Oh My God! I Totally Love This Song!


SUGAR WE’RE GOING DOWN BY FALL OUT BOY


A few years ago, I was chosen as the suitable chaperone to take my young cousins to see Fall Out Boy. I had sorta heard this song and that was as much as I knew about them. I was impressed the night of the show (in fact about a year later, my cousins and I saw them a second time) by the band. They played well and the little nub of a singer could sing and so I checked out more of their music in the weeks that followed. They have some good songs and some not so good songs. I do like their long song titles and they have some pretty great lyrics.


When I saw them a second time, there was a Mom near me who was around my age and when the band did a cover of “Beat It” she lost her shit. Went nuts and started screaming and singing. I think that was the exact moment when I entered “middle age” and accepted it for what it was. Getting old is no big thing unless you turn it into one.
I’m sure the cousins I took are too cool for Fall Out Boy now, but I really loved how into the music the kids were and their enthusiasm was infectious.


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





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: