“Centuries” is the lead single from from Fall Out Boy’s sixth studio album. It’s a grandiose track about the fight to make a lasting artistic impression.

In an interview, Pete Wentz explains:

Our band came from the suburbs of Chicago. The blandest place. Nothing comes out of there, no one would have ever said that a rock band would come out of there and go on to play arenas. ‘Centuries’ goes back to that David versus Goliath idea. Even U2 had to start somewhere…

Change terrifies a lot of us. ‘Centuries’ really bangs on that. It’s like, just because you’re being told that what you’re doing sucks, that you’re weird or whatever, that doesn’t mean that you’re not a leader, creating something new. Leaders attract a lot of arrows, you know?

The annotations on this page were made by bassist Pete Wentz, as confirmed in a tweet by him: