anonymous October 24th, 2007 10:47PM  
Oh yeah and the virgin only had sex with him for the job

anonymous November 29th, 2007 10:44AM  
When there was a terrable crash she hit a cop car and when she "held a purse of a differint kind" she was talking about her womb with a baby in it (she died along with the people inside)

anonymous December 1st, 2007 08:10PM  
Alright. I haven't seen any comment worth anything. I am sorry. I came to this site to see if there was any additional point to what I already knew. first off, ryan ross and the rest of panic are huge chuck palahniuk fans. He is an author who can make you hate your life - but he is a very intelligent writer who uses symbols and themes consistently throughout his novels. recently, I have read survivor by chuck palahniuk. The plot of the story is not important, but I can see similarities between this song and the book in the symbols used. early in the book (survivor)palahniuk describes the main character's desperate situation and his pointlessness while simulatneoulsy describing his job of organizing fake flowers. Here he compares the pointlessness of life to the fake-ness of life. He basically he says life is fake without actually saying it. "What does fake flowers have to do with this song?" you may ask. well, when describing the flowers, palahniuk makes references to formaldehyde which is used on the fake flowers, and the asbestos which is in the walls of the building that the character is in. These to substances are mentioned in the opening part of "Build God, Then We'll Talk." Theres no way that's coincidence. And you must realize, that this is only TWO words in the song. and they carry so much meaning. In each song, panic is trying to say something. They arent just telling a story about a virgin and a lawyer. The "argument" about whether the girl in this story is a virgin or not does not matter. AT ALL. The point remains that awful, impure acts like this "terrible crash," (which is the actual sexual acts that take place, not a door crashing down or whatever), are happening in a world so "christianized," (seen by the reference to a rosary) and a world so happy and good, seen by the reference to the musical, "sound of music." There is so much more that could be said about this song, but I am sick of typing. read survivor by chuck palahniuk if you really want to know the point of this song. or any other panic! at the disco song for that matter. I wonder how much space this comment will take up...

diamond_girl December 3rd, 2007 09:00PM  
It's these substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of 4th and Freemont Street.
Appealing only because they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes.
-----this means there is a dirty motel, appealing only because no one would think to find someone of a lawers stature there


Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.
-----there is a lawyer and a VIRGIN this is her first time people, and she has a necklace with beads and a cross in her lingerie, she's getting a job at the firm the lawyer works at and she's sleeping with him so she will get good benefits, the lawyers wife probably knows that he is cheating on her but she will stay with him anyways because she needs his money, saying that's a wonderful charicature of intamacy is sarcasim


And not to mention, the constable, and his proposition, for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with 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 lawyer left the dirty motel and the "virgin" was in her car fixing her makeup when a car crashes into her car, the constable (police officer) gets out to make sure she's ok but sees her bag and finds out she's underaged and what she did with the lawyer by finding something incriminating in her bag


Raindrops on roses and 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.
-----this is just a reference that because of what happened there is nothing happy anymore only sleeping with roaches (the dirty motel) and guessing what color the sheets were before all the stains where there (their spilled bodily fluid) and more of your least favorite things are better than what happened

hoped I helped!

c00ki3s92 December 17th, 2007 10:19PM  
Ok, I'm a fan of panic! at the disco and I listened to this and wanted to know what he meant by all of it and I read some of the interpretations on this website and this is what I think. (when I say he I mean the guys who wrote the song.)

(Lyrics)
It's these substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of 4th and Fremont Street.
Appealing only because they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes.

(Interpretation)
He is describing the setting of this little story..
the story takes place in a motel on the corner of 4th and fremont in Los Vegas
The motels are “un-appealing”, and he takes about how disgusting they are.
Simple enough.

(Lyrics)
Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

(Interpretation)
He’s saying that the people inside the motels are just and disgusting as the motels themselves.
“What a wonderful caricature of intimacy” means What a wonderful way to describe intimacy, he is being sarcastic because what is going on in the motel is far from intimacy.

(Lyrics)
Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.

(Interpretation)
The Virgin, has a rosery in her lingerie, so ill guess she is catholic. She is getting a job at the lawers firm, only because she is going to sleep with him. The Mrs. Is the lawers wife. His wife knows he is cheating but stays with him because she needs his money.

(Lyrics)
And not to mention, the constable, and his proposition, for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with 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.

(Interpretation)
It says “virgin” because she isn’t anymore. The cop went to the motel and was going to arrest her for prostitution (Hookers hang by those motels) and it looked like she was a hooker because she had just had sex with the lawyer and now she is ‘fixing her face’ (fixing her make-up). It says the constable (cop) and his proposition, his proposition was for her to sleep with him instead of him arresting her. The crash was the “virgin” sleeping with the cop. And the “purse” of a different kind is the cop paying her for the sex because after all he thinks she is a hooker.

(Lyrics)
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 and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.

(Interpretation)
There are no raindrops and girls in white dresses means That life is not all perfect.
Sleeping with roaches (note that is it plural) means her sleeping with them.
The taking guesses at the shade of the sheets before all the stains means, guessing what the color of the sheet was before all the hookers who had sex on left their stains, because (I'm assuming) it’s a “6 hour fuck me” motel. And add a few more of your least favorite things, means adding your “stains” on the sheets just like the people before you did.

