Fall Out Boy's Intro Song "The Phoenix" on their comeback Album

"The Phoenix"

Put on your war paint

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down
Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground
We are the jack-o-lanterns in July
Setting fire to the sky
Here, here comes this rising tide
So come on

Put on your war paint

Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies
Silver clouds with grey linings

So we can take the world back from a heart attack
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart

Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Bring home the boys and scrap scrap metal the tanks
Get hitched, make a career out of robbing banks
Because the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks
"You broke our spirit," says the note we pass

So we can take the world back from a heart attack
One maniac at a time we will take it back
You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
So dance alone to the beat of your heart

Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Put on your war paint

The war is won
Before it's begun
Release the doves
Surrender love

(Wave the white flag!)

Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing our vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Hey young blood
Doesn't it feel like our time is running out?
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Put on your war paint

 

Fall out boy means so much to me, in fact I feel like that I can relate to their songs a lot more than the people here where I leave. Especially when it comes to emotion and reaction to certain situations. When they called it quits in 2009, I was crushed but now they have came back and this is the first song of their album "Save Rock and Roll". The song represents that they are back and ready to make an impact and I cant be more excited about it. These lyrics mean a lot to mean. To me if feels like the rise of new things to come from rock and roll and as ourselves. I feel it tells us that we need to start standing up to things and make a difference in our lives because we know we have little time left before we start looking at what we want. My favorite line in this song is "Wearing our vintage misery, No, I think it looked a little better on me". I feel it talks about how people will hate something, like a style about you but in the long run they will try to mimic it and in the line the narrator is telling them that he was right and they were wrong.