Fall Out Boy: Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn Meaning

Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn Lyrics

Brothers and sisters put this record down
Take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
We will leave you high and dry
It's not worth the hearing you'll lose

It's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
The ribbon on my wrist says, "Do...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 26th 2007 !⃝

   They are in legal trouble. They wanted to put a "bad word" in the name of the song. However, their lawyer believed they would get sued by someone. Instead of putting the "bad word" in the song, they are saying "hey, we're fall out boy.. and even though we couldn't put that bad word in the title, we can still piss everyone off by making an extremely long title for the song. We might still get sued though, which would suck because then we'd have no more money. Even though we have tons. we'd have less if we were sued. This is why we didn't put the bad word in the song. But what if people knew we were going to put a bad name in the song and they sued us anyway, just for the heck of it? We would get our lawyer... and we would get lots more money. Then, we'd eat cake."
   
   
   the actually title is My Name is David Ruffin... And These Are The Temptations so they in no way had issues
   
   
   
   The song that was going to be there is on IOH as I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always trying to get you off
2. anonymous

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   Jan 23rd 2007 !⃝

   Umm, wasn't this one originally called "I loved you before you were a MySpace whore?" If so, then that is what the title is alluding to, They're saying that..well, take a look at myspace now. There's a billion and one bands selling there souls to it lol
3. _zoe_

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   Jan 17th 2007 !⃝

   I don't know the whole song meaning,
   but I do know that the line "the ribbon on my wrist, says do not open before Christmas" is often misunderstood.
   It's a very subtle way of getting at self harming.
   The "opening" being the cutting.
4. anonymous

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   Nov 4th 2006 !⃝

   In my opinion, fob is pretty much telling everyone not to idolize them, or any band for that matter. A lot of people literally live for bands and music, and this is their way of saying get a life!
5. anonymous

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   Nov 2nd 2006 !⃝

   brothers and sisters put this record down
   take my advice ('cause we are bad news)
   we will leave you high and dry
   it's not worth the hearing you'll lose
   
   basically, it means what he's singing. Put down a hard copy of this, we're gonna tell you what we think is the truth, we'll give you nothing you're just making yourself more deaf.
   
   it's just past 8 and I'm feeling young and reckless
   the ribbon on my wrist says, "do not open before christmas."
   
   nonsense. It's there to make the song sound good and reinforce the point of leaving you high and dry with nothing but less aural skills.
   
   we're only liars, but we're the best (we're the best)
   we're only good for the latest trend
   we're only good cause you can have almost famous friends
   besides, we've got such good fashion sense
   
   we're only popular for now. If we add you back on myspace, you'll have almost famous friends, and hell, we dress spiffy.
   
   brothers and sisters, yeah, put these words down
   into your notebook (spit lines like these)
   we're friends when you're on your knees
   make them dance like we were shooting their feet
   
   you put our lyrics on your profiles, your handles, everything. It's just regurgitated from our songs. We're friends when you're bringing me off. You love our songs cos you dance your head off to them.

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6. anonymous

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   Oct 30th 2006 !⃝

   Interesting article (in of all places the wall street journal's online law blog) on the true meaning of this song:
   
   http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/08/08/law-blog-rocker-of-the-day-fall-out-boys-pete-wentz/
   
   interesting stuff for fob fans, imho...
7. anonymous

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   Sep 9th 2006 !⃝

   They are basically saying how pathetic it is to impersonate someone famous just to get attention... Like really. It doesn't say too much about your social life to impersonate a band, I have seen the myspace account with a whole bunch of fakes. Really it's kinda sad how desprate some people are for attention, myspace is an okay site it's just some people acting like a whole bunch of idiots that give the site a bad reputation.
   
   I totally agree with fall out boy and I laugh my head off at all those fakes...If people want to make friends why not just be them selves
   
   i think very highly of fall out boy but I am not obsessed I however am excited about eventually going to one of their concerts
   
   rock on, fall out boy rock on
   
   taken from tv.Com (http://www.Tv.Com/fall-out-boy/person/389777/biography.Html):
   pete wentz: (on winning worst new artist of 2005 by spin magazine) I guess we're just one of those bands that just polarizes people. Some people worship the ground we walk on, and some people say we are ruining music and should shut our mouths. If you want to keep either of those opinions, you should try not to engage us in a real conversation.
   
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   that is the case with a lot of people.
   
   Okay now? Bybye

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8. anonymous

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   Sep 5th 2006 !⃝

   It's about temptations ('make them dance like shooting at feet' is an actual quote from the temptations). There was vh1.Com article about it a while back. Go back to your myspaces, children.
9. anonymous

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   Aug 27th 2006 !⃝

   "submitted by: anonymous
   they are in legal trouble. They wanted to put a "bad word" in the name of the song. However, their lawyer believed they would get sued by someone. Instead of putting the "bad word" in the song, they are saying "hey, we're fall out boy.. And even though we couldn't put that bad word in the title, we can still piss everyone off by making an extremely long title for the song. We might still get sued though, which would suck because then we'd have no more money. Even though we have tons. We'd have less if we were sued. This is why we didn't put the bad word in the song. But what if people knew we were going to put a bad name in the song and they sued us anyway, just for the heck of it? We would get our lawyer... And we would get lots more money. Then, we'd eat cake."
   
   wow... The meaning of the song is way over your head aint it?
10. anonymous

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    Aug 23rd 2006 !⃝

    How did you get that it was about mcr? I don't think so
11. anonymous

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    Aug 1st 2006 !⃝

    "submitted by: anonymous
    they are in legal trouble. They wanted to put a "bad word" in the name of the song. However, their lawyer believed they would get sued by someone. Instead of putting the "bad word" in the song, they are saying "hey, we're fall out boy.. And even though we couldn't put that bad word in the title, we can still piss everyone off by making an extremely long title for the song. We might still get sued though, which would suck because then we'd have no more money. Even though we have tons. We'd have less if we were sued. This is why we didn't put the bad word in the song. But what if people knew we were going to put a bad name in the song and they sued us anyway, just for the heck of it? We would get our lawyer... And we would get lots more money. Then, we'd eat cake."
    
    way too much time on your hands.
12. anonymous

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    Jul 30th 2006 !⃝

    Myspace whoring refers directly to adding friends for adding friends sake. To up your friend count, to add countless bands and 'celebs'.
    
    Was a bit disappointed to not hear any direct reference to myspace in the song actually, but its cool :)
13. anonymous

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    Jun 28th 2006 !⃝

    Three words: tongue in cheek.
14. Dulcie

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    Jun 2nd 2006 !⃝

    They are basically saying that this is NOT the record that they would have put out if they had control. FOB started out on an independent label where they had a lot more freedom to be the band they wanted to be. With this record, the big label told them how act, what to wear, who their friends were, and more importantly...what to sing about in order to make them more marketable. "The ribbon on my wrist" is in reference to the “limited edition” version of the album that dropped in December of 2005, further explaining how it’s not about the music anymore and just about the money they generate.
    
    There are several songs on the album that make references to how they feel about this, not just this song.
15. anonymous

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    May 24th 2006 !⃝

    There is something to say about this song being first on the record. The significance being that its the impression that FOB wants you to have...
    i think they are being sarcastic, they don't think they are all that great, and they just wanna have fun. If you wanna listen to their music, that's cool. It's the whole take it or leave it mentality. Totally awesome.

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