Morals now a days are fucked up….and this is an example.

anonymous January 1st, 2008 10:11PM  
You have to know the rest of the lyrics to completely understand what was going on. For starters, 4th and Freemont is a very shady area in Vegas. Bada, the boys are singing about their homestead. So it's not a surprise that some propositions go on here.

A girl sleeps with a lawyer to get a job at the firm, who propositioned the other is unknown, because of the use of virgin and "virgin" in the actually lyrics. After he leaves, the a policeman busts in, probably to bust her for prostitution, but she is startled and drops her purse, thus exposing the drugs.

Now the lyrics were originally continued here, including how he was going to arrest her for possession, but ended up sleeping with her instead, suggesting that maybe she really was the fake virgin she was protending to be.

The whole song can basically be described by the lyrics: a wonderful caricature of intimacy. This describes the three situations, the Mrs. Staying with her husband even though she knows he's cheating, but just staying for the money. The girl sleeping with the lawyer for the job, and then sleeping with the policeman to avoid charges.

Lawliet24 January 4th, 2008 08:36PM  
For what I get, maybe I am wrong, maybe not.

We are talking about a young girl (innocent) who really needs money. It tells a story of a this Mrs who is havin' sex with some Lawyer, (maybe his new boss? maybe not?)
"She's getting a job at the firm come Monday(...)moonlighting aside, she really needs his money."
Means she needs the job, but if there is another way to get more money, then she'll not think it twice, since it's clear she needs the money.

It talks about a motel and that she's virgin.
It can mean two things:

1. She's unable to get the job, so the only way to get it means sleeping with "the boss" (the lawyer)


2. What I said before, sleeping with this man will make her win more money.

I read some other interpretations...And I agree with one:
This song wants to make you understand how f*** up is the world.
What people has to do just to get a little money, how far we have to go to try having a "nice life" We are not talking about a whore, but about someone who just don't know what to do and is desperate. It's just an image, a little example, and a pretty simple "cliché" because this happens very often.

Gurl_E_Nerdd January 28th, 2008 10:45AM  
I grew up in a bad part of town where I live so, I think I have this song figured out.

Its about:
Prostitution
Drugs
Affairs
Lies

In the first verse:
"It's these substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of 4th and Freemont Street.
Appealing only because they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes..."

A drug house, I know of some that as in the song that draw you in. You can't turn your eyes alway. "Is it really there?" They're so ugly but somehow have a hint of beauty in them too. Asbestos and formaldehyde, I do believe can be found inside cigarettes and so on.

"Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy"

This is what these people love. They are in love with the fumes, the dilapitated state of the rooms, and the people that surround them. Not knowing what will happen next. It is all a thrill.

"Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy."

Well off men come to where they are less likely to be seen in order to cheat. The 'virgin' I think is not techinally a virgin- maybe more of a person who as never done something like, sex for money before. Or someone he is soon to work with that also does drugs. The Mrs. know her husband is cheating but she will do nor say nothing because she is there not for him but for the money. What a wondeful, twisted kind of love.

"And not to mention, the constable, and his proposition, for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with 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"

BUSTED!! Even rich people screw up. What a wonderful kind of love.

"
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 and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things."

This is not where you will find all the wonderful things in life. Its reality. These things go on in real life.

anonymous February 16th, 2008 02:24PM  
Theres actually a lost verse that they didn't sing, located in the booklet for the CD.

[right after "purse of a different kind"]

and here is where he entertains that proposition
arrested on poition
or
(now if these were you)

think of what you wouldn't want to happen.

they ended up... well, making love isn't the exact what I'm looking for
but.
you.
get.
the.
picture.

anonymous February 29th, 2008 03:03PM  
I pretty sure it's about a woman who sleeps with a lawyer (the cheating attorney),and soon,after the lawyer leaves, the constable comes in, and sleeps with the "virgin" (It's using sarcasm for irony) and so the virgin avoids trouble.
However,the police come and she drops the bag, revealing drugs and a black book (the "purse"). The chorus"Caricature of intimacy"mocks it all.

anonymous March 3rd, 2008 03:37PM  
Tbh I think the "purse" is a condom. It's pretty obvious.

