iheartsparklyvampire October 27th, 2008 07:26PM  
For the most part the first one is right. I do not think the "purse" is a baby though. At first I also thought that th "virgin" was a prostitute but then I decided I was not being literal enough. There is also the terrible crash and I do believe that in the end the sleeps with the constiple because it says "And the constiple and his proposition..." even though she isn't a hooker what proof does he have? So she says what the heck and does the un-Christian thing. Also the constiple in a sense might be gods "punishment" for the lawyer which in a way, would make sense for the title. So now she IS a prostitute. See what I'm saying?

anonymous November 5th, 2008 05:42PM  
first of all, the girl isnt pregnant. purse of a different kind means drug bags. shes in a whorehouse. shes a whore. shes not getting no job. he tells his wife shes getting a job there so he can "interview her" the virgin is to represent her actual innocence in the game he plays with his wife, she has no idea what he's telling his wife.

tj_XxX November 7th, 2008 06:43PM  
I think (please note: THINK) that this song is about how relaxed the values of sex have gotten, the storyline is their as an example and the lawyer and the cop are points of authority and this shows how ittle these people care

anonymous November 17th, 2008 12:04PM  
No interpretation Just a request If you really believe that the way you explain it is the right way then explain how the video ties in to the lyrics...

anonymous November 29th, 2008 02:16AM  
Did anyone think the "purse of a different kind" was a condom???

rydenexists December 2nd, 2008 06:39PM  
answering to the person who asked if the line "the purse of a differant kind" was a condom. well i think it might be or she is pregnant. either of those sound like something the "purse" would be.

anonymous December 18th, 2008 08:30PM  
It seems that a lawyer and a "virgin" are "occupying" a room in a rather rundown hotel. This lawyer then goes back home, unaware that the "virgin" is actually moonlighting as a prostitute to expose the corruption of his practices, "fixing her face in a compact," suggesting that she could be a journalist. However, as she finishes cleaning herself up, a cop shows up and startles her, causing her things to go flying about to reveal a used condom, "a purse of a different kind". The whole story reveals there were no "virgins" just liars that stain the sheets more than anything else could.

anonymous January 3rd, 2009 08:22PM  
Okay. This song is simply about a good, catholic, virgin. She has a job, but is not making enough money to support herself and possibly a family. She decides to take a job at a law firm, however the lawyer decides he will only hire the woman if she sleeps with him. They meet at a dirty hotel and do the deed, which the lawyer refers to his wife as meeting on strictly business. However, after the lawyer leaves the woman at the hotel, a policeman comes and is going to arrest the woman. The catch- if she sleeps with him as well, she's off the hook.
As for the "There are no raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses." They are saying that she lost her virginity to this horrible, cheating, lawyer. "It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses." Means that she slept with these people because she guessed it would be the best thing for her to do, so she could do to get the money/job, and not go to jail. "The shade of the sheets before all the stains." refers to her life before she had sex, and "A few more of your least favorite things" is used to describe that worse things are being done.

anonymous January 12th, 2009 08:00PM  
Well, the constant repetition of "Oh what a caricature of intimacy" means that intimacy is often seen in different ways, but since a caricature is a picture that stresses/exaggerates particular traits, the "particular trait" of intimacy is sex. Which incorporates to the whole song.

The beginning, as some have said before, is to set the mood of some really dirty and run-down motel. How nobody cares about it, how it's treated so badly, etc.

The example of a "caricature of intimacy" is with the young girl/virgin who has sex with her boss so she gets a job. That's basically the next verse; self explanatory. After that, a lot of the plot is pretty east to tell by the lyrics; the purse I think of is a condom, but I dunno. And I'm not quite sure what "fixing her face in a compact" means.

There is nothing good or happy in the caricature of intimacy, but more like "sleeping with roaches", or sleeping down and dirty or whatever, just to get what you want. And the rest of the lyrics to that part is like the proof of the sex.

