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Fall Out Boy - Don't You Know Who I Think I Am? Song Meanings

Hm, I don't know but the lyrics are wrong. Give me a sign, is supposed to be Get me just right.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-05-27 12:38:14     Rating:

You right, its "But a dollar for your /insides/" not" But a dollar for your /insights/"

Submitted by: Esparanza
Added: 2007-06-10 19:41:06     Rating:

This is about Chris and Pete again. In "Thnks Fr th Mmmrs" there's a line in quotations "who does he think he is?" what Chris said as he told Pete off on livejournal. This is the follow up to "Thnks Fr th Mmmrs", Pete's response in a way.

Submitted by: peteinmypants
Added: 2007-06-11 15:26:01     Rating:

Wow, you're so right! They totally need to edit the songs! Anyway, before I start rambling, when it comes to "penny for your thoughts..." what they're trying to say is that they are an artist. They need to find something to write/paint, and they are desperate.

Submitted by: marie72093
Added: 2007-06-25 17:01:59     Rating:

Most of you are on the right track yet soo off.

its like this.
great ideas don't come to mind that fast.

THEY LOVE WHAT THEY DO.
We only want to sing you to sleep
In your bedroom speakers, whoa
We need umbrellas on the inside
Get me just right


THERE IS MORE TO LIFE AND NEVER GIVE UP
They say quitters never win
But we walk the plank on a sinking ship
There's a world outside of my front door
That gets off on being down


DON'T FEEL BAD FOR YOURSELF AND OTHER PEOPLE.
I could learn to pity fools as I'm the worst of all
And I can't stop feeling sorry for myself
Whoa


NEVER FORGET THE MEMORIES THAT YOU HAVE.
Broken down on memory lane
Alone together, we're alone (Woah)
We're broken down on memory lane
Alone together, we're alone

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-10-27 12:24:53     Rating:

Im geussing it's about murder done for money hence "penny for your thoughts but a dollor for your insides...".

Submitted by: Alternative_Mind
Added: 2007-12-18 00:15:47     Rating:

This is a song about what society wants from celebrities and the dark nature of the media.

"Penny for your thoughts but a dollar for your insides
Or a fortune for your disaster" (one of my favourite lines)
This is saying on the road to fame you can write and create what you think and be fairly popular/successful, but if you can write and create what you feel and your deep passions and become stars, but if you breakdown and collapse you will be the most famous of all three"
this is evidently shown with kirk cobain, he was a genius and artistically beautiful mind, but he will reach beyond his generation and is renowned because of his untimely suicide while he was in the limelight.

"We only want to sing you to sleep"
This talks about how they really only want to be in the music business for the art.

"They say quitters never win
We walk the plank on a sinking ship"
This refers to the sad state that most of the music business is in and how it is very superficial and more about marketing. Yet they are known as the emo-rock leaders and are trying to get away from that type of false lifestyle.

"There's a world outside of my front door
That gets off on being down"
Reinforces on how the media craves and wants you to fail

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-01-30 08:10:40     Rating:

All this stuff is so right.

The one part I like to look at is the "a fortune for your disaster"

Along the lines about fame and getting more money for certain things-- well, today, people LOVE to here about the bad, disasters. They find it more interesting to here the bad side of things instead of the good. So what get's you the most would be all those upsetting things.

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