The Petekey Manifesto

Someone has to save this blog so

his took me 3 hours. enjoy.

petekey is a ship between pete wentz of fall out boy and mikey way of my chemical romance. the ship is based around the very cursed SUMMER OF LIKE, 2005. during that summer, both fob and mcr were at warped tour.

pete and mikey were really close, and they even started a “bassist gang” called Sweet Little Dudes. heres an excerpt from a q&a:

Q : We want to have sex with Gerard Way. *some details I will not include* Care to hook a couple of sistas up?
A : me and mikey way have a gang called The Sweet Little Dudes. You might see us on warped tour.

on april 16th 2005, mikey was spotted at the house of blues in orlando, watching fob. he was also wearing the INFAMOUS WHITE DENIM JACKET, which was actually pete’s, so at this point we can assume they were friends.

ok during bamboozle festival (a music festival held only in nj)  in 2005, both fob and mcr were playing and mikey was sidestage watching fob play. pete also had a livejournal and had a list on there of things that made him “hot and bothered”. not long after the festival, in may 2005, he updated the list and two of the things he added were:

1. having a crush on a person I speak to near daily
2. White denim jackets

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

alright….now for the worst part of all.

(inhale)

IT TWAS THE SUMMER OF 2005….fob and mcr played on the same stage on warped tour in 2005, known by many as THE SUMMER OF LIKE.  nothing really happened besides mikey watching fob sidestage until pete started posting to his blogspot.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Amazing new mexico sunset. I’m hanging on a bridge with my friend mikey way from my chem. Its all orange and pink above us. We went to another waterpark again. I love high fives again. Totally back in love. Saw the most amazing movie… I think its called spirited away. Watch it.
Peterpan

TOTALLY. BACK. IN. LOVE.

not that long after that, he made a post on july 4th (ill get to that later) that said “hot and miserable and totally in love”

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Sometimes when you’re feeling this blue the right smile can save you.
posted by: peter

Friday, July 15, 2005

Though I am over hearing your thoughts on haircuts and pants. I’m over us trying to be perfect tens for your little eyes. We don’t care what you think of us. Listen to a song and time your heartbeat. Let it be okay to fall asleep slow tonight. Think about a good friend. Think about god. Think about death. Think about someone elses hand clumsily on your belt in the dark. Think it will be okay.

No more rants
No more poetry
Not tonight.

True love for the believers. Thank you. Keep on l i/o ving.

ok so at some point between entries pete also started posting on his fueled by ramen journal. on july 17th, he posted this.

wrote you a goodbye note (you just wrote me off) on your arm when you passed out. bestfriends, exfriends- better off as lovers not the other way around. racing through the city in the back of yellow checkered cars. the takeoffs are the worst but the skin from your shoulder to your ear makes it all worth it. and im sorry the way my moods flicker on and off like old light on your porch, but i know you wouldn’t have it any other way. sneaking in your window instead of out. the way you hold a cigarette cause you don’t know what to do with your hands when we are sitting this close. the way the waists of pants feel better at the ankles. the way you always were my best excuse for calling in sick on everyone else. i miss you. petey.

okay okay notice how similar this paragraph is to the song bang the doldrums (which was originally titled SUMMER OF LIKE.) also, pete once said in an old interview that he’s “gay above the belt”. in the actual song bang the doldrums, he says he wrote the note in lipstick, while in the actual paragraph he doesn’t mention what it’s written in at all. this is possibly because pete maybe wanted to make the song look like it was written about a girl.

he later posted some rlly angsty entires around the end of july, so im guessing some shit went down between them.

another thing im adding is that theres VERY little photos of pete and mikey together at warped tour 2005 at all. according to fan reports, they mostly refused to have their pictures taken together, which is odd to say the least. they were frequently seen walking the grounds together, and we do know they spent some time at waterparks. mikey was also seen wearing hoodies from pete’s clothing line, clandestine industries.

here’s some of the only photos of pete and mikey at warped 2005 that i could find.

heres even M O R E fan reports abt pete and mikey at warped 2005

at my warped date i got there early in the morning and hung out by the fob bus because i wanted to get a pic with patrick and around 10 am the door opened and a very tired looking mikey stepped off with pete right behind him and they appeared to be holding hands until they saw the people around and they both refused to have their pictures taken together :[

many fans have also reported that pete used to dedicate whole fucking SONGS to mikey during the tour,  and at one point called him to stage to dedicate a song to “mikey revenge”

also, on his friendsorenemies account he posted this…suggestive photo around the end of august 2005.

