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Fall Out Boy - Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn Song Meanings

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I think it's just about having fun as a teen. "It's just past eight and I'm feeling young and reckless." Right there it says it! So, yeah.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-10-29 15:30:47     Rating:

I think there insulting another band who sold out or somthing to that effect. If my interpertation is right, I would really like to know who the band they're insulting is.

Submitted by: remi lebeau
Added: 2005-10-31 08:42:50     Rating:

This song is about Fall out boy warning their fans about how great they are about Lying to people using music. When I say Lying, I mean how all artist use music to lie to people for various reasons-popularity-sex-money. The reason why this song is awsome is because they are actually telling us the truth by telling us they are lying.

This song rules

Submitted by: cherryxbliss
Added: 2005-11-04 16:17:58     Rating:

Pete's basically telling us that no one is in music for the right reasons anymore, and that no matter what, everything gets manufactured to some point. There are all those kids out there who think they are listen to true, real music, but with the pop culture today, there is no real, true music. Because of this, it's okay to say "Well, this and this band may not sound that great live, but that doesn't matter, because it's all pretty much shit out there." Yeah, if that made sense to anyone, Brownie points to you.

Submitted by: PunkRockMayhem
Added: 2005-11-23 11:52:41     Rating:

Brothers and sisters put this record down
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose

I think this part is FOB telling the listener that they are not like other bands. 'Put this record down/the hearing you will loose' is that your friends are going to argue with you cause fob is not like other bands (they are awesome live).

We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense

I think here they are talking for other bands...saying that they are liars because they are fake but people think they are the best...they go out of style guickly (latest trend)...We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends is their friends use them becuase they are famous.

Brothers and sisters, yeah, put these words down
Into your notebook (spit lines like these)
We're friends when you're on your knees
Make them dance like we were shooting their feet

We're friends when you're on your knees is that when you need help from me you are my friend but when you can survive on your own you take advantage of me.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-23 23:11:07     Rating:

They are in legal trouble. They wanted to put a "bad word" in the name of the song. However, their lawyer believed they would get sued by someone. Instead of putting the "bad word" in the song, they are saying "hey, we're fall out boy.. and even though we couldn't put that bad word in the title, we can still piss everyone off by making an extremely long title for the song. We might still get sued though, which would suck because then we'd have no more money. Even though we have tons. we'd have less if we were sued. This is why we didn't put the bad word in the song. But what if people knew we were going to put a bad name in the song and they sued us anyway, just for the heck of it? We would get our lawyer... and we would get lots more money. Then, we'd eat cake."

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-23 23:29:04     Rating:

The "were only friends when you're on your knees" part is like were only friends when I'm getting what I want... pleasure.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-12 19:50:43     Rating:

The name of the song had something to do with The Temptations. He (Pete) said it in his AIM/AOL interview, dummies.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-30 04:28:58     Rating:

Hmmm....well, I heard somewhere, I think it was on the Fall Out Boy website or something, that this was just making fun of all those people who are like phonie rebels. You know, we're only good so you can have all those famous friends. Stuff like that.

Submitted by: jetbluuu
Added: 2006-01-29 19:38:12     Rating:

This song is about myspace. nuff said. listen to each lyrics hahahah. It describes the average person who uses myspace.

"Brothers and sisters put this record down
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose"

Pete is talking about how you don't have to bother listening to us because it will go in one ear and out the other. He is simply implying rebelious teenagers who don't listen to authority that tell them other wise

It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "Do not open before Christmas."

Again he is targeting teenagers who all into the fad thing and what not by saying the ribbon on my wrist. Simply, he takes it to that persons perspective and describe the average bopper who has them wristbands that have lines or sayings. Plus the time, "just past 8," majority of teenagers uses the computer at that time.im a teen so I know these things lol

"We're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
We're only good for the latest trend
We're only good cause you can have almost famous friends
Besides, we've got such good fashion sense"

Now this is obvious, well to me it is. were only liars but were the best. uhmmm if you used myspace before you know that that the truth is mostly pushed might just be full of lies on your myspace. don't lie cus I do it too, in some cases. were only good cause you can have almost famous friends, this is simple. people add that person even though not knowing the who the person is. This makes people feel wanted and liked because they accpted your thingy ...-_-, example: popular kids and celebrities.

