Fall Out Boy - Golden

Still my favorite fall out boy song of all time

Underrated song.

I remember reading Vinland Saga while listening to Golden around 10 years ago and it just fits so well.

Shame that the best FOB featured lyrics stolen from Wes of Cold Cave. But at least he got paid after the fact.

Over 10 years ago when I bought this album this was the only song I didn’t like but it’s really grown on me and probably won’t skip it anymore

I'm not crying, u are

It’s been eleven years,damn!

Looking into it now into my formative adult years, the message seems more clear now that I've decided to break it down and think about it some more.---It's easy to get lost in the story isn't it? There's tragedy, but it isn't about one person. It's about the cyclic nature of hypocrisy & condemnation that follows societal nature. It's about everyone. The enemy, the lover, the mother & child .. even you."Do as I say, but not as I do." That's the golden plated mantel most of us wear. How the young are taught 'good values' by people who do not practice such things. How those same people who preach will damn each other all the same. Hate is taught. Enemies are made because you are told they are enemies. You do them wrong because they are enemies. How desirable are those who are considered people pleasers?Opinions of the masses are considered more important than the people closest to you? More than yourself?and so the cycle continues. Those who have gone through the motions realize things far too late. Long after things are said and done. Long after you've lived a life that isn't really one you've decided for yourself, but one you've let yourself become a host to the ideals of others. This is what I believe the song to truly represent.

2019 still here...💘

this is the kind of song that makes you cry out of happiness, but it’s also sad sobbing at the same time??

I just heard I carried carrots for everybody to see and I don't want to know the real lyrics or the lyrics of the whole song because this came on thanks to 'my mix' and I don't want to cry

I think its karats as in riches

No talk english

"I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies" this hits me so F-U-C-K-I-N-G hard it's crazy

When I heard the intro to the song for the first time, I said “oh no... I’m gonna need tissues”

I just bursted into tears wow

*who hurt him?*

then stay gone

enjoy your soup kitchens

then walk away

Are you afraid of the dark?

i criii very bittersweet,,, i love it when lyrics contrast with the overall vibe

I gotta learn the harmonies.

2018. C’mon. Welcome back.

Why does this song remind me of the first time I ride a ferris wheel with my grandma

I’m crying❤️😫😭

I used to listen to this when I was 5 not knowing what band it was and later I became a fan of fob and when I heard this song I was flipping wOw

That song actually made me cry so bad.

i dont even know what this song is about im just crying

Mom: *walks into my room and sees me crying*Mom: ARE YOU OKMe: NO, ummm... My eyes are sweating Mom: *slowly backs away*

Why it isnt available now?? Like this is one of my fav song from the fob's music

I'm not a FOB fan, but I love the fuck out of this song.

whats the song about?

I drowned in my tears

this is painful. i'm in pain. send help.

God this is so sad, I love this so much...

how cruel is the golden rule🎤

trying to be real in a world full of fakes, learning to let go of the past when your best memories are your darkest days, and knowing that you can lead an example of character you yourself once misinterpreted. live by that golden rule before your life is a shell of what it could have been.... just my thought listening to many fob songs

"And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies"every time, that line hits me like a brick in the face

I want to appreciate this comment but every time I read that last part I actually imagine a brick flying into the face of your pfp and I can’t help but giggle

Reminds me of the outsiders

i seem to have a vastly different interpretation of this song than some of the comments section o.o

wen tha lives we live are only golden plated

to stay away from me

I new that the lights of the city were to heavy for me

How cruel is the golden rule? More like, how cruel is Fall Out Boy for making me cry so much. I've lost like 90% of the water in my body from all this crying.

Panic!At the Patrick! i love your name and same! I cried so much…

how to make me cry 101:

..feels 2016

beautiful Patrick has so much emotion to his voice

I'm obsessed w this song

This song can make me feel pretty much every emotion ive ever felt all together in just 2 and a half minutes

And people are just sitting there listening to 'my songs know what you did in the dark'. Listen to this!

Plus... i think i will cry T^^^^T

i... idk how many times i watch this video... T^T

Despite the other too-much-emo songs, that's the only thing of the band I can bear today.Piano and voice sounds old but good still. That's the best underrated song imo.

there not 2 emo ive heard my share of super emo music this is like that kid that is always way too happy all the time compared to that

emanuel barbosa well aren't you the coolest person around

How cruel is the golden rule?

Fob sucks and this song is ok

@TAKUNA SU That is alternative rock, dude. It is a branch of rock, not different from it. Like with metal, there is death metal, thrash, doom, and my favorite nu metal.

+TAKUNA SU Ok, sorry for dudeing you.

Adam Lucas right

Any TMI fans out there? I imagine this song is what Jonathan is singing at the very end of the book when the demon was burned out of him and he had green eyes, and he was talking about how he was when he was "Sebastian" "and all of the mothers raise their babies, to stay away from me... and pray they don't grow up to be" gets me every time

omg seriously that's perfect

I'm crafting right now.

