Sugar, We're Goin Down

"Sugar, We're Goin Down" is the first single released from Fall Out Boy's album From Under the Cork Tree (2005). The single reached #8 in the U.S., becoming Fall Out Boy's first top 10 single. This single launched the band into the MTV mainstream. Two different CDs were released with different B-sides, Part I with a green cover and Part II with a red cover. According to Blender on their "The 100 Greatest Songs of 2005", "Sugar, We're Goin Down" was rated #4 and was rated #3 according to About.com on their "Top 100 Pop Songs of 2005". The song appears on the karaoke games Lips (as downloadable content) and in Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol The song has so far sold over 2,000,000 digital downloads in the United States, becoming the bands first two-million seller and being certified double platinum by the RIAA.

[Verse 1] Am I more than you bargained for yet? I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear 'Cause that's just who I am this week Lie in the grass next to the mausoleum I'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song (Notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song) [Pre-Chorus] Drop a heart, break a name We're always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong team [Chorus] We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it [Verse 2] Is this more than you bargained for yet? Oh, don't mind me, I'm watching you two from the closet Wishing to be the friction in your jeans Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him? I'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song (Notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song) [Pre-Chorus] Drop a heart, break a name We're always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong team [Chorus] We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it We're going down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it [Bridge] Down, down in an earlier round And sugar, we're going down swinging I'll be your number one with a bullet A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself) And sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said) I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself) A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it [Outro] We're going down, down (down, down) Down, down (down, down) We're going down, down (down, down) A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself) And sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said) I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself) A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it