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Feb 2, 2010
The song has three characters (sung by Stump, Urie, and Wentz). Two are the average (and sarcastic) 9/11 tainted Americans singing about their sense of numbness and isolation (to very happy-sounding musical accompaniment) due to the attacks and the wars. Once the song sounds very cynical (with jagged-sounding instruments in the background) towards the end, the third character appears. He is W. Bush and is singing about that he started the Iraq War to carry on his father's legacy, but that ended up causing a rift between his relationship with his father.
Jan 31, 2010
The song is about W. Bush starting the Iraq War for no reason other than to try to mooch off his dad's high approval ratings when his dad sent the military to the Middle East for a short period of time (compared to W. Bush's occupation there) then brought them home. "Only one book really matters," refers to when W. Bush called the Iraq War a crusade (the book meaning The Bible) and Secretary Rumsfeld's overtly Christian war briefings that he delivered to W. Bush.