It's a bit of a stretch, but I think this song is actually a memorial to one of the most fascinating moments in human history, World War 2. It's written in the perspective of a Nazi-fanatic, and if you interpret the lyrics as coming from such you'll make a lot of connections.
Let's assume this takes place in around 1943-1944, when things started going wrong for Germany:
Weighed down with words
Too overdramatic
Tonight it's "It can't get much worse"
Vs. "No one should ever feel like"
Words means the now failing "Master plan". The Fatherland is bogged down by those whom it seeks to destroy. It's too "overdramatic", or complicated. The writer of the song realises this and doesn't think things could get much worse, but cuts himself off in the last line because it's treason to think of these things.
I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget
How your voice sounds
These words are all I have
So I'll write them
So you need them just to get by
Simple. Everything else is starting to go wrong and this poor soldier only has the great leader's words to go by. He loves Hitler and this love propels him to go on.
Dance, dance
We're falling apart to halftime
Dance, dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me
Halftime in this context is the year. It's the midway point of the second war and things are starting to fall apart. "dance dance" is the holocaust, and they'll continue dancing [eg, killing the wicked] until they die [And these are the lives you'd love to lead, proclaiming FOB's superiourity complex when it comes to their pro-nazi beliefs]. "dance, this is the way they'd love" starts to show how delusional the song writer is, and the last line shows that he wishes the undesirable races would understand him as he gives them their [first and] final shower.
In the end, he just repeats "dance dance dance dance". This means that he wants the listener, you and I, to continue his work and lead the great empire into the future. They sing this line almost like marching. You can also interpret the name "fall out boy" to mean "from the fall out of the old nazi empire, a new one shall arise!"
It's a bit of a stretch, but I think this song is actually a memorial to one of the most fascinating moments in human history, World War 2. It's written in the perspective of a Nazi-fanatic, and if you interpret the lyrics as coming from such you'll make a lot of connections.
Let's assume this takes place in around 1943-1944, when things started going wrong for Germany: Weighed down with words Too overdramatic Tonight it's "It can't get much worse" Vs. "No one should ever feel like"
Words means the now failing "Master plan". The Fatherland is bogged down by those whom it seeks to destroy. It's too "overdramatic", or complicated. The writer of the song realises this and doesn't think things could get much worse, but cuts himself off in the last line because it's treason to think of these things.
I'm two quarters and a heart down And I don't want to forget How your voice sounds These words are all I have So I'll write them So you need them just to get by
Simple. Everything else is starting to go wrong and this poor soldier only has the great leader's words to go by. He loves Hitler and this love propels him to go on.
Dance, dance We're falling apart to halftime Dance, dance And these are the lives you'd love to lead Dance, this is the way they'd love If they knew how misery loved me
Halftime in this context is the year. It's the midway point of the second war and things are starting to fall apart. "dance dance" is the holocaust, and they'll continue dancing [eg, killing the wicked] until they die [And these are the lives you'd love to lead, proclaiming FOB's superiourity complex when it comes to their pro-nazi beliefs]. "dance, this is the way they'd love" starts to show how delusional the song writer is, and the last line shows that he wishes the undesirable races would understand him as he gives them their [first and] final shower.
In the end, he just repeats "dance dance dance dance". This means that he wants the listener, you and I, to continue his work and lead the great empire into the future. They sing this line almost like marching. You can also interpret the name "fall out boy" to mean "from the fall out of the old nazi empire, a new one shall arise!"
Very interesting stuff
@happybadger94 FOB aren't Nazis.
@happybadger94 FOB aren't Nazis.