Lyrics for Hum Hallelujah as interpreted by suchaxsucker

Hum Hallelujah Lyrics
It's all a game of this or that
Now verses then
Better off against worse for wear

And you're someone
Who knows someone
Who knows someone I once knew
And I just want to be a part of this

The road outside my house
Is paved with good intentions
Hired a construction crew
'Cause it's hell on the engine
And you are the dreamer
And we are the dream
I could write it better
Than you ever felt it

So hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
It was just how you looked in the light

A teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"
I sing the blues
And swallow them too

My words are my faith to hell
With a good name
A remix of your guts,
Your insides x-rayed
And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster
We're a bull, your ears are just a china shop

I love you in the same way
There's a chapel in a hospital
One foot in your bedroom
And one foot out the door
Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills
I could write it better
Than you ever felt it

So hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
It was just how you looked in the light

A teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"
I sing the blues
And swallow them too

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelu
Hallelujah (Hum Hallelujah), Hallelujah (Hum Hallelujah)
Hallelujah (Hum Hallelujah), Hallelu (Hum Hallelujah)

A teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"
I sing the blues
And swallow them too

So
Hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
It was just how you looked in the light

A teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"
Vow in a parking lot
Till tonight do us part
Teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"
I sing the blues
And swallow them too

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krissyheartsmusic
03-12-2007

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I sing the blues
And swallow them too

that for sure sounds like he sings about sad things and drinks away the saddness with alcohol. its all about how relationships always seem so perfect in the beginning until you finally realized that everything you've been seeing about this person was a lie and it kills you to realize it. so you have to drink away sorrows and stuff.

maybe?

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xbestxkeptsxecretx
03-16-2007

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2 me this song is about teenagers who had just met and they have sex in a car in a parking lot. however the girl gets pregnant and she tells the boy. So in the song he is playing a game of "THIS OR THAT". Perhaps the girl intends on keeping the child and considers marriage "You are the Dreamer and We are The Dream", she wants him to be in the childs life somehow. and in the same sense the boy doesn't know what he wants and is angry that she "forgot" her "pills" "Sometimes we take chances Sometimes we take pills. She didn't take her birth control and got pregnant.
He thinks about how he doesn't even know her that well because she is someone who knows someone who knows someone he once knew that he just wants to be a part of.
Though it was a "TEENAGE VOW IN A PARKING LOT, TILL TONIGHT DO US PART" meaning that she was to mean nothing to him but only for that night. He only THOUGHT he loved her just how she looked in the light.

so I'm guessing he married her and chooses to be in the childs life cause he says "There is a Chapel in the hospital" and "One step in your bedroom and one step out the door" meaning just one night with a girl you don't know can ruin your life just because she gets pregnant.

anyway .. thats sorta wot i think

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myblueheaven
03-18-2007

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this song has nothing to do with teenage romance or girls...it is about his attempted suicide, just look at the lyrics

hum hallelujah, as many have said, is a reference to jeff buckley's (cover) hallelujah. it was playing on the radion in his car when he took the pills. i agree that it is us who "hum hallelujah" because pete is alive and well, we didn't lose our hero, so to speak.

And you are the dreamer
And we are the dream
I could write it better
Than you ever felt it
this is to us fans, because fob is all we think about and how they wrote previously, how they are our therapists. they can express in words literally better than what we are feeling. genius line

I thought I loved you
It was just how you looked in the light
some people mentioned that this could be how the pills offered him the easy way out, but then he realized how he needs to face his problems, and not run away from them, hence attemting suicide.

A teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"
I sing the blues
And swallow them too
allegedly, he tried to kill himself in a car in a parking lot. the second line could mean death. he sings the blues, hallelujah on the radio, and swallows whatever medication he took

And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster
this line represents how fob is today, calm and trying to be good boys because of what happened to pete. very sarcastic saying they will miss getting into trouble.

Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills
another wise line. you can either go on with your life, no matter how hard it is, or take the easy way out=suicide

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Joshtacular
03-21-2007

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JUST THE MOST AMAZING SONG I"VE HEARD IN AWHILE!!! I also LOVE Thnks fr th mmrs!