“i wish you were my bass - not just my friend” while the image is a photo of pete on the stage, lying, holding his bass to his side.

holding that thought - pete also used to lick his bass on stage. also this was posted after warped so pete and mikey werent in the same place anymore.

also - on august 19, 2005 pete posted this -

Warped tour was fun. Since being home I remembered that showering and sleeping are fun too. My real feelings on the sunburst bass. I loved that thing. But then it started cheating on me with mikey way. I had to hit it. Its not my fault- spousal abuse is an ugly thing. I’m in therapy that includes playing lots of warcraft online. Writing messages on your arm for someone to see at a show is the new away message - stealing peoples real diary is the new livejournal.

okokok now during warped, mikey wrote both “EASY” and “FUCKED” on his arm. pete wentz wouldnt know being subtle if it hit him in the face with joe’s guitar.

so now that we’re done with the glamorous shitshow that was warped tour 2005- lets move on to post-warped.

on september 4, 2005, pete posted this:

on the getaway car, the rush of blood to the head: it’s strange to find myself again back at the feelings of the blue cover after going through the red and the gold. its kind of always like that. i am sorry if i am not making any sense. but everybody likes to take chances and make bets. i always put my money on the longshots. and no matter where my head was in the world i always dreamed of waking up next to the biggest brown eyes i have ever seen/‘meandyouunderneaththehoneymoon’. “go back to what it meant back then”: and you imagine yourself moving deep into the summer and disappearing, and for me it was always with you. and then things got crazy. you stopped calling me back. i stopped trying to call but not in my head. and then you got malicious but i’m guessing only because you learned from the best- take back your taste and all. i never thought it would be just me again. but that’s okay. we’re gonna hole up and wait it out. i feel like i can see for the first time, like i was born just in the last minute. wake me up. baby boy, you’re gonna be okay. hearts between our knees sticking to the summer sheets. are you catching my drift…. its gonna be alright. your love would be hell but its just not hot enough baby.

okay notice the references of summer and “meandyouunderneaththehoneymoon” was changed to “me and you , setting in a honeymoon” in im like a lawyer.

i think this is from november of 2005 but here.

asked by Meghan! on 2005-11-13 17:05:00
hey! i was just wondering, how good are you friends with mikey way??

answered by peter on 2005-11-13 17:07:00
me and mikey are not in just one gang together, we are in two: the sweet little dudes and the fraternal order of the handsome boy. i call him the duke of handsomeness

at the end of 2005, just before christmas, mikey got engaged to alicia simmons. however, she has said that they were NOT together during warped tour.

also around feb 19th 2006 pete posted this and hallelujah thank u jesus save my life YAS

pete also posted this on the same day:

i feel like howl from howls moving castle embodies every single feeling that goes through my head. that is all. i am in the lobby of a hotel in new york city waiting for something that isn’t ever going to happen. i am calculating all of the legs and drunken stutters. i am precise. i am a machine. i am a hot mess.
- petey

ok now onto our next segment - the Saved Latin concert

around a month later, on march 4 2006, mikey went to the Absolut Kravitz launch party in NYC with pete and joe and possibly others. the next day fob did a secret show under the fake name Saved Latin and invited mikey on stage to play bass.

also right here you can see that mikey is wearing clandestine industries gloves that pete has also worn a bit.

around this time - the very cursed photos of pete naked were leaked online. (WHICH I AM NOT GOING TO PUT HERE IF YOU’RE THAT CURIOUS GOOGLE THEM.) and this leads us to the heychris situation. chris is an author and was petes friend, and he’s referenced in fob’s song grenade jumper. (“hey chris, you were our only friend” etc etc) . though he swears he didnt post it, he didnt post an open letter to pete, in which he accuses pete of trying to steal his girlfriend/turning his girlfriend against him.

now NOT long after, mikey started to hang out with chris. and there were photos of them doing so. holy shit i know. chris posted again about how he “found a new love” and posted these and some more.

following this, pete put up a very angry away message.

pete was furious. but the next day chris claimed it was a joke or something. it was basically a fucking shitstorm.

pete’s away messages often referenced mikey such as-

pete also once wore his “love cant save you” hoodie along with a pin of mikey on it. yikesss.

alright y'all, prepare to forget how to breathe, this is where things get shitty.

in the summer of 2006 , a year after the summer of like, we got a line of pretty sad posts from pete from his blogspot.

