two people did it in the parking lot(teenage vow in a parking lot, till tonight do us part) and the girl turns out pregnant (i sing the blues and swallow them too) but the guy doesnt want the kid(i thought i loved you but thats just how you looked in the light)

two people did it in the parking lot(teenage vow in a parking lot, till tonight do us part) and the girl turns out pregnant (i sing the blues and swallow them too) but the guy doesnt want the kid(i thought i loved you but thats just how you looked in the light)

That's a really, completely, utterly stupid, shallow, interpretation of a genius song. Did you BOTHER to read any of the posts before yours... or think about the song at all...

It Is Teenage "VOW" in a parking lot

Last night at the fob concert,
Petes explanation for this song was that losers will always be losers etc etc.
And that there will always be those people who shine,
no matter what.
And this is what the song is about.

if i heard correctly.

at the NZ fob concert october 1st, pete said something like "this song is about glowing in the dark" or something.. and also something about the people in burma.. i think. it was hard to hear :P he got people to hold up lights and stuff.. it was awesome. i love this song.

i love this song soo much...
is it rly about pete od? i didnt know he od'd.. when was it??
poor pete. :(

"i thought i loved you but it was only how you looked in the light"
ha ha aha i love this line it's awesome
it's like -take that-

"Chapel in a hospital" might mean "there's salvation in injury".

this song means that two people 'did it' in a car, the girl forgot to take birth control, had the kid, and wanted to get back together with the guy, but he didn't want to, but they ended up getting married in the end.

hey. can someone please tell me what the lyrics "i love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospitial" means. please.

it means (like i said) they ended up getting married.
you see, she had the baby and wanted to get back together with him, but he didnt, so in the end, they got married. "chapel in the hospital" refers to them getting married a little while after she had the kid, which is furthermore explained in "one foot in your bedroom, one foot out the door"

I love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital.

Great line. Hospitals are places people come to try and get better, to get healed. A place where you're attempting not to hurt so much, or die. To put a chapel in a hospital is like admitting that you might need it, eventually. Inevitably, there will be people in the hospital that die, even though that's not what they're hoping.

To have love for someone in the same way there's a chapel in the hospital is having a reckless, intense love for someone that you know will eventually end badly. It's a fleeting love with an end, something the singer knows. This goes with the next line, one foot in her bedroom and one foot out the doory, ready to go.

He loves her in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital, in that while he does love her, it will end and he knows it. And maybe that's for the best.

I honestly, in my opinion, anyways, think the song is about seeing someone, or something, be it life, a girl, a career can be so dissapointing from the perspective of something whose creative.

I thought I was in love with you it's just how you looked in the light - it's how you can think all these things, and your imagination runs wild, then what you saw, and what it is, is two completely different thigns.

I can write it better than it's ever felt (something like that) this means, to me, that whatever really happens, in his eyes, will never meet what he writes, because in songs, and lyrics, things are so much more dramatic, and lovely, whereas in real life, it's almost never like that.

awesome song.

"i could write it better than you ever felt it."

he could express and explain what he's gone through better than anybody could even live through it.

oh yeah and at the aus concert in sept pete said:
"this is for the kids who glow in the dark because they know how shitty the world is."
he's amazing.

I think the song is about Pete being on Avatan again.

"I sing the blues
And I swallow them too"
Avatan is sometimes a light blue in color.

"A teenage vow in a parking lot
'Till tonight do us part'"
He's basically saying that he knows he's overdosing and tonight could be his last night on Earth

"The road outside my house
Is paved with good intentions"
A play on words the expression goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" So he's stating that he's in hell but it began for a good cause. Basically that the anti-depressants were supposed to do him good until began overdosing on them

I forgot a few lines that also lead me to my point:

"Sometimes we take chances,
Sometimes we take pills" Means he took the chance on overdosing on the pills and killing himself.

"I can write it better
Than you ever felt it" States that he can write what he's been through better than you can fathom it.

"You're insides are x-rayed
And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster" When he must've gotten checked out for the pills and one of the side affects for Atavan (I think) is puking or stirring nostalgia.

"I though I loved you
It was just how you looked in the light" Another hint to a side affect of overdose-Hallutions.

"I love you the same way
There's a chapel in a hospital" He needs salvation or something to save him from his addiction.

"One foot in your bedroom
One foot out the door" He thinks sex is his salvation from the drugs but he knows there's something more-he's kinda undecided

I think this song is about his overdouse, and how he might have seen two teengers in love and wishing he was them.

I don't know mabye i'm right.

erm if anyones confused about the lyrics they are in the album cover... i guess you lot all downloaded it or something

yeah it sounds like its about petes overdose.

i really love the bit "one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster". if its about his overdose then maybe he's saying he knows that he'll try and do it again, even though its not a good thing to do.

This song is about teen pregnancy. sometimes we take chances sometimes we take pills. AKA birth control. I thought i loved you its just how you looked in the light. He realizes that they have to be a family now and it was a mistake. they had sex in a parking lot, she got pregant. the road outside my house is paved with good intensions, hired a constuction crew cause its hell on the engine. He wants to do the right thing but there is a lot of anxiety he's feeling. hum hallelujah because he wants to act like he's happy but he's only humming it because he doesn't want to be a dad yet but knows there is nothing he can do so he is fronting. a remix of your guts has dual meaning, the baby is in there and the bravery is being tested, lots of butterflies. Theres a chapel at the hospital, getiing married because of the baby. There is a lot more reference but i think you get the idea.

yeah, i'm pretty sure it's about his overdose.

well first; he was listening to Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley when he overdosed, hence Hallelujah, and the chorus in the middle with the hallelujah because it reminds me of buckleys song.