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Kayla_willkillyou
03-28-2007

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this song is shit. FOB needs to go back to writing the meaningful, origional, songs from their hearts. fall out boy, along with other bands like MCR, and Greenday, need to go back to playing what they first came out with and stop conforming to society's expectations of how they should sound.

dont get me wrong i love fall out boy and all..
but this new sound just isnt anything compared to their old stuff.

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whisper2me73
03-29-2007

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I actually prefer their new stuff. And they aren't conforming they are doing what they want to do. Pete still writes all of the lyrics. I don't think he is one to conform to anything. And if this song is about his attempted suicide then it really is a meaningful song.

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latenights
04-03-2007

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i dont' know if anyone has said this yet but the whole "the road outside my house is paved with good intentions, hired a construction crew, cause it's hell on the engine" part is talking about all the temptations out there today and how he can't find the right way (the road outside his house), and he couldn't deal with them, so the "construction crew" is a therapist or therapists and the engine is obviously his head/brain/body. that's how i took it, and it is probably one of the best lines ever. ps - i heart patrick! and his sexy voice.

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elegent_mess
04-04-2007

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Ok Leonard was BEFORE Jeff and Rufus, but I prefer Rufus' version... GOOD SONG!

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carXcrashXhearts.
04-05-2007

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"Hum hallelujah" is a reference to the song (Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley) that was playing in the car when Pete overdosed in a best buy parkinglot.

"I sing the blues and swallow them too." is a 'play on words' even though ativan isn't blue. maybe just because he was depressed. blue - sad.

"the road outside my house is paved with good intentions" the road to hell is paved with good intentions. im sure he didn't really want to die.


"One foot in your bedroom
And one foot out the door
Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills" that's got ativan suicide written all over it. the first two lines "one foot in your bedroom/and one foot out the door" from personal experience (not that im going to sit here and tell you a life story; this is about the song, right? if you want an autobiography though. dont hesitate to ask. its quite the story) when i (for lack of a better person to pin it to) attempted suicide, there was the me who wanted to die, and the me who wanted to live. you never really want to die, you just see no other way out. and then the last two lines are pretty much the same thing "sometimes we take chances" and stick it out and live "sometimes we take pills" like ativan. because we dont know what else to do.

look hard. break it up. learn the meaning. if that's it. maybe im just some evil genious with the mind to contort song meanings. but i doubt it.

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grenade jumper
04-06-2007

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"I thought i loved you but it was just how you looked in the light" that is my favorite line of this song










"I thought i loved you but it was just how you looked in the light" and "A teenage vow in the parking lot until tonight do us part" are my favorite lines

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musicmad
04-14-2007

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I absolutely LOVE Fall Out Boy, and this song is GREAT! The lyrics are really good and, I must say it DID occur to me in parts of it that is was about Petes OD. Especially the parts about 'love in a parking lot', considering he OD'd in a parking lot. or maybe he just referred to the parking lot because of the OD, but the song isnt really about that, but parking lots are... emotional places for him... Well, who knows?

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maxguitar
04-15-2007

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If you go to halfofus.com pete talks about his fight with depression and suicide. During this interview he tells about when he was trying to commit suicide he was in a best buy parking lot and on the radio the song Hum hallelujah was playing.

Halfofus.com Pete Wentz talks about this song

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FrozenHeartbeat
04-25-2007

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i think the "blues" thing is that they sing/write about depression [the blues] and he also lived with/swalloed it down....

Umm, did this happen 2 anyone else - when I put my album on the computer and it auto-inserted the naems like always the name came up as Hum HELLelujah... with HELL instead of HALL coz if that did thatn really clever if not my iTunes is fucked up!

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voidhunter
04-26-2007

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sure, the song may have one meaning that is about pete's attempted suicide, which lots of people have gone for so far, but that doesn't mean that's the only meaning! I'm sure any of us here could link bits, or even the whole song to things we've gone through in our life, be it teenage love, attempted suicide, whatever. It means whatever you want it to mean, and that's the beauty of it.

One of my personal favourite lines is "I thought I loved you, it was just how you looked in the light..."
To me, this is about falling for a girl just for her looks, or the way she acts out in public, then finding out she's a total skank or something less than beautiful on the inside. Or maybe it just doesn't work out. Anyway, 'swhat I have to say for now.

