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. sandra361

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   Mar 1st 2006 !⃝

   Here's what the song means, straight from Pete's mouth.
   
   For Wentz, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" sums up the album. Musically, the song surges and slams while resounding with sky-high melodies. Lyrically, it addresses the band's approach to Cork Tree with lines like "We're going down in the early rounds, but we're going down swinging."
   
   "To us, we're throwing the fight, but we didn't write a record that's throwing a fight," Wentz explained. "We wrote a record that means a lot to us but maybe isn't going to mean a lot to the people who are hyping us as the next big thing. And that's fine. We don't want to be the saviors of anything — we just want to be ourselves."
2. anonymous

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   Feb 28th 2006 !⃝

   I'm surprised no one else has said anything about this, but I thought the line about "going down, down in an earlier round" sounded like it might be about not lasting very long during sex. His erection is going down. But he's "going down swinging."
   
   I'm not saying that is it, but I think about that almost every time I hear the song. Just a thought.
   
   -Angela
3. bestkeptsecret_x

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   Feb 25th 2006 !⃝

   I think "I'll be your number one with a bullet" just means that he would die for... whoever they are singing about. Since half the people here think its a guy and the other half thinks its a girl, I'm not sure what to put. But the person who said something about the deer-queer thing in the video had a good point. A really good point.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 22nd 2006 !⃝

   Ummmmm a god complex is belief that one is god-like right?
5. anonymous

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   Feb 22nd 2006 !⃝

   Hello! I would like to take a moment to tell you what this song really means. Five gay guys get together in a dirty garage and make songs about their sexual experiences; although, these are not just everyday sexual experiences. These guys, before their "fame", were unable to get a date with a real girl. The answer to their problem...homosexuality. This problem solver comes through there music very clearly. Pete tries to hide his new way of life by dating 15 year old girls. You may be lucky, just think, one of these girls could be you. Wouldn't you like to be the one that helps a homo out! Peace out brother, stay emo.
6. bkbluedevil

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   Feb 21st 2006 !⃝

   I interpret this song about a boy who is falling for a girl who to put it euphamistically 'gets around' as can be inferred from the notch in the bedpost lyrics as well sleeping for the wrong team. The boy I think he realizes she is like this and tries to tell him self that she is just a line in the song, when in reality she is/was more to him. He refuses to go down without a fight. His game plan invovles feeding feeding her large ego as evidenced by the whole God complex gun analogy as well as his commenting he's dying to tell her anything she wants to hear. He realizes this is a longshot and expects to "go down in an early round" in his fight to win her. The fact that he is fighting a losing battle can also be seen by her being with another guy as he is evidently spying though I don't think he is literally watching from the closet.
7. anonymous

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   Feb 4th 2006 !⃝

   No, it only depends what the question is. See if it's 1+1, it has two possible answers. Either 2, or window.
8. HushSheSpeaks

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   Feb 2nd 2006 !⃝

   I believe that songs are whatever you decide them to mean to you. I disagree with many of the answers that people have come up with, but then again it is human nature to strive for the simple answer to things, when in reality the answer is many things.
9. anonymous

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   Feb 2nd 2006 !⃝

   Ok, having heard also during a concert that it's about masturbation I'd have to say it probably is.
   
   Just before he played it he said something to the effect of "This song's about the best sex you'll ever have, that's the sex you'll have with yourself"
10. YourFan

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    Jan 30th 2006 !⃝

    Artists like to leave tings open to us. So basically there's no real interpretation to any song. I mean of course, to the lyricist the song has it's own meaning and interpretation. It could mean anything to us, but seeing as Pete wrote the song, it's his meaning that actually counts, uh... I guess. I have read some of the most fucking retarted interpertations, and some excelent ones too.
    
    And for those who hate FOB please shut the fuck up and grow up, you babies. If you hate FOB just post your opinions somewhere else!!!
    
    I think that it's either the girl/guy thing, the pop chart situation, or whatever this song means to Pete.
    
    I LOVE FALL OUT BOY!!!!
11. anonymous

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    Jan 29th 2006 !⃝

    I think this song is about a beautiful magical unicorn pony who falls in love with a terrible evil china doll. And Patrick is jealous, because Pete (break a name) is really going out with the evil china doll. But then Britney Spears comes along (drop a heart) and Patrick falls in love and has a child (In an earlier round) It all makes sense now...

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
12. peteisprettyinpink

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    Jan 28th 2006 !⃝

    The song is about living up to expectations by the media their fans friends etc....and how they're trying to make it.
13. L0VECANTSAVEY0U

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    Jan 21st 2006 !⃝

    Pete described it as "the best sex he ever had...with his right hand"
14. anonymous

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    Jan 21st 2006 !⃝

    This song is gay. You all deserve to have your toes chopped off and fall under a train transporting pudding to the homeless; with the exception of Ben May. I will grow a tree for every one of you....then destroy it. I hope you all know that all of your brain capacity (all added up) is less than zero....you sons of bitches. Have a nice day and don't live anymore, that is all.
    
    Jesse Gonzalez
15. anonymous

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    Jan 19th 2006 !⃝

    F**K you all just leave the interpretation to FOB and just stop talking about it cause I have been sitting here for two and a half hours arguing with my girlfriend about it and I say JUST DROP IT.
    
    AND for everyone's INFO I have a GOD Complex and I'm Outie
    
    
    ~Ben May

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