Fall Out Boy - Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner Song Meanings Lyrics:
Drink down that Gin and Kerosene,
And come spit off bridges with me,
Just to keep us warm.
Light a match to leave me be.
Light a match...
(See the rest of these lyrics)
 Top Rated Interpretation
2005-11-25 13:32:41
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.
shinodasgurl817
2006-04-24 22:19:22
I guess I interpreted different than yall did... I kinda think it's about a girl cheatin on her b/f with the main character... "Keep quiet"- like so no one can hear them together... "Nothing comes as easy as you"- he has no problem doing things with her bc he loves her... "I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake"- No one will know about it, and its a mistake to keep doing it, but they will anyway.... "The hand behind this pen relieves a failure every day"- and then he writes about it.. Hence this song.
anonymous
2006-06-01 06:52:14
I think this song is about a guy who once had a girl, but the girl let him go. Now he's torn between wanting and still caring for her or having nothing to do with her because he's so hurt.
I think the chorus says it all. He gives her a locket, which is a sign of love. The he watches as it chokes her. He doesn't intervene and let's her suffer which indicates to me he has ill-feelings towards her. However, even as she's on the brink of death he can't but help to admire her beauty even as she turns a pale shade of blue.
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anonymous
2006-06-13 21:12:53
Okay all I know is that nobody puts baby in the corner is a quote from the movie dirty dancing. If you have seen the movie it kinda relates with the song, like the best kept secret part of the song and in the movie they were trying to keep their relationship a secret, so maybe they based it off of the movie.
anonymous
2006-06-13 21:59:10
Okay, Well Have ya heard of the movie "Dirty Dancing" the orginal. Okay in one part of the movie the guy says "Nobody puts baby in the corner"
this might be really stupid interpretation, but I think the band got the theme of the song from the movie! Most people thought that the song means that this girl wants to be more than friends with this guy etc.[if you don't know what I'm talking about, read other peoples' comments] And I think it the right! So ya!
Driver69eryaz
2006-06-16 06:43:37
I think everyone knows what the verses are about but this is what I think the chorus mean...
"Keep quiet nothing comes as easy as you
I'll be your best kept secret and you biggest mistake"
-i think this is said from the guy she cheated on pete with..."keep quiet" meaning don't tell anyone...
"The hand behind this pen relieves a failure everyday"
-thats about how pete write songs or lyrics about this event.
"So where me like a locket around your throat"
-he saying "like"..so its a simile...he wants her to remember what she did to him. make her feel guilty.
"i'll weigh you down ill watch you choke
you look so good in blue"
-he's hoping she have so much guilt that it chokes her and makes her life miserable. He's not actually killing her..he's using a metaphor...
Eggnog
2006-08-05 04:06:53
The part where it says "wear me like a locket" reminds me of the poem "rhyme of the ancient mariner." in the poem an old sailor murders this albatross (a beautiful bird believed to be good luck to sailors) and for this his crew makes him wear the dead bird around his neck as a reminder for the crime he committed. I think it may be the same thing in this situation. He's saying �what you did is horrible and you will have to live with it� (wear me like a locket around your throat) and he is also saying that she deserves whatever bad things that happen to her and all the guilt that she feels (i�ll weigh you down I'll watch you choke you look so good in blue).
anonymous
2006-12-04 15:40:00
I always thought the bit about:
You look so good in blue
meant that he hates her so much that he wants her dead so she can't hurt him any more. Could be wrong though.......
anonymous
2007-02-21 05:44:50
"You look so good in blue" - I think the girl in the song is turning blue from being choked by the locket around her throat?
anonymous
2007-03-10 14:36:41
"So wear me like a locket around your throat"
I think this line has to do with the figurative phrase "twist somebody around your little finger" which means you're succeeding in making somebody do exactly as you wish. The throat=finger or controller, so the girl's trying to be the dominant one in the relationship and the locket=the person being manipulated, the narrator.
"I'll weigh you down and watch you choke"
The narrator won't stand for being controlled like that so he is basically stating that he will be the controller's downfall.
"You look so good in blue/you look so good in blue"
This line is extremely sadistic and bitter. He's getting pleasure from her pain.
anonymous
2007-03-14 21:16:00
OK, well the only thing I understood was you look so blue meaning she choked and now she's dead (blue skin) ya... That's about it.. -lexi-
anonymous
2007-03-28 16:33:11
The song is about a boy who really wants a girl but he thinks that she would be ashamed of him. Thus, "your best kept secret".
ashley070793
2007-04-10 19:32:18
OK so I think loonylovegood has most of it right except for the line "The hand behind this pen relives a failure every day."
I think that part The hand behind this pen means that he's writing down the way he feels in the form of this song and the part relives a failure every day."
When the other people hear the song it relieves them of feeling like a failure to no someone else went threw the same thing (or just him writing the song relives him of feeling like a failure)
anonymous
2007-06-26 19:17:37
Ok so this dude...he doesn't know if he wants to kiss her...or kill her...he's so confused...he's never been in love with someone as much as her but he also never wanted to strangle someone as much as her....it's complicaated love with a side order of mixed signals and a bug cup of tekthronine (gin and kero)
anonymous
2007-07-05 18:22:13
"You look so good in blue" could be speaking bitterly about how cold she is. "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" might be like the others said about how she was using him as a trophy (if it is from Pete's perspective, it would make sense- Dating him only for his fame or something) and she'd pay for it.
