anonymous 2006-08-01 08:45:33    

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"submitted by: anonymous
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."

way too much time on your hands.

anonymous 2006-08-23 14:58:33    

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How did you get that it was about mcr? I don't think so

anonymous 2006-08-27 23:09:33    

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"submitted by: anonymous
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."

wow... The meaning of the song is way over your head aint it?

anonymous 2006-09-05 15:28:09    

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It's about temptations ('make them dance like shooting at feet' is an actual quote from the temptations). There was vh1.Com article about it a while back. Go back to your myspaces, children.

anonymous 2006-09-09 12:21:51    

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They are basically saying how pathetic it is to impersonate someone famous just to get attention... Like really. It doesn't say too much about your social life to impersonate a band, I have seen the myspace account with a whole bunch of fakes. Really it's kinda sad how desprate some people are for attention, myspace is an okay site it's just some people acting like a whole bunch of idiots that give the site a bad reputation.

I totally agree with fall out boy and I laugh my head off at all those fakes...If people want to make friends why not just be them selves

i think very highly of fall out boy but I am not obsessed I however am excited about eventually going to one of their concerts

rock on, fall out boy rock on

taken from tv.Com (http://www.Tv.Com/fall-out-boy/person/389777/biography.Html):
pete wentz: (on winning worst new artist of 2005 by spin magazine) I guess we're just one of those bands that just polarizes people. Some people worship the ground we walk on, and some people say we are ruining music and should shut our mouths. If you want to keep either of those opinions, you should try not to engage us in a real conversation.

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that is the case with a lot of people.

Okay now? Bybye

anonymous 2006-10-30 16:31:32    

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Interesting article (in of all places the wall street journal's online law blog) on the true meaning of this song:

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/08/08/law-blog-rocker-of-the-day-fall-out-boys-pete-wentz/

interesting stuff for fob fans, imho...

anonymous 2006-11-02 09:36:47    

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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

basically, it means what he's singing. Put down a hard copy of this, we're gonna tell you what we think is the truth, we'll give you nothing you're just making yourself more deaf.

it's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
the ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before christmas."

nonsense. It's there to make the song sound good and reinforce the point of leaving you high and dry with nothing but less aural skills.

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

we're only popular for now. If we add you back on myspace, you'll have almost famous friends, and hell, we dress spiffy.

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

you put our lyrics on your profiles, your handles, everything. It's just regurgitated from our songs. We're friends when you're bringing me off. You love our songs cos you dance your head off to them.

anonymous 2006-11-04 21:54:55    

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In my opinion, fob is pretty much telling everyone not to idolize them, or any band for that matter. A lot of people literally live for bands and music, and this is their way of saying get a life!

_zoe_ 2007-01-17 15:05:32    

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I don't know the whole song meaning,
but I do know that the line "the ribbon on my wrist, says do not open before Christmas" is often misunderstood.
It's a very subtle way of getting at self harming.
The "opening" being the cutting.

anonymous 2007-01-23 15:26:16    

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Umm, wasn't this one originally called "I loved you before you were a MySpace whore?" If so, then that is what the title is alluding to, They're saying that..well, take a look at myspace now. There's a billion and one bands selling there souls to it lol

anonymous 2007-01-26 12:12:20    

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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."


the actually title is My Name is David Ruffin... And These Are The Temptations so they in no way had issues



The song that was going to be there is on IOH as I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always trying to get you off

trunks059 2007-02-07 13:59:12    

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At there show in Denver about a year ago Patrick said that he wrote this song about a band that "in his mind" was awesome, then they sold out after "in his mind" stealing FOBS sound and in the background they had been playing Panic at the disco on the projector screen. So I think this song is about sell out bands, but I think they had Panic in mind when they wrote it

anonymous 2007-03-04 02:05:23    

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I did research and the original name was "I Liked You Before You Became A Fucking MySpace Whore", and their lawyers really did make them change it.

Angelmisty 2007-03-16 21:46:12    

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It's about a band selling out

anonymous 2007-03-24 15:47:20    

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Co-Counsel reached out for Pete Wentz, the frontman for Grammy-nominated pop-punk band Fall Out Boy, to see what was up with their song, “Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued,” the first track on “From Under the Cork Tree,” the band’s multi-platinum breakout album.

Wentz called Co-Counsel back over the weekend, thanks to some prodding from his dad, Pete Wentz, Sr., former GC of Helene Curtis and now an executive at APCO Worldwide. The 27-year-old rocker cheerfully dished on the song and other legal matters. “Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued” was originally called, “My Name is David Ruffin and These Are the Temptations,” Wentz says. After Ruffin broke with the famed Motown group, he kept attending shows and would steal the microphones away from his former bandmembers, unable to wean himself from the limelight. Wentz says his original song title, “was a play on Ruffin’s egomania and general narcissism.” Here are the song’s lyrics.

Wentz’s father advised his son against using the song title, for fear that the group would be sued. Did the younger Wentz listen? “No, because he was my dad. He advised me against a lot of things that I do,” he said with a playful hint of mischief in his voice. According to Wentz the Younger, the band’s lawyers also told them they’d be slapped with a hefty lawsuit, and offered up a few options — they could sign a waiver; include a reference to Ruffin in the song (which somehow would shield against a lawsuit); or change the name of the song. Fall Out Boy went with the third option. Says Wentz: “We just decided it was a good idea not to get sued.”

Though it may have avoided a lawsuit from the ex-Temptation, Wentz says the band gets hit “with a lawsuit a day.” He says that when fans get hurt at concerts, they sue and name the band as defendants. And then there’s the occasional inflammatory statement. “We’re always running our mouths and saying something stupid,” Wentz says, adding that the band employs an attorney half-time.

anonymous 2007-06-05 21:10:58    

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This song's just about all those kids in garage bands, underground who are somewhat famous ("we're only good because you can have almost famous friends") that are in my opinion greatly unappreciated that are trying to hit it big and just being in that place in their life and music; young wreckless and such things.

anonymous 2007-09-12 19:45:04    

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About the beginning of the song, I'd like to note that it starts with light bulb flashes and on the first track on take this to your grave it started with a dial tone. on tttyg the dial tone represented how they weren't really popular yet and they were being ignored by the mainstream music world. On the FUNCT it starts with light bulb flashes representing stardom--that they were no longer ignored.

sazzyness 2007-10-11 06:19:43    

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Well I think that they couldnt use the orignal title..
i loved you before you were a myspace.so
they had to change the name of the song so they owuldnt get sued :P

anonymous 2008-04-13 21:57:22    

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I know this is wrong, but I always thought at these lines

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

They were talking about lawyers. like in the first line some people just call lawyers liars. and basically your getting a liar, but they are the best.

Then the second line, the person who hired the lawyer, could have gotten sued or whatever for the latest trend [whatever that may be]

The third line, some lawyers could be considered almost famous, if they had worked a high-profile case and the person with this lawyer considers them a friend

And the last line, because they have great fashion sense in their nice little suits and stuff.

That's what I always think of, even though it's wrong lol

anonymous 2008-07-08 14:22:57    

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Fall Out Boy songs are not for the shallow of mind. I showed my friend a lyrics slide show of this song on YouTube and when it came to the verse "The ribbon on my wrist says, 'Do not open before Christmas'", she turned to me and said,
"What?! Why is he a present?!"

Honestly...

I agree with anyone who said the ribbon refers to materialism and also anyone who thinks it refers to slitting your wrists. Hey, tons of songs (especially by FOB) have double, triple, or even quadruple meanings.