Fall Out Boy: 20 Dollar Nose Bleed Meaning

20 Dollar Nose Bleed Lyrics

Have you ever wanted to disappear
and join a monastery
Go out and preach on Manic Street?
Where will I be when I wake up next to a stranger
on a passenger plane? (passenger plane)

Permanent jet lag
Please take me back(please take be...

1. aSensationalist

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   Nov 25th 2009 !⃝

   I personally think the second verse is about the crusades. I remember laerning about them last year and just thinking, woah, this sounds like 20 dollar nose bleed... But then again the English lost... Kay, scratch that.
2. anonymous

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   Jul 16th 2009 !⃝

   I agree with blacknwhite totally

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
3. blacknwhite13

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   Jul 2nd 2009 !⃝

   I heard somewhere that during WW2 they had Coke(the soda) but at the time it had something in them which made each case cost 20$. The substance in them made people get nosebleeds, hence the name 20 Dollar Nosebleed. Benzadrine is a drug in Ampetamine(if I spelled it right). Smoke rings obviously are from either cigarettes or marijuana joints. But basically you could say that this song is about a drug addiction.
4. dexyato

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   May 12th 2009 !⃝

   It pretty much says it in the title... 20 dollar nose bleed... cocaine..."give me a pen call me Mr Benzedrine" a drug... "I wanna blow off steam"...then "when I look at the man who wouldbe king, the man who would be kind goes to a desert the same war his dad rehearsed, came back with flags on coffins and said we won, oh we won!" is talking about George W. Bush and how he did cocaine before

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