Oh, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy.

anonymous January 30th, 2009 06:25AM  
I Basically get the whole song.
i disagree with the whole hooker theory. I just rekkon she was coerced into having sex to get the job(y)
i agree with most o the rest
i think she slept with the cop so she wouldn't get arrested.
but idk what they mean by the "purse" thing.
suggestions??

and I think the raindrops thing is like about how she degraded herself..
and the whole motel thing is just about lifee and how society is kinda fucked up so ye..

mcpanicfanic February 20th, 2009 03:52PM  
This song is a story. It is about a woman who sleeps with her boss to move up in a business. The "substandard motels" are the place where they sleep together. a "wonderful caricature of intimacy" means that its a caricature, or a distortion, of intimacy. These people don't actually love each other, they r just sleeping with each other. He's sleeping with her out of lust, she's sleeping with him because he's her boss.
the next part of the song continues the story. "the mrs will stay with the cheating attorney" means that the wife of the womans boss will stay with him bec she doesn't know what he did behind her back. "shes really needs his money", the girl needs money so she has sex with him.
while he was sleeping with her, the "Mrs" was at home getting fixed up, she crashed into a police officer, dropped her purse, and it had drugs in it...."it held a purse of a diff kind"
"shades of the sheets and before all the stains" means love stains....ew

HowCouldYou April 26th, 2009 03:45PM  
Build God, Then We'll Talk by Panic At The Disco refers to illegal acts of a sex
trade operation taking place within the building of a legitimate religious
establishment to exemplify why someone might question the existence of God,
the sanctity of marriage, and the strength or existence of one's relationship with God.

The first part of the title, 'Build God', is referencing the integrity of the building
intended for righteous acts, prayers, the acceptance that God or 'higher being' is in control
of our lives, and in marriage to another person with the blessings of God and those people
they feel are close to God and mutually respect the male and female joining as one.

The acts within the building were sacriligous, but one does not build God, God exists and
at the very least a higher being exists that controls our destiny for good or bad. We can do
the best we can and still fail, we can overcome the greatest of obstacles and still be denied
entry to institutions that we desire to be accepted by, and we can do so much and still some
things will never be possible for whatever the reason. Those things that we may not attain when
we want or as we want do not change what we want. And sometimes God shows us that in order to
obtain what we think we want, we have to be patient. Sometimes the reasons we do not get what
we want do make sense at first but may be explained to us through another instrument that we
never thought possible and suddenly everything makes sense.

The title and the lyrics say, these things happened, they were not great but they make us
stronger, and perhaps some gain more and some less, they happened within a place of trust but
ultimately the building is not God, and people that made poor choices based on their best
instincts, the acts, and their bodies are not God, but you have to build yourself from the
inside and so long as you know you are true to yourself and do the best you can to protect
those you love based on your best instincts, you are as close to God as you can get, and that
is what Building God means, and only after you are there will you be ready to talk.

Perhaps someone knew what was happening and chose to remain silent because they were afraid
that if they spoke out the 'good' would go unprotected and that is a serious flaw to believe
that those close to God go unprotected. Good Day and I admit that yesterday I prayed for the
first time in many years and I considered giving up my sobriety to get what I want, and to try to save someone
I knew was hurting, but I did not, I lost a lot of sleep and stayed as consistant as I could, and this morning
I found the lyrics to this song and now I think I better
get to church. Take care everybody.

anonymous May 19th, 2009 03:56AM  
It's the same as the top rated one, but the virgin had sex with the officer, and that was how her baby was conceived

anonymous June 6th, 2009 04:07AM  
Alrite well heres my interpretation.
i don't get why people are saying there is a part in the lyric booklet that says something about being arrested for possession, cause they definitely don't sing it so why would they publish it? and if she's a catholic virgin, why would she be a druggie?
but my interpretation - a girl whos innocent, virginal, and catholic (maybe she actually is a virgin, maybe she isn't but they call her one to further the image of her being an innocent and good person) agrees to have sex with an attorney in order to get a job at his law firm. the attorney is married and althou he claims he's out on business, his wife knows he is cheating and doesn't do anything about it because she likes his money.
so the catholic virgin girl and the cheating attorney go to a run down motel together (the asbestos and formaldehyde have nothing to do with murder, they are to emphasize the bad conditions at the sleezy motel)
so they are at the motel and she has sex with the attorney.
after they have sex when she is fixing herself up with her make up, a cop knew she was there and crashes into the room.
he tells her he won't bust her for prostitution if she has sex with him.
"between her and the badge, she spilt her purse and her bag, and held a purse of a different kind"
this part is refering to her agreeing to have sex with the cop, the purse of a different kind is a condom, she's getting out a condom to have sex with the cop.
the raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses is to symbolize the ideal romance and intimacy that happens out of love and not as a business deal.
the sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses is to symbolize the way things really are, that sex isn't based off dreamy romance and loving passion, but rather what a person can get out of it. The taking best guesses is trying to figure out whats the right thing to do. It brings irony to the story because the catholic virgin girl's best guess is to have sex for a job and then again to not be arrested, when in reality the right thing to do would have been to keep her innocence and dignity and not have sex with either of them
"shades of the sheets before all the stains" is to represent who a person really is before he/she loses himself/herself to corruption (the stains)
"and a few more of your least favorite things" is summing up all the other things bad and wrong in the world