Mellow Yellow same

Dont cry. CRAFT.

I don't understand the meaning of this song. Can anyone tell me?

It's about the pain that LGBTQ+ teens,kids and adults go through

interesting thought, I thought it referres to growing up with mental illness

@Gamer Guy I'm not pushing my agenda on anyone lmaoo, it's just a thought I had

Hughe Jass most likely both, sexuality and mentsl health are both two things pete wentz writes about a lot

💋👌

I don't really begin to cry until I hear "all of the mothers raise their babies to stay away from me" because that's how my parents raised me. my mom wanted for me to listen to mainstream pop or and my dad wanted classic rock, not this. but if it weren't for music like this I'm not sure I'd even be alive. fall out boy means so much to me. they are one of the things keeping me alive.

Why would your parents even care? No offence you legit sound like tumblr.

+Firebreathing KilljoyonaquesttoSaveRockandRoll my parents care because music is a big part in my family. so when my dad belittles my favorite bands it hurts me. fall out boy and twenty one pilots are the two bands have helped me through a shithole that the past year has been. I can turn to their music for comfort, and when my family makes fun of that kind of music it hurts because they are making fun of something that has helped me through hard times. and sorry for sounding like tumblr, if you ever meet me you'll see that I dress like a "tumblr girl"

I totally relate...

FOB is one of the things that keeps me alive too...

It's crazy how I don't know the meaning behind the lyrics, but I do know that the true meaning will make me cry if I knew

I don't think that's the reason I think it's about being misunderstood you can be the best human on earth (Golden) but no one will ever know because they all reject you for being different.

@rosiekat and @yung menace Yes, I agree. That people look at you like you are some kind of joke, or a bad person, but deep inside... You're just misunderstood.

Wow, that gave me a deeper look into life and when i came back out it reminded me of something: myself

The golden rule is basically love one another as you love yourself. When he says golden plated it could refer to the idea that most people lack self-love or portray a false sense of love to others. The lights of the city being too heavy could be about being in the spotlight and hating it. But I carried carrots for everyone to see sounds more like he's talking about diamonds. Diamonds are a status symbol and are also considered the hardest mineral on earth. Karots refer to a diamonds size. Diamonds are also not worth as much as people like to believe because of how plentiful they are. Put all that together and you get someone being flashy yet feeling worthless. God crying in the reflection of my enemies is another complex lyric. God is said to have made man in its image and and we all share the face of God. Since they're also enemies, it could mean a rejection of religion and feeling abandoned or hated by God.

what I'm not crying. my eyes are sweating.... ╥﹏╥

dont worry im crafting

I love your username so much

Natalie Stollov same

You aren’t crafting

I... I ju.. just have extremely.. sweaty eyes.

This song is about being different and misunderstood. Somebody could be golden and amazing but others do not see it and do not appreciate it. I didn't understand this as a child about 8 years ago, but now the lyrics finally have meaning to me after being a teen.

I agree

I thought it was the opposite, everyone thinks you’re so amazing while you...you just can’t see what they see.

Eli Lazaro ~ nailed it. Everybody only sees the mask while only me and “all of the mothers who raised their babies to stay away from me” truly know what is hiding underneath

I didn't realise I was crying until I opened my eyes

mmmm that was a nice comment

Dan Graves ikr

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this is the kind of song you just have to sit back and let the music seep through your soul.

These lyrics are so profound, and they could probably be interpreted eleventeendy-seven different ways at least..... I'm learning to sing this X3

@jade the gay Exactly! All that I can think about this song though is that it's about how many people might see him as a bad rolemodel? Like, now that he's famous and stuff "All of the mothers raise their babies to stay away from" him

I don't see it as him per say, but as a character. Like, he's telling someone else's story. Some songs are like that. Kurt Cobain said that he wrote his music as if he was a different person.

@jade the gay seriously? metaphors are like my first language, before English. They're feelings.

Everyone interprets them differently-that's what metaphors are for. I have my own definition to each but I'd like to know what the hell FOB meant when they wrote the thing.

Eleventee-seven. 👌👍👏

This is actually a good song. Crazy that today is the first day I heard it. It has a John Legend feel to it, weird I know.

I've always maybe understood only half of this. And just considered it "beautiful" and that was it. But while I was lying awake yesterday night, a thought struck me that I think makes me understand what they mean. At least now more of these lyrics mean something to me. And it's not pretty. Because it means I am somebody people pray not to become and stay away from, even though I always try to do good by everyone.

This song, in my opinion, sounds better live.

this is one off my favourites

This song is so good.

My favorite song by them. It's a shame it's not more popular...

maan.. i really don't understand... but i think that it's so cooool