Lyrics for Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner as interpreted by BrandNew1208

Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner Lyrics
Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.
And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only lying.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only one who is lying.

Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

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.

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.

So wear me like a locket around your throat. (Keep quiet, nothing comes as easy as you)
I'll weigh you down; I'll watch you choke. (Can I lay in your bed all day?)
You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

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sarable
14 hr 7 min ago

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"I'll be your best kept secret" and you'll B mine.
No worries, pally. ;-)

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maozedong
10-21-2009

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wish fall out boy still sounded like this.

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idntknow
07-29-2009

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can no one else see the whole druggs reference???

Nothing comes as easy as you?

ill be ur best kept secret and ur biggest mistake?

can i lay around in ur bed all day?

Then light a match to leave me be. ?

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???

The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

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musicoholic995
04-15-2009

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what does the part "you look so good in blue" mean????!?!?

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aj512
12-01-2008

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My Idea:
Lines 1-3: They’re both “burning down bridges”; there’s no turning back from what they’re doing
4-5: he’s worried she’ll ‘light a match, their bridge will be burned down’ and she will leave him
6-7: He’s jealous of her other guy, but he’s the only one jealous. She has nothing to be jealous of
8-9: She can’t be happy cheating on her boyfriend, he can’t be happy with her having a boyfriend. If they say they’re happy, they’re both lying
10-11: Don’t say anything that will ruin it; it seems too easy
12: he’ll ‘hide in her bed’ so no one knows, but he’ll always be there for her
13-14: she’s not gonna tell anyone about him, it’s obviously a mistake to cheat on her boyfriend
15: as he’s writing this song he’s remembering the failure, a failure cuz she has a boyfriend and won't leave him
So wear me like a locket around your throat.
I'll weigh you down; I'll watch you choke.
*He’s weighing her down with guilt so much that it’s as if she’s choking
You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue.
*blue as in turning blue from choking; He’d rather have her like this than not at all.


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musicislife47
11-12-2008

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this is def. about a hookup between a guy and a girl with a boyfriend. i've been hooking up with this guy who has a gf and this is like the same thing i am always thinking.

Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.
(It doesn't matter what we do. I just want to be with you)

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.
And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only lying.
(How could you really be happy. I can see it's hurting you.)

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.
(You are easy. I want to be with you. I'll never tell and you will regret this. I failed. I made you hurt.)

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.
(I hope you think of me. I hope it makes you sad. I hope your relationship fails. Then you will know I'm always here.)


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ReW1red
10-01-2008

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Honestly i think the speaker is expressing his desire to be with this girl but at the same time warning that she'll regret being with him.

So wear me like a locket around your throat.

Here hes saying that she'll show him off or tell everyone about him

I'll weigh you down; I'll watch you choke.

Now he's saying that in showing him off he bring her down and hurt her. The way this metaphor written it sounds like he doesn't want to hurt her

You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue.

This line, I think, is mainly for ironic comedy but also shows that while he's not going out of his way to hurt her he really doesnt mind that he is.

Everything else is either very straight forward or I'm not sure about the meaning.

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tashtime
08-24-2008

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this song isn't ABOUT dirty dancing; he uses the lessons learned to describe a story of his own.

he is in love with a girl whom he's willing to only have sex with because she already has a boyfriend, "i keep my jealousy close cause it's all mine"
"And if you say this makes you happy, then I'm not the only one who is lying." means he knows she won't leave him. he is "lying" too by being the man in which she cheats with.
the drinking refers to their time he values, but "light a match, leave me be" means he wants his feelings to end because he can't really have her.
finally, "the hand behind this pen relives a failure every day" just means that his same hand that tells this story touches her and, "no one comes as easy as you"...but it's all for nothing because she won't be with him in the end. it's a direct reference to sex, which is all he can get out of her.

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smmindssister
07-31-2008

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i think in this song he's talking about a girl that he is so much in love with and he knows she is cheating on him. i think he's trying to savor everything.. when he says 'nothing comes as easy as you' he's calling her easy and when he says 'can i lay in your bed all day' i think he's just trying to savor what he has left of their relationship... something to hold on to because he knows it's ending.

