favorite lyric from every fob song
i’m so sorry this is so long please skip this is mainly for me to be able to reference
*songs with incredible lyrics throughout that it was extra hard to choose one or two
honorable mention: and maybe next time/i’ll remember not to tell you something stupid like I’ll never leave your side
calm before the storm: you said, between your smiles and regrets: “don’t say it’s over.”
switchblades and infidelity: walking out on the show is walking out on you/and walking out on you’s still the best thing that I ever did.
pretty in punk: well I’ve seen your boyfriend/and i don’t think he treats you right/but that’s none of my business is it?
growing up*: i’ve dried my eyes, now it’s “rushmore”/i’m deep with futures like chicago/no, glenview never meant a thing to me/she never meant a thing to me
the world’s not waiting (for five tired boys in a broken down van): we’re all “hasbeens” and “never-were’s”
short, fast and loud: good god i wish i was tall
moving pictures: where can I go when I want you around/but I can’t stand to be around you
parker lewis can’t lose (but i’m gonna give it my best shot): in the meantime just talking with my shoes/converse with my converse
tell that mick: stop burning bridges and drive off of them
dead on arrival: i know I’m not your favorite record/but the songs you grow to like never stick at first
grand theft autumn: you need him/i could be him
saturday: and i read about the afterlife/but I never really lived
homesick at space camp: landing on a runway in chicago and I’m grounding all my dreams/of ever really seeing california
sending postcards: when you go i will forget everything about you
chicago is so two years ago*: she took me down and said:/“boys like you are overrated. so save your breath." bonus: with every breath i wish your body will be broken again
the pros and cons of breathing: i want to hate you half as much as i hate myself
grenade jumper: living like life’s going out of style.
reinventing the wheel: i can’t wake up to these reminders of who i am:/a failure at everything… 18 going on extinct.
patron saint*: and when it all goes to hell/and when it all goes.
my heart is the worst kind of weapon: we are salt - you are the wound
it’s not a side effect: and think of all the places/where you’ve been lost/and then found…out/in between my sheets/in between the rights and the wrongs
our lawyer: we’re only good cause you can have almost famous friends
gin joints: i used to waste my time dreaming of being alive (now i only waste it dreaming of you)
dance, dance: joe trohman is lame
sugar: isn’t it messed up how i’m just dying to be him?
nobody puts baby in the corner: you look so good in blue
dark alley: joke me something awful just like kisses on the necks of "best friends”
atavan halen: i’ll be stuck fixated on one star/when the world is crashing down
sophomore slump*: cause i swear i’d burn this city down to show you the light
champagne: they say, “you want a war? you’ve got a war.”/but who are you fighting for?
i slept with: douse yourself in cheap perfume it’s/so fitting, so fitting of the way you are
sixteen candles*: she said, she said, she said, “why don’t you just drop dead?" bonus: so say what are you waiting for?/kiss her, kiss her
get busy*: i used to obsess over living,/now I only obsess over you
XO: to the "love”, i left my conscience pressed/between the pages of the bible in the drawer
snitches and walkers: show me a starry-eyed kid/i will break his jaw
the music or the misery*: it’s true romance is dead, i shot it in the chest then in the head. bonus: and if you wanna go down in history then i’m your prince bonus bonus: i went to sleep a poet, and i woke up a fraud
thriller: i can take your problems away with a nod and a wave/of my hand, ‘cause that’s just the kind of boy that i am
take over, breaks over: don’t pretend you ever forgot about me.
arms race: i wrote the gospel on giving up/(you look pretty sinking)
me & you: the best way/to make it through/with hearts and wrists intact/is to realize/two out of three ain’t bad/ain’t bad
hum hallelujah*: i thought I loved you/it was just how you looked in the light.
golden: and i knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me
thnks fr th mmrs: get me out of my mind and get you out of those clothes
don’t you know: i could learn to pity fools as I’m the worst of all/and i can’t stop feeling sorry for myself
the after life of the party: put love on hold,/young hollywood is on the other line
tunnel of love: got postcards from my former selves saying: “how’ve you been?”
doldrums: you’re wrong/are we all wrong?
fame > infamy: “there’s too much green to feel blue”
you’re crashing*: the headline reads “the man hangs”, but the jury doesn't bonus: baby boy can’t lift his headache head
ringing in my ears: new york eyes, chicago thighs
ginasfs: threw caution to the wind,/but i’ve got a lousy arm
hard to say: but don’t get the wrong idea/we’re gonna shoot you
lullabye: when you wake up the world will come around
disloyal order*: what a match, i’m half doomed and you’re semi-sweet bonus: boycott love/ detox just to retox
i don’t care: say my name and his in the same breath/i dare you to say they taste the same
winona: bop bop ba dop
america’s suitehearts: why won’t the world revolve around me?
