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From that moment you'll be out of place and underdressed.
I'm wrecking this evening already and loving every minute of it.
Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring...
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anonymous Jun 12th 2006, 23:22 report
I don't necessarily think there is a connection to this song with any others on the rest of the CD, as many of you keep assuming. I think this song is about the narrator, presumably a man, who comes to a social gathering and is the center of attention while his ex-girlfriend hates it because she used to be the center of attention so she tries to reassure herself that she's still the it girl despite everyone turning against her. The phrase "new cancer" seems to me to be a mocking term for someone who is in the limelight since P! At The Disco are prone to sarcasm in their lyrics. None of you mention the connection between the ominous lines "everything goes according to plan" "[the cigarettes] just so happen to be laced with nitroglycerin" "so of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch". I think the narrator is making discreet murder attempts on the ex-girlfriend, perhaps because of some wrongdoing she did to him in the past, so it's not just about him bringing himself up in society and rubbing it in her face-it could be somewhat deeper than that.
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anonymous Jun 12th 2006, 23:25 report
Also, when you think about the name of the song "There's A Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet" implies that the narrator might have put the laced cigarettes on a specific table according to the number table his ex-girlfriend made reservations at or had been told to sit at.
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ragmanlaw Jun 1st 2006, 11:43 report
I think it's much more simple than any of that. The girl didn't like him. Now he is moving up the social society and she is the one who is missing out now instead of him. He is the "cancer" as she dying to have him, possibly the way he was dying for her before he realized she was worthless.
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anonymous Yesterday, 12:26 report
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anonymous Feb 16th 2012, 02:14 report
Well, whenever I listen to this song (I love it :D) I think of a secret agent... You know, he is lacing cigarettes with nitro glycerin, spiking punch, etc. it just sounds that way...
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anonymous Jan 2nd 2012, 18:03 report
This took A LOT of thinking.... but I think I got it!
I agree with the people who say this is part 4 to the trilogy. The people who say he's ruining the wedding reception, not so much. The wedding was called off, so there couldn't possibly be a reception.
I'm going to post the verses and a simplified version under them.
There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet
(I'm putting laced cigarettes on your reserved table in the hopes that you smoke them and die, but you don't know that yet)
Please, leave all overcoats, canes and top hats with the doorman.
From that moment you'll be out of place and underdressed.
I'm wrecking this evening already and loving every minute of it.
Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring and...
(Please leave everything that makes you feel rich, special, and confident at the door. It'll make you feel awkward. I'm ruining this for you, just like you ruined my life.)
When you're in black slacks with accentuating, off-white, pinstripes
Whoa, everything goes according to plan.
([people think this is referring to a man. Girls can wear slacks, but they're usually referred to dress pants. "Dress pants" didn't go with the rhythm too well.] When you look like a basic person, your confidence is gone and you'll unknowingly fall into my trap out of desperation.)
I'm the new cancer, never looked better, you can't stand it.
Because you say so under your breath.
You're reading lips "When did he get all confident?"
(I'm the new trouble maker, wreaking havoc on innocent peoples' lives now, not you. But I do it with confidence, and you hate it.)
Haven't you heard that I'm the new cancer?
Never looked better, and you can't stand it
(Same as above)
Next is a trip to the, the ladies room in vain, and
I bet you just can't keep up (keep up) with these fashionistas, and
Tonight, tonight you are, you are a whispering campaign.
I bet to them your name is "Cheap", I bet to them you look like shh...
(You go into the bathroom to either cry it out or apply makeup...whatever you need to do to feel better about yourself, because you'll never be like them.)
Talk to the mirror, oh, choke back tears.
And keep telling yourself that "I'm a diva!"
Oh and the smokes in that cigarette box on the table,
they just so happen to be laced with nitroglycerin.
(Keep convincing yourself that you're a confident person that nobody can beat down. Then go have a [laced] cigarette to cool down.)
And I know, and I know, it just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up.
I've never been so surreptitious, so of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch.
(I know it doesn't feel normal without anyone trying to compete with you. I've never been so stealthy and coniving, but it won't matter when you're drunk.)
