anonymous April 23rd, 2006 08:20PM  

In an interview, Ryan said this song was about after he broke up with his now ex-girlfriend. He went to a strip club, but he didn't really want to be there, but he was there to get over her, eventhough he didn't really want to be there.

anonymous June 15th, 2006 12:47AM  

I agree with the person who said they are all interconnected...cuz they are, why would they have like "intermission" and stuff like that...anyways...i don't think they are throwing him a bachelor party, I think after she cheats on him at the wedding he goes to a strip joint "looking for love in a lap dance" because he's depressed..."this is exactly where you want me 2 be" like she wants him to be miserable looking for love in a lap dance from the stripper..etc.and then in its time to dance...the whole...shot gun wedding...they are all intertwined...kinda cool

bf25... July 16th, 2006 09:41PM  

The thre songs definately have something to do with eachother and theyre all from the movie closer
natalie portman is a stripper and in the movie she says ''lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off...But its better if you do''

anonymous July 24th, 2006 03:10AM  

Well if you get the album you'll see its all a story. On the album its b4 I write sins not tradgedies and after lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off.

anonymous August 15th, 2006 07:07AM  

This song is about a man who is trying to get over a girl. So, he goes to a strip club to get over her but while he is there he realises that being in there isn’t going to help him because it’s just not him, and the only thing he wants is the girl, “well, that's right, well I may have faked it, and I wouldn't be caught dead in this place”.

Also while he’s there he becomes aware that the girl is just playing hard to get and that he was being stupid, “and isn't this exactly where you'd like me, I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know, praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety”

AreOhEmWhy August 16th, 2006 10:54PM  

If you listen closely at the end of but it's better if we do it matches up with the start of I write sins not trageties.

But it's better if we do.
This song is about a girl who has a one night stand with some other guy oviously other then her boyfriend.
So when he finds out she says she's sorry and she still loves him and all this shit!
But he doesn't take her back and tells her she will regret it.

anonymous September 2nd, 2006 09:19PM  

In this song the guy has just split up with his ex and goes to a strip club to try and get over her even though he doesn't really want to be there "I wouldn't be caught dead in this place"

anonymous September 15th, 2006 06:55PM  

Theres this guy and he has just gotten out of a relationship and he's going to strip clubs to get rid of his pain and he's saying that this is where his ex wants him to be and he wants to move on so people don't see him like this

anonymous September 26th, 2006 09:30PM  

Maybe patd just decided to confuse us by having double meanings. Ive heard the whole "all the songs relate and are parts of a story" theory, and its pretty beleiveable. But I also beleive each song has its own individual meaning.

anonymous November 2nd, 2006 02:45AM  

Don't take the video to be exactly what the song means! It'[s different, what ryan sed in the interveiw, you should believe that.

anonymous November 5th, 2006 04:08PM  

Ok I think that what happened is in "but it's better if you do" the narrator is going out with this girl and she is paranoid. After the caught in the strip club, they get married, but "what a shame the poor groom's bride is a whore." when he finds out, he leaves her. Then in lying is the most fun a girl could have without taking her cloths off, she find that he dies because of all the pain she put him through.

enjolras November 11th, 2006 04:11PM  

So if this song is about a guy trying to get over his ex girlfriend, what's with the wife/gf thing in the video? Anybody know?

anonymous April 13th, 2007 05:54PM  

I agree that they are all intertwined, but I'm just thinking if he saw her at the strip club, then how come he appears to be so sour after finding out in "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"?

I'm not sure if I'm being very clear, but yeah I'd just like to know.

anonymous April 25th, 2007 02:54AM  

I think the song is about how a guy just got out of a really bad relationship with someone he really loved. He either really was in love with her but she broke his heart. Or she just refused to have sex with him anyway. He broke up with her and now he is looking for love in all the wrong places. He is saying like this is exactly where she wants me. but he is too stubborn to go back out with her even though it is obvious he still has feelings for her.

anonymous June 9th, 2007 11:13PM  

The song is the song after "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and it is also the song before "I Write Sins, Not Tradegies". The three songs tell a story. In this song, he goes to a strip club, but the guy doesn't really want to be there. He finds the girl that cheated on him in the last song and decides to forgive her and trys to marry her.

anonymous June 12th, 2007 06:24PM  

This is pretty simple, the guy went to the strip club to get away from his ex since she cheated on him in "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Off Her Clothes" Then, he sees her there and he realizes that he still loves her, so he decides to give her another try, which leads up the the almost marriage in "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"

anonymous June 23rd, 2007 01:09AM  

In an order it's "Lying is the most fun..." followed by "But it's better if you do" and then "I write sins..."

It pretty much a guy who had a fiance he really loved. They broke up because she cheated on him.
Hence the phrase "Can you think of what you did/ And can you hope to God he was worth it."
So the guy's buddies drag him to a strip club even though he doen't want to be there. The end.

smartgurl333 July 7th, 2007 06:25PM  

I have two interpretations of this story:

#1 assumes that Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, I Write Sins Not Tragedies and But It's Better if You Do are unrelated:

He's talking to an ex-girlfriend and saying how he knows that she hopes he'll just get up and get over her, find new love. But he says that the hates that whole scene and he can pretend to get over her but he would never be caught dead with another woman. In the end he says he was "praying for love and paying in naivety" meaning he was praying that she loved him but it was just naive of him to hope for.

#2 assumes that I Write Sins Not Tragedies, Lying Is Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off and But It's Better If You Do are related but don't go in any particular order:

He is talking to the girl from the other two songs and saying that he could easily just a "replacement" in some strip joint and hope to find "love in a lap dance" (find a new love) and "pay in naivety" (meaning that he doesn't think he'll ever find love". By saying that "I'm afraid I may have faked it, I wouldn't be caught dead in this place" he's saying that he can pretend to be able to just get over what she did to him and move on but he will always be scarred by her betrayal. He feels like he was naive for ever trusting her and naive for ever thinking she loved him and that it would be naive to think anyone ever would. He basically says that he knows she wants him to get over what she did to him and he can pretend to but he'll always be scarred by what she did to him and that he's done with getting hurt by people he naively thought loved him. Aww. Poor guy.

Gerald_Fall_Out_Girl August 7th, 2007 06:13PM  

This song is about a guy who's at a strip club, having just broken up with his girlfriend.
He's trying to forget her, but he isn't having fun, and the 'strip joint veteran' can see that, however, the boy can tell the the 'veteran' is slightly over acting his part as the dignified man, even while drinking what I assume (I'm 14!) is a feminine drink 'Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daquiri'

In the chorus, he's talking to the stripper, saying, or thinking, that he is her ideal customer. He is looking for love, and trying to kid himself that there is any kind of emotional feeling in the lapdance his is being given. The stripper can see his is new and niave, and had bumped up her charges accordingly. 'And isn't this exactly where you'd like me...Praying for love in a lapdance and paying in naivety'

In the next verse, he's managed to put on a facade and is pretending to enjoy himself. Having been 'gratified' he sits there, wondering if he faked it, and, if he had not just broken up, would he be here at all.

Then there's the chorus, presumably he goes up again with the same stripper, and ends up having a miserable night.

anonymous September 30th, 2007 01:31AM  

This song is part of a three part series
this is number to the most fun a girl can have with out taking her clothes off is about a girl who cheats on a guy but its better if you do is about a guy who goes to a strip club to get over the girl who cheated on him I write sins not tragaties is the third part when he gets married to the girl (finally) but the little whore goes and cheats on antother guy