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Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies Song Meanings

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Oh, well imagine; as I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor,
and I can't help but to hear, no I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words. <...
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anonymous December 30th, 2006 08:35AM  
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A comment to all of you - you're all talking like Brendon knows exactly what the lyrics mean when he didn't write them. RYAN wrote the lyrics, so surely he would know better than Brendon?
Just saying. Just saying.
And don't take things so literally. Just because it says "groom" and "bride" in the song doesn't mean it's actually about a wedding. Use your brains, sweethearts.
machs December 31st, 2006 03:21PM  
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I think this song is about Brent being kicked out of the band. The wedding represents Jon joining the band, for he is "marrying" the band, in a way. The waiter is Brent, and he is called the bride a w**** because he is mad that they kicked him out. The bridesmaid is the fans, they like Jon and find it good that he is joining the band because they like him better than Brent. Then one of the fans says "Panic are not w****s and he want him to close the door because he doesn't want to hear such lies, but Brent says "It's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality". The second verse is celebrating the fact that Brent is out of the band, and in the video when the singer says "YESSS" it's because he's happy that brent leaves. And when he says "again..." it's because they have a bass player "again".
anonymous January 4th, 2007 08:19AM  
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Just from the video, I presume its like this:

1. The man has brought the 'bad' family to the wedding, which the bride didn't want.
2. Just before they say 'I do' the strange man with the powder ( Cocaine xD ) makes it a 'cursed' wedding.
3. The bride runs out - the secret lover follows.
4. The singer tells the groom this isn't how it should be.
5. They go out and discover her, and then the singer and the groom switch places - now the 'groom' has to find a broken wedding to be 'freed'.
anonymous January 24th, 2007 08:14PM  
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its about him coming out of the closet.
anonymous January 27th, 2007 01:24AM  
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I cannot believe that there were almost 100 so-called interpretations for this song and no one seems to know what point is actually being made here. Okay, maybe a few were partially correct.

This song literally has nothing to do with a wedding or circus performers. pay no attention to the video if you are attempting to analyze the lyrics. It doesn't even matter from whom's perspective this is. Actually the one line of the chorus can some it up; "haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door!" this refers to what is known as a closed-door policy. In other words, they are backing the idea that the United States government should not lend a hand or interfere with the problems of other countries unless they directly effect us. Most likely this also includes the ocuppation of Iraq. Generally speaking, most people would consider our current policy to be an Open-doored one like we have the right to police the world. So it is criticizing our government. I haven't made any others connections with the rest of the lyrics but I haven't really tried. please give me some feedback.
paniqluv January 27th, 2007 04:51PM  
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here's what its about:
a couple who had trouble in the past (same from lying is the most fun... and but its better if you do) are getting (finally) married
his family doesn't approve of her because of what she did so they set her up with another guy to prove to the son she would willingly go with someone else

the line "technically our marriage is saved this calls for a toast so pour the champagne" refers to the only thing keeping them together and loving eachother is alcohol.

when the bride at her wedding sees it was his parents who set her up with her lover, she realizes that there is no point in pretending to love the groom and runs off with the guy in the back.

i see it as from the point of view of a best man who knew what was happening so he brought his family in the goddamn door to show the bride what happenned.
anonymous January 29th, 2007 10:04PM  
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I think the song has an ok meaning because it really doesn't make sense putting the words in the song 'I'd chime in, haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door' because wat does that have 2 do w/ the song. I mean the song is about a wedding & putting that phrase in there is kinda weird. & also I don't think tht they should not have put the word goddamn in there because thts kinda saying tht in gods name. But other than tht I reelly luv the song.
anonymous February 6th, 2007 03:07PM  
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I think that the narrator is a random person who has nothing to do with the wedding. He's walking in a church and overhears a bridesmaid and a waitor talking about the bride being a whore. He thinks "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?" because he doesn't want to hear about it but then reminds himself that it's better to realize these things because whether we like it or not they are going on around us.
anonymous February 8th, 2007 03:57AM  
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1. I've seen plenty of videos that have little or nothing to do with the lyrics.
2. 2006-12-20 20:07:53 might have it : "imagine" and "I'd" support this.
3. I have Never heard this song with the word "whore". For some reason the local radio station plays it with the 'word' "Shhh" substituted. I always thought it was substituting for some unnamed racial slur, in which case (Duh) the groom will of course already know about the bride's 'secret', and the slur-word itself reflects badly on the bridesmaid (presumably from his side of the family).
4. Thanks -- I never considered that the gossiping bridesmaid was a so-called friend or relative of the bride, I thought she belonged to the grooms side. This opens up a whole lot of other possibilities.
anonymous February 21st, 2007 11:52AM  
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The singer guy hears them talking about the bride, so he starts talking like when you're talking about someone talk quieter or close the god damn door so people don't hear what the hell your saying if you understand what I'm saying. I love Panic! at the Disco
swestvballplyr27 February 22nd, 2007 03:18PM  
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you guys are a bunch of faggots, this song doesn't deserve interpretation, panic at the disco sucks ass
paniqluv February 23rd, 2007 04:36PM  
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swestvballplayer20 or whatever the hell your name is without me looking back (u don't deserve it). uh. NO. no no no. panic! haters don't go looking for panic! lyrics unless 1. They're gay and just want to look at a picture of brendon urie. 2. Have mental problems or 3. Secretly like them but since your (assumingly) a guy your embarrassed to. AND, their name is Panic! At the Disco. Thank you very much
anonymous March 8th, 2007 07:49PM  
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I think the persona could only be either the groom or the bride because it says "our marriage is saved" and the waiter knows that the bride is a whore because HE was the bride's lover.

