Rat a Tat

[Intro: Courtney Love, Fall Out Boy]

It's Courtney, bitch

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

No thesis existed for burning cities down at such a rampant rate

No graphics and no fucking PowerPoint presentation

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

So they just DIY'd that shit and they built their own bombs

She's his suicide blonde, she's number than gold

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

[Verse 1: Patrick Stump]

Are you ready for another bad poem?

One more off-key anthem

Let your teeth sink in

Remember me as I was, not as I am

And I said, "I'll check in tomorrow

If I don't wake up dead"

I kept wishing she had blonde ambition

And she'd let it go to my head

[Pre-Chorus: Patrick Stump]

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

If my love is a weapon, there's no second guessing when I say

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

If my heart is a grenade, you pull the pin and say

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]

We're all fighting, growing old, we're all fighting, growing old

In the (Hope!) hopes of a few minutes more

To get-get on St. Peter's list

But you need to lower your standards

'Cause it's never getting any better than this

[Refrain: Courtney Love, Patrick Stump]

We are professional ashes of roses, this kerosene's live

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

You settled your score, this is where you come to beg

'Cause it's never getting any better than this

Unborn and unshaven, killing fields of fire to a congress of ravens

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

This is what we do, baby, we nightmare you

[Verse 2: Patrick Stump]

I'm about to make your sweat roll backwards

And your heart beat in reverse

Our guts can't be reworked

As alone as a little white church in the middle of the desert getting burned

But I'll take your heart served up two ways

I sing a bitter song

I'm the lonelier version of you

I just don't know where it went wrong

[Pre-Chorus: Patrick Stump]

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

If my love is a weapon, there's no second-guessing when I say

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey!

If my heart is a grenade, you pull the pin and say

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]

We're all fighting, growing old, we're all fighting, growing old

In the (Hope!) hopes of a few minutes more

To get-get on St. Peter's list

But you need to lower your standards

'Cause it's never getting any better than this

[Post-Chorus: Patrick Stump]

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

[Bridge: Courtney Love, Patrick Stump]

She's sick and she's wrong, she's young dirty blonde

And you sink inside her like a suicide bomb

He says, "I've seen bigger," she says, "I've lit better"

And they throw the matches down into the glitter

Not a dry eye left in the house

(Talk less, mean more)

Go boy, go boy, run for your life

(Let's be electric, like we were before)

Go boy, go boy, run for your life

(Talk less, mean more)

Go boy, go boy, run for your life

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]

We're all fighting, growing old, we're all fighting, growing old

In the (hope!) hopes of a few minutes more

To get-get on St. Peter's list

But you need to lower your standards

'Cause it's never getting any better than this

[Post-Chorus: Patrick Stump]

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, hey

It's never getting any better than this

[Outro: Patrick Stump]

Are you ready for another bad poem?