are all lame!

It's about fall out boy themselves!!
It's about Fall Out Boys's new image! In the video it shows all their old fans turning against them as they are not really playing what they used to play like;

" Baby, seasons change but people don't." - this is sayin how the music scene changes, but they are still real!

" Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography." shows how famous they are now!

"But don't pretend you ever forgot about me." even though people are turning against them, they are still FOB and they can't forget that!

I could go on.....just watch the video for it to get what I'm saying!

This theory came from an aaaaaaaaamazin friend ov mines that always talks about deeper meanings and rubbish, but she's acually pretty damn good!! =D

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-10-10 17:57:40     Rating:

Herpes

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-10-24 02:39:50     Rating:

This song's meaning is how Fall Out Boy "sold out" since their recent albums and how much their songs have changed.... because in the video it has the part where its all like they have the shirts that say "Pete who" "sell out boy" and stuff like that ,,,, and what I wrote at the start is basically what it means.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-10-27 00:45:59     Rating:

Baby, seasons change but people don't.

And I'll always be waiting in the back room.
I'm boring but overcompensate with
Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography.


But don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me.


Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?

Style your wake for fashion magazines.
Widow or a divorcee?
Don't pretend, d-d-d-don't pretend.

We don't fight fair.
We don't fight fair.

They say your head can be a prison.

Then these are just conjugal visits.

People will dissect us till
This doesn't mean a thing anymore.


Don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me.

Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?
Style your wake for fashion magazines.
Widow or a divorcee?
Don't pretend, d-d-d-don't pretend.

We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces.

We're dropped and well concealed in secret places, woah.

We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces.
We're dropped and well concealed in secret places
We don't fight fair.
We don't fight fair.
We don't fight fair.
We don't fight fair.
We don't fight fair.

We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces.
We're dropped and well concealed in secret places, woah.
We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces.
We're dropped and well concealed in secret places.
We don't fight fair.
With smiles on our faces.
We're dropped and well concealed in secret places.
We don't fight fair.

Don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
We don't fight fair.
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
We don't fight fair

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-11-05 19:39:07     Rating:

Going by the video, this is about how people think FOB is selling out and changing.

Baby, seasons change, but people don't, and I'll always be waiting in the backroom. I'm boring but overcompensate with headlines and flash photography.: Their music changes, but themselves as people don't. Their music goes through 'seasons,' like almost every band, but they are the same. They'll always be there even if you don't like them anymore.

But don't pretend you ever forgot about me. Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee, style your wake for fashion magazines.: You can say they've changed, but you can't say you ever forgot about them. And then the next line, I think is that you wish they'd broken up instead so you could sob and cry about it and get a pity party instead of getting shirts that say Pete Who? and facing opposition and all that.

They say your head can be a prison, then these are just conjugal vists, people will disect us til this doesn't mean a thing anymore.: This part is about not taking their music so seriously, I think. Conjugal, which is realated to married- you can always get a divorce and seperate and fall in out of love again no matter how many times you swear you'll be together forever. And the next line is just what we're doing! Trying to analyze it so much that it doesn't make any sense.

We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces, we're trapped and will conceal in secret places, we don't fight fair.: Even if you don't like it, you'll still love it when nobody's looking and expecting you to speak out against it- AKA 'in the dark'. You might not like them anymore, but they don't 'fight fair,' so you always end up coming back because they didn't do it fair. (That can be something related to conjugal again, but I don't know. Sorry this was so long.)

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-01-03 23:35:51     Rating:

I say that the song is about a famous woman who is dealing with a divorce from her husband but they still sleep together and trying to keep it on the low.

Submitted by: danipaz
Added: 2008-01-13 15:40:06     Rating:

"Baby, seasons change but people don't.
And I'll always be waiting in the back room."

I think he means that he will always be like there for her, even thought he's not the one.

"'m boring but overcompensate with
Headlines and flash, flash, flash photography. "

Pete says that he's really boring, so I think he means that people think he is great (for what you read in magazines and thatstuff) but he's pretty normal.

"But don't pretend you ever forgot about me.
Don't pretend you ever forgot about me."

It's pretty obvious that she she is faking she forgot everything about him.

"Wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee? "

She's kind of dark. She likes to be different.

"Style your wake for fashion magazines. "

He likes her style. That's it.

"We don't fight fair. "

I understand, for other songs from fob, that they are dating with other people. She knocks him out.

"We do it in the dark with smiles on our faces. "

They have sex or they're making out.

"We're dropped and well concealed in secret places"

Their like loners.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-02-07 05:55:00     Rating:

The line "wouldn't you rather be a widow than a divorcee?" is referring to Courtney Love (and Kurt cobain)

Think about it...

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-02-25 01:18:10     Rating:

"They say your head can be a prison.
Then these are just conjugal visits."
it means that their messing with their mind

mind is a prison - duh
conjugal visit - when a wife/husband (usually wife) goes to see their wife/husband in jail, because they're gonna be in there for a long time (they sleep together)

so if the mind is a prison they're only going there to mess (around) with them

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-03-16 10:52:02     Rating:

I heard that the "rather be a widow than a divorcee" was about Kurt Cobain. He was about to divorce that chick so she shot him.

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