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.

I think it COULD be the groom. And he says I WOULD chime in. But he decides against it because he wants to be poised and rational and all of that.

What I don't get is the Well in fact, well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne
Oh! Well in fact, well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne, pour the champagne

When that part is being sung, the ringleader lookalike is practically hugging the groom. The groom doesn't even know that his bride cheats on him, so how can he say the marriage is saved from being ruined when he isn't aware of the brides affair and hasnt called of the wedding?

That's what I don't get.
anonymous March 24th, 2007 01:19PM  
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OK, here's what I think: I think the singer is the groom and I think think when he overhears the two people talking, he say "haven't you people ever heard of closing the god damn door "because he would have been SO much happier if he didn't know, and/or if he found out by himself, and I think one of the two people tells him "no, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality", because they think he should just know so he won't be hurt in the future, and then wen it says "well technically our marriage is saved, I think he thought it over and called the whole damn wedding off cause he doesn't want to marry a god damn ass whole whore!!!
anonymous April 13th, 2007 03:48AM  
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Why would he say technically OUR marriage is saved unless he was one to get wed?
wooda April 14th, 2007 06:05PM  
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This song is about the groom comes from like a circus family and he tries to keep it a secret from his Circus Freak-hating whore of a wife and when the wedding is about to begin his family comes and crashes it and at the very end the woman is making out with one of the circus freaks and then he goes back with his family.
anonymous May 4th, 2007 12:26AM  
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Since at the end of the music video the groom changes into the guy in the top hat's costume, I think the guy in the top hat is the groom going over in his mind the charade that was his marriage. He is dragging himself through the memory, hence the scene where he actually grabs the grooms tie to show him what his girl is doing out back. The circus characters just add to the fact the whole thing was a big joke on him.
anonymous May 18th, 2007 09:01PM  
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I think this song is about a guy who goes to a wedding and I think the guy is the same guy who was in lying.. and but its better if you do and he goes to the wedding and is kinda like suckers! because he knows it's not gunna work out for them.

thats what I think but idk
anonymous May 28th, 2007 01:25PM  
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(interpretation of the video)
I believe the singer is the womens x lover. He has already been through this with her before. Maybe a friend of the grooms. The circus people represent people she has slept with. He is the ring master being the latest of the group prior to the groom. The people sitting on the brides side all have their eyes closed to the fact that she is a whore. The circus (old tricks) are opening their eyes. Their dance together is nothing more than them realizing the truth. They sit back down knowing what is going on. She runs off embarassed that she was called out. Only to be followed out by one other guy she is sleeping with.
anonymous June 26th, 2007 07:46AM  
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All right guys...i know the EXACT meaning of this song. basically, this guy has this wild and crazy family (the clowns that come bursting in)and this girl has this uptight family (the people with the painted on faces) so no one expects her to be a whore. Her family has all the painted on faces because you never know what to expect from them. Theyre two faced to say the least. anyway so this guy dosent expec his new wife to be to be cheating on him, mostly because of her family. brendon is acting as the grooms concious. The groom knows in the back of his mind that something is wrong. when he finally follows his concious, he sees that he's right. Thus ending the marriage that never happened.

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