Gurl_E_Nerdd April 4th, 2008 10:50AM  
This song is simply about all the undercover things at go on in suburbia. I mean drugs, sex, and lies. It happens everyday but you'll be surprised what goes on behind closed doors.

anonymous April 5th, 2008 08:34PM  
This song is about a desperate girl who needs quick money, so she gets with this lawyer who agrees to give her a job if she gives him sex. Obviously the girl agrees, so they do it. The lawyer is married, his wife will stay because she's too close to his money to leave now. after they do it, and the lawyer leaves, an officer busts in and tells her that she has two choices: 1) to sleep with him and check out the motel a free woman or 2) get thrown in jail. The "purse" is her, holding all her get inside ready to spill over. She is NOT a whore, she's doing bad things but for her to survive

anonymous April 7th, 2008 12:40PM  
Okay, this song is simple to figure out when you put words together. I think it's about a lawyer cheating on his wife, and his wife cheating on him and their "unstable relationship". One day the lawyer said he was going to a business meeting or something. (Yes, the one the lawyer met with 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.) And he's been doing this for some time now. But, instead of going on business, he just has sex with a prostitute who says she is a "virgin". Now, the wife is also cheating on him. She is having sex with another attorney for money.(The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.) Also, during the song they say "what a wonderful caricature of intimacy". So I'm thinking that Brendon is just being sarcastic, since intimacy means "close friendship", which the couple certainly does not have. So apparently later on his wife found out he was cheating on her because she found another purse that was not hers.

Fox_in_Sox May 24th, 2008 01:30PM  
Ok so what I understand is that the lawyer meets the virgin at the show. The lawyer is married to the mrs. and he cheats on her with the virgin... That's what I understand! and then I think the caricature of intimacy is between the lawyer and the virgin, or the lawyer and the mrs... make sense? I don't know, that's just my guess, if I'm wrong please tell me!

anonymous May 29th, 2008 11:24AM  
Okay, this song involves four people: The Lawyer, the lawyer's wife (Mrs.), the whore (Virgin), and the cop.

Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.
>>The lawyer and "virgin" are in the hotel, having sex. The "job" in the firm just means more sex. The "Mrs." knows he is cheating, but she stays with him because of the money. "Moonlighting" refers to him sleeping with the whore at night.

And not to mention, the constable, and his proposition, for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with 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.
>>She gets caught by a cop. He offers to let her go for free sex.

anonymous July 21st, 2008 08:20PM  
I think that the "substandard motels on the corner of 4th and Fremont street" are run-down motels that people can rent for a night to have sex. I think that the lawyer forces all his employees to have sex with him, but he tells his wife that it's "strictly business" and she doesn't know. But the girl this is about isn't like the other ones and she's a catholic virgin.
I think that the "terrible crash" is the lawyer having sex with her and "spilling her purse" could be sort of like symbolism for losing her virginity. I think that the "purse of a different kind" is that she got pregnant with the lawyer's child.

The girl had to have sex with the lawyer since she was going to work for him and she was poor and really needed money, so she had no choice.
The "raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses" could mean that she won't be able to get married now. So there won't be any girls in white dresses and she could be crying while looking at roses that could've been a bouqet.
"It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses" could be that she has babies or "roaches" inside her womb that she has to live with, but she's not sure if she's pregnant at the time so she's "taking best guesses."
The "shade of the sheets before all the stains" could mean that her life was clear and she had a bright future ahead of her and the "sheets" meaning her path, was clear. But now the lawyer got her pregnant so that "stained" the sheets, meaning it caused problems and now she can't have the future she could've had before. Then the last part, "and a few more of your least favorite things" could be that the girl is now depressed and doesn't really like anything anymore, since her life got ruined.

Please ignore any typos or spelling mistakes!

anonymous August 10th, 2008 08:04PM  
This is by far my favorite song on the album. This basically tells a story in itself.

It's about a virgin that needs a job from an attorney and to get the job she has to sleep with him. after the attorney had left the hotel room, a constable came in and in exchange for not arresting her he had to sleep with her. while making love she dropped her purse and illegal drugs and a black book or "a purse of a different kind". This song was written to show how love and intimacy nowadays are totally fake and is bringing shame to prostitution and mimed relationships. The "there are no raindrops on roses..."part shows that most relationships are fake. "sleeping with roaches" means sleeping with people who don't love you, "taking best guesses" means risking having an std or another ordeal, and "add a few more of your least favorite things" ties it into the Sound Of Music reference and shows that those are only a few examples of terrible outcomes of mimed relationships and overall premarital sex.

anonymous August 26th, 2008 08:01PM  
I agree with the top rated one I believ she soes it for the job because like the song says "she really needs the money"

anonymous August 28th, 2008 04:03AM  
Okay, pretty much I'm thinking this story is about humankind and how totally crappy we all are. It's about four awful people.

The story starts in a sleazy motel where a lawyer has shacked up with his bit on the side for the night. He's just using her for sex, and she just wants a high-paying job at the law firm. The lawyer's wife knows about it but even though she's a hooker by night (moonlighting) she will stay with the lawyer because she needs his money. I'd say he met his wife in a similar way that he met his new girl...

Out goes the lawyer and a cop is passing by. The slutty girl is not looking where she is going (she's fixing her face in a compact) and she bumps into the cop. She "spills her purse and her bag" and out of her bag falls a packet of cocaine etc. (a 'purse' of a different kind...) To keep the cop quiet she sleeps with him as well.

The "Least Favourite Things" verse is saying, well, this is how things are. Life isn't like 'raindrops and roses and girls in white dresses.' Life can be complete shit.

NB: After writing this, I remembered that prostitution is illegal in the US. Perhaps the slut was also a hooker, and what fell out of her bag was her ill-gotten gains of the night.