'so wear me like a locket around your throat i'll weigh you down i'll watch you choke' - i think that part is saying.. he knows that the thought of him and their relationship is always with her when she goes out and cheats on him.. but eventually the guilt is going to weigh her down and she's going to break down

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papermims
07-23-2008

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I don't know if this has already been said but:

"Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be."

I thought this was just a clever way to say he's burning his bridges.

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over-analyzing
05-19-2008

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personally this song is very deep to me and I see the

"wear me like a locket around your throat
I'll weigh you down
I'll watch you choke"

VERY differently to others.

I think it means she treated him like an accessory [[locket around her neck]] like "look what I've got"
&& Pete's saying go for it, i'll make it hurt. ("I'll weigh you down I'll watch you choke.")


&& the line
"hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday"
to me it means he's always writing about negativity in his past so hes constantly forced to dredge up old failures and mistakes just to make a good song.


just my take on things.

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knock_knock_who
03-21-2008

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crap
where ever it says "Peggy" it's supposed to say Penny.
mah bad
:D

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knock_knock_who
03-21-2008

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crap
where ever it says "Peggy" it's supposed to say Penny.
mah bad
:D

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knock_knock_who
03-21-2008

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THIS WHOLE SONG is about the movie "Dirty Dancing". The title is from one of the most last act when Johnny(Patrick Swazye) tells Baby's(Jenifer Grey) Dad(Jerry Orbach) "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." It's not really obvious, but it can roughly be about the movie:

Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.
(About when Baby have her first bit of alcohol with Johnny and then crosses the bridge away to and from the staff lodgings)

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.
(when Baby eound out Penny was pregnant and Peggy was sulking in the kitchen.)
And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
(Baby jealous of Peggy because she thinks Johnny and Peggy are a couple.)
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only lying.
(when Baby stands up for Johnny as by pronouncing she slept with him so that he could have an alibi. She said she was happy with it and so did he, but in the long run she did it for no reason, so they both lied.)

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
(it was easy to get Baby to sleep with Johnny)
Can I lay in your bed all day?
(Baby didnt want to leave)
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
(Johnny was Babys "best kept secret" and her "biggest mistake")
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.
("hand behind this pen" means the hand of Babys father who "relives a failure everyday" by helping Baby get the money for Pennys abortion and then when he patch penny up when the abortion was botched)

So wear me like a locket around your throat.
I'll weigh you down; I'll watch you choke.
(when Babys Daddy finds out about Johnny he starts to "choke" the relationship between her and her dad to near death)
You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue.
(possibly refering the moments when she choked on the performances)

thats my interprtation. take it or leave it.
:D

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HiddenMeanings
02-25-2008

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*so here's my stab at a line by line break down*


Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.
(*****burning bridges=creating damage that can't be undone, like as if to say all actions are final. whats done is done. keep us warm=letting go of the past by burning bridges to be at peace about something)


Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.
And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only lying.
(*****the speaker is pointing that some one from his past is in a stuation that he/she is not happy with, even though that someone will not admit it."If you say this makes you happy...." So he wants to once a gain burn those bridges to leave the whole situation behind, since this other person is only fooling themself anyways. the line about jelousy could be saying that since he is trying to let go of this person, the only thing he has left is his jealousy. No one can change the way he feels "keep my jealousy close....it's all mine")


Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.


Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.
(*****The speaker is saying that this person is too gullible, so they should just shut up because they will believe what ever others tell them anyways. The speaker cared for this person, and they more than likely felt the same. however this person kept their feelings hidden. The speaker has done something to make the other person feel ashamed. "The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday" says that he is writing about the entire situation in which he failed this other person.)

And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only one who is lying.

Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday.

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.

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.

So wear me like a locket around your throat. (Keep quiet, nothing comes as easy as you)
I'll weigh you down; I'll watch you choke. (Can I lay in your bed all day?)
You look so good in blue.
You look so good in blue.
(****He wants this person to remember him, or the things they did together, even though he knows that the memories will "weigh them down"=cause some kind of sadnes/regret/depression.)



