Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
Time: 0:38
This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race
I'm not a shoulder to cry on, but I digress
I'm a leading man

wander; lose clarity or turn aside from the main subject in writing or speaking
Heard in 61 songs (409M+ combined views) — most famously in "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy.
Updated August 14, 2026
Time: 0:38
This ain't a scene, it's a goddamn arms race
I'm not a shoulder to cry on, but I digress
I'm a leading man

Time: 0:20
Manifest that you're oversized
I digress, got me scrollin' like
Out of breath, got me going like (ooh)

Time: 4:21
Spoke my truth, paid my debt, can't you see I'm a wreck? (Ah-yah)
Let me loose, I digress, this is me, and I'm blessed (ah-yah, ah-yah)
This is me and I'm blessed (ah-yah)

Time: 3:06
♪
Never fall down yet, don't digress
Put us against any test, yea, no stress

Time: 4:12
Hey, I can kick your butt even in this dress
Ugh, I digress
So let's just go to the park, I guess

Time: 0:48
Oh yes, I'm stressed
I'm sorry, I digress
Impressed, you dressed to S.O.S

Time: 0:22
I must confess, I've made a mess of what should be a small success
But I digress, at least I've tried my very best, I guess
This, that, the other, why even bother?

Time: 2:46
If we just gon' be right back in that bitch without hesitation?
But let me digress on behalf of the association
I'll play it cool with you then mark a nigga like Copenhagen

Time: 0:19
Flat like an Idol singer
Remember Winger? I digress
I confess you are the best thing in my life

Time: 1:37
Raising hell!
You got a choice, you digress off your master?
No restraints, no remorse

Time: 1:28
On a side with demons, I digest
I'm just high off repeatin', I digress
Try and find deeper meaning in nonsense

Time: 2:34
Puffing draw, passing left, busting raw on her chest
I digress, I'm a menace, I'm a mess
I'm the baker make the bread, undertaker raise the dead

Time: 0:50
Tryna hit the road in the Bentley
I'm making progress, I can not digress
Dick in your bitch to for comfort or digest

Time: 1:03
I used to live with the highest stress
But fuck it, I digress
Just believe

Time: 0:12
Just let it be and try less
Gotta plan can't digress
Defend the team for the high press

Time: 0:56
The only thing I folded under was pressure
Can I say I digress? You the aggressor
Now y'all say y'all impressed, I'm the successor (ooh)

Time: 0:19
And a house full of regret
This baggage is confit no plane, don't mean to digress, hmm
I wanna know what's the reason why you moving slow?

Time: 1:19
So welcome back and take a breath
You come to life but I digress
Put your hands up 'cause I won't (right on time)

Time: 2:32
Self progress, I ain't pressed or impressed
Die 'fore I digress and I got no regrets (no)
And we wipe out the opps 'til they got no one left

Time: 2:56
Well, I'm the Caribbean island type and I can drive you wild all night
But I digress, say something to I don't stress
(No hablo inglés)

Time: 1:10
Be my buffer, my habit hunger havoc
I digress, I can't live in this contagion
I spread into incisions on occasion

Time: 0:42
Making Nobel Prize winners question their notions of reality
Oh, but I digress, you play sorry, I play chess
King's pawn to B3, checkmate, go get some Percocets

Time: 0:27
Ok, I've caught my breath my lungs just need a rest
Excuse me I digress, I need to get something off my chest
I'm an MC, just a little differently dressed

Time: 2:02
Get smoked or overdosed, now they hopes is shattered (breaking)
But I digress, call it how I see it type of guy I guess
Try my best? My, Y-S, I'ma go crazy like Kanye West

Time: 3:06
I flow the nicest
Light up mic, they wind down, Five Tens but I digress
Slave to my morals

Time: 4:13
'Cause I chilled and let you breathe, yes
Let's go our own ways and let the beef digress
I done seen insanity close up, schizophrenia shows up in most us

Time: 1:57
But I knew this one right here
Would run the world a mess, but I digress
A year ago, I was a youngin in his room

Time: 2:37
Weakness sweet weakness
But I digress
After all this

Time: 1:29
My DMs full of you bitches and some broke rappers
Hold that, I digress
Pitch two birds with just one pitch

