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Life's just a pay stub on death
Only less diligent
And when the two collide
It's no coincidence
The lights are on and everybody's home
The only thing suicidal here is the door
We had a good run
Even I have to admit
Life's just a pay stub on death
Only less diligent
[Chorus]
Hell or Glory
I don't want anything in between
Then came a baby boy with long eyelashes
Daddy said, "you gotta show the world the thunder!"
(Oh) the thunder,
(Oh) the thunder,
(Oh) the thunder,
(Oh)
(Oh)
We didn't come to compete
This is a demonstration
Even the young ones become irrelevant
They always bring up how you changed (Oh, oh)
Never the same person when I go to sleep
As when I wake up, as when I wake up
[Chorus]
(Oh, whoa)
(Oh, whoa)
[Chorus]
He said "Bring the thunder!"
The thunder
(Oh) the thunder,
Whoa
Only less diligent
And when the two collide
It's no coincidence
The lights are on and everybody's home
The only thing suicidal here is the door
We had a good run
Even I have to admit
Life's just a pay stub on death
Only less diligent
[Chorus]
Hell or Glory
I don't want anything in between
Then came a baby boy with long eyelashes
Daddy said, "you gotta show the world the thunder!"
(Oh) the thunder,
(Oh) the thunder,
(Oh) the thunder,
(Oh)
(Oh)
We didn't come to compete
This is a demonstration
Even the young ones become irrelevant
They always bring up how you changed (Oh, oh)
Never the same person when I go to sleep
As when I wake up, as when I wake up
[Chorus]
(Oh, whoa)
(Oh, whoa)
[Chorus]
He said "Bring the thunder!"
The thunder
(Oh) the thunder,
Whoa
Lyrics submitted by blinxbcr, edited by coreyalan1
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"She's My Winona" as written by Peter Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joseph Trohman, Andrew Hurley
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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i think the "baby boy" refers to the bands and artists on his record label, Decaydance. He treats them like his children and wants them to succeed and would do anything for them.
It would make more sense cause it's like death is inevitable and no matter how long your life is or what you do during it, death is always gonna end up getting you in the end. Maybe that's just me though.
Hell or Glory
I don't want anything in between
Then came a baby boy with long eyelashes
Daddy said you gotta show the world the thunder
The thunder, the thunder, the thunder
They want to phenomenally fail or tremendously succeed. No inbetween. You have to do something amazing to attract attention (Thunder)
We didn't come to compete
this is a demonstration
even the young ones become irrelevant
they always bring up how you changed
never the same person when I go to sleep
as when I wake up, as when I wake up
Fall Out Boy is beyond the people trying to make it today. They're showing them how it's done. You have to keep reinventing yourself to remain popular, or the masses get tired of you. The old Fall Out Boy fans like to complain that they've changed, and sold out, FOB saying 'no, we're growing and getting better." When you're a beginning band, you might have these ideals, but if you don't grow up and grow out of those ideals, you become irrelevant because everyone will forget you.
i don't think its about the war though. i think the line about the "young ones" being irrelevant and bringing up how they changed is about their "fans" who slated them when IOH came out saying how they changed and whatever, like in the take over the breaks over video? love pete and his lyrics though :)
"Life's just a pace count on death
Only less diligent"
Life is just a measure on how quick your dying.
The song seems to say "I've been working on getting where I am for a long time, and even though I might kill me I'm not going to go out without trying"
"Life's just a pacecar on death"
- Life isn't the main event, death is; believes in the afterlife; religious.
"And when the two collide it's no coincidence"
- Believes there's a genuine reason behind who lives and who dies in this world; believes in an omnipotent judge; religious.
"The lights are on and everybody's home"
- Everyone's in the same 'pacecar'; we're all governed by the rules of HIS God.
"The only thing suicidal here is the door"
- I'm not sure. Maybe he's in denial since suicide's a sin, kinda like how Achmadinejad claims there're no gays in Iran. Maybe he's saying that life's pretty good for him.
"We had a good run even I have to admit"
- His short presidency was sweet in his opinion? The first gulf war?
"Hell or glory I don't want anything in between"
- The Republican absolutist approach to politics/life.
"Then came a baby boy with long eyelashes
And daddy said you gotta show the world the thunder"
- George W. Bush born, given all his father's absolutist views (which he, as we know, applied to international and domestic politics), started another war with Saddam. Also, Dubya famously wasn't that good at life. 'Snot hard to believe his dad got a little pissy with him.
"They always bring up how you changed"
- Didn't everyone at one time think George Bush Snr. was quite a nice man? Then they kinda saw the darker side of him.
when you look into the lyrics, there are so many things it could be about.
a pace-car is a car that leads racecars around the race-track before the race and during cautions.
so, life leads death around, but isn't constant in efforts to accomplish something.