This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I served out my detention
And in the end, I got an honorable mention
In the movie of my life, starring you
Instead of me
When the moonlight hits your bright eyes I go blind
Maybe next time
I'll remember not to tell you something stupid
Like I'll never leave your side
Like the oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
I burnt out my defensive
Now everything I say is taken as offensive
In the movie of my life
Starring you
Instead of me, yeah
When the moonlight
Hits your bright eyes I go blind
maybe next time
I'll remember not to tell you something stupid
Like I'll never leave your side
Like the oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
Oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
Said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
Be your John Cusack
I can be your John Cusack
And in the end, I got an honorable mention
In the movie of my life, starring you
Instead of me
When the moonlight hits your bright eyes I go blind
Maybe next time
I'll remember not to tell you something stupid
Like I'll never leave your side
Like the oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
I burnt out my defensive
Now everything I say is taken as offensive
In the movie of my life
Starring you
Instead of me, yeah
When the moonlight
Hits your bright eyes I go blind
maybe next time
I'll remember not to tell you something stupid
Like I'll never leave your side
Like the oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
Oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
Said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
Be your John Cusack
I can be your John Cusack
Lyrics submitted by copywrittenjunkie, edited by stealyogurl
Honorable Mention Lyrics as written by Patrick Martin Stump Joseph Mark Trohman
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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this song is pretty good. obvious what it's about.
"i can be your john cusack" such an amazing line.
In the movie of my life Starring you instead of me
Sometimes people take up so much of our thoughts that we don't even realize it until we look back and see how much of ourselves we spent on them.
this is my favorite fob song off their first album
i want a john cusack. seriously, i think that line is so sweet. john cusack = wonderfully, honestly sweet, and so to tell somebody you'll be theirs....its just really really sweet i think.
wentz said in an interview that this is about the movie "say anything"
yeah, one of john cusacks more well known movies i guess, but to me these lyrics fit in with Serendipity, another of john cusacks movies. eowyg rules the world. : ) ...so do fall out boy : )
dude .. this song is awesome
If any of you "fans" have ever watched the dvd, they used to play this song live more than any other song even after "Take This To Your Grave" came out.
This is one of the few songs they enjoyed playing live, becasue it didn't suck like most of FOBEOWYGF ( I hate typing that). I love this song, and I can see how it would be about Say Anything..., which is an amazing movie. I love this song. And I'm sooo friggin happy that they are playing it on BC&U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!