(This question holds the key to the song. This song is not about a boy and a girl, but a boy and another boy. One is evidently gay and coming onto - in a subtle way - another boy who may or may not be gay.)
I've been dying to tell you
Anything you want to hear
Because that's just who I am this week
(These three lines indicate the gay boy is trying to both impress his would be lover, yet still is trying to hide his desires since he isn't certain. The who I am this week indicates the lie he is portraying to stay close to the other)
Lie in the grass
Next to the mausoleum
(They are experimenting with their sexuality and one can assume here that they are doing so in places where they cannot be discovered as gay curious. A mausoleum is in a graveyard and not a high traffic area)
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
(You're just experimenting and I am one of many that has bedded you - or been bedded by you)
But you're just a line in a song
(But this is more important to me than you, so I will trivialize this by making you nothing more than a line in a song I wrote)
Drop a heart and break a name
(These two lines have reversed verbs - probably more for the theatrics of lyrics than anything important - they mean break my heart and I will drop your name to everyone that we had sex)
We're always sleeping in
And sleeping for the wrong team
(I think the sleeping in is a lyrical affect to make the lines rhythm come out right. Sleeping for the wrong team means we both are pretending to be who we are not, which is hetrosexuals)
We're going down, down
In an earlier round
( going down in an earlier round means our affair is short lived)
And sugar, we're going down swinging
(Sugar here is a pet name and not indicating the sex of the one called sugar. Going down swinging means we are going to make a mess of this - or the singer is going to fight the break-up)
I'll be your number one with a bullet
(This line comes from the Top 100 song list. A number one is the number one song on the list. A song with a bullet is the arrowhead next to the title indicating if the song on the top 100 chart is going up or down. Here it is a metaphor meaning I'll be your number one partner as our relationship heads up - gets stronger)
A loaded God complex
(This is interesting and a clever use of symbolism. A God complex is a term used in the IT industry about computer nerds who think they know everything. But it also can spread out to any walk of life. These are the people who correct your every comment with "Well actually, it is not what you say but this."
What makes this such a clever line is the addition of loaded because he carries the metaphor over in the next few lines. Loaded - ready for sex - God Complex - because I will tell you who you are - correct your thinking - you are my gay lover and not straight at all)
Cock it and pull it
(Clearly a gun comment but metaphorically - and literally - this is about his genitals and what he wants done)
Is this more than you bargained for yet?
(Again - is my clinging more than you were ready for? Or is our relationship that I see as serious getting too complicated for you who think you are straight)
Oh, don't mind me
I'm watching you two from the closet
(Ignore me - a smart remark, self deprecating suggesting to trivialize me, and I am watching you perform by experimenting with another boy)
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
(This may be the best line in the song as far as a metaphor - I want to be the one that gets you off)
Isn't it messed up
(Aren't I a mess for feeling like I do?)
How I'm just dying to be him?
(I want to be the one you are sleeping with)
***Most of Fall Out Boy lyrics have an undertone of homosexuality. Pete Wentz is bi-sexual and even the name of the group could have a meaning.
Wentz is the lyricist and therefore litters his songs with double entendres. Thanks for the memories has the hook that continues to suggest he tastes sweeter than you.
However, since the song is about making certain you enjoy yourself - or let the good times roll - in case God never returns, the He could be God.
Am I more than you bargained for yet?
(This question holds the key to the song. This song is not about a boy and a girl, but a boy and another boy. One is evidently gay and coming onto - in a subtle way - another boy who may or may not be gay.)
I've been dying to tell you Anything you want to hear Because that's just who I am this week
(These three lines indicate the gay boy is trying to both impress his would be lover, yet still is trying to hide his desires since he isn't certain. The who I am this week indicates the lie he is portraying to stay close to the other)
Lie in the grass Next to the mausoleum
(They are experimenting with their sexuality and one can assume here that they are doing so in places where they cannot be discovered as gay curious. A mausoleum is in a graveyard and not a high traffic area)
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
(You're just experimenting and I am one of many that has bedded you - or been bedded by you)
But you're just a line in a song
(But this is more important to me than you, so I will trivialize this by making you nothing more than a line in a song I wrote)
Drop a heart and break a name
(These two lines have reversed verbs - probably more for the theatrics of lyrics than anything important - they mean break my heart and I will drop your name to everyone that we had sex)
We're always sleeping in And sleeping for the wrong team
(I think the sleeping in is a lyrical affect to make the lines rhythm come out right. Sleeping for the wrong team means we both are pretending to be who we are not, which is hetrosexuals)
We're going down, down In an earlier round
( going down in an earlier round means our affair is short lived)
And sugar, we're going down swinging
(Sugar here is a pet name and not indicating the sex of the one called sugar. Going down swinging means we are going to make a mess of this - or the singer is going to fight the break-up)
I'll be your number one with a bullet
(This line comes from the Top 100 song list. A number one is the number one song on the list. A song with a bullet is the arrowhead next to the title indicating if the song on the top 100 chart is going up or down. Here it is a metaphor meaning I'll be your number one partner as our relationship heads up - gets stronger)
A loaded God complex
(This is interesting and a clever use of symbolism. A God complex is a term used in the IT industry about computer nerds who think they know everything. But it also can spread out to any walk of life. These are the people who correct your every comment with "Well actually, it is not what you say but this."
What makes this such a clever line is the addition of loaded because he carries the metaphor over in the next few lines. Loaded - ready for sex - God Complex - because I will tell you who you are - correct your thinking - you are my gay lover and not straight at all)
Cock it and pull it
(Clearly a gun comment but metaphorically - and literally - this is about his genitals and what he wants done)
Is this more than you bargained for yet?
(Again - is my clinging more than you were ready for? Or is our relationship that I see as serious getting too complicated for you who think you are straight)
Oh, don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
(Ignore me - a smart remark, self deprecating suggesting to trivialize me, and I am watching you perform by experimenting with another boy)
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
(This may be the best line in the song as far as a metaphor - I want to be the one that gets you off)
Isn't it messed up
(Aren't I a mess for feeling like I do?)
How I'm just dying to be him?
(I want to be the one you are sleeping with)
***Most of Fall Out Boy lyrics have an undertone of homosexuality. Pete Wentz is bi-sexual and even the name of the group could have a meaning.
Wentz is the lyricist and therefore litters his songs with double entendres. Thanks for the memories has the hook that continues to suggest he tastes sweeter than you.
However, since the song is about making certain you enjoy yourself - or let the good times roll - in case God never returns, the He could be God.
I see what you're saying.
I see what you're saying.