Fall Out Boy: Hum Hallelujah Meaning
Hum Hallelujah Lyrics
Now versus then
Better off
Against worse for wear
And you're someone
Who knows someone who knows someone
I once knew
And I just want to be a part of this
The road outside my house
Is paved with good...
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It is about suicide, He said that when he OD'd on Ativan, he was listening to Jeff Buckley 'Hallelujah'
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Everyone says it could be a love song and others say it's about falling in love. why can't it be both? well, this is my interpretation of this song.
--it's all a game of this or that, now verses then, better off against, worse for wear
-it's about everyone playing the same game of this or that the same mistakes, worse for wear
--your someone who knows someone who knows someone I once knew, and I just wanna be apart of this
-maybe it's about people hooking up with people they don't really know but they wanna be like everyone else so he does too
--the road outside my house is paved with good intentions,hired a construction crew, because its hell on the engine
-these lines are about he has good intentions of everything he wants to do but its difficult for him. maybe hired a construction crew is like his therapist
--you are the dreamer and we are the dream, I could write it better than you ever felt it
-its about how this band started out as their dream, but then its starting to become peoples dreams and fob is just a fragment of the fans dreams
--so hum hallelujah, just off the key of reason
-everyone's acting like everythings fine but they aren't singing hallelujah for the right reasons
--i thought I loved you but its just how you looked in the light
-meaning she came off as a facade of feelings and telling him what he wanted to hear. He could only see her facade
--a teenage vow in a parking lot, till tonite do us part
-one night stand deal
--i sing the blues and swallow them too
-meaning that they aren't pretending to sing hallelujah anymore, there singing the blues and livin' it too
--my words are my faith to hell w/ our good name
-he's being monitored w/ everything he says. His faith is his words or his beliefs but they won't go to hell because everyone knows him
--a remix of your guts, your insides xrayed
-wat he talks about is his beliefs are a remix of everyones, and xrayed means your feelings and everything you say is being examined every moment to the last possible meaning
--and one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster
-means a bittersweet longing for his past of disaster. anything's better than the situation that he's in now
--we're a bull, your ears are just a china shop
-he feels anything he says is fragile to ppls ears
--i luv you in the same way, there's a chapel in a hospital
-he luved her since that one nite stand. getting married and getting refuge for an injury he thinks is the same thing. He's getting refuge for the things he's done
--one foot in your bedroom and one foot out the door
-an underground relationship or they live for the sexual attraction they have w/ each other
--sometimes we take chances sometimes we take pills
-its hard to live life the way he does, so he either takes sometimes dangerous chances or pills to take refuge
--the hallelujah chant
-brings the whole meaning of the song together. He's reminding himself he has to hide his pain but just can't take it anymore
--- well, this is my interpretation of my all time fave song. I hav other interpretations of this song and so does many others. That's wats cool about fob, its up to you to interpret the meaning of songs. This is a fourteen year olds perspective -
Pete attempted suicide.
Because of Jenae.
that is what this song is about.
He was in the parkinglot of bestbuy when he tried to overdose on ativan.
Hallelujah was playing on the radio when he tried.
its as simple as that.
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It's very simple... Straight from Pete's mouth to your ears
This song is about an EMT breathing life back into you
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I think that what it's saying is "don't give up", just "hum hallelujah just off the key of reason", meaning to even over do it with looking on the bright side. "I could write it better than you ever felt it", meaning I know what it feels like better than you do 'cause I've gone through it more than you have. Didn't they even say that it was to people that keep their lights on at night (meaning that they still look on the brightside)? Other than that, I think that everyone above me is basically right. Except maybe for the whole "teen pregnancy" thing.
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Ya sure it might be about Pete and his OD But still it like a love song. What about the chapel in the hospital and I thought I loved you! I don't really know.
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I think the song is about how he is coping with being famous and how people are trying to use him because they know someone who used to know him, and also it seems like he's mocking people who listen to them when it says "I can write it better than you ever felt it", because how many people are like "oh my god this song is exactly how I feel!" not necessarily this song but just music in general, you know? people don't think for themselves they just let everyone else do it for them, and to further that people don't experience anything they just let everyone else experience it for them. That's what I think this song is about, that's just me though.
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Yes, the song is about Pete near OD on Ativan.... But he was not in a grocery store parking lot, he was in the parking lot of a Best Buy.. Sorry, I though I would clarify that. And he was listening to Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, when it happened. The line "A teenage vow in a parking lot, til tonight do us part" is referring to him saying goodbye (that is my opinion)
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I went to a Fall Out Boy concert recently and Pete dedicated the song to 'losers'. Maybe there is a connection there, but otherwise I think it's about two teens having a one night stand, then she gets pregnant.
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Alright, really what the song means is, (in simple terms)Boy loves girl. Girl says she loves boy. Girl breaks boys heart. Boy tries to kill himself. After everything, boy still wants girl.
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If you've seen Pete's interview concerning depression on MTVU, you'd know what the songs about. He explains that while he was nearly passed out in a parking lot outside of a grocery store on the night of his widely publicized overdose, the thing playing on the radio was "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley. He said they'd never make a music video out of this song because it means too much to him and the band.
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This song WAS written about Pete Wentz' overdose. While he was attempting to committ suicide, he heard the song "Hallelujah" on the radio, it was very inspiring for him. This all has been SAID by Pete Wentz himself.
Now: all the lyrics that insinuate he loved someone "I thought I loved you, but it was just how you looked in the light", for me, I think there are two potential meainings.
One, maybe it was because of a girl who he loved that he tried to kill himself, and as he is taking the pills, he is thinking about her.
Two, it could be the drugs and the idea of suicide that he thought he wanted, but as he was doing it, he realized he didn't want it.
Most likely, neither of my potential explanations are true, but only Pete can say what the song's really about. :) -
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Everyone who keeps insisting it's a love song- dear God. Pete has SAID it's about his suicide attempt. He heard the song Hallelujah on the radio, etcetera etcetera.
I have one thing to say about this line: "The road outside my house is paved with good intentions. Hire a construction crew, 'cause it's hell on the engine." He's tired of always doing what's right, and sometimes it can get to be too much, so he uses the Ativan to "construct" a way out.
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