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Fall Out Boy - Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner Song Meanings

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This song is based on a boy (again) desperate to have this girl be in love with him, but it's not happening.

"And I'll keep my jealousy close,
'Cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
Then I'm not the only one lying." (because there's proof)

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-10-27 08:21:01     Rating:

I agree that he wants to be with this girl, but can't be. I think they are friends though, and he wants to be more than friends, but she doesn't. I love this song and I love the acoustic version too from Chloe X.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-11 18:33:15     Rating:

I can interpret a few parts of this song that I picked out, one part being "so wear me like a locket around your throat/I'll weigh you down I'll watch you choke/you look so good in blue/you look so good in blue" that means that he loves her so much that he wants to be with her through anything, even though it's hurting both of them.

As for this part: "keep quiet/nothing comes as easy as you/can I lay in your bed all day?/I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake/the hand behind this pen relives a failure every day" that stands as, he wants to be with her sexually and emotionally and personally, (basically I'm overviewing in detail that he loves her), and that he knows it's wrong but he wants her anyway. like he's diving into the deep end and doesn't want to surface though he knows he can. some of Fall Out Boy's songs are hard to interpret but they're Pete's feelings, nonetheless. Thanks for reading this and email me if you want to ask a question or leave a comment on Fall Out Boy, KTRocks05@yahoo.com

Submitted by: ScarletStorm
Added: 2005-11-18 10:20:01     Rating:

This song is about a guy and a girl. The guy loves the girl and wants to be with her, but she is telling people that she has nothing to do with him. He gets angry and kills her, strangles her with the locket he gave her.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-21 19:57:59     Rating:

The intro lines to this song are what I interpret to be more straight edge subtlety. Gin is equated with kerosene, and if a match is lit, the person who drank the gin/kerosene would metaphorically catch fire or explode, and Pete would be left alone as he wishes.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-23 23:27:08     Rating:

The "you look so good in blue part" is definitely about choking her.
"Wear me like a locket around your throat/I'll weigh you down, I'll watch you choke"

It is a song about revenge. The girl he wants/wanted/has/had is a slut bag. "Nothing comes as EASY as you," but he still wants her.

He hates her though.. gin and kerosene.. basically he wants her dead and quiet.

Submitted by: loonylovegood
Added: 2005-11-25 13:32:41     Rating:

Okay, this could be way off... but here's what I think:

I believe this song is about a guy (Pete) whose girlfriend cheats on him (Pete's girlfriend, in fact, cheated on him with his two best friends in the same weekend). Because of this, he's filled with many emotions.

"Drink down that Gin and Kerosene,
And come spit on bridges with me,
Just to keep us warm.
Light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave me be."

To pour gin and kerosene on a bridge would, of course, make it highly flamable. Lighting a match would make the bridge catch on fire and burn down. Thus, I think this lyric is meant to reference "burning bridges." The metaphor "burning bridges" can be interpreted different ways, but considering one of the lines ("Light a match to leave me be."), it could be meant as burning "social bridges." You know, like cutting ties? Because of this betrayal, he doesn't want to have anything to do with her anymore.

"I keep my jealousy close,
'Cause it's all mine."

Obviously, he would be feeling jealousy if she cheated on him. I'm probably overthinking it, but maybe the "'cause it's all mine" line is there because he feels like he's lost a lot of things (his girlfriend, his girlfriend's affection, his trust in his girlfriend, etc.) and maybe he feels that his jealousy is all he has that belongs soully to him. (This is all in more of an emotional sense, not physical)

"And if you say this makes you happy,
Then I'm not the only one lying."

Once he's found out about the cheating, there would noteably be tension in their relationship. Maybe the girlfriend still might have wanted to be with him after cheating on him (it's happened before) and because he loves her, maybe he doesn't dump her immediately. But there would be tension and their relationship would be strained, which would make both of them unhappy. But if the girl really wanted to be with him, she would lie about being happy.

"Keep quiet.
Nothing comes as easy as you."

The 'keep quiet' could maybe mean he's tired of hearing her excuses. The other line could be a reference to how easy or slutty he feels she is for cheating on him.

"Can I lay in your bed all day?"

I'm probably really off with this, but this line could just be about how tired and emotionally as well as physically trained the whole ordeal has made him feel, and how he just wants to be with her like normal again.

"I'll be your best kept secret
And your biggest mistake."

I have a little trouble wit this line... but I'm guessing maybe his girlfriend might neglect telling people about him in the future because of her cheating on him, and how she might look back on the entire relationship (or maybe just her cheating on him) as a mistake.

"The hand behind this pen relives a failure every day."

Because of her cheating on him, he feels like a failure in general. He probably replays the fact over and over again in his head and wonders if it's his fault he couldn't make her happy.

"So wear me like a locket around your throat.
I'll weigh you down.
I'll watch you choke.
You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue."

This verse shows the anger he would feel because of her deception. As much as a person may deny it, in the midst of rage, almost everyone has probably thought or said they wanted to kill the person who upset them.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-12 21:22:56     Rating:

I think that it's about a boy that's in love with this girl or something like that. And like she's probably cheating on him. or something.

Submitted by: cherryxbliss
Added: 2005-12-16 16:30:52     Rating:

I think loonylovegood was right on a few things, but she seemed to have trouble with the chorus, and I think I can clarify a bit.

"Keep quiet.
Nothing comes as easy as you."