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Loverdonthavelove
05-04-2007

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Am i the only one or does any one else think that this song may be relateded to Shakespears Romeo and Juliet? R&J were very young 'A teenage vow" and they only really knew each other for like a few dats "I thought i loved you but it was just the way you looked in the light" - - i'm not saying that its not realted to Pete's Oding but do you think that the relations to Shakespear is on perpose or just happened?

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Insane_Li
05-05-2007

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I don't think this song is about Pete's suicide at all. I think it's about something dark, but not scary-dark. Just dark. It's about finding your way.

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5thgair
05-12-2007

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k i havent bothered to read all these so im sorry if im repeating what someone eles has said.. but..

i was thinking that maybe the part that says "the road outside my house is paved with good intentions" means the road outside his house is the road to hell.. becos ppl say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, so it might be a play on words!!

i think the overall theme of the song could be either about the whole petes suicide thing.. but im not really sure, when i first heard the song i thought of like false love.. mainly because of the line "i love you in the same way, theres a chapel in a hospital"
a chapel and a hospital are like complete opposites, and a chapel would be really out of place in a hospital [religion (chapel) vs. science (hospital)]
so i interpreted it to mean that his love for [her/him] is kind of messed up and he thinks its real but its not..

im not sure if that makes sense to anyone.. lol.. i have trouble writing in complete sentences, so im sorry if that whole thing makes no sense what-so-ever!!
:)

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sunnysenny
05-12-2007

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I saw their concert last night, and Pete said something about how this song is for the children in the audience.

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heckyeahitsanna
05-13-2007

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5thgair, I think your view on the chapel line is really interesting, but I'm nto sure I agree.

I agree with the idea that this song is about Pete's drug OD, but I think the line "I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital." means something more like this.
A chapel is placed in a hospital for what purpose? So that the family and friends of those dying or very sick can pray for them. It's definete that the non-religious or even atheist, in times of extreme desperation, such as a dying friend, will resort to prayer. There is a chapel in a hospital for the desperate to use their last resort. Chapels are in hospitals as a 'recognize the existence of a God only when you need there to be a God' kind of thing.


So if a chapel in a hospital is equivalent to a there when yo uneed it thing, then saying "i love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hopsital" is like saying "I love you when I need to love someone, or I need something to love." In this case, his drugs.

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Bomb-Chicken
05-21-2007

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Wow... you people have pretty good explainations!
u pretty much said what i was goin to say.
This song is goin to be there third singe from Infinity On High after thnks fr th mmrs! ;]]

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ahmais
05-21-2007

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Okay, firstly.

*I love you in the same way, there's a chapel in a hospital, one foot in your bedroom, and one foot out the door* does NOT mean "something good in a bad place" like someone said before.

It means he is unsure about his love. Think about a chapel in a hospital. It's like, you might die, and that's why we need a chapel here. One foot in the bedroom, one out the door. He's unsure whether he'll stay or go.

"'Cos it's hell on the engine" is actually "Cos it's hell on the interior" - you can hear this and it's what other lyric sites say. Hell on the engine made more sense to me too, but if you listen to the song you can hear "interior"

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younglove_r
06-01-2007

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despite the rumors. this isnt going to be the next single. at least. thats what pete said on his q&a cause it "means something on a different level" to the band.

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so xx lyrical
06-01-2007

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i LOVE when they sing the halleluja chorus

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Paiggey
06-02-2007

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May I just say this is a realy moving song
being a teenager i can see that this song is basicly about teenage life

About how we try to do things right but it always turns out different

"The road outside my house
Is paved with good intentions
Hired a construction crew
'Cause it's hell on the engine"

About the chorus i think he is trying to say that religion is a way of escaping it
he says how fickle teenage love can be the most moving line being
"a teenage vow...do us part""
its an amazing peice of writing

The 2nd verse says how the elders of teenagers are always trying to make you better people and that this ends up with the teen turning against other peoples wishes for them. and that adults advise always falls on deaf ears

So basicly the meaning of this song is about teenage life and how hard it can be

"you never realy appreciate a song until you understand the lyrics"

well i hope you feel the same abot this song fantastic i say
well dun FOB

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seelie_courtier
06-03-2007

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the part "sing the blues and swallow them too" randomly reminds me of a Hindu myth. the god Shiva swallows poison and holds it in his throat, and it turns his throat blue.

drugs=poison?

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