Fall Out Boy: Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner Meaning
Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner Lyrics
And come spit off bridges with me,
Just to keep us warm.
Light a match to leave me be.
Light a match to leave me.
I'll keep my jealousy close,
'Cause it's all mine.
And if you say this makes you...
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OK, well the only thing I understood was you look so blue meaning she choked and now she's dead (blue skin) ya... That's about it.. -lexi-
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"So wear me like a locket around your throat"
I think this line has to do with the figurative phrase "twist somebody around your little finger" which means you're succeeding in making somebody do exactly as you wish. The throat=finger or controller, so the girl's trying to be the dominant one in the relationship and the locket=the person being manipulated, the narrator.
"I'll weigh you down and watch you choke"
The narrator won't stand for being controlled like that so he is basically stating that he will be the controller's downfall.
"You look so good in blue/you look so good in blue"
This line is extremely sadistic and bitter. He's getting pleasure from her pain. -
"You look so good in blue" - I think the girl in the song is turning blue from being choked by the locket around her throat?
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I always thought the bit about:
You look so good in blue
meant that he hates her so much that he wants her dead so she can't hurt him any more. Could be wrong though....... -
The part where it says "wear me like a locket" reminds me of the poem "rhyme of the ancient mariner." in the poem an old sailor murders this albatross (a beautiful bird believed to be good luck to sailors) and for this his crew makes him wear the dead bird around his neck as a reminder for the crime he committed. I think it may be the same thing in this situation. He's saying �what you did is horrible and you will have to live with it� (wear me like a locket around your throat) and he is also saying that she deserves whatever bad things that happen to her and all the guilt that she feels (i�ll weigh you down I'll watch you choke you look so good in blue).
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I think everyone knows what the verses are about but this is what I think the chorus mean...
"Keep quiet nothing comes as easy as you
I'll be your best kept secret and you biggest mistake"
-i think this is said from the guy she cheated on pete with..."keep quiet" meaning don't tell anyone...
"The hand behind this pen relieves a failure everyday"
-thats about how pete write songs or lyrics about this event.
"So where me like a locket around your throat"
-he saying "like"..so its a simile...he wants her to remember what she did to him. make her feel guilty.
"i'll weigh you down ill watch you choke
you look so good in blue"
-he's hoping she have so much guilt that it chokes her and makes her life miserable. He's not actually killing her..he's using a metaphor... -
Okay, Well Have ya heard of the movie "Dirty Dancing" the orginal. Okay in one part of the movie the guy says "Nobody puts baby in the corner"
this might be really stupid interpretation, but I think the band got the theme of the song from the movie! Most people thought that the song means that this girl wants to be more than friends with this guy etc.[if you don't know what I'm talking about, read other peoples' comments] And I think it the right! So ya! -
Okay all I know is that nobody puts baby in the corner is a quote from the movie dirty dancing. If you have seen the movie it kinda relates with the song, like the best kept secret part of the song and in the movie they were trying to keep their relationship a secret, so maybe they based it off of the movie.
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I think this song is about a guy who once had a girl, but the girl let him go. Now he's torn between wanting and still caring for her or having nothing to do with her because he's so hurt.
I think the chorus says it all. He gives her a locket, which is a sign of love. The he watches as it chokes her. He doesn't intervene and let's her suffer which indicates to me he has ill-feelings towards her. However, even as she's on the brink of death he can't but help to admire her beauty even as she turns a pale shade of blue.
If you want to tell me how wrong I am, hit me up at foohalo27@yahoo.com. -
I guess I interpreted different than yall did... I kinda think it's about a girl cheatin on her b/f with the main character... "Keep quiet"- like so no one can hear them together... "Nothing comes as easy as you"- he has no problem doing things with her bc he loves her... "I'll be your best kept secret and your biggest mistake"- No one will know about it, and its a mistake to keep doing it, but they will anyway.... "The hand behind this pen relieves a failure every day"- and then he writes about it.. Hence this song.
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It's a quote. I didn't mean it QUITE that way, I misspoke. It's not a line in the song.
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Where does 'a beautiful corpse' come into things, its not a line in the song but it sounds familiar to me??
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To start, I'm just stabbing in the dark, here. No real facts, I don't read interviews, and I'm CERTAINLY not making accusations.
"Nothing comes as easy as you"-- He's calling 'her' a slut. Now, the possible implications there are a threefold. One, he's mad at her and so he's just shooting blindly for a stinging insult. Two, she cheated on him; therefor, he sees her as 'easy,' but this very likely isn't about that because if that's the case then he wouldn't have worded it that way. The wording here seems to mean that HE views her as easy, which is not the same as viewing her as slutty. Third, it almost rings of a triumphant tone, and I can't think of any situation where you'd be triumphant to someone's face about their easiness unless you're emotionally attacking them, something very common in the case of rapes. The third also seems relevant to the only other thing I noticed in the story:
The 'you look so good in blue' verse. Of course, it could be a reference to Dirty Dancing. The second meaning has also already been explained better than I could've thought of myself; that she is showing him off too much. The overt meaning, which is surprisingly the oft-true one, is that he's suffocating someone. The line "leaving a beautiful corpse" speaks volumes to me here, in that she looks great dead: her blood drained from her face, leaving her lips a blue color. This is in standing with the third point of my last thought, though it's just as likely that I'm paranoid. -
Let's get one thing straight:
Can I lay in your bed all day?
Is NOT a sexual reference! Think about it. All this guy wants to do is hang out with her at her house like it was before she cheated on him! -
loonylovegod should give themself more credit as a lot of it I agree with and they seem to be one of the few who have come up eith these thoughts. I don't think your way off.
I also was wondering about the reference to dirty dancing, but that makes a lot of sense now.
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