A Semantic Analysis Of Phrasal Verbs Found In Fall Out Boy’s Selected Songs

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APPENDICES

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84 Biography of Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is an American

of

bassist

originated from Chicago's

involved. The group was formed by Wentz and Trohman as a

of their respective hardcore bands, and Stump joined shortly thereafter. The group

went through a succession of drummers before landing Hurley and recording their

debut album,

label

making Wentz a celebrity and tabloid fixture. Their 2007

follow-landed at number one on the

fourth album, created a mixed response from fans and commercially undersold

expectations. The band took a hiatus from 2009 to 2012 to "decompress", exploring

various side projects. They regrouped and recorded

which gave the band their second career number one and produced the top 20 single

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All the data of phrasal verbs in this thesis:

The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys In A Broken Down Van), Dance

Dance, Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner (Acoustic), Golden, Parker Lewis Can't

Lose, Tell Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today, I Don't Care, The

(After) Life Of The Party, The Phoenix, Roxanne, Yule Shoot Your Eye Out,

Turnpike Gates, We Don't Take Hits, We Write Them.

1. "The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys In A Broken Down Van)" 2003

This might just be a waste of time there's no one I'd rather waste My time with than all my best friends

So start the car up

We'll all take turns not for the worst We're all "hasbeens" and "never-were's" And we're all in the back singing "Roxanne"

Just watching life pass us by Pass us by

As if we cared Enough to try to catch up Enough to make up for lost time Enough to make up for lost time, yeah

We've been down We've been out We've been hanging 'round Tip our glasses to no direction, yeah

Start the van

Get me out of this one horse town Waste this night

Start the van

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Waste this night

Start the van

Get me out of this one horse town Waste this night

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2. "Dance, Dance" 2005

She says she's no good with words but I'm worse Barely stuttered out

A joke of a romantic stuck to my tongue And weighed down with words too overdramatic

Tonight it's "it cant get much worse" Vs. "no one should ever feel like.."

I'm two quarters and a heart down

And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds These words are all I have so I write them

I need them just to get by

Dance, Dance

We're falling apart to half time Dance, Dance

And these are the lives you love to lead Dance, this is the way they'd love If they knew how misery loved me

You always fold just before you're found out Drink up its last call

Last resort

But only the first mistake and I...

I'm two quarters and a heart down

And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds These words are all I have so I write them

I need them just to get by

Why don't you show me a little bit of spine You've been saving for his mattress, love

Dance, Dance

And these are the lives you love to lead Dance, this is the way they'd love If they knew how misery loved me

Why don't you show me a little bit of spine You've been saving for his mattress (mattress, mattress) I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me

Dance, Dance

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Dance this is the way they'd love (way they'd love) Dance this is the way they'd love (way they'd love)

Dance this is the way they'd love If they knew how misery loved me

Dance, Dance Dance, Dance Dance, Dance Dance, Dance

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3. "Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner (Acoustic)" 2004

Drink down that Gin and Kerosene, And come spit on bridges with me,

Just to keep us warm. Light a match to leave me be. Light a match to leave me be.

I keep my jealousy close, 'Cause it's all mine.

And if you say this makes you happy, Then I'm not the only one lying.

[Chorus: x2] Keep quiet,

Nothing comes as easy as you. Can I lay in your bed all day?

I'll be your best kept secret And your biggest mistake.

The hand behind this pen relives a failure every day.

And I keep my jealousy close, 'Cause it's all mine.

And if you say this makes you happy, Then I'm not the only one lying.

Drink down that Gin and Kerosene, And come spit on bridges with me,

Just to keep us warm. Light a match to leave me be.

Light a match to leave me...

[Chorus x2]

So wear me like a locket around your throat. I'll weigh you down.

I'll watch you choke. You look so good in blue. You look so good in blue.

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[During 3rd repeat:] (Keep quiet,

Nothing comes as easy as you. Can I lay in your bed all day?

