Fall Out Boy: Sugar, We're Goin Down Meaning

Song Released: 2005

Sugar, We're Goin Down Lyrics

Am I more than you bargained for yet
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(A...

1. deltaforce

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   Nov 2nd 2005 !⃝

   This song is actually about two gay men going down on each other.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
2. cherryxbliss

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   Nov 1st 2005 !⃝

   Um, yes, there are meanings to Fall Out Boy lyrics. And just becasue a band is now mainstream, doesn't mean that they always have been. Trends change, and just because a band is suddenly liked by many people does not mean that they are bullshit. What's bullshit is people who liked a band, then as soon as they get some sort of popularity, they say that they suck and hate them.
   
   Okay, I really doubt that it's about being gay. And the line is "be the friction in YOUR jeans", meaning he wants to be the guy his girl is now with.
   
   Now, I will admit, as much as I love Pete, he's not that good at thinking up new plots. Like many other FOB songs, the surface meaning is a girl and a guy in a disfunctional relationship. It could also be about living up to expectations in general.
   
   As with many Fall Out Boy songs, the meanings mostly lie in the verses. Choruses have the themes, but not much on the detail front.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 31st 2005 !⃝

   I'm still wonderin if anyone has tried to look at the words, "We're always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong team". To me, what the band is tryin to say here is that he's too attached with the girl he's having an affair with, but that's all to it, an affair. The reason that they are sleeping together is wrong. The girl only wants to use him as an object to satisfy herself, while having a relationship with another guy.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 26th 2005 !⃝

   Assuming everyone here is straight and under 18...
   
   You're missing the most telling parts of the song.
   
   Sleeping for the wrong team. Come on, you know what this means, right? You don't want to talk about icky gay stuff.
   
   Watching you from the closet. Again, ew, gay, right? *shaking head*
   
   And last but not least, the original lyrics, "Wishing to be the friction in HIS jeans." So yes, now you can all run screaming into that good night.
   
   The song has a lot of layered meaning. I'm surprised at how many of the posters here don't understand figurative language. Don't they teach anything in public schools nowdays? The most obvious one is, the protagonist has a thing for someone alright, and it's probably not the girl. Or maybe he's got a thing for them both. In any case, you can't ignore the homoerotic content. Even the video... antlers.... the kid's part deer... queer, get it? No, of course you don't.
5. anonymous

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   Oct 23rd 2005 !⃝

   It's you all or you guys just please, not y'all, and no, it is "a loaded god complex cock it and pull it." If you had actually listen or read the booklet that comes with the CD you would know that.
   
   So everyone who thinks it's "a loaded gun complex" it's not. If "y'all" can get that through your think country heads.
   
   You're welcome.
6. awesomeandy2

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   Oct 22nd 2005 !⃝

   Y'all are being retarded, it isn't a loaded god complex, it's a loaded gun complex.

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7. anonymous

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   Oct 22nd 2005 !⃝

   Here are some lines that I've interpreted:
   
   ~We're always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong team- They are going out for the wrong reasons.
   ~I'll be your number one with the bullet- He will do anything for her.
   ~Is this more then you bargained for yet?- A fling turned into love.
   ~Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him- They broke up, yet he still wants her.
   ~I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song- She doesn't care about him or that they broke up and he's trying to prove that he doesnt care either
8. anonymous

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   Oct 20th 2005 !⃝

   Fall Out Boy's lyrics don't have any relavance to anything because they are written only to be catchy and fit right in with every other mainstream song. But since this singer wears a "trendy" hat, people think that they are something new and groundbreaking. Bullshit.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
9. GerardLover123

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   Oct 20th 2005 !⃝

   Whoever thought that it was "load a gun complex" obviously isn't a FOB fan, they don't even know the lyrics.
10. anonymous

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    Oct 19th 2005 !⃝

    "The song is about Fall Out Boy trying to live up to what people expected of them before this album was released. "Am I more that you barganed for yet, I've been dying to tell you anything you wanna' hear, cause that's just who I am this week"
    
    The above is exactly the right interpretation, Pete Wentz has said it numerous times, and I think he would know, seeing as he was the one who wrote the lyrics.
11. StephyFresh is wrong

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    Oct 18th 2005 !⃝

    Stephy fresh is an idiot, and in no way is that what the song is about. I dont think I could put in words, how disgusted I am at the fact that someone could be so ignorant.
12. anonymous

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    Oct 15th 2005 !⃝

    I think the whole wanting to be with mother thing is totally wrong. I think it's simply about a guy who is obsessed with a girl and she doesn't notice him because she's sexually attracted to someone else. He thinks of ways to get her to notice him by the thought of suicide, by saying "I'll be your number one with a bullet." Meaning if he shot himself, then she would care.
13. anonymous

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    Oct 14th 2005 !⃝

    It is "a loaded God complex cock it and pull it." If you dont believe me look in the cover book.
14. anonymous

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    Oct 11th 2005 !⃝

    The song is about Fall Out Boy trying to live up to what people expected of them before this album was released. "am I more that you barganed for yet, I've been dying to tell you anything you wanna hear, cus thats just who I am this week"
15. anonymous

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    Oct 8th 2005 !⃝

    I need to set two things straight:
    
    A complex is not always sexual relations between a mother and son, (that's called incest), it can be any number of things. A God Complex is not a type of gun. Sorry but whoever said that was completely wrong. A God Complex is the belief that one is godlike, and thus better than others.
    
    All who said that the song was about sexual relations between two people purely for the sake of sexual relations are correct.

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