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Pete Wentz Blog Post/Fall Out Boy Lyric Similarities, References and Parallels: A Thread
put me in a frame on your wall, just to keep me out of trouble. (2006) // frame me up on your wall, just to keep me out of trouble (irresistible, 2015)
the road outside of my house is paved with good intentions. but it is hell on the undercarriage of the car so we're gonna have to hire a construction crew (2006) // the road outside my house is paved with good intentions, hired a construction crew cause it’s hell on the engines
(hum hallelujah, 2007)
i wonder if anyone else things of you as much as i do, even you (2006) // No one ever thinks of you as much as I do, not, not even you (bob dylan, 2019)
i wonder if anyone else things of you as much as i do, even you (2006) // No one ever thinks of you as much as I do, not, not even you (bob dylan, 2019)
imagine me and you (2006) // me and you, setting in a honeymoon (im like a lawyer with the way i’m always tring to get you off, 2007)
fuck your leading man (2006) // im a leading man (this aint a scene, it’s an arms race, 2007)
baby you are a canary and i am a coalmine (2006) // you're a canary, i'm a coal mine (i've got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers, 2007)
the way i think of you is billboard big, only i could never tell anyone (2006) // take the pain, make it billboard big (church, 2018) // put your shame on a billboard (bob dylan, 2019)
it feels like there is so much to say.but it can only be said in songs. (2006) // i'm sorry every songs about you (fourth of july, 2015)
**credit to soph @hurIeyswentz for this one
**credit to soph @hurIeyswentz for this one
you are being pulled in every direction (2006) // i became such a strange shape, such a strange shape from trying to fit in (wilson, 2018)
it comes down to my word versus your word versus the worlds word (2006) // if i spilled my guts, the world would never look at you the same way (just one yesterday, 2013)
pupils the size of baby worlds (2006) // sour bottle baby girl with eyes the size of baby worlds (i'm like a lawyer with the way i'm always trying to get you off, 2007)
i am nostalgic for disaster (2006) // and one day we’ll get nostalgic for disaster (hum hallelujah, 2007)
late at night when the city sleeps i cast a spell on youto make you think of me the very same way i think of you (2006) // and i cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way i think of you (bang the doldrums, 2007)
fireworks over the valley (2006) // you and i were fireworks (fourth of july, 2015)
that everything you say is likely to end up as evidence when i rewrite history (2006) // anything you say can and will be held against you (just one yesterday, 2013)
**credit to mccoy @hetmikey for this one
**credit to mccoy @hetmikey for this one
i am addicted to the way i feel when i think of you (2006) // i'm addicted to the way i feel when i think of you (fame > infamy, 2007)
im so sorry, but not really (2006) // and i’m so sorry, but not really (ive got all this ringing in my ears and none on my fingers, 2007)
your eyes were always rolling // your pupils big, rolling like dice (tiffany blews, 2008)
it is always summer here (2006) // our days were never numbered, this is eternal summer (eternal summer, 2013)
anyone can paint a gutter to make it look like gold (2006) // at night we’re painting your trash gold (this aint a scene, 2007)
whichever side of this sentence you are on doesnt feel so great (2006) // my pen is the barrel of the gun, remind me which side you should be on (the pros and cons of breathing, 2003)
get me out of my mind (2006) // get me out of my mind (thnks fr th mmrs, 2007)
and late at night the rain falls like bachelors for bad luck girls (2006) // the verdict falls like bachelors for bad luck girls (youre crashing but youre no wave, 2007)
there is too much green to feel blue (2006) // theres too much green to feel blue (fame > infamy, 2007)
blackmail myself (2006) // blackmail myself cause i ain't got anyone else (it's hard to say i do when i don't, 2007)
i came back to you.only its more like a relapse (2006) // when i said that i’d return to you, i meant more like a relapse (it’s hard to say i do when i don't, 2007)
i am a bull.she is a china shop (2006) // we’re a bull, your ears are just a china shop (hum hallelujah, 2007)
and if its loud and bright enough it doesnt matter [...] how the best cameras flash at you (2006) // i'm boring but overcompensate with headlines and flash photography (the take over, the breaks over, 2007)
lets be alone, together. (2006) // say yeah, let’s be alone together (alone together, 2013)
im not sure why i even call anymore (2006) // some nights they get so bad, i almost pick up the phone (ginasfs, 2007)
i have to hope everyone and everything else is just like this as well or else this is gonna be a pretty lonely ride that goes on for far too long (2006) // we’ve gone way too fast for way too long (young and menace, 2018)
At some point you realize Its all a game of "this" or "that". now vs. then. "Better off" against "worse for the wear" (2006) // Its all a game of this or that, now vs. then, better off against worse for wear (hum hallelujah, 2007)
you know, id rather be a widow than a divorcee (2006) // wouldn’t you rather be a widow than a divorcee (the take over, the breaks over, 2007)
right now i can only curse the fucking light off of this stupid western city because it wont ever get dark enough for sleep but otherwise how could you guide your way back here? (2006) // the glow of the cities below lead us back (bishops knife trick, 2018)
