Sugar We're Going Down - Lyric's Analysis - Part 1

“SUGAR WE’RE GOING DOWN” LYRICS

Written by Peter Wentz/Patrick Stump/Joe Trohman/Andy Hurley

Am I more than you bargained for yet?
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
'Cause that's just who I am this week
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(A notch in your bedpost)
(But you're just a line in a song)

*Drop a heart, break a name
  We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

**We're going down, down in an earlier round
    And Sugar, we're going down swinging
    I'll be your number one with a bullet
   A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it (2x)

Is this more than you bargained for yet?
Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him?
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song

(Notch in your bedpost)
(But you're just a line in a song)

-Back to * and **-

Down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round
(Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
(Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet
(Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down
(Down, down)
Down, down
(Down, down)
We're going down, down
(Down, down)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

--Back to **

SONG’S THEME

a.       From the song’s lyrics: Relationship and Homosexuality

b.      From the music video: Relationship, Society, Feminism in general, and Homosexuality.

SONG’S ANALYSIS

In this section, I will try to analyze Fall Out Boy’s song begins from the title until the video and how those are interconnected one to another with my own thoughts helped by some limited sources that I found from the website.

   From the Title

The song’s title has a contradictory between one to another word. The first word of the title is “Sugar”, means sweet. Perhaps this song talks about sweet memories and beautiful things. Sugar also means darling, honey, and/or sweetheart.

However, the next word is “We’re going down”, that can be seen as their problems or an unhealthy relationship.

“We” in this context can be an ordinary couple (a relationship between a boy and a girl) or a relationship for homosexual couples.

Then, this song might talk about couple sweet memories, unhealthy relationship, and perhaps jealously that might end sadly or happily.

    From the Song’s Lyrics

From the lyrics, I see that there are two interpretations within the lyrics. The first is from the overt part about an unhealthy relationship between a boy and girl. The second is the covert part that this song might about an unhealthy relationship like homosexual. Below, I will explain it more specifically.

1.      The unhealthy relationship (between the boy and girl)

Am I more than you bargained for yet?

From this first line, it shows that the boy is asking his girlfriend that does him not enough for her. Enough here means being someone that may always with her and always on her side when she needs him.

I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
'Cause that's just who I am this week

The second and third lines tell us how fed up the boy that he has tried everything to be the best for his girlfriend and always tried to be what she wants.

However, in reality we know that change someone in a context of relationship is cruel. As a teenager we know that being someone else or being what our couple wants in the blink of an eye is impossible and it is like tied our freedom.

Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song

The forth line tells us that the boy is desperate, like dying, and burying his own pains alone. Then, the fifth line tells us that the boy knows how the girl acts if he is not with her. He knows that he is only one of those boys that she had slept with because the girl might want him so much and what he can do is only in her side when she needs him.

However, the sixth line tells us that the boy is in dilemma, the boy sometimes feels that he does not bother if the girl with somebody else because he thinks that the girl is nothing special for him. In the other hand, the next line will tell us more about the boy’s dilemma.

Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

Those two lines tell us more about the boy’s dilemma that he does not want to remember what the girl has done in outside because it makes him more hurts. Other interpretation, the boy knows that they are already in a relationship but in fact the girl only considers him as a friend or a tool to fulfill the girl’s need, and not more than that.

From that interpretation, a man or a boy can feel a dilemma in their relationship and it is also happened in a teenager live, especially if a teenager relationship is unhealthy like the girl is cheating.

In addition, the interpretations can be related to the teenager’s live, like what we know as a ‘Friend zone’, means that a boy or a girl overreacted toward someone’s attention that she/he considers as a ‘love’ attention, but actually it is only an ordinary attention.

Is this more than you bargained for yet?
Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans

The ninth line tells us that the boy is very tired of their relationship because he is forced to be somebody else that he does not want too, since the girl thinks that he does not quite enough for her.

The tenth line tells us that the boy has already known about the girl’s affair behind him and what he can do only accept it even though it is very painful for him to know the truth.

In contrast, the eleventh line tells us that the boy wishes to be someone that the lover can rely on, be the best for her, though they do not match, and their relationship is unhealthy.

Those three lines interpretations are also happened in teenagers’ live that sometimes teenagers feel frustrated, especially if their relationship is not going well, feel jealous when they cannot be what their lover wants and being compared with another guy or girl. However, sometimes they still do something silly or stupid that is forced themselves to be matched with their lover and it is ironic.

Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him?
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song

            Those three lines tell us that the boy is exhausted to be somebody that the girl wants. He feels hurt because he knows that he is one of those guys that the girls had slept with. However, the boy is still in dilemma because the girl is nothing special for him but he still feels hurt by loving her.

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging

From those two lines, it shows that from the beginning the boy and girl’s relationship are not going well. They know that they have been together but the ending is not like what the boy wishes. The boy tells us that they will end up badly and they do not have enough time to fix their relationship because it has already broken from the beginning. Those two lines are very matched with a teenager’s live especially in a relationship.

 
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it

            Those two lines tell us that the boy wants to be the only one for her and make their relationship long lasting, but the girl only thinks and uses him in a painful way.

However, the next line tells us that the boy believes in God’s power, where the girl will change her mind to love him if he tries his best. Then, “cock it and pull it” means like a gun, for instance when somebody wants to shoot at something, she/he has to cock it tightly and then pull it so she/he can get the target. It is just like the boy who tries to do his best so someday what he wishes might come true that is being the girl’s true love.

From that interpretation, it shows how complicated a teenager’s live especially if it deals with love relationship. A teenager usually still does her/his best to get the lover’s attention though the lover has hurt her/him in a painful way. Although it is a silly thing to do, but a teenager still do it.