![]() “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” went on to become Fall Out Boy’s first two-million seller in July 2009. From the album of the same name, “Save Rock and Roll” also includes a reference to the song. The same antlers can be seen in the music video. After discovering that the father has hooves, they’re able to connect through a mutual acceptance for each other.įall Out Boy later sampled the song in “What a Catch, Donnie” on their 2008 album, Folie à Deux. Throughout, the boy is persecuted by the father of the girl he develops feelings for, and attempts to remove his antlers in hope of social acceptance. ![]() In the now iconic music video, the viewer follows a socially outcast boy with antlers played by Donald Cummings of The Virgins. ![]() But there was something about the rhythm of it, where I was like, ‘Hmm, that actually might be too good for just a shitty punk song. Trying to do a straight punk song for fun… I saw those lyrics and just kind of barked them out. The lyrics in the song’s chorus were intentionally slurred by vocalist Patrick Stump who told Rolling Stone that he was: I was like, ‘Why doesn’t anyone do that anymore?’ Be we really locked it down in California." I was with my dad, and we were listening to the old music where they’d always say ‘sugar’ and ‘honey’ – stuff like that. As their first top ten hit, the song is often credited as being the catalyst for the band entering the mainstream where they were exposed to a new audience.įall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz wrote the lyrics. The whole idea of subliminal suggestions is not paying attention to them - otherwise, they would not be subliminal. “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” was released in April 2005 as the lead single from Fall Out Boy’s second studio album, From Under the Cork Tree. We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it Is this more than you bargained for yet? Oh, don't mind me, I'm watching You two from the closet Wishing to be the friction in your jeans Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him? I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song (Notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song) Drop a heart And break a name We're always sleeping in and sleeping For the wrong team We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
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