You look so good in blue. You look so good in blue.)

[Chorus x3]

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(So wear me like a locket around your throat. I'll weigh you down.

I'll watch you choke. You look so good in blue. You look so good in blue.)

4. "Golden"

How cruel is the golden rule?

When the lives we lived are only golden-plated And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me

Though I carried karats for everyone to see

And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies And all the lovers with no time for me And all of the mothers raise their babies

To stay away from me

Tongues on the sockets of electric dreams

Where the sewage of youth drowned the spark of my teens

And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me (too heavy for me) Though I carried karats for everyone to see (everyone to see)

And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies And all the lovers with no time for me And all of the mothers raise their babies

To stay away from me

And pray they don't grow up to be...

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5. "Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gonna Give It My Best Shot)"

You laughed off my affections While I passed by your direction I should have known from your walk, yeah

It was the end of you

It's not like I don't respect your opinion Your quick wit lips, just rip me apart

Sometimes, it's times like this, yeah

I got a big mouth

And maybe you could handle shutting it up A simple contradiction

Could shake my whole foundation Parker Lewis can't lose

Taking back every step towards you Still failing at everything I do In the meantime just talking with my shoes

Converse with my Converse At least they hear a word I say

And scrutinize it

Just as far as they can tell what I'm getting at Tied my tongue around my neck

For the last time

It's not like I don't respect your opinion Your quick wit lips, just tear me apart

Sometimes, it's times like this, yeah

I got a big mouth

And maybe you could handle shutting it up A simple contradiction

Could shake my whole foundation Parker Lewis can't lose, yeah

Yeah Yeah

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92 6. "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today"

Light that smoke, that one for giving up on me

And one just cause they’ll kill you sooner than my expectations To my favorite liar, to my favorite scar (to my favorite scar):

“I could have died with you”

I hope you choke on those words, that kiss, that bottle- I confess Now ask yourself, yeah, out on the insides, I said I loved you but I lied

Let’s play this game called “when you catch fire” I wouldn’t piss to put you out

Stop burning bridges and drive off of them So I can forget about you

So bury me in memory His smile’s your rope So wrap it tight around your throat

On the drive home

Joke about the kid you used to see And his jealousy

Breaking hearts has never looked so cool As when you wrap your car around a tree Your makeup looks so great next to his teeth

Let’s play this game called “when you catch fire” I wouldn’t piss to put you out

Stop burning bridges and drive off of them So I can forget about you

So bury me in memory His smile’s your rope So wrap it tight around your throat

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So bury me in memory around your throat

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7. "I Don't Care"

Say my name and his in the same breath I dare you to say they taste the same Let the leaves fall off in the summer And let December glow in flames

Erase myself and let go Start it over again in Mexico These friends, they don't love you They just love the hotel suites, now

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me The best of us can find happiness in misery

Said,

Oh take a chance, let your body get a tolerance I'm not a chance, put a heat wave in your pants

Pull a breath like another cigarette Pawnshop heart trading up (trading up)

On the oracle in my chest, Let the guitar scream like a fascist

Sweat it out, shut your mouth free love on the streets but in the alley it ain't that cheap, now

Said,

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The best of us can find happiness in misery Said,

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8. “The (After) Life Of The Party”

I'm a stitch away from making it And a scar away from falling apart, apart

Blood cells pixelate And eyes dilate

And the full moon pills got me out on the street at night

Cut it loose

Watch you work the room Cut it loose

Watch you work the room

Oh

Put love on hold,

Young Hollywood is on the other line Her nose runs ruby red, deaths in a double bed Singing songs that could only catch the ear of the desperate

Cut it loose

I'm a stitch away from making it And a scar away from falling apart, apart

Blood cells pixelate And eyes dilate

Kiss away young thrills and kills on the mouths of all my friends

Cut it loose

Watch you work the room Loose

(Watch you work the room)

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96 9. "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 He-here comes this rising tide

So come on

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

So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked 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 You're 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 and 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 the heart-attacked 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

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[4x:] The war is won Before it's begun Release the doves Surrender love

(Wave the white flag!)

