Saturday

"Saturday" is the third and final single from Fall Out Boy's debut studio album. In the song, lead singer Patrick Stump is unprepared for adulthood and admits he's "going nowhere fast" despite the exciting adventures he experiences with his band. Stump wrote the song about his feelings leading up to his high school graduation, thinking he was a failure without a real future.

This was one of the band's earliest compositions and inadvertently proved to be a litmus test for potential members. They still hadn't found a solid lineup and were looking to add a second guitarist (in addition to Joe Trohman) before heading out on tour with Spitalfield. One guy they enlisted, Brandon Hamm, quit during rehearsal because he didn't like this song. After a couple more false starts with other guitarists, Stump decided to do the job himself on the tour. "I just borrowed one of Joe's guitars and jumped in the fire," he recalled.

Stump nearly kept this song from the rest of the band because he didn't think anyone would like it. When he finally brought it to bandmate Pete Wentz, the two fleshed it out together. It's the first Fall Out Boy song that Wentz, a Chicago metalcore veteran, screams on.