Keep quiet,
nothing comes as easy as you.
Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.
The hand behind this pen relives a failure everyday


Hope it makes sense

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saraXkills
02-21-2008

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you look so good in blue part [accoustic version] made me melttttttttttttt!
the way he says it is just , omg,
ORGASMIC?

:]

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1lostluva
01-02-2008

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I love the part about the choking. I had a dream last night that I choked the guy I love because of this song. lol

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anna75
01-01-2008

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i love this song.
to me, this says that this boy likes this girl, and he's jealous because this girl has a boyfriend, so basicly, where it says,

And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only lying.

it's saying, he's jealous of the girls boyfriend, but he's keeping his feelings to himself, then the girl finds out and he is saying, if this makes you happy that i like you, im not the only one lying, because if the girl does like him then shes lying to her boyfriend, the boy is lying because he's pretending her doesnt like her.

Can I lay in your bed all day?
I'll be your best kept secret
and your biggest mistake.

means, basicly, that he wants to 'lay in her bed' (with her) but he'll keep it a secret because she's already got a boyfriend.


at least i think so.
i do love fob, ahh :)

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5k1nn7wr1575
12-25-2007

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I have to say that I don't like how fall out boy turned out to be today :(
But I love this song and their old stuff!
I wanted to point out the part where he says
"Wear me like a locket around your throat, I'll weigh you down and I'll watch you choke. You look so good in blue. You look so good in blue" is obviously referring to how she looks good when she can't breathe since you know how people that are suffocating turn blue or something like that hahaha. I'm guessing he wants to see her choke after what she's done to him and he's enjoying it. A little sadistic but hey :)
And this song seems like a story of a relationship to me, how at first everything was excellent and great but one little mistake ruins everything. I don't know, just what I'm thinking!

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xxximinthebsgxxx
12-19-2007

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Kays--
Drink down that gin and kerosene,
and come spit on bridges with me.
Just to keep us warm.

Then light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave, me be.
And I keep my jealousy close,
'cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you happy,
then I'm not the only lying.

This means a lot---
Drink down the gin and kerosene=

Perfect concoction to make a fire

Spit on bridges=
Your pretty much spitting your fire concoction onto the bridge

Light a match=

your setting the bridge on fire


Pete has a fetish for burning bridges, doesn't he?
In I'm like a lawyer... He's talking about burning bridges- and now in nobody puts baby in the corner, he's still burning bridges. ^_^

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nicolelovesrhcp
12-14-2007

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Okay, i personally think you all have it wrong. =] but heres how i take the song.

I belive its about a hook up. Espeically the chorus.

Keep quiet nothing comes as easy as you
~nothing comes as easy as you? the guy wants to hook up with her, and hes calling her easy to get with~
Can i lay in your bed all day?
~thats like a symbol for sex..can i be in your bed with you all day, can we have sex all day long?~
Ill be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake..
~i loveeee this line with a passion. This is saying, since its just a hookup, its obviously going to be a secret, hes also gnna be her biggest mistake, (or vice a verse) because, its just a hookup, tehy will have sex, and then thats the end. it goes nowere after that. and during that timing, one of them will fall for the other...but it doesnt matter cause it wont mean anything. and thats why its a big mistake. cause its just a hookup that means absolutly nothing.

i hope i helped thats what it means to me, maybe cause im in that situation at the moment. idk.

and nobody puts baby in the corner is a great name. so random i love it!

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tibbyxterror
12-14-2007

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Okay, well I personally think this song is about like a friends with benefits thing. And while they're secretly doing these things he's falling for her "I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake" and he knows she's going to regret him in the future.

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jacobramc
12-08-2007

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theunderfighter
if you want deep lyrics then you should check out circa survive or saosin
ha =]

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jacobramc
12-08-2007

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the last part of the song where it says


"you look so good in blue"

i am pretty sure it means that
when someone is depressed or sad you are considered "blue"
so what my take on this is

if her boyfriend is making her sad angry ect...
and he gets the chance to make her feel better and enjoy himself with her then yeah she is going to look good all the time when she is in her blue stage

well hey its just an opinion

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mattehboy101
11-10-2007

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I think the girl is cheating on her boyfriend with the writer (Pete) and the song is basically outlining his feelings of discontent towards their secrecy.

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