Hey young blood

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

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98 10. "Roxanne"

[Originally by The Police]

Roxanne

You don't have to put on the red light Those days are over

You don't have to sell your body to the night

Roxanne

You don't have to wear that dress tonight Walk the streets for money

You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne

You don't have to put on the red light Roxanne

You don't have to put on the red light

(Roxanne) Put on the red light (Roxanne) Put on the red light (Roxanne) Put on the red light (Roxanne) Put on the red light (Roxanne) Put on the red light (Roxanne) Put on the red light

I loved you since I knew you I wouldn't talk down to you I have you to tell just how I feel I won't share you with another boy

I know my mind is made up (oh) So put away your make up Told you once I won't tell you again

It's a bad way

Roxanne

You don't have to put on the red light Roxanne

You don't have to put on the red light

(Roxanne) You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne) You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne) You don't have to put on the red light

(Roxanne) Put on the red light

(Roxanne) You don't have to put on the red light (Roxanne)

Put on the red light Put on the red light

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You don't have to put on the red light Put on the red light

Put on the red light Put on the red light Put on the red light

You don’t have to put on the red light You don’t have to put on the red light

Put on the red light

You don’t have to put on the red light Put on the red light

(Roxanne)

You don’t have to put on the red light (Roxanne)

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100 11. "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out"

These are your good years Don't take my advice

You never wanted the nice boys anyway And I'm of good cheer

'Cause I've been checking my list The gifts you're receiving from me

Will be

One awkward silence

And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep Staying up, waiting by the phone

And all I want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to me Before you bury yourself alive

Don't come home for Christmas You're the last thing I wanna see

Underneath the tree

Merry Christmas, I could care less

Happy New Years, baby You owe me

The best gift I will ever ask for

Don't call me up, when the snow comes down Its the only thing I want this year

One awkward silence

And two hopes you cry yourself to sleep Staying up, waiting by the phone

And all I want this year is for you to dedicate your last breath to me Before you bury yourself alive

Underneath the tree

Merry Christmas, I could care less

Underneath the tree (Don't come home for Christmas) Merry Christmas, I could care less

[Patrick, in a lisp:]

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Sweet! They've recorded a Christmas song! They must've spent a lot of money on this... But this one time, this one Christmas I got this-

[beeps Deck the Halls]

12. "Turnpike Gates" (originally by Lifetime)

We would drag ourselves to bed. And sleep took everything I had.

I kept it up till he would call. You made me feel like a criminal.

And then there's you,

you kept a smile though I would always walk the wire.

You gave it all.

I gave you reason to have doubt. I had to get out of there.

I took the stairs.

I don't wanna fight with you if I can't be the one to have you. You sat that chair like a queen in the kitchen.

I memorized the lines your eyes made at every squint you shot my way.

We would drag ourselves to bed. And sleep took everything I had.

I kept it up till he would call. You made me feel like a criminal.

And then there's you,

you kept a smile though I would always walk the wire.

But you're miserable and I'm useless, always making up excuses. I made you cry too many times.

So I'm hanging up that line. I'm throwing rocks at your floor. I'm knocking down your front door. I'm desperate tonight and I just wanna fight.

It's my confusion that lets me act so cold. So now I'll go, go, go.

And you wanna be just left alone.

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102 13. "We Don't Take Hits, We Write Them"

And you lock the house to keep your secret from coming out I wont, No. I'm sorry because you're old news

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

I find myself on the street out in front of your house, you can kiss safe thoughts goodbye.

I'm coming up to break your heart.

You're sleeping with the light on like you're dying to be found out.

And you lock the house to keep your secret from coming out I wont, No. I'm sorry because you're old news

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

(And you lock the house) And you lock the house

oh,oh,oh,oh,oh And you lock the house And you lock the house

oh,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh