Immortals
Producers
Immortals Lyrics
They say we are what we are
But we don't have to be
I'm bad behavior, but I do it in the best way
I'll be the watcher (Watcher)
Of the eternal flame
I'll be the guard dog of all your fever dreams
[Pre-Chorus]
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
I am the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass, glass (Glass)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
I try to picture me without you, but I can't
[Chorus]
'Cause we could be immortals, immortals
Just not for long, for long
And live with me forever now
And pull the blackout curtains down
Just not for long, for long
[Post-Chorus]
We could be immor—, immortals
Immor—, immortals
Immor—, immortals
Immor—, immortals
(Imm—, immortals)
[Verse 2]
Sometimes, the only payoff for having any faith
Is when it's tested again and again every day
I'm still comparing your past to my future
It might be your wound, but they're my sutures
[Pre-Chorus]
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
I am the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass, glass (Glass)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
I try to picture me without you, but I can't
[Chorus]
'Cause we could be immortals, immortals
Just not for long, for long
And live with me forever now
And pull the blackout curtains down
Just not for long, for long
[Post-Chorus]
We could be immor—, immortals
Immor—, immortals
About
The 10th track of American Beauty/American Psycho, “Immortals” first appeared on the soundtrack for the 2014 Disney animated comedy superhero film Big Hero 6. Fall Out Boy was asked to create the song after learning about the movie’s plot in which a young boy loses his older brother to a super-villain. He recovers from his grief by assembling a team of super-heroes, including a robot created by his deceased brother, to apprehend the villain.
Q&A
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In an interview with LA Times, Pete Wentz, the songwriter of Fall Out Boy, said this about the theme’s central message:
When you lose somebody, you have to fill in some of those parts with other people. That’s the idea of being immortal. We’re immortal, but … our legacy is through other people.
On the topic of how the song sounded in terms of musicality, Fall Out Boy’s vocalist, Patrick Stump, said,
I wanted to imagine what a band like us would sound like in San Fransokyo, I was initially going to go really Japanese, but [the filmmakers] told me not to do that.
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