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anonymous Dec 31st 2011, 16:45 report
its nice to see people still commenting on these songs. but i think its about revenge in some form or another (lacing the cigarettes/spiking the punch)
but i give credit to everyone who tried too look into these songs. theyre pretty hard to interpret/have have double meanings. -
anonymous Dec 29th 2011, 00:27 report
its talking about society, no man or ex girl friends. think about it. it says ill ruin the banquet and then it talks about they wont let you stand out. it says that society will suppress you, judge you, shun if you don't conform, and kill you (physically and psychologically) it also talks about girl looking in the mirror and say someone looks like $H--. thats the judging part.
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anonymous Nov 6th 2011, 04:20 report
I think this is just a comment on society, and how superficial it is
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anonymous Jun 18th 2011, 14:46 report
The song is basically about a couple who's love is failing them. The man keeps sneaking out of his house to go to a whorehouse. Hope this helps!
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anonymous Jun 8th 2011, 17:16 report
I agree with a lot of these interpretations, but I think some people are thinking way too murderous for the whole "nitroglycerin" part. I was writing this thing that needed a popular villain in it, so I chose the Joker and decided to look up some stuff about him. One thing I learned was that one of his weapons was a cigar laced with nitroglycerin, so I think that either what the narrator is doing IS actually muderous, or really he's just calling his ex a "joke". I heard somewhere that Brendon likes Batman, so maybe Ryan does too. *shrugs* Just my interpretation :P
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anonymous May 20th 2011, 18:41 report
I believe this song was placed at the end to let us know that the story has a good ending. Its obvious that the girl wronged him in the past and now he is the "new cancer" aka Mr. popular and she wants to be in his spotlight but its too late. She had her chance to be with him but she messed up and now that he is not depressed and has manned up, he has become very popular and successful so now he is blessed and a better person for what she put him through in the past. He still has some hate for her because he thinks of ways to hurt her...laced cigarettes and spiked punch... because he still loves her but he doesn't want to be with her but she clearly wants him back.
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anonymous Apr 11th 2011, 16:28 report
I thought this song was about the film 'the royal tenenbaums', the father tells everyone he has cancer and in doing so becomes a cancer of the family: "infecting" them so that they satisfy his need for attention. He is the "new cancer". There are also a couple of lines from the film that are in the song. There's something about 'never looking better' and the father says he's 'loving every minute of it'.
The doorman also is in on the father's trick to win his way back in to the family. Leaving 'overcoats canes and tophats', everything you'd trust a doorman with, makes the family exposed and shows how surreptitious the partnership of the father and the doorman. The family 'out of place and underdressed.' -
anonymous Apr 1st 2011, 00:14 report
The story is has a lot to do with the lacing of the cigarettes. As it was said before, the reason for the number tables is because, at one table, the cigarettes are laced for a particular person.
It is simple, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is a story about man and a woman that meet, The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage is the beginning, from when they meet. The next few songs are about their life together. Lying Is The Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off is when the man and woman decide to take a break and refers to how she is now seeing another man. Intermission is their break.
The story then skips a few years 'til when the man and another woman are together and are getting married. But It's Better If You Do is the bachelor party, I Write Sins Not Tragedies is the wedding.
Then it comes to There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet where the man and his wife are going out to a party where his ex-girlfriend will also be attending. The cigarettes are laced for her because he is still upset about how they broke up and how she left him to see another man.
Build God Then We'll Talk is the end of the story. The man is now cheating on his wife, though she knows he is. It is the end of their story. -
anonymous Feb 27th 2011, 15:29 report
I think that this song is about a woman who's climbing the social status and trying to convince herself that she belongs there:
"Keep telling yourself that "I'm a diva" "
The narrator is an enemy/ex boyfriend who is much more popular than her or actually earned himself a good social status where as hers is built on lies. The narrator is also "the new cancer" which could mean that he is spreading quickly but really he is deadly or malicious.
