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A compilation of all Panic! At The Disco songs and their meanings based off of Genius.com with a little bit of my editing. FYI, The second album and onwards, is where pictures start to appear, the debut album is j...
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This song whimsically describes the weather but also sees the narrator questioning if his lover would stay with him if during difficult times.
Jon Walker:It was the second song we wrote, and we were all happy about "Nine in the Afternoon", so we decided to celebrate. We were out in Ryan's backyard and I just remember it was like 80 degrees, and you know, we're just kind of hanging out and playing guitar and talking about the weather.
Clouds are marching along,Singing a song, just like they do.If the clouds were singing a song,I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?If you just knew, what they could do.If you just knew, what they would do?And if the birds are just hollow words,Flying along, singing a song.What would they do, if they knew,What they could do.If they just knew.
This verse creates an almost Seuss-esque imaginary world to question whether you could resist being so floored by the impossible, that you couldn't help but join in. Hollow words have no substance, which parallels the idea that birds flying and the way people speak can both feel equally mundane.
I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, And it never gave a damn about me. I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather, And it never gave a damn about me. No, it never gave a damn about me.
This lyric could be related to Disney's 1951 animated film Alice In Wonderland in which a dodo bird sings a whimsical tune titled The Sailor's Hornpipe .
The Alice in Wonderland reference adds to the "mad" and whimsical feel of the whole song. The band is feeling really happy and carefree after the success of Nine in the Afternoon which is particularly shown in the chorus.
It could also possibly mean that Brendon doesn't like small talk, he doesn't want to talk about the weather, so it sounds almost passive aggressive – to me – how he says "I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather" and even more so when he says "and it never gave a damn about me"
I know it's mad, but if go to hell,
Will you come with me, or just leave? I know it's mad, but the world were ending, Would you kiss me, or just leave me? Just leave me.
Brendon wants to know if his lover would stay by his side through hard times. The "madness" he's referring to is the extremity of the situations he uses as examples. He probably has quite a bit of time until he dies, and his partner might not die with him or wind up in the same afterlife as he will. There also (hopefully) won't be an apocalypse any time soon, and they probably wouldn't abandon him in such a crisis anyway.
This could also be a way of finding out how loyal they actually are. Would they be there for him even in his darkest hours?
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