"Keep quiet/Nothing comes as easy as you," honestly, I agree with the others who say he's calling her a slut. Someone who's "easy." He doesn't want to hear her excuses for being such an easy catch. "Can I lay in your bed all day?" sounds like he's mocking her about the guys she sleeps with. "I'll be your best kept secret" is kind of contradictory of the locket shtick, so again, he might be saying that he'd be her BEST kept secret, since the other guys obviously weren't very secret. But he'd also be her BIGGEST mistake, aside from the huge mistakes the other guys were. So he wants to be her biggest mistake so he can get revenge...?
"The hand behind this pen relives a failure every day" has a different tone than the rest of the song, because his bitterness is replaced by shame at how much of a failure he is. Whenever he looks at the lyrics or hears the song, it reminds him of how much of a failure he is.
anonymous
2007-08-15 03:02:25
Why does everyone think pete is the only person in FOB?!? He is not, so just get over him and give the other band members some credit!!!!!!!
anonymous
2007-08-16 00:44:02
This song is about a boy and a girl who had a 1 night stand,(keep quiet, nothing comes as easy as you) and he likes her a lot more than she likes him.(Can I lay in your bed all day?/Ill be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake)The girl also likes him but doesn't want to let him know,(If you say this makes you happy/ then I'm not the only one lying) because ahe already has a boyfriend. Obviously the boy doesn't like the idea of that.(I keep my jealousy close/cause its all my mine) He is really pissed off and wants to strangle her with the locket her boyfriend gave her (Wear me like the locket around your throat/I'll weigh you down and watch you choke/ you look so good in blue/you look so good in blue)
Overall this is an awesome song. Luv ya , Fall out boy! Keep the overly awesome songs coming!!!!!
anonymous
2007-09-02 10:21:28
I think the bit about the locket is far less violent. Instead of him killing her with the locket I think its that "wear me like a locket around your throat I'll weight you down I'll watch you choke" is saying he knows she loves him back but can't show it and its a secret she can't tell which is choking her, weighting her down. and him saying "I'll watch you choke" is him saying there is nothing he can do about it he can only watch her ruin herself with the secret.
carvareum
2007-10-20 09:16:36
I think its a story of a guy who fell in love with a girl. He realized that he loved her so much. And loved being around her. Like in the line "And come split off bridges with me".
"nothing comes as easy as you"
in my opinion means that he could be himself around her and nothing came easier than loving her.
"Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
And your biggest mistake"
i think means that even if she may have cheated on him, he still loves and wants her sexually. Even if they could keep their relationship a secret from the guy that she cheated on him for and by doing so he would get back at the guy that his girl cheated on him for. which brings in the line "And if you say this makes you happy/Then I'm not the only one lying"
"Drink down your gin and kerosene
And come split off bridges with me
Just to keep us warm
Light a match to leave me be
Light a match to leave me be"
the first part to me means that he hates her in some way. He may be a little phycotic or suicidal after she cheated on him. He wants to kill himself and her so that they could die together(coz he still loves her) and so he could watch her suffer.
"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"
im not sure bout this line but I think he wasnt sucessful killing her the first time because she didn't want to be around him anymore. So he waited a finally strangled her with a locket. After he killed her he probably looked at her dead face and thought she never looked more beautiful with a blue shade on her face. AS I said, I think he may be phycotic or not mentally balanced.
anonymous
2007-10-26 15:55:51
I like what someone said about burning bridges... I agree with that.
But I think the song is simply about 2 people who had a relationship/affair that was not supposed to get out... They had to keep quiet because they were not supposed to be together for whatever reason. She might have another lover or maybe they are just in a situation where it would be socially unacceptable for them to be together, so they have to keep it quiet. He could be jealous that she is free to show her affection to anybody but him when he is clearly the one she should love. regardless, he wants to be with her, even if it has to be a secret. "nothing comes as easy as you" probably is just a reference to how easy it is for the 2 of them to be together ... It could mean that she is easy, but I think it is more of a reference of how easy it is for him, personally, to be with her. That is how I have always taken it, but either way... whatever it means, he doesn't care. He only wants to be with her. "can I lay in your bed all day?" refers to him wanting to spend time with her in whatever way possible... and it is possible, if this relationship had to be kept quiet, that the only way he was able to show his affection was sexually (since he could probably not be seen with her as anything more than friends).
i think the "wear me like a locket around your throat" part is not literal. when someone wears a locket, you can see that they love someone, but you can't see who until you open the heart and look at the picture. I think he is saying to keep him in her heart, even if she can't let anyone else know... eventually, the secret will be hard to keep... She won't be able to take it anymore (I'll weigh you down; I'll watch you choke) and she will have to make a decision... either keep quiet and live in agony, which he is willing to do... or cut ties, burn bridges (the reference at the beginning of the song)
you also have to keep in mind the name of the song... It is a reference to the line in dirty dancing. They would not have called it that if it was not about a secret affair or relationship. The song is not about revenge or someone cheating on him. It is about someone he loves who can never love him back in the way she wants him to and it kills him inside.
and just so you all know... I don't know who writes the songs for fall out boy, but pete wetz is not the one singing... That would be patrick. pete is the one who does the talking and he jumps around with his guitar on stage a lot. just because he is the one who is most well known does not mean that all the songs are through his perspective.
my interpretation is probably not the exact meaning that the songwriter had in mind, but I know that a good song can have more than one meaning... It could mean one thing to you and something completely different to another person. I am a songwriter, so I know that people don't always write songs so that they can be taken one particular way. They want people to be able to relate and make what they want to out of it. So no matter how many conclusions we come to here, the song probably means something very different to the writer... and that's ok. but this is what the song means to me.
anonymous
2007-10-31 13:57:02
I think it's about to alcoholic teens "drink up the gin and kariseen" that are having an affair with each other "keep quiet, nothing comes as easy as you,can I lay in your bed all day ill be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake". makes sense I guess
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