Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies Song Meanings Lyrics:
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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 Top Rated Interpretation
2006-04-21 20:52:58
This song is the last in the story.
It goes:
'lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off'
'but its better if you do'
'i write sins not tradgedies'
You'll notice that the end of But It's Better If You Do runs into the start of this pretty smoothly. The narrator [from how I see it] is the groom. He overhears the conversation between the brides maid and the waiter and is pretty upset. I mean. This is the woman he wants to marry and here they are gossiping about her in a pretty vicious manner.
He considers saying 'havent you people ever heard of closing the god damn door?'. but doesn't say it, notice that the lyrics say 'i'd chime in' as in, I >would< chime in. but he doesnt, because the situation should be handled with poise and rationality.
To be rational he decides to investigate these allegations. In the booklet that comes with the album there are some lyrics that arent sung. In particular it says "oh no. Her infidelity just spilled all over the floor. can somebody help her?".
so my guess is he found her out.
Yhe wedding is called off and the marriage is saved from itself. meaning that it didn't begin so he didn't have to go through the hurt of finding out years from now and ending the marriage badly.
Yhis is the bright side of the situation and thus 'calls for a toast'.
And if you want to get technical about the video. The circus folk fill up the side for the brides family. which I think shows that she doesn't come from a 'respectable' background.
-the end-
anonymous
2007-01-29 22:04:22
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
2007-02-06 15:07:24
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
2007-02-08 03:57:53
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
2007-02-21 11:52:19
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
2007-02-22 15:18:34
you guys are a bunch of faggots, this song doesn't deserve interpretation, panic at the disco sucks ass
paniqluv
2007-02-23 16:36:28
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
2007-03-08 19:49:26
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
2007-03-24 13:19:03
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
2007-04-13 03:48:43
Why would he say technically OUR marriage is saved unless he was one to get wed?
wooda
2007-04-14 18:05:37
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
2007-05-04 00:26:55
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
2007-05-18 21:01:33
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
2007-05-28 13:25:12
(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
2007-06-26 07:46:26
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.
anonymous
2007-07-02 00:02:00
This song is definitely written from the grooms point of veiw...at the start he is pacing because he is nervous. Then he hears voices etc. and he says "Havent you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
then later he says oh well ill look at this wayi mean technically our marriage is saved...saved as in that he is saved because it would suck being married to her
if anyone knows if there is a meaning to all the people have having face paint or masks on...tell me
XoX Luv you brendon lol
vengefulnemesiss
2007-07-06 15:36:32
Well I really just think the song is about a groom and a bride.
When all the circus people follow the singer in, the bride thinks its the groom's family, and she's yelling at him for it.
He knows its not really his family, because it's not.
The people came to warn him that she's cheating on him, before making the mistake of marrying her.
That's what I think it means.
The video clears a lot of things up.
Ocelot113
2007-08-02 23:46:46
The most sense that I could take from the song is it being written from the grooms perspective. I think he is pacing because of just the wedding jitters. I don't think that's the big deal. I think the problem is that the people in the weddings are such gossip hounds that the freakin waiter found out about a skeleton in the closet. Some random person was let in on a secret, something the bride and groom are getting over. I think the bride is sticking up for his bride in the sense that he is criticising the gossipers saying, "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". Keep your mouths such on business that isn't yours to talk about. It's not helping the magical day so shut it! I know I'd be pretty pissed if someone brought out all this stuff on what's supposed to be the happiest day of your life, right?
peteinmypants
2007-08-09 14:06:57
This song is about the bride cheating on the groom and it all gets figured out anyway, and so the groom leaves the bride.
anonymous
2007-08-22 04:29:42
I think he suspects his wife is cheating on him and he is pacing trying to contemplate if he should marry her or not. Meanwhile, he overhears a conversation about her cheating and instead of defending her or becoming in raged he simply says "haven't you people ever heard of closing a god damn door".
Then realizes that he was right to think that his wife was cheating and a form of relief/sadness immediately rushes through him and he process to call the wedding off. Also he convinces himself that he did the right thing by saying "Technically our marriage is saved". The song name, when broken down, also points out somewhat of the songs meaning, I write sins not tragedies states that the artist of the song is saying that this song is not about just sad emotional tragedies, but the heartless sins of menkind and how to deal with them.
yelloworange4
2007-11-10 11:27:18
My friend and I like to really think about all of the P!ATD songs and I came up with this one... I think that it is saying that since she was a whore, it was not a tradegedy, but a sin (hence the name "I Write Sins Not Tragedies) and don't feel sorry for her because she brought it upon herself
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