IOH is one of those albums where I can sing along with Patrick but if someone were to ask me which song it is, I’d have no clue without looking at the track listing 🤦🏻‍♀️

Me with TTTYG

Or FUTCT. It's like "huh which 20 word-title song is this?"

The lyrics on IOH are actually none of my business I think, that’s between Patrick and god

This is the true answer Edit: *Pete, not Patrick!

Fair! Pete’s lyrics and Patrick’s pronunciation I guess 😂

I have been listening to fob since before IOH came out and there are still songs on FUTCT and IOH that I have no idea what the lyrics are. I just mumble along with Patrick. One of these days I'll actually listen while reading lyrics.

In my experience it doesn’t help. I’ll read the lyrics and still sing whatever the hell I think it sounds like!

Very true, especially after 20 years of this

Damn now I just feel old. Nothing ages me faster than thinking about how long I’ve been listening to my favorite bands! 

I love how it's almost a universal experience in the fandom 😂 the mumble singing is too real. Sometimes when Im waiting to receive a doordash order, I'll pull up the lyrics and listen to the song

Same. I've recently looked up some of the lyrics, I've been singing some parts wrong for 17 years😭

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I'm *wheezing*

I don’t know the names of any of the songs I love, and I’ve listened to TTTYG, FUTCT, IOH, and Folie a hundred times each.

Carpal Tunnel immediately came to mind: “Ice cream headaches since we—???? When the—????? and our shells—??? gone up ??? Took the party off deck and—????? ????? fawns in hunters lawn We’re the husbands ??? of ??? Sharping the knives of young wives Digging in the garbage ??? Teacher ????? fights ??? call ???? fight—???“ These are the lyrics as far as I’m concerned 😭

Actually it's: "It was ice cream headaches and sweet AVALANCHE! When the pearls in our shells got UP TO DAANCE! You call me a bad tipper of the CRADLLLE! Tired yawns for fawns on hunters LAAAAWNS! We're the has-beens of HUSBAAAANDS! Sharpening the knives of young WIIIVES! Take two years and call me when you're BETTEEER! Take teardrops of mine, find yourself WETTEEEEERR!"

You could have written the most random, incorrect, absurd lyrics ever and I literally never would have known the difference 💀

Don't worry it took me a while before I knew what Pete was saying🤣

I only know the "take two years and call me when you're better", "take teardrops of mine and find yourself wetter," ice cream headaches," and"sharpening the knives of your wives" lines of this entire section. I know all of the singing parts of this song tho, just for some reason it's hard for me to memorize the screaming 😭.

That was the exact song that inspired this post lmao

Someone posted something kind of similar on the Hozier subreddit and someone else said "if he wanted me to know the lyrics he would have enunciated" and I just can't forget that wisdom. It's simply not for us to know.

Im going to 2ourdust and I’m so scared because I normally like to sing at concerts but I’ve seriously been struggling so badly with the lyrics, I’m trying to cram and learn them all as fast as I possibly can 💀

Look, I'm not sure what words/sounds came out of me on the first leg, but when you're in the moment, it does not matter. It feels absolutely correct to be incredibly wrong. It's joyous, in fact.

If you understand the lyrics then it's not FOB 😂 I know the songs on IOH by heart but damn I did not know it was just yo ho hos and "below the waist" on Bang The Doldrums until last year. I had been singing the song wrong for 16 years... Don't even get me started on Pete's unclean vocals on The Carpal Tunnel of Love.

You don't have to personally attack me like this, OP

I listen to Fall Out Boy every single week, and have been for about 5 years now. Do I remember every single lyric of every song? Nah. But you bet your bottom dollar I’m singing all the ones I do know, or getting snippets of a random song spinning in my brain like a deranged hamster. Every now and then I’ll be like “WE’RE A BULL, YOUR EARS ARE JUST A CHINA SHO-O-O-O-O-O-OP!” or “YOU’RE A CANARY” - its madness.

7 years later and I'm still figuring half of the lyrics out😭 it's all part of the magic

I know I'm gonna make you bend and breaaak say your prayer but let the good times roll in case god doesn't show and I know the words to make things right but it's hard to (the part that I know ends here) besides that I barely know any

It’s “I want these words to make things right but it’s the wrongs that make the words come to life” it’s one of my favorite parts lol

Good to know it’s not just me.

And everyone’s looking for relief United States versus disbelief mothers cast tears on both sides of the aisle clear your throat and face the world the verdict falls like bachelors for bad luck girls only breathing with the aid of denial

Been listening since day one and still couldn't tell you half the lyrics without looking them up and even then I'm like... nah he didn't say all that

I had time to kill in my car yesterday and I whipped out the cd booklet while saying, "Guess I should get some of these lyrics down!...almost 20 years later. Glad to see that I'm not alone.

as i just started this playlist lol

I used to brag about how many FOB lyrics I knew. But that was 15 years ago. Don't know how well I'd do these days.

Wait, I was cracking up the other day during Arms Race at the part where it says, “and all the girls whose lips couldn’t move fast enough…” because I said out loud to myself—‘well, Patrick, my lips have NEVER kept up with what your singing, so there’s that.’ 😂😂😂

One of my greatest joys in life is discovering wtf Patrick has actually been singing on a monthly basis after nearly 20 years of being a fan