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Fall Out Boy - Of All the Gin Joints in the World Song Meanings

I never really understood the meaning of this song, until I started going out with my current boyfriend!
"Turn off the lights and turn off the shyness
'Cause all of our moves make up for the silence
And oh, the way your makeup stains my pillowcase
Like I'll never be the same"
I think these lyrics are about a couple who are pretty shy around each other in public, but when they're on their own they are more like a couple.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-04-01 19:37:54     Rating:

I definately agree that this song is about a relationship. It seems that the guy feels unworthy of being with the girl. He didn't really live before he met her, only dreamed of what it would be like. They open up to each other leaving behind the awkwardness and this relationship changes his life.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-04-03 16:37:21     Rating:

I think this song is about a guy and a girl who started going out recently. He has a lot of secrets and he's scared of sharing them with her because he really loves her, so he's not sure how to open up to her. They're really shy with each other in public, but when the lights go out they share everything with each other. He knows its a relationship that will change him and his life forever.

Submitted by: drea
Added: 2007-04-14 00:32:20     Rating:

This is a cute relationship song
how Pete expresses his love :(
What they did together and happy.

"I use to waste my time dreaming of being alive, now I only waste of dreaming of you"

Yeah so that girl doesn't realize how lucky she is.

Submitted by: itsjustme
Added: 2007-04-15 20:19:03     Rating:

I think this song is talking about a couple, who aren't really sure that they want to be together. they feel kind of awkward around each other, and don't have much to say or do with each other except sex, even though they do care about each other.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-07-05 18:29:19     Rating:

The guy feels like he's a total loser, and going out with a girl who's in a higher class than him but only because she doesn't really know him and/or his past. "And oh, the way your makeup stains my pillowcase/Like I'll never be the same"- he's a different person now because of the relationship he has with her. Or more like, the KIND of relationship he has with her.

I think, just like with "XO" and "I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me," this title and that of "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner" might have been switched. It's almost like in Dirty Dancing when Johnny Castle thinks he's no good for Baby because she was brought up well and all that. And in "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner" it could easily be called "Of All the Gin Joints in All the World" since maybe he doesn't like the prospect of seeing his cheating girlfriend anymore? It seems almost like this song is the "before" and that one is the "after." Maybe in the other song it says "The hand behind this pen relives a failure every day" because he used to be a failure before he was with her, and he was returning to that life.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-08-05 19:47:10     Rating:

Hey! the last guy did it perfectly!! and I totally agree with the name switch and the "before/after" thing. GOOD JOB!

Submitted by: randomperson
Added: 2007-10-28 21:47:00     Rating:

FOB's in love! This is such a cute love song!

I can just imagine this new couple who are really in love, but also kind of shy with each other. Each person thinks so highly of the other and are obiously really happy together. Being together makes them feel alive. It expresses just the feeling of falling in love! :)

Submitted by: luckybacon7272
Added: 2008-01-27 14:03:58     Rating:

The first lines of the song : you only hold me up like this cause you don't know who I really am. Sometimes I just want to know what its like to be you..

i think what he is saying here is that girls love him because he is some famous amazingly attractive guy in a kickass band.. and he wishes that someone would actually like him for knowing who he is. and sometimes he just wants to know what its like to be you.. like he wants to know what its like to be loved you who a person really is and not have to be famous all the time.

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