Music Lyrics

Church by Fall Out Boy

If you were church, I'd get on my knees
Confess my love, I'd know where to be
My sanctuary, you're holy to me
If you were church, I'd get on my knees
I'd get on my knees
I'd get on my knees
I'd get on my knees

Take the pain
Make it billboard big then swallow it for me

Time-capsule for the future
Trust me, that's what I will be
Oh, the things that you do in the name of what you love
You were doomed but just enough
You were doomed but just enough

If you were church, whoo
I'd get on my knees, yeah
Confess my love, I'd know where to be
My sanctuary, you're holy to me
If you were church, yeah, I'd get on my knees
I'd get on my knees, whoo
I'd get on my knees
I'd get on my knees

I love the world but I just don't love the way it makes me feel
Got a few more fake friends
And it's getting hard to know what's real

And if death is the last appointment
Then we're all just sitting in the waiting room. (DID YOU GUYS HERE THE PART WHERE A WOMANS VOICE CALLS FOR PATRICK BY HIS LAST NAME?!!!!)
I am just a human trying to avoid my certain doom.

If you were church, yeah
I'd get on my knees
Confess my love, I'd know where to be
My sanctuary, you're holy to me
If you were church, yeah, I'd get on my knees
I'd get on my knees, yeah, oh
I'd get on my knees, ah ah ah
I'd get on my knees, yeah
I'd get on my knees
If you were church
I'd get on my knees
Confess my love, I'd know where to be
My sanctuary, you're, you're holy to me, you're holy to me
If you were church, yeah, I'd get on my knees, yeah

Okay. *breathes deeply*
I give up. FOB is really hard to interpret and even though I know how I interpret it, it's hard to put it into words. Now hold on.

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Okay I think I collected my thoughts now. Alright. I know there's a LOT of repeating, *gives Patrick and Pete a pointed look* but I will try to interpret almost everything. *AHEM!*

So basically, in the second stanza, with the billboard and pain, I associate the line as pain is a strong pill/drug and Pete/Patrick don't want the pill anymore so he asks someone else to take the extraneous pain away so he doesn't have to deal with it anymore. I also think the person is kind of bonded with them or is at the very least special to them since they're taking away their pain. And so sue me that now I'm thinking about how Jesus is the same. He takes pain away.

But this isn't me preaching to you, so let's carry on.

Damn. Rereading these lyrics really do remind me of the Christian story of how Jesus took our sins away. I'm sure you can see why for yourself.

Skip down a stanza (or two. I don't remember) and it says "I love the world but I just don't like the way it makes me feel
Got a few more fake friends and it's getting hard to know what's real" ISNT THIS JUST SO RELATABLE?!

I love the Earth and the idea of how it's supposed to be but knowing what it's really like makes me feel disappointment, sadness, and anger. Us homeo sapiens could be doing a lot better and we blatantly choose not to. It's infuriating! I often pretend I'm not a human just because of these feelings too. I think I'd rather be a body swapping alien. (Sorry aliens reading this that might feel offended) but I think aliens are probably a lot nicer than us humans. Alright. Let me stop ranting.

NOW COMES MY FAVORITE STANZA IN THE WHOLE SONG!!!!! *mimics airhorn* BUH BUH BUH BUH BUUUUUUUUHHH!!!
Does anyone else feel spiritually connected to this verse other than me? Like. Just thinking about how they worded the real purpose of life with something so simple as to waiting in a waiting room of a doctors office. *swoons* Now the verse "I am just a human trying to avoid my certain doom." Is exactly what we do every day. We don't do anything else. We may have small quests in between, but the main quest is really just our species surviving.

Now that I have dropped this bomb, I'm going to lay down cuz deep thinking and being sick do not go hand and hand.

Goodnight!