Aside from their eyeliner, perfect hair, all-black outfits and booming guitar work, the thing that has always helped separate Fall Out Boy from the crowd of super-cool, emo-leaning pop-punk bands are their lyrics. The beloved band can't go one song without inserting at least one insanely clever, funny, or even downright odd line, and somehow, they pull it off in style.
Here are the 52 best lyrics from all seven of Fall Out Boy's full-length albums, from the newly-released MANIA back to the classic Take This to Your Grave.
From "Of All The Gin Joints In All The World":
Turn off the lights and turn off the shyness
Cause all of our moves make up for the silence
From "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race":
I wrote the gospel on giving up
From "w.a.m.s.":
My head's in heaven, my soles are in hell
Let's meet in the purgatory of my hips and get well
From "Alone Together":
This is the road to ruin
And we're starting at the en
From "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)":
I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color
From "I Don't Care":
Say my name and his in the same breath
I dare you to say they taste the same