overall, this song is about:
desperation - giving up her morals to get a job
taking advantage of others and preying on the innocent - knows she needs the job so he takes advantage to get sex
deceit - he's cheating on his wife
greed - she stays with an unfaithful husband cause he's rich
a lack of ethics and morals in everyone, even people who are supposed to be good - the "good" catholic girl lacks ethics and morals when she gives in to desperation, the cop lacks ethics and morals when he offers to not arrest a person for prostitution if she prostitutes herself to him (and he's a cop, cops are supposed to be law abiding, trustworthy, good people, who think of the community before themselves, but not in this song)
reality - life isn't what we dream it to be (raindrops on roses) but rather a tragedy of inhumanity where people are desperate and the powerful people prey upon their desperation (sleeping with roaches)

this song is titled "Build God. Then We'll Talk" basically to say that God doesn't exist, for how can God exist and let the world become the way it has, and that until someone "builds God", there isn't anything to discuss/debate about His lack of existance with the world the way it is
I'm christian and do believe in God, but in this song, its painting a portrait of a girl who puts aside her faith and beliefs for survival and that a man wants sex out of her to give her a job and another man wants sex out of her to not arrest her. and it all takes place in a sleezy run down motel. it paints this picture in order to say, if this is the kind of world we live in, where we are sleeping with roaches, and taking best guesses at what is right for us to do, and allowing ourselves to be stained by the corruption of the world around us, then how can God exist? if God is real, why does He allow an innocent virgin who believes in Him and has faith to reduce herself to prostitution just for a job? if He existed, wouldn't He want better for this loyal religious girl, yet He has given her no other option, or else she wouldn't stoop this low, she wouldn't be so desperate for a job if God had provided her with a choice in the matter.

this song is very true.
it shows what a disgusting corrupt world we live in where peole are just trying to survive and lose themselves along the way. and that the people we give power to will use it against us. It shows that people can't be trusted.
its saying that our world is rotting from within because this is what is happening behind the scenes, behind closed doors.
and the religious aspects are just to point out that how could God let the world come to this if He existed and cared for people...



personally, I believe in God as a higher power (not necessarily the story of the Bible and all, but of God being a force greater than mankind who plays a part in our destinies). I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe when life presents us with a challenge, it is testing our strength as people to stay true to who we are and to persevere. and I believe that people start off basically good and trustworthy.
but the realist in me also knows that people as a whole have lost a lot of ethics and morals and humanity and dignity. The world overall possesses such disgusting corruption and insane and pathatic amounts of inhumanity that it puts one to shame to truly think about.
and although I love God and believe in Him as a higher power, along with destiny and fate, the obvious lack of ethics and morals in the world presented in this song with this title does make a person stop and think about their beliefs

bravo p!atd, great song, beautiful music, deep and symbolic lyrics that really make a person think. good work, boys!
:)

anonymous September 5th, 2009 03:56PM  
The first interpretation was pretty accurate, actually. The only thing I have to correct was "and held a purse of a different kind"

a purse can either be a handbag, money, or a facial expression (i.e. pursed in frustration/confusion)

i don't think a baby would fit in either of those definitions, so obviously she "held a purse", that being an expression

aSensationalist November 25th, 2009 07:03PM  
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but "arrested on possession"? Drugs, right? And she's not such an innocent catholic girl if she sleeps with him to get out of trouble. Besides, sleeping with the lawyer for money isn't something a "good little catholic girl" would do in the first place. Oh, and on a side note, I was very disappointed to go to the corner of 4th and Freemont st. yet no run down hotels. Ryan lied to us!

anonymous January 21st, 2010 05:58PM  
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. A "purse" is also a word for a sum of MONEY. Do with that what you will.

anonymous March 14th, 2010 05:23PM  
Yah, the whole, a "purse" of a different kind thing? Totally sex with the police officer. And virgin to "virgin", duh, she had sex w/ the lawyer, then she wasn't a virgin anymore. also I luv this song! <3<3<3<3<3