"When I spike the punch" implies that he is trying ruin her reputation and make her make a fool of herself. I also think that the title is referring to the different standings of people as if they are sat at different tables according to their place in life.
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anonymous Feb 2nd 2011, 17:52 report
this song talks about how at some sort of galla or ball (party) this narrator steps into the room to see his ex-gf or wife and she sees how confident and happy he is at that time so she steps into the bathroom only to realize that she is no longer "top dog" as some might say and the lyrics "You'll be distracted when i spike the punch" sort of depict a story about murder in a way. He will act confident and plain happy in order to distract her of what may happen... murder.... as in the song title "There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet", it implying that she will be sitting in a specific seat (numbered tables) and how he is going to cause her death by poisining (reason that you haven't thought of yet)
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anonymous Nov 4th 2010, 20:08 report
It started out with rich people but the girl isn't rich. She was invited to a party and a boy she used to bully was there back when she was popular and spiteful. He's confident and beautiful but he used to be the kid everyone picked on. He plans to get back at them *hint* "and the cigarettes happen to be laced with nitroglycerin." she doesn't like that the table have turned and everyone she ever knew is rich and better off. She so surprised and sad. He's taking all her happy and carefree life style like cancer. He then make the big move at the end.
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anonymous Jul 28th 2010, 07:04 report
I think the main character in the story (Probably a man) goes to this place where he is the centre of attention. And his ex-girlfriend is there too. When she seee's him he's ruining the evening "I'm wrecking this evening already and, loving every minute of it"
"I'm the new cancer, never looked better, you can't stand it."
Means he'll wreck her life and he's doing it on purpose and she can't stand it. "Because you say so under your breath.
You're reading lips "When did he get all confident?"" Is pretty much what is says, and it implies he used to be quite shy.
"Talk to the mirror, oh, choke back tears.
And keep telling yourself that 'I'm a diva!'
Oh and the smokes in that cigarette box on the table,
they just so happen to be laced with nitroglycerin."
He's stressing her out and when she gets stressed she smokes, but she decides not to in this case.
"And I know, and I know, it just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up.
I've never been so surreptitious, so of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch." Means, that no-one is making assumptions about her because their attention is on him. And he's being sneaky and planned the night well so there is something on to distract her when he spikes the punch. -
aSensationalist Nov 25th 2009, 18:38 report
I'm the new cancer is obviously talking about how cancer seems to be spreading rapidly. He's the new cancer = he's suddenly all the rage.
Well, that's what I've always assumed... Or thinking about it, smoking gives you cancer, cancer kills you... She smokes, he sabotages the cigarettes, she dies...
Hm... This has got me thinking... -
anonymous Sep 27th 2008, 12:38 report
I really relate to this song in how to I interpret it:
Basically, the "you" he refers to is his ex that dumped him. They had a good relationship until she basically ruined him by either humiliating him or breaking his heart publicly. She didn't realize that what she did was a mistake.
The guy's heart she ruined turns into something that is cleverly malicious and he does everything to ruin her night. (For me, more of a prom than a proper banquet because I'm younger) He tells the most gossip-spreading people rumors about her and instead of ruining her night, it starts to ruin her life. Amidst this, she realizes she still loves him but will never be with him again because of how maliciously handsome he's become. He's now the life of the party and to everyone else she "looks like shhh". Which is why she has to tell herself that "I'm a diva."
I've been this cancer before. Its a surprisingly sweet revenge. Especially when you are dressed to impressed and everyone notices how great you look. "Everything goes according to plan." -
anonymous Sep 11th 2008, 16:20 report
Random person says:"This song is about casually crashing a formal banquet by poisoning the cigarettes, (they happened to be laced with nitroglycerin) insulting people, and acting weird.
"I'm the new cancer" means that he is going around and slowly ruining the party."
M says:Exactly...To me he sounds like the joker(NO! NOT HEATH LEDGER!! JACK NICHOLSON!!)
Oh and the ciggies have nitroglycerin in them AKA dynamite. Not poison..Tic..Tic..Tic..*Lights up* BOOM! like bugs bunny cartoons
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