Panic! At The Disco: Build God, Then We'll Talk Meaning
Song Released: 2007
Build God, Then We'll Talk Lyrics
Appealing only because they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and...
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It's these substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of 4th and Freemont Street.
Appealing only because they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes.
They are on a rundown, trashy street, at a rundown, trashy motel.
Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.
The women is a virgin, who sleeps with a lawyer because she needs a job at his firm. She is not a prostitute. She probably isn't even thrilled with the idea of making love to him. The lawyers wife finds out about him making love to this virgin, but as she needs the money just like the virgin, she chooses not to leave him.
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.
This hotel, being a prime location for prostitution, was searched by the police. As the police crash into the room, she drops her purse, the "purse of a different kind" being some sort of illegal substance (drugs). The virgin has sex with the police officer to get out of being sent to prison.
There are no raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses.
It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.
A twisted, negative version of "My Favorite Things" from The Sounds of Music. A general review of the negative mood and rundown hotel room. -
Ryan Ross said that he wrote this song about prostitution and life in Las Vegas.
The "purse of a different kind" has nothing to do with pregnancy or pursing her lips. It is a reference to the envelop full of drugs that fell out of her handbag when she ran into the cop. -
I think the general kind of idea is that something ugly and neglected could house an unexpected amount of intrigue although that intrigue will probably an obvious representation of it's housing. Simply put, it says that something common and unattractive could part of a bigger story as unattractive as itself.
Specifically: The lawyer is hiding from his wife (the Mrs.) in this ugly hotel (because who would expect a wealthy man like him to be hanging around in this ugly motel?) to be with this "virgin" (or not). They supposedly have a very physical relationship but not much else (no love, just sex). He's giving her a job at his firm so they can be together more easily and so it's easier to make excuses to see her (all of a sudden he's with a colleague not just some random woman). His wife is aware that he's unfaithful but she stays with him for his money. Meanwhile the constable and the "virgin" have made a deal for him to hit her so that he could get money from the lawyer (who pay for the "virgin" so that she won't stop seeing him). Note, that the second use of the word purse means money. The refrain "There are no raindrops on roses...." is a play on the lyrics of the Broadway show "My Favourite Things" which makes some contrast. It is referred to as a "caricature of intamacy" because a caricature is kind of a mocking representation of something and both the Mrs. and the "virgin" are only with the lawyer for his and basically the Mrs. and the "virgin" both play the lawyer and the lawyer plays the Mrs. (and the "virgin" as well, arguably) -
This song is based off the book written by chuck palahniuk (choke) .
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I think the song is not about a hooker because one how could the hooker be a virgin?
I think that the virgin is a girl asking for a job with the lawyer. The lawyer will let her work for him and give her money if the virgine slept with him. I think yhis when they said "she really needs his money". Also I think the Mrs could be the lawyers wife. When he said "strictly buisness as he said to the Mrs" telling her that he had to do something buisness related(He lied to sleep with the virgin). -
Well I think the "purse of a different kind"means pursing her lips as in kissing him....so she sleeping with the constable so he doesn't bust her.i think.
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I think I've already done this but I don't know. I stopped reading the interpretations because they were stupid. mostly. The chick isn't a hooker, it's very clear she is a virgin and the lawyer wants her to sleep with him at a seedy motel, so she can have the job. The purse thing, I had NO idea and I thought the baby thing kind of made sense last time I came here, but now I'm thinking purse might mean like pursicution --because the cops came.
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I love this song because it's truthful.
The story is told at first about a man who is cheating on his wife with a virgin. She is sleeping with him because he has promised her a job at his firm. His wife knows the truth and is planning on staying with him anyway.
The bit with the constable is weirder. I think that he is actually with a hooker, that's why there are " " around virgin. After he leaves the motel she is driving in the car and crashes.
Meanwhile all this takes place in a motel. Thats is what the caricature of intamacy stands for. INside the motel is where people cheat