anonymous September 22nd, 2006 03:59PM  
Ok...So this song is about a woman...And she's staying at those nasty, wrong-side-o-town, cock-roach infested motels....And she is down on her luck...And is being a hooker to get money...She finds a client who is a married attorney...And the,"getting a job at the firm come monday..."part is she sleeps w/ the lawyer in return for a job at his law firm...But after he leaves....The cops bust her..."between her and the badge, she spilled her purse...." so that's pretty much it...

The "virgin" referance is b/c she's a hooker so she has slept w/ lots of people...But she's never slept w/ the lawyer before that...

Also the "...Moonlighting aside she really needs his money/a wonderful caricature of intimacy..." this goes w/ the "getting a job @ the firm" part...And is referring to the fact that the money she gets from him, for sex, isn't enough to live off of...So she's being employed by him....Hence "needs his money"

anonymous October 1st, 2006 08:02PM  
I think the constable payed the "virgin" to sleep with the lawyer, in order to capture him in a trap of some sort-- that was the constable's "proposition." but after the whole virgin-sleeps-with-the-lawyer-thing, while the "virgin" was driving home, she was also fixing her face in her compact when she got into a car crash-- with the same constable! She managed to survive, but the constable died; the "purse" that she's now holding could be filled with the weight of her guilt over killing the constable, or could actually be used to describe the body itself. This is truly the loss of innocence: losing one's virginity and commiting murder all in the same night. Kinda sucks.

ashleyyyy October 4th, 2006 12:34AM  
Ok so, I always just assumed that the purse was birth control. I'm almost positive it's not a baby. How could she spill a baby that was just conceived?

Between her and the badge she spilled her purse and her bag, different purse....It seems fair to say it's birth control, or even that drugs.

There are a lot of different views on this song, the only way anyone will know is if they actually asked panic.

But yeah, I still really do think it's birth control.

Because she's not a virgin really

anonymous October 7th, 2006 06:26PM  
This song is suppose to be a representation to what the world has come to, in a way. How money is becoming so important. The motel represents a motel obviously, but its the setting of the song and saying how its temptation and even the best of citizens aren't perfect and come across it. Then it goes on about how the wife is a gold digger and is only with the "lawyer" for his money, and she herself isn't all that innocent. And the lawyer sleeping with the virgin is a representation of taking innocence to hire the "virgin" for a job. And then the "there are no raindrops on roses..." means that no one is completely pure as rain or a rose anymore because the girls in white dresses (the pure innocent) don't think things through and end up sleeping with "roaches" to get money and pay their way to meet the standards of living and how people learn this from the other "charicatures of intimacy"

anonymous October 22nd, 2006 03:46PM  
Well, something I didn't see on here is something I noticed when I first played the song.

"and forgot to mention
the constable and his proposition for that virgin
yes, the one the lawyer met on 'strictly business'
as he said to the mrs.

Well only hours before after he had left
she was fixing her face in a compact
there was a terrible crash (there was a terrible crash) between her and the badge
she spilled her purse and her bag
and held a purse of a different kind."

the constable has a "proposition" for her, which I take to mean that he wants to "get a piece of the action." police don't usually negotiate with people they think are hookers, and since he doesn't have an interest in the lawyer, there's no motive. However, there is a terrible "crash" between her and the constable, which leads to her spilling the things she has...I take that to mean that he attacked her. Then, it goes back to the "along with the people inside", which was previously involving people decaying with the motel. Maybe bodies; in which case it means that she is now a body as well. Since the rest of the song speaks of corruption, why not a corrupted cop? And if so, why wouldn't he kill her to cover himself? Anyhow, that's my five cents.

anonymous October 22nd, 2006 03:55PM  
A note to the interpretation mentioning the constable:

"a purse of a different kind"

implies that he gave her payment as a prostitute, or that he gave her some kind of drug in a baggie.

anonymous October 23rd, 2006 06:21PM  
Maybe you should read the actual lyrics in the lyrics booklet instead of the lyrics on websites that are said in the song itself...The booklet has the real meaning of the song and the song itself is just what flows together...And you people really need a life if you are trying to interpret something that may not have one set interpretation

anonymous November 3rd, 2006 10:39PM  
Personally, I am most interested in the parody of "my favorite things".

"there are no
raindrops on roses and *girls in white dresses*
it's sleeping with roaches and *taking best guesses
at the shade of the sheets before all the stains*
and a few more of your least favorite things"

i think in general the song can be viewed literally (as a story) but also as a social commentary. "girls in whte dresses" can refer to brides and innocence, and how today even those who might be religious do not walk down the aisle as a virgin. Wearing a white dress at your wedding is more than just a tradition, it stands for the woman's innoncence/virginity. Personally, I think the majorty of people today have per-marital sex (not that I oppose) so that line is commenting or reflecting that same notion.

The line about sheets I couple with "taking best guesses". This line is also more symbolic than literal to me. When you see something or someone for the first time, you really can't tell what they're done or been through or who they were originally. If you saw a black sheet, you have to think: was it originally black, or was it stained or dyed to cover something up? People can fake and cover up their past indiscretions (the 'virgin' putting on makeup to hide what's happened).

Can't say I found much else worth mentioning though.

anonymous November 12th, 2006 12:32AM  
I might be crazy but I took the section about the purse completely differently than all of you.

Yes, the one the lawyer met with on "strictly business."
as he said to the mrs. Well only hours before.
Well after he had left,

the subject of the sentence never refers back to the "virgin" so he's still talking about the lawyer's wife when it says she's fixing her makeup.

As she was fixing her face in a compact.
There was a terrible crash,
between her and the badge.
She spilled her purse and her bag,
and held her purse of a different color.

Maybe the mrs. Found a purse she owned but in a different color that belonged to the virgin he was sleeping with.
I'm pretty sure that I have a grasp on the english language. I'm an english major.

anonymous November 12th, 2006 06:31PM  
Ok most of you are right and I salute you.
Then again most of you don't know fucking lyrics to save yourself.
Freemont and fourth, popular corner for hookers to gather in vegas (p!Atd are from vegas)
when they refer to the girl being a virgin, she's really a hooker hence the way he sings "virgin" yes the one the lawyer met with... So she is a hooker.
Shes obviously giving sex for a place in this guys law firm, his wife is to afraid to leave him because of the money he makes.
The constabul, also a cop, makes an offer to her not to arrest her for either prosistution or drug abuse (fixing her face in a compact) bcause she held a purse of a different kind (it contained drugs) the cop knew she was a porstitute so he gets sex from her so she dosent get arrested.
When there was a terrible crash it refers to when she bumped into the cop all the hours before she was doing drugs. "along with the people inside" can mean all the sperm inside of her if you look at it that way.
Raindrops on roses
girls in white dresses- are happy thoughts
sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses- not so happy thoughts

baically, this is a very talented piece of poetry that the band has put together, it keeps the listeners thinking about what the story is truly about. It can mean almost anything, it depends on how you see it.

anonymous November 15th, 2006 06:15AM  
I think it's about a catholic woman who is married and has an affair with the lawyer =]]]]

anonymous November 28th, 2006 10:45PM  
ok! the whole idea of the virgin being a catholic isn't necessarily true. The song says catholics cross themselves upon entering the motel (because it's so sleezy). "Along with the people inside" is the end of the sentence. It goes with ...and the habit of decomposing right before your very eyes (still talking about the motel). It means the hotel is in such disrepair that it's falling apart with everyone inside. The sound of music part says "there are no rain drops on roses or girls in white dresses" raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses (with blue satin sashes) are to parts of the song from the sound of music. It's saying that there are none of the favorite things. Thanks for reading my interpretation. I've said what I had to say.
xoxo
lola

anonymous December 3rd, 2006 07:27PM  
It's these substandard motels on the corner of 4th and freemont street.
(a place in las vegas, famous for prostitution in their motels)
Appealing only `cause there just that un-appealing any practised catholic would cross themselves upon entering
(a catholic is at the motel for a reason that they don't want to be)
The rooms contain a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde, and the habit of decomposing right before your very eyes along with the people inside
(Someone is in the rooms doing something they don't want to be doing but have to)
What a wonderful caricature of intamacy.
(Obviously prostitution inside the motel)
Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
(has sex with the lawyer for money, but she is a "good" catholic and has a rosary proving she's catholic)
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday the Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney moonlighting aside she really needs this money what a wonderful caricature of intamacy
(the catholic "virgin" needs money so she has sex with the lawyer, who is married to the Mrs. Maybe the Mrs. knows about it because it mentions "the mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney" hinting that she knows about it but chooses to stay with him)
And not to mention the constable and his propisition for that virgin, yes the one the lawyer met with on strictly buisness as he said to the mrs. well only hours before after he had left she was fixing her face in a compact there was a terrible crash between her and the badge she spilt her purse and her bag and held a purse of a different kind.
(the lawyer lied to his wife and said he was seeing the virgin on strictly buisness, but the wife knew knew the truth so she called the constable to find the catholic virgin but the constable didn't belive the mrs. So the constable picked up the virgin and rode with her in the car and they crashed and she spilt her purse and it held a purse of a different kind. Maybe the purse of a different kind was a black book or something with all of her men's numbers in it.)
There are no raindrops on roses or girls in white dresses it's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses at the shade of the sheets and before all the stains, and a few more of your least favorite things.
(The moral of the story is that life isn't all you want it to be, so really in the end, things turn out for the worst and life is full of your least favorite things)

I don't know. This was my interpretation.

anonymous December 10th, 2006 12:28PM  
OK,seriously, this is how I interpert it, and it's not really that deep, but that's ok! READ THIS!
Ok, well, basically, I agree with most of you on the main parts. But on the There was a terrible crash (cops busting in) she spilled her purse and her bag (her purse: money bag: um... just stuff) and held a purse of a different kind, I think that when she's getting arrested, she pursing her lips, I don't know if that's right, but it makes sense to me and yeah. :)

anonymous December 18th, 2006 05:58PM  
I agree with the first anonymous person, The "virgin" is sleeping with the lawyer because she needs a job/money, the Mrs. knows but doesn't care, when it says "the constable and his proposition to that virgin" constable is old english for cop, the cop wants to have sex with her and later on he rapes her, I think and then she gets pregnant. Yeah that's what I think.

paniqluv December 29th, 2006 11:26PM  
ok, here I go with the (I swear) least dirty interpretation of all:

theres a motel, a lawyer, a "virgin", a mrs., a constable, and "girl in white
dress"
the lawyer doesn't love his wife anymore. finds virgin: a religious girl; lawyer: not religious. They get together. They stay at motel. mrs. knows but does nothing to keep getting money. The night at the motel, a girl in white dress is murdered by the virgin. She frames the lawyer. "stains" are the blood from murder. So the constable gets with the virgin. finds a note to self about the murder (her plans) the crash is when he busts her.

there are no girls in white dresses. There are no raindrops on roses because it symbolizes the motel: its cheap, when she dies, the employees bring dried up flowers.

yea its totally not the meaning, but we need a clean one too!

anonymous February 2nd, 2007 07:31PM  
I think this song is about life. Cheating, pain, survival, and getting through life. About how life doesn't always turn out the way you expect it to.

anonymous February 9th, 2007 09:36PM  
ALrighty, Listen here people here is my interpretation:

"It's the substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of fourth and freemont street." Blah blah yeah yeah along with the people inside

It describes a hotel room, and it says that the people inside are just as rotten.

"Tonights tenants range from a lawyer and a virgin" yeah you know the rest. in other words there's a lawyer giving a girl a job if she has sex with him.

"the mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney, moonlighting aside she really needs this money." so on.

his wife stays with him for his money, oh how horrible.

"but not to mention" and on top of that
"the constable and his propostition for that "virgin"" have sex with me

"there was a terrible crash between her and the badge" badge being cop, she's fixing up after she leaves the hotel and she runs into a cop and drop a bag of cocaine hence the "arrested on possesion" even though its not in the song its on the lyrics

so the moral kiddies is: life's a bitch, shit happens, and the world seriously needs to straighten up

paniqluv February 11th, 2007 12:02AM  
About the purse thing: I think it means as he busts her for the drugs she purses her lips. Makes so much more sense now, doesn't it?

anonymous February 11th, 2007 09:47PM  
It's about a virgin who goes to a motel to sleep with an attorney to get a job at his firm. The rosary refers to her religion. She's catholic. She's not a hooker that's why she goes from virgin to "virgin". A police officer suspects her of being a hooker so tricks her into saying she would sleep with him for money. The terrible crash is the police raiding the room. She drops her purse because she's startled but now has a purse o a different kind. She's prenant.