on may 2006, pete wrote this, titled: friends that lay together, stay together or how the thoughts in my head go, unfiltered

forgive me for not showing more remorse- apologies were never really my thing- outside of feeling sorry for myself. the last nail in your coffin got stuck in the mail. youre gonna have to wait. until then focus on love below the waist. they say your head can be a prison- consider this a conjugal visit.

and yet another below the waist reference. wow.

ok after this pete posted even MORE SAD ones and theres no many so im not putting them all.

sunday, august 27, 2006

plain jane and the boy next door.

there is one single pair of eyes that could ever decode any of this. put another “x” on the calendar. summer is on its deathebd. there is simply nothing worse than knowing the ending- that no matter what curve balls or uphill come your way- it still turns out the same. this year its stripes and pumps, last year it was dancefloors and you. she keeps talking, i keep staying the same. did you ever change your mind about someone and then just realize it was a fucking haircut. put me in a frame on your wall, just to keep me out of trouble. i gotta say i admire bob dylan for being honest about his new record. noone ever is. its like when the ad campaign rolls out everyone is smiling and at their best even if they are not sure. an affectionate friend told me everything i ever needed to know about anything. “freeze! put down that fucking laptop!”. everything is always either digging a hole or digging yourself out of one. and just when you have it all figured out you should just sift through your pile of “never again"s. quite a collection. blow off the dust. im sure they will be worth something to someone sometime. its buzzing in the back of your head and out of your fingertips. pull back the shade- the road outside of my house is paved with good intentions. but it is hell on the undercarriage of the car so we’re gonna have to hire a construction crew. i wonder if anyone else things of you as much as i do, even you.

"If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me and ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be, so very fine
So happy together…”

a mutual misunderstanding. kaleidoscope eyes sparkle on pillows in the dark. and i dont care what anyone thinkgs of that except me. put the love on hold, anticipation is on the other line and excitement called while you were out. imagine me and you…..

friday, august 11, 2006

since j.t. is bringing sexy back, i guess i am out of a job. is borders hiring?

what is the opposite of amnesia? because that is what i have.
sometimes i cant find my way around my memories.
i have to take detours.
i think you were the best one.
its like it was never really going anywhere and alot of breakdowns but really it made for the best trip.
its strange to land here and be completely out of place.
but at the same time not really.
i never really felt like i understood anything anyone was saying anywhere so how different can this be?
its like it always was.
i have affection imprinted deep inside my head.
its why i am always on the verge of love or giving up.
or thats what i am convinced of today- tomorrow it will be something new.
dear drugstore cowboy, the chemical balance is a bit off.
its 7 am in california, 11pm in japan.
but my head is always on central standard.
how are you gonna get your way out of this one pete?
baby you are a canary and i am a coalmine.
the moon is out and its convincing me, it has me all kinds of crazy.
maybe we’ll just go to sleep and wake up on the summer sheets i grew up on.
because how could any of this be real.

notice that in the first one, many of those sentences are used in the calendar by p!atd, which brendon has said he did use pete’s blog as inspo.

ALSO. “youre a canary, and i am a coalmine” was used in ive got all this ringing in my ears, implying that pete is toxic and deadly, and will harm mikey (the canary) who is innocent and fragile.

we basically have no info on mikey’s side of the story, since he’s generally a private person.  but we do have this from mikey, which isnt very convincing:

5) Me and pete wentz aren’t dating. We are both heterosexual males….sort of…maybe…umm…next!

so after 2006, theres a lot less petekey content. also i should probably note that while mcr was recording tbp mikey left the band for a while due to him suffering from intense depression.  thankfully he recovered, and he dyed his hair and ditched his glasses to get laser eye surgery.

ok so here’s the part where i mostly talk abt references to mikey in fob songs.

ok so in 2007 fob released infinity on high, their 3rd album. theres quite a few mentions of mikey in this album, but the most well known is of course, bang the doldrums. most of the lyrics are taken straight out of pete’s livejournal, and of course the song was also originally named the summer of like.

heres a few things to point out in this song

1. a doldrum is a state of inactivity or stagnation, usually used in business or art. this can be seen as the inactivity of pete and mikey’s relationship after warped tour.

2. originally, the song had no mention of lipstick, which i mentioned before could have been used to make the song seem like it was written about a girl.

3. pete says “happily ever after above the waist”. this explains itself.

4. fob has never played bang the doldrums live. not even once.

as if this wasnt enough, theres also the rest of infinity on high. so heres a few things about im like a lawyer

1. “last years wishes are this years apologies” is likely talking about 2005, since infinity was written and recorded in 2006.