headfirst slide: i don’t just want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness
(shipped) gold standard: plant palm trees on lake michigan before it gets cold/i gotta feel the wind chill again before i get old
(coffee’s for closers)*: i will never believe in anything again/though change will come
donnie: i’m the one/who charmed the one/who gave up on you
27: you’re a bottled star/the planets align/you’re just like mars/you shine in the sky
tiffany blews: dear gravity, you held me down in this starless city
wams*: what makes you so special?/i’m gonna leave you/i’m gonna teach you/how we’re all alone
nosebleed: goes to the desert the same war his dad rehearsed/came back with flags on coffins and said,/”we won, oh we won.“
west coast smoker: got my degree in the gutter,/my heart broken in the dorms of the ivy league
pavlove: i want to make you as lonely as me/so you can get, get addicted to this
the phoenix: wearing our vintage misery/no, i think it looked a little better on me
light em up: a constellation of tears on your lashes/burn everything you love, then burn the ashes
alone together: but i don’t think i’m coming home and i said/i’ll check in tomorrow if i don’t wake up dead
where did the party go: my old aches become new again/my old friends become exes again
just one yesterday: letting people down is my thing, baby/find yourself a new gig/this town ain’t big enough for two of us
the mighty fall: two’s a whole lot lonelier than one
miss missing you*: baby, you were my picket fence bonus: i will sing to you every day/if it will take away the pain
death valley: undress to impress/you can wear the crown but you’re no princess
young volcanoes: come on make it easy/say i never mattered (basic ik)
rat a tat*: i’m the lonelier version of you/i just don’t know where it went wrong \
srar: how’d it get to be only me?/like i’m the last damn kid still kicking/that still believes
the king is dead: the may never think and wonder why, dear christ/every time i see you i just want to paint the walls white
art of keeping up disappearances: erase the conclusion/but never meant to clear up/any of the confusion
hot to the touch: if it’s never been broken/can’t believe in it/now you’re just a problem/for someone else to fix
love, sex, death: but out of every pretty pretty miscalculation/you have got to be my all-time favorite
eternal summer: i can’t do this again/i need more oxygen
demigods: what if we were demigods?/they’d take to our knees/raging at the half of our sins
american made: when i was younger i couldn’t wait for the days to pass/now i know they’ll never last/and i just want my childhood back
caffeine cold: don’t breathe life into a monster then/complain when he destroys it all again
irresistible: too many war wounds and not enough wars/too few rounds in the ring and not enough settled scores/too many sharks, not enough blood in the waves
ab/ap: i think i. i fell in love again/maybe i just took too much cough medicine
centuries: heavy metal broke my heart bonus: we are the poisoned youth
the kids aren’t alright*: and i still feel that rush in my veins./it twists my head just a bit too thin./all those people in those old photographs I’ve seen are dead.
uma thurman: the end of the fucking song
jet pack blues*: did you ever love her? do you know?/or did you never want to be alone?
novocaine: if you knew, knew what the bluebirds sang at you,/you would never sing along
4th of july: you are my favorite "what if”/you are my best “I’ll never know”
favorite record: and i confessed, confessed to you/riding shotgun underneath the purple skies
immortals: i try to picture me without you but i can’t
hotel in nyc: a birth and a death on the same day/and honey I only appeared so i can fade away/i wanna throw my hands in the air and scream/and i could just die laughing on your spiral of shame
young and menace?? champion?? i’m sorry who?? what?? huh???
hold me tight or don’t: i got too high again/when i realized i can’t not be with you/or be just your friend/i love you to death but i just can’t/i just can’t pretend/we were lovers first/confidants but never friends/were we ever friends?
the last of the real ones: 'cause you’re the last of a dying breed/write our names in the wet concrete
7-9 legendary: i want to choke (u)/and get sick off of you/like secondhand smoke
alpha dog: i want to put the midwest home again
austin we have a problem: i gave you pretentious./i gave you indifference, but you only wanted undressed and defenseless. bonus: hey! everyone’s an underdog.
catch me if you can: oh dear lord,/please let me into heaven, for just an afternoon.
from now on we are enemies: a composer but never composed/singing the symphonies of the overdosed
guilty as charged: i got greater expectations than oliver twist
hand of god*: it’s not gossip if it’s the truth/i’m sick of always writing songs for you to slit your wrists to
lake effect kid*: i’ve got the skyline in my veins/forget your night times/summer love on a gurney with a squeaky wheel/and joke us, joke us/till lakeshore drive comes back into focus
mskwyditd (demo)*: we sold our souls in dark hotel rooms/we slip tongues and lie like “i will see you soon”
star 67: maybe we could talk this over/but i swear to god/and i’ll have this phone to my head.
we don’t take hits, we write them: and my life is holding our heads to this gun/you and your new boy think you can come in and keep me off, but you’re wrong
yule shoot your eye out: and all i want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to me/before you bury yourself alive
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