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"What a Catch, Donnie" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy. It is the eighth track on their fourth studio album, Folie à Deux, and was released on December 10, 2008, through Island Records.

Music video[]

Video Credits
Title What a Catch, Donnie
Premiere Aug 6 2009 (MTV)
Nov 25 2009 (YouTube)
Length 4:54
Location Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Filmed Jul 1 2009
Director Alan Ferguson

Background

Pete Wentz said of the song's music video: "It is my time to say that we haven't done a video like this before, a video dedicated to someone's death, the death of our best friend and rapper, Dolla (Roderick Anthony Burton II). We hope to shoot the video for 'What a Catch, Donnie' in the same place he was shot and also bring our friends round for the climax.


Official versions[]

Version Released on Date Length
[1] Album/Single Folie à Deux • "What a Catch, Donnie" Dec 8 2008 4:50
[2] Re-mastered Believers Never Die (Volume One) Nov 17 2009 4:57
Acoustic/Live
[3] Acoustic Folie à Deux (Deluxe Edition) Dec 8 200 ~4:06

Lyrics[]

[Intro: Patrick Stump]
I got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match
What a catch, what a catch, whoa...

[Verse 1: Patrick Stump]
You'll never catch us, so just let me be
Said, "I'll be fine till the hospital or American embassy"

[Pre-Chorus: Patrick Stump]
Miss Flack said, "I still want you back"
Yeah, Miss Flack said, "I still want you back"

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
I got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match
What a catch, what a catch
And all I can think of is the way I'm the one who charmed the one
Who gave up on you, who gave up on you, oh, whoa

[Verse 2: Patrick Stump]
They say the captain goes down with the ship
So when the world ends, will God go down with it?

[Pre-Chorus: Patrick Stump]
Miss Flack said, "I still want you back"
Yeah, Miss Flack said, "I still want you back"

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
I got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match
What a catch, what a catch
And all I can think of is the way I'm the one who charmed the one
Who gave up on you, who gave up on you

[Bridge: Patrick Stump]
What a catch, what a catch, what a catch, what a catch, whoa...

[Reprise: Elvis Costello]
I will never end up like him
Behind my back, I already am
Keep a calendar, this way you will
Always know

[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
I said, I got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match
What a catch, what a catch
And all I can think of is the way I'm the one who charmed the one
Who gave up on you, who gave up on you

[Fall Out Boy Reprises]

[Reprise: Gabe Saporta]
Where is your boy tonight?
I hope he is a gentleman
Maybe he won't find out what I know
You were the last good thing about this part of town...

[Reprise: Travie McCoy]
We're going down, down in an earlier round
And sugar, we're goin' down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it...

[Reprise: Brendon Urie]
Dance, dance, we're falling apart to halftime
Dance, dance, and these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me...

[Reprise: Doug Neumann]
This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race
This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race...

[Reprise: Alex DeLeon]
One night, yeah, and one more time
Thanks for the memories, even though they weren't so great
He tastes like you, only sweeter...

[Reprise: William Beckett]
Growing up
Growing up...

[Outro: Patrick Stump]
I got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match
What a catch, what a catch


Charts[]

Chart (2008) Peak

position

Canada (Canadiain Hot 100) 95
US Billboard Hot 100 94

References[]

Navigation[]

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