2. “me and you, setting in a honeymoon, if i woke up next to you” like i said, an earlier version of this lyric was seen on pete’s blog. also note the “if” and “what if” in the coming songs. these are usually a common theme in songs commonly considered to be about mikey.

some other songs on ioh

the take over, the breaks over- “we do it in the dark, with smiles on our faces” and “don’t pretend you ever forget about me”

ginasfs- “things aren’t the same anymore, some nights it gets so bad i almost pick up the phone” and “born under a bad sign (pete’s a gemini, who are usually known to be unemotional and superficial) but you saved my life, that night on the roof of your hotel”

so after ioh, not much really happened between them. however, on march 8 , mikey judged a karaoke night at pete’s nightclub, angels and kings, which he opened and co-owned with a few other people from fueled by ramen.

ok now, onto our twitter era

in 2009, fob went on hiatus and you know shit sucked.

but in contrast - twitter was born

this was back when everyone used twitpic and you could add tags to photos.

“it tastes like you”

(note: s-l-d stands for sweet little dudes)

anyways this is a bonefide petekey thing but whenever one of them is in japan they bring the other green tea kit kats and it warms my heart more than the communist manifesto.

okay so, ofc, in 2013, fob came back from their hiatus, but around the same time sadly mcr broke up. yeah. sorry.

following this, fob released srar, and in natural pete style, theres songs abt mikey. and the most obvious- miss missing you. 'Baby you were my picket fence’, and 'I know I’m the one you want to forget’. also “chlorine kissed summer skin” SELF FUCKING EXPLAINED. and then fob released their ep, pax am days, which is mostly hardcore punk. only one song on there is abt mikey and its called eternal summer.

'I can’t do this again, I need more oxygen, our days were never numbered, this is eternal summer.’

and then, halleujah holy shit, pete posted this to instagram

ok now onto fob’s 2015 album - american beauty/american psycho - or in terms of petekey “Infinity on High, 2.0”

the most popular song that references mikey in this album is fourth of july.

You are my favorite “what if”You are my best “I’ll never know”

(remember what i said about ifs and what ifs in fob songs before?)

I wish I’d known how much you loved me
I wish I cared enough to know
I’m sorry every song’s about you
The torture of small talk with someone you used to love

ouch. fucking shit.

the “im sorry every songs about you” gets me every fucking time. god. it feels like a knife in the chest. (a true friend stabs you in the front).

twin skeletons is also probably about mikey. (there’s a room in a hotel in New York City that shares our fate and deserves our pity)

it refers to february of 2006, when pete made that post about mikey on february 19 2006.

on the same day, in his fbr journal, he wrote:  'there’s a room in a hotel in New York City that shares our fate and deserves our pity, I don’t want to remember it all, the promises I made if you just hold on’

ok, now onto 2018. YES. PETE IS STILL WRITING SONGS. FUCKING GOD.

before we get to bishops knife trick - everyone knew it was about mikey before it was even released, because bishops stage WAS THE NAME OF THE STAGE FOB AND MCR PLAYED ON DURING WARPED TOUR 2005. oh my fucking god.

I’m living out of time, eternal heat stroke
Spiritual revolt from the waist down
From the waist down

AGAIN. FROM THE WAIST DOWN REFERENCE.  pete get over this bullshit before i hit you in the head with a pan.

I got a feeling inside that I can’t domesticate
It doesn’t wanna live in a cage
A feeling that I can’t housebreak
And I’m yours
'Til the earth starts to crumble and the heavens roll away
I’m struggling to exist with you and without you

ok this one is just obvious

I’m sifting through the sand, sand, sand, sand
Looking for pieces of broken hourglass
Trying to get it all back
Put it back together
As if the time had never passed
I know I should walk away
But I just want to let you break my brain
And I can’t seem to get a grip
No, no matter how I live with it

obviously he cant get over over summer of 2005. Amazing.

now lets talk abt hold me tight or dont. this hurts just as much.

I got too high again
Realized I can’t not be with you
Or be just your friend
I love you to death but I just can’t
I just can’t pretend
We were lovers first
Confidants but never friends
Were we ever friends?

also the part about “i took too many hits off this memory” is probably about how pete cant stop writing songs about mikey.

before i close this shitshow up: theres a few p!atd songs that allude to the summer of like, because pete co-wrote them. the lyrics he contributed were largely from 2004-2005. such as the calendar, kaleidoscope eyes, and nicotine. you can read all the lyrics yourself.

and thats the end! please dont cry over this

xoxo, leo