Fall Out Boy: The Pros and Cons of Breathing Meaning

The Pros and Cons of Breathing Lyrics

Bury me standing under your window with the cinder block in hand
Yeah cause no one will ever feel like this again
And if I could move I'm sure it would only be to crawl back to you
I must have dragged my guts a block... they were gone by the...

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   anonymous

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   Nov 2nd 2006 !⃝

   bury me standing under your window with this cinder block in hand
   yeah cause no one will ever feel like this again
   and if I could move I'm sure it would only be to crawl back to you
   i must have dragged my guts a block... They were gone by the time we (talked)...
   
   he can't get over her, he feels like all he wants to do is see her again so if he moves it'll only be to go see her, as pathetic as it is. So he'll drag/crawl himself there, and when he gets there, he can't even talk truthfully with her cos his guts are gone by then.
   
   want to hate you half as much as I hate myself
   you know that I could crush you with my voice
   
   he hates himself for not being able to talk about the breakup and what went wrong, and he hates not being able to say the things that would hurt her. He wishes he could hate her more so he could say the hurtful things.
   
   stood on my roof and tried to see you forgetting about me
   hide the details I don't want to know a thing
   
   not literally, but he's trying to see where she forgets about him a moves onto another guy. He's tryin to see it, but he doesn't want to see the details cos they're too hurtful
   
   i hate the way you say my name like it's something secret
   my pen is the barrel of the gun. Remind me which side you should be on
   
   because most people don't like to talk about their ex's when they're with someone else, so she doesn't mention him much cos he's like this bad secret in her past when she should be thinking about who she's with right now.
   Perhaps he could write a lot of hurtful things about her, so she should be careful what side of the pen she's on.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 7th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is about a boy who broke up with her girlfriend and now not only he hates himself for this but also her girlfriend cause now is dating someone else
3. anonymous

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   Feb 15th 2007 !⃝

   Even though this girl ripped his heart out and is now completely forgetting about him, he can't get over it and is still so mad at himself for screwing the relationship up.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 7th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about the end of a break up. Suprise, suprise. The roof top thing isn't literal, it means he's watching her get over him. And the cinder block part means she tore up his heart and he still comes crawling back to her, and how she ignores him and treats him bad but he still really likes her and he's regretting things he's done to make her hate him, hense the "I want to hate you half as much as I hate myself"
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   Mar 7th 2006 !⃝

   It's not a rumor. It's quite true, look at all the other songs. Though your basically right, somewhat.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
6. bestkeptsecret_x

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   Mar 4th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about someone who blames everything on themself.
   
   "Woah, I want to hate you half as much as I hate myself."
7. cheyanna1234

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   Feb 6th 2006 !⃝

   "I want to hate you half as much as I hate myself, knowing I could crush you witth my voice..."
   This song is about a guy who breaks up with a girl and she gets a new boyfriend and he immediatly gets jelous. Then he spy on her: "stood on my roof and tried to see you forgetting about me..." and she still ignores him even when he pretty much crys for attention. (At the end there is a very satisfying scremo part.)
   Its also a romour that when the bass player Pete OD' on advan he was listening to this song in his car and passed out while on the phone with his maneger after a show and dropped the phone and this is all the maneger could hear, so he called the hospital.

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