Fall Out Boy: Dance, Dance Meaning

Song Released: 2005

Dance, Dance Lyrics

She says she's no good with words but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out
"A joke of a romantic" or {just} stuck to my tongue
Weighed down with words too over-dramatic
Tonight it's "it can't get much worse"
Vs. "no one should ever feel...

1. worldseriesgood

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   Dec 16th 2005 !⃝

   Just an addition. Half time is a count used in music and in dancing. When he says, "We're falling apart TO half time" it's like they are in a dance. I guess you could interpret it literally or figuratively. Either they are physically dancing to a half time beat or they’re relationship is just a dance a charade and they are really just falling apart.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2005 !⃝

   A guy who's in a relationship with some chick and...NO!!! Will you losers please look PAST the LESS THAN SKIN DEEP storyline and actually interpret the MEANING of the song?!?! Stop with this guy/girl crap.

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3. anonymous

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   Nov 26th 2005 !⃝

   This song is about joyful babies dancing to a beautiul song. DUH! What do you think it's about, hot dogs?!

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4. anonymous

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   Nov 21st 2005 !⃝

   'You always fold just before you're found out, drink up it's last call, last resort, but only the first mistake.'
   I think this part is more about the self-destruction of others. The girl always gets out of the jam before she's exposed for cheating. The other part is just saying that drinking is ignorant and solves nothing. This is Pete's straight edge side shining through bright and clear.
5. EmoKing

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   Nov 21st 2005 !⃝

   From what I can see, Pete's singing about a chick he likes, but keeps messing up with her, and tries harder and harder to win her back, while she has another guy she likes more (Little bit of spark you've been saving for his mattress).
   
   He's just saying "Screw it, just do the same dance that all lovers do" and dumping on himself (misery loves me).

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6. anonymous

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   Nov 11th 2005 !⃝

   Dance, Dance, in my opinion, is about a guy who doesn't like a girl for his own reasons and he basically is calling her a slut..."Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress" that part means that he wants her to quit complaining and being dramatic, and to show him she has nerve enough to face up to him instead of running to her current flame and showing HIM spine, (only in a different *cough cough* way).
   
   "I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me" means he would use her only for physical satisfaction. basically every song on the FUCT album has to do with the same girl. Her cheating, him wanting her back, ect...it's about real situations that fall out boy fans and otherwise can relate to. Their songs can be taken a million different ways and still be right, but Pete Wentz is taking his interpretations in his own personal way. some people can relate and some can not. No one has to flip out just because someone didn't interprete a song correctly. Thanks people, if you want to IM me or send me a message about fall out boy then you can at KTRocks05@yahoo.com
7. x0BreakDance0x

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   Nov 7th 2005 !⃝

   This song is clearly about a guy in love with a girl who doesn't know how to act around her. She is fooling around with other guys. He finds out about it and is heatbroken but he doesn't want to forget about her. He thinks that misery is the only thing that loves him and she leaves him alone because she knows he is about to find out that she is messing around.
8. punkrocker1405

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   Nov 1st 2005 !⃝

   I think this song is about this guy who loves this girl and she doesn't love him back. He also feels like everyone is haveing fun at his misery. Also, he loves her so he doesn't want to see her hurt by this guy she likes.
9. cherryxbliss

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   Oct 31st 2005 !⃝

   This song is definitely not just nonsense. It's clearly about a guy in a destructive relationship, where the girl spends too much time with other men (or so it is seen by the narrator), and the narrator isn't sure how to deal with it. He wants to get into a huge fight (note the acusitory tone of the words "Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress"), but realizes that it's not going to solve anything ("Weighed down with words too overdramatic"- obviously shows that the girl spends too much time either making elaborate stories of whining/complaining). The chorus shows how it is so much simpler in this situation to just act like nothings happening, to be carefree and innocent, but that it's not possible for him.
10. GerardLover123

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    Oct 20th 2005 !⃝

    I don't think that it's possible to interpret some of Fall Out Boy's lyrics because some of them just don't make sense, like this one. The reason they called it Dance, Dance is because it makes you just want to get up and dance.

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