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"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy. It is the tenth track on their third studio album, Infinity on High, and was released on December 12, 2006, through Island Records.

Background[]

In mid-November 2006, "The Carpal Tunnel of Love" was the first taste of Infinity on High when the band leaked it online to AbsolutePunk, before a pre-album release to iTunes on December 12, 2006 as a digital single. In addition, a web-exclusive video was released, but later saw televised airplay on Music Choice On-Demand. The song debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number No. 81 on the strength of digital downloads and minor airplay, also coming in at No. 67 on the defunct-Pop 100.

The song was featured in the Sony video game, MLB 07: The Show.

Sound[]

"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" has been referred to as "a prime slab of what the boys have become famous for: highly caffeinated pop-punk mixed with a little white-boy soul and some hard-core yelping." The song features Stump singing in a falsetto in the chorus over Trohman’s "crunchy" guitars, as well as a breakdown in which Wentz employs unclean vocals, similar to how he used to in his former band, Arma Angelus.

Lyrical content[]

Elements of Wentz's lyrics were alleged to have been stolen from the works of Give Up the Ghost/Some Girls singer and lyricist Wesley Eisold, who sued the band for copyright infringement after the song was released. Eisold was credited as an "inspirador" in the album liner notes in all versions of the albums. Fall Out Boy settled out of court. The song title is a combination of carpal tunnel syndrome and the tunnel of love amusement ride.

Music video[]

On February 5, 2007, the music video was made available on Fall Out Boy's website and was directed by Happy Tree Friends creator Kenn Navarro. The video features Happy Tree Friends characters and cartoon versions of the band in a plot where Cuddles and Giggles have fallen in love, and Cuddles' attempts to express his love to Giggles. The video concludes with all of the characters, including the Fall Out Boy members, being killed in graphic and ultraviolent ways.

Lyrics[]

[Verse 1: Patrick Stump]
We take sour sips from life's lush lips
And we shake, shake, shake the hips in relationships
Stomp out this disaster town
You'll put your eyes to the sun and say, "I know
You're only blinding to keep back what the clouds are hiding"

[Pre-Chorus 1: Patrick Stump]
And we might have started singing just a little soon
We're throwing stones at a glass moon

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
Whoa-oh, we're so miserable and stunning
Whoa-oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning, whoa-oh

[Verse 2: Patrick Stump]
We keep the beat with your blistered feet
We bullet the words at the mockingbirds singing
Slept through the weekend, and dreaming
Of sinking with the melody of the cliffs of eternity
Got postcards from my former selves saying, "How you been?"

[Pre-Chorus 2: Patrick Stump]
We might have said goodbyes just a little soon
(Stomp out this disaster town)
Robbing lips and kissing banks under this moon

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
Whoa-oh, we're so miserable and stunning
Whoa-oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning
Whoa-oh, we're so miserable and stunning
Whoa-oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning, whoa-oh

[Bridge: Pete Wentz]
It was ice cream headaches and sweet avalanche
When the pearls in our shells got up to dance
You call me a bad tipper of the cradle
Tired yawns for fawns on hunter's lawns
We're the has-beens of husbands
Sharpening the knives of young wives
Take two years and call me when you're better
Take teardrops of mine, find yourself wetter

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
Whoa-oh, we're so miserable and stunning
Whoa-oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning
Whoa-oh, we're so miserable and stunning
Whoa-oh, love songs for the genuinely cunning, whoa-oh...


Charts[]

Chart (2007) Peak

position

US Billboard Hot 100 81
US Billboard Pop 100 67

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