I love this song because it tells the truth about the average myspace "whore." Also this songs original title was "I loved you before you were a myspace whore" lol I love myspace ....... myspace.com/sbdunkless plz don't spam me

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-03-06 22:26:39     Rating:

Pete Wentz said in the AIM interview that the original title for this song was "My Name Is David Ruffin.... And These Are The Temptations "

There you go.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-03-17 23:59:09     Rating:

One song title that wasn't just a goof was "Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued," because that's what really happened. The band was planning to call the track "My Name Is David Ruffin and These Are the Temptations," but higher forces intervened.

"It was kind of supposed to be our nod at a bio piece on the Temptations and David Ruffin and where the separation lies between being a superstar and a megalomaniac," Wentz said. "But our label said, 'You're going to get sued for doing that,' and our lawyer said, 'You're definitely going to get sued for doing that,' which totally sucked. So we said, 'OK, why don't we immortalize you in a song?' "

Submitted by: darthjesus
Added: 2006-03-28 20:07:11     Rating:

The ribbon on my wrist says, "Do not open before Christmas."

Although this isn't the full meaning of the song, this line is actually a morbidly, humurous jab at cutting one's wrists as a method of suicide. If you look more closely at a lot of FOB songs, you'll see a lot of black humor. Suicide is only one of the many dark topics they hint at though.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-10 14:31:00     Rating:

This song is about people who use myspace, because most of them are fakes and posers and some are even depressed, 'the ribbon on my wrist' refers to slitting your wrists.

The camera's clicking at the begining is refering to them all taking loads of photo's of themselves.

The song also used to be called 'I loved you before you where a myspace whore!'
No offense to people who use myspace!

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-17 15:09:12     Rating:

To answer a previous poster, the bit about "the ribbon on my wrist" is very likely NOT a reference to LiveStrong bands; though, it is a fad reference as I can tell. There is a big fad these days, that it's cool to self-mutilate, and MySpace (to continue the thread everyone else has been trailing, though I see little reason to think that's the right one) is full of people who would attempt suicide to be cooler.

Also, DarthJesus is right. They're just darkly comedic. Look at 'Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner' for a great example.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-21 18:26:47     Rating:

Ok, this one is easy the lyrics are saying that everyone just assumes too much. That everyone is putting them in with the typical pop-punk stereotype. They are being sarcastic and bringing up all exaggerations of other bands in their genre:

The ribbon on my wrist says, "Do not open before Christmas."

This is saying that they are being viewed as an object, and not as people, that its just like people can give them away and stuff.

It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless

This saying how all the bands pretend not to fit in with the stereotypes saying that they are unique rebels, in effect becoming part of the stereotype since everyone is doing it

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-05-19 19:31:23     Rating:

It's about my chemical romance. mocking them.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-05-24 14:33:21     Rating:

There is something to say about this song being first on the record. The significance being that its the impression that FOB wants you to have...
i think they are being sarcastic, they don't think they are all that great, and they just wanna have fun. If you wanna listen to their music, that's cool. It's the whole take it or leave it mentality. Totally awesome.

Submitted by: Dulcie
Added: 2006-06-02 17:33:43     Rating:

They are basically saying that this is NOT the record that they would have put out if they had control. FOB started out on an independent label where they had a lot more freedom to be the band they wanted to be. With this record, the big label told them how act, what to wear, who their friends were, and more importantly...what to sing about in order to make them more marketable. "The ribbon on my wrist" is in reference to the “limited edition” version of the album that dropped in December of 2005, further explaining how it’s not about the music anymore and just about the money they generate.

There are several songs on the album that make references to how they feel about this, not just this song.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-06-28 20:56:51     Rating:

Three words: tongue in cheek.

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