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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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Panic! At The Disco wrote this song about being in the band and being friends in their rehearsal space. The song features strong sexual themes and touches upon the fluidity of the speaker and the band.
Jon Walker: I played C major and that was the first thing [Spencer Smith] started playing on the drums. Four hours later, the song was done. We changed some of the structure and some of the lyrics. We like the spontaneity of writing a song.
Things are shaping up to be pretty odd.
The opening lyrics not only begin to set the tone and theme of the track, but also mirror the album title Pretty. Odd. The song and verse open to Brendon explaining that things aren't turning out as expected. Life experiences are beginning to catch him off-guard and seemingly feel strange to him.
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Little deaths in musical beds.
"Little deaths" is a translation of the French idiom for orgasm, la petite mort.
"Musical beds," a spin on musical chairs refers to bed-hopping, or going through many different sexual partners. Based on the next line, the speaker has been uncharacteristically promiscuous lately.
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So it seems I'm someone I've never met.
He's changed so quickly he now does things he didn't do before and notices the changes between his old self and the present self.
You will only hear these elegant crimes, Fall on your ears from criminal dimes. They spill un-found from a pretty mouth.
The crimes being referenced are the "little deaths," or orgasms. By inducing an orgasm, they imply that you are murdering the person you are making love to. The speaker claims to only have sex with women who are strikingly beautiful, or perfect 10's. During the process of intercourse, the women moans before an orgasm, similar to how murder victims may grown in pain before dying.
Everybody gets there and everybody gets their way. I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her, Now I'm the only one to blame.
The wordplay of switching out "there" and "their" gives this section a double meaning. "Everybody gets there" serves as a message to listeners, telling them that if they work hard they can achieve their goals and live the life they've imagined.
"Everybody gets their way" seems to be a comment about the people around him. Based on the following two lines, Ryan has developed feelings for a girl who was once very promiscuous. He suggests that she has settled down now, and it's too late for him to make a move. Everyone else seems to have the picture-perfect life they always wanted except for Ryan, who is hung up over a lost opportunity.
Things have changed for me, and that's OK. I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say.
The narrator has come to accept the fact that life has a certain aspect of fluidity. He's beginning to realize that the only definite fact about life is that it will change, so it's important to be flexible and more importantly be okay with the fact that nothing's ever truly set in stone.
He acknowledges the fact that he's still learning how to embody this mindset by saying "I'm on my way". Then the repetition of the first line shows that he's really trying to burn it into his brain.
I want to go where everyone goes, I want to know what everyone knows I want to go where everyone feels the same
He's going through revelations about life and he wants to be with everyone else who's been through/currently going through the same thing. He doesn't want to feel stagnant, like he's in the wrong crowd or else he's stifling his potential.
The repetition of the phrase "I want...I want...I want" also shows off that the singer is quite greedy, commonly associated with the color green – hence the title "That Green Gentleman."
I never said I'd leave the city, I never said I'd leave this town. A falling out we won't tiptoe about.
The narrator wants to go where everyone feels the same, but at the same time is unwilling to leave his current home. He is going to try to find comfort in the people and things that are already around him.
It's also possible that the city and town are a metaphor for his state of mind. He needs a change, but doesn't want to risk losing the peace of mind that he already has.
Whether the town is a metaphorical or literal one, the narrator can sense a major change coming. Instead of worrying about it, he decides to embrace it, even with the possible negativity involved.
