"Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" (originally titled "Does Your Husband Know?"[citation needed]) is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy. It is the fifth track on their fourth studio album, Folie à Deux, and was released on October 7, 2008, through Island Records.
Background[]
In an interview with MTV News, Patrick Stump elaborated on the song's meaning by saying:
"Swagger is a great way to describe it, because on the song, he’s lyrically adopting a character that has swagger, so I wanted the music to have that swagger. The verse is so confident and funky and forward because the lyric is so full of itself, and then everything stops, and there’s a piano breakdown, and it’s very melancholy and sad and theatrical, and the lyric shifts to the doubt that’s behind all that arrogance. And ultimately, I wanted the music — in conjunction with the lyric — to express that arrogance is usually a mask for terrible insecurity. What I took out of [the lyrics] was that there was something so compelling about the character in the song. Like in ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ when Hannibal Lecter is talking about how he doesn’t kill, he covets. The song is about that — the prowl of chasing a woman. I think it meant, like, this guy is cheating on his girlfriend, but he knows she’s not cheating on him. There’s this total ‘looking into the mirror and trying to convince yourself of absolute lies’ kind of thing. People ask all the time, ‘Oh, Pete got married, how does that affect the record?’ and I think, if anything, he just wanted to point out how lightly people are taking their marriages. No one seems to be worried about what’s going on, they just want to have things".[1]
Music video[]
Video | Credits | |
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Title | A Weekend at Pete Rose's | |
Premiere | Aug 28 2009 | |
Length | 5:56 | |
Location | Santa Monica, California, U.S. | |
Director | Shane Valdez |
Official versions[]
Version | Released on | Date | Length | |
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[2] | Promotional Single/Album | "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" • Folie à Deux | Oct 7 2008 | 3:54 |
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Mr. Sandman showing his beam
When he walks into the room, the walls lean in to listen
Surfed-out brain waves flick back and forth
Like old headlights sniffing bottled glue again
Head like a steel trap, wish I didn't, I didn't
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I don't
Just want to be a footnote
In someone else's happiness
[Pre-Chorus]
Does your husband know the way that
The sunshine gleams from your wedding band?
Does he know the way, does he know the way
Of the crickets that would convince me to call it a night?
[Chorus]
But I will never end up like him
Behind my back, I already am
Keep a calendar, this way you will always know
The last time you came through
Oh, darling, I know what you're going through
The last time you came through
Oh, darling, oh, darling, oh, darling
[Verse 2]
Aww, tempest in a teacup, get unique
Peroxide princess, shine like shark teeth
It's a sign (It's a sign) it's a sign (It's a sign)
It's a sign, what if you peaked early?
[Pre-Chorus]
Does your husband know the way that
The sunshine gleams from your wedding band?
Does he know the way, does he know the way
Of the crickets that would convince me to call it a night?
Does he, does he know the way
I worship our love?
Does your husband know the way
That the sunshine gleams from your wedding band?
[Chorus]
But I will never end up like him
Behind my back, I already am
Keep a calendar, this way you will always know
The last time you came through
Oh, darling, I know what you're going through
The last time you came through
Oh, darling, oh, darling, oh, darling
[Bridge]
Oh, does your husband know? Does your husband know?
Does your husband know? Does he know?
Does he know? Does he know?
[Chorus]
But I will never end up like him
Behind my back, I already am
Keep a calendar, this way you will always know
The last time you came through
Oh, darling, I know what you're going through
The last time you came through
Oh, darling, I know what you're going through
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