Time: 0:35
♪
But I tend to digress from time to time
♪

Time: 0:55
Like several vultures ain't come after me, still, I keep it P
Yeah, we still digress, and I'm playin' checkers, I ain't playin' chess
'Cause I don't go 'round on niggas, we go over niggas

Time: 1:37
Yearning but what already is gone
The remains digress and start anew
Ritualist

Time: 0:39
This ain't a scene; it's a goddamned arms race
I'm not a shoulder to cry on, but I digress
I'm a leading man (I'm a leading man)
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Time: 1:17
The set of skills that I got for it, is not like yours and I got more
But I digress, look at that booty move
I got a yard stick of hard dick and some blue chews

Time: 0:38
Killer in the home
Now's the time I must digress
From going through the motions

Time: 1:32
Musical click-ass niggaz catch two to the chest
My usual guess is that they chose to digress
Disillusioned by greed, causin you to distress

Time: 1:36
And the DJ says "I think you've had enough"
Do you think that you can digest, when I start to digress?
Better get yourself a lyric proof vest!

Time: 2:06
I'm the new executive movement I'm beating my chest
And I'm a mess, I digress
That I'm too mature for the job I got, too young for the one I want

Time: 1:08
We all just connected, swimmingly
Streams of life digress like water running through my veins
I'm learning how to breathe

Time: 0:14
I should've never tethered in my 20s, my bad
Ancient news, I know, and I digress
Just one more thing to say, I swear I'll leave it like that

Time: 2:58
I still profit through the process
The prize in my jeans my balls'll never digress
I'm a dick that I brag about

Time: 0:34
Now's not the time for that elegant laugh
Digress from the people once by your side, once by your side
But now that it's over, you have to pick up and start again, start again

Time: 4:18
Talk, More Talk. Chat, More Chat.
A Master Can Tell, Highlight The Phrases His Words To Digress
Grey Flannel Trousers... Grey Flannel Trousers.

Time: 1:31
Never ask my age babe VIP access
Don't I ask my lover well I digress
Don't tell my God if you can't guess

Time: 1:32
And I'm like, do you know magic? Imagine if I missed you
Hey, but I digress
If we both go our ways, hope you're safe, doing your best

Time: 3:07
I've turned away from it's belief
I watch society digress
And it just looks like one big mess

Time: 1:24
♪
Excuse that tiny outburst, where'd I digress
After the omnic crisis, I've been a mess if you couldn't guess

Time: 0:44
Dick infested, with your misconceptions
You can duck, the mic with digress and babblin'
Disestablishin' the fact ya wack ass backwards destined

Time: 0:42
Sit your ass in prison, sucker you get checked,
I digress,
Goofy motherfucker slip and you get slept,

Time: 2:05
But we knew you were afraid
Misery, I digress
No recourse, no remorse

Time: 0:11
So much shit I've done that I regret
If I could I would change it all but I digress
Cause right now we're off the shrooms

Time: 1:51
Bitches tap dancin' on my last nerves, ooh
But I digress, just another test
Just a day in the life of an aspirational bad bitch

Time: 0:50
Casey had the veggies on the bus, we smoked a pound of haze
Digress the tree can cold stress
When you feeling a bad bitch, but she showing you no interest

Time: 2:42
With a few more margaritas and the right company
However, I digress
"What this sofa needs" said the big 'g'

Time: 2:00
Tune in, my Hot nine' Flex
Cut the check, and your boy digress
At my age, it's all about bread

Time: 1:02
SD is my pedigree, you aspartame, I'm sugar-free
I digress, and I press on to the next one
Blocking hellions talking all of that

Time: 1:01
Life this sweet, should need insulin
And I could go on and on, but I digress, ay
Back to you, happy to

Time: 1:00
He'll never open you
As I digress, I need tenderness
As I digress

Time: 0:55
That I can't look at without starting something I'll regret
Everything's beautiful, I digress
I saw light in the buildings at night

Time: 1:25
And, what's more dangerous than that?
But, as I digress

Time: 2:38
Why did they make us choose Spanish names, by the way?
Isn't that, insane? (yes) I digress
Of course he cheated on her, she would call me so depressed