Now, I always thought that the narrator (wether it's Pete or not is another debate)was stillin love with the girl, even though she created on him or broke his heart in some other way. With that thought in mind, the "Keep quiet" is his way of saying that he already knows what she did, but dosn't care. "Nothing comes as easy as you" is talking about how he feels that the only thing that comes natural to him is loving her, so it doesn't really matter if she's a good girlfriend or not

"Can I lay in your bed all day?"

This line is about how he loves her still, so he still wants to be with her in ever sense.

"I'll be your best kept secret
And your biggest mistake."

HE realizes that she's not the best girlfriend, and he's probably feeling a little down if she's been with other guys. He may be feeling that if she felt the need to go be with someone else, he's failing at being a good boyfriend. She may be ashamed because he's such a bad lover, which explains why she wants to keep him a secret. He's a mistake because she could do so much better.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-26 03:14:15     Rating:

I suppose it might be about a relationship that isn't working out right. Yet the two "lovers" continue to trying and mend some of the shattered parts of it. I also think that the guy in the song might feel a bit guilty for the demise of the relationship. (Like the fact that he tried, but couldn't save it?)

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-30 04:16:32     Rating:

My interpretation of the Wear me like a locket around your throat/I'll way you down/I'll watch you choke/You look so good in blue is, the guy gave her locket with his picture in it, and he believes, if she wants to prove she still loves him, she has to wear it, but she feels smothered by it, like proving her commitment to a ship she thinks has already sunk beyond comprehension. Her boyfriend is watching her be smothered without trying to help her, telling her she looks good with her spirit being slowly crushed.

Submitted by: L0VECANTSAVEY0U
Added: 2006-01-21 22:48:50     Rating:

This song is about the girl Pete was in love with for two years. He was away on tour and she slept with two of his best friends over the same weekend and the songs about getting revenge over that girl.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-02-19 16:32:02     Rating:

Well, I'm not sure what to think about these lyrics especially since my ex-boyfriend said that this song reminded him of me, and I never cheated on him
I have just always wondered the what the relationship between the dirty dancing quote as the title is to the meaning of the rest of the song...does anyone have any ideas?

Submitted by: bestkeptsecret_x
Added: 2006-02-25 23:18:16     Rating:

Ok guys... your interpretations on the "So wear me like a locket around your throat..." part are completely different from what I came up with.

"So wear me like a locket around your throat
I'll weigh you down,
I'll watch you choke
You look so good in blue
You look so good in blue."

I think it has something to do with the girl showing off the boy to everyone ("so wear me like a locket around your throat"), like maybe a lot of girls were after him, but she got him. The boy did not like this and maybe the girl never really loved him; maybe she oly wanted him because everyone else did. The boy realized that their relationship would never work out.
So, the girl was wearing the boy like a locket by showing him off, but not really loving him. So the boy was unhappy because he really loved the girl and wished that she would just leave (I really liked that other person's "burning bridges" theory, and I agree with it). That would be "I'll weigh you down, I'll watch you choke". Perhaps it has something to do with the girl choking on her words later.

But the last lines:
"You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue."
I think that the boy still loved the girl with all his heart, even though she didn't feel that way about him. So he thought she was beautiful, even though he hated her at the same time. Its hard to explain.

I'm horrible with words.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-03-04 14:05:11     Rating:

I think this song has a lot to do with Hey Kate, I don't know, I might be completely wrong. But with all the stuff that has been going on between them lately, it made me think of this song.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-03-06 22:14:26     Rating:

The people above have interpreted the song well, but there was a question about the song title and its relevance to the song. "Nobody puts baby in a corner" is a quote from the movie Dirty Dancing. Baby (Frances) kept Johnny a secret from everyone because she wasn't supposed to have anything to do with him. "I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake" is a line with much relevance to the movie.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-02 21:07:04     Rating:

loonylovegod should give themself more credit as a lot of it I agree with and they seem to be one of the few who have come up eith these thoughts. I don't think your way off.

I also was wondering about the reference to dirty dancing, but that makes a lot of sense now.

Submitted by: FOB_Unit21
Added: 2006-04-05 08:53:31     Rating:

Let's get one thing straight:
Can I lay in your bed all day?
Is NOT a sexual reference! Think about it. All this guy wants to do is hang out with her at her house like it was before she cheated on him!

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-17 15:23:05     Rating:

To start, I'm just stabbing in the dark, here. No real facts, I don't read interviews, and I'm CERTAINLY not making accusations.

"Nothing comes as easy as you"-- He's calling 'her' a slut. Now, the possible implications there are a threefold. One, he's mad at her and so he's just shooting blindly for a stinging insult. Two, she cheated on him; therefor, he sees her as 'easy,' but this very likely isn't about that because if that's the case then he wouldn't have worded it that way. The wording here seems to mean that HE views her as easy, which is not the same as viewing her as slutty. Third, it almost rings of a triumphant tone, and I can't think of any situation where you'd be triumphant to someone's face about their easiness unless you're emotionally attacking them, something very common in the case of rapes. The third also seems relevant to the only other thing I noticed in the story:

The 'you look so good in blue' verse. Of course, it could be a reference to Dirty Dancing. The second meaning has also already been explained better than I could've thought of myself; that she is showing him off too much. The overt meaning, which is surprisingly the oft-true one, is that he's suffocating someone. The line "leaving a beautiful corpse" speaks volumes to me here, in that she looks great dead: her blood drained from her face, leaving her lips a blue color. This is in standing with the third point of my last thought, though it's just as likely that I'm paranoid.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-17 20:22:51     Rating:

Where does 'a beautiful corpse' come into things, its not a line in the song but it sounds familiar to me??

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