Fall Out Boy released Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two on November 15, 2019, through Island Records. The 13-track compilation collected singles from their return in 2013 onward, alongside two additions that gave longtime listeners something to investigate: “Dear Future Self (Hands Up)” and the previously unreleased “Bob Dylan.”
Guitarist Joe Trohman had spent years trying to get “Bob Dylan” onto a release. In Kerrang!’s November 2019 interview with the band, he recalled recording it for American Beauty/American Psycho and objecting when it was left off. Patrick Stump admitted he’d forgotten it existed. “I’d been lightly pushing the idea of revisiting this song for years,” Trohman said. The compilation finally gave it a home as the closing track.
The collection followed 2009’s Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits, with a different stretch of the catalog to cover. Its opening four songs came from Save Rock and Roll, the album that marked Fall Out Boy’s 2013 return. American Beauty/American Psycho supplied the next four, including “Centuries,” while Mania was represented by “Champion” and “The Last of the Real Ones.” Together, those selections traced three studio albums released between 2013 and 2018.
That run hadn’t begun with certainty. Stump recalled that the band initially got together to see whether making music again would work. Even as “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” arrived, he hadn’t been sure how much would follow. It became the opening song on this second greatest-hits collection.
“Dear Future Self (Hands Up),” released in September 2019, put Wyclef Jean into the mix. It was the band’s first new music since the three-song Lake Effect Kid EP in August 2018. Pete Wentz explained the collaboration’s starting point in an interview with RADIO.COM that September: OutKast’s “Hey Ya!” was a reference point for a song that could feel unfamiliar and immediately inviting at the same time. He said the band discussed that ambition with Jean, who came back with the song. Wentz described its ska undertone and the unlikely fit between the two acts as part of what made it work.
The title carried a more personal idea. Wentz described addressing a future version of yourself while life remained unsettled, looking for reassurance without pretending to have every answer. On a collection built around looking back, that message gave the new material a different perspective.
The closing stretch also included “I’ve Been Waiting,” the collaboration with Lil Peep and iLoveMakonnen released in January 2019. Alongside the Wyclef Jean track, it put two collaborations outside the band’s three preceding studio albums into the same collection as their established singles.
“Bob Dylan” received an animated music video on December 3, 2019. It followed a character named Frankie imagining that fame might help him win someone’s affection, giving the once-shelved recording its own visual story after the compilation’s release.