"a teenage vow in a parking lot"
he overdosed in the best buy parking lot.

"sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills"
thats pretty self explanatory.

i'm pretty sure the entire song is about that.

To me this song seems like its about teenage love. Sometimes when you're young you cant distinguish between real love and infatuation.

"Hum Hallelujah" hes thinking back on his teenage love and hes grateful that hes didnt get too serious with the girl - Hallelujah, thank god-,

"just off the key of reason " is a reference to how love is blind and not logical, and

"I thought I loved you its was just how you looked in the light" refers to teenage infatuation being mistaken for love.

" I love you in the same way theres a chapel in a hospital" Means that the situation is hopeless, destined to failure. You love them and know that its going to end badly or that theres no hope of it surviving. Usually if you feel the need to go to the chapel of a hospital its to pray for your loved one because the situation is hopeless, either they are dying or going to die. You dont have much faith in the hospital or their chances of survival.

" one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster" means that one day when they're older they'll think back on their mistake and think of the good old days when they were young and stupid.

" The road outside my house is paved with good intentions" People outside of the hellish situation, grown ups or friends, try to give their advice and what they think trying to help.

" I hired a construction crew cause its hell on the engine" He doesnt listen to them because it hurts, it goes against the way he sees the situation, its hell on his heart.

Maybe it's a bout two teenagers spontaniously trhowing themselves into something they really weren't ready for.

Okay, so I do not know that much about Fall Out Boy, or about Pete’s depression, but I do know enough to have tried to decode every line in the song. And when Pete says that “This is for the kids who glow in the dark because they know how shitty the world is” and other stuff like that probably means that while alot of people are depressed (the dark) there are those who can fight it, without the drugs (they glow).

“It's all a game of this or that
Now verses then
Better off against worse for wear”
Here he’s not sure whether to take the drugs or not. He says, “Better off against worse for wear”. A person who is worse for wear is drunk or high on drugs. So he’s saying he wants to die, he doesn’t want to be high on medication.

“And you're someone
Who knows someone
Who knows someone I once knew
And I just want to be a part of this”
I think he is referring to the drugs here. Someone he once knew, as in they commited suicide. “And I just want to be a part of this”, He just wants to join him.

“The road outside my house
Is paved with good intentions
Hired a construction crew
'Cause it's hell on the engine”
I agree with the SuperJGirl5 before saying that “The road outside my house is paved with good intentions” is a play on words.
“Hired a construction crew ‘Cause it’s hell on the engine” and again, I agree with previous people saying the construction crew is the medication and the engine is his mind, body and soul.

“And you are the dreamer
And we are the dream”
This means that the medication is making him feel artificially better, and he’s living that feeling.

“I could write it better
Than you ever felt it”
This means that his depression, he thinks, is so much more like hell then someone else’s. Probably because his reason for being depressed was made even more horrible with the media, the people, and the publicity.

“So hum hallelujah
Just off the key of reason
I thought I loved you
It was just how you looked in the light”
Hallelujah, being a cry of joy, just off the key of reason. Maybe meaning the medication gave him a reason to say hallelujah, but it’s off the key of reason because when the medication runs out he’s right back to the starting point? And I think the next two lines mean the same.

“A teenage vow in a parking lot
"Til tonight do us part"”
I think he is saying “And like a teenage vow in a parking lot ‘Til tonight do us part’” He will soon have nothing to do with the medication, because he kill himself using the medication, which he knows is stupid. Just like teenagers having sex in a parking lot, then having nothing to do with each other the next day, knowing it is a stupid idea later on down the track.

“I sing the blues
And I swallow them too”
Blues = being depressed. He sings them = he is depressed. He swallows them too = He swallows what he thinks to be help, but overdosing only results in more depression (or death).

“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”

This was a little bit harder for me to decode, but I settled on that he is dying and says it, but he just hides it with “a good name”. If the public wasn’t so oblivious to all the bad stuff going on with the small people, he would say what it’s really like, it’s just that your ears are fragile.

“I love you in the same way
There's a chapel in a hospital”
A chapel in a hospital, I reckon this means a safe place (the chapel) in a place full of sickness, unhappiness, and death (the hospital) and the “I love you in the same way” means that the medication is his chapel.

“One foot in your bedroom
And one foot out the door
Sometimes we take chances
Sometimes we take pills”
A bedroom is a place that people call their own, probably being with the medication, and one foot out the door, about leaving the drugs. So he hasn’t quite made up his mind about quitting or staying on the medication. And the next two, the chances are trying to depression alone, and the pills are to help.

“Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelu
Hallelujah (Hum Hallelujah), Hallelujah (Hum Hallelujah)
Hallelujah (Hum Hallelujah), Hallelu (Hum Hallelujah)”
This is reference to Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.

This is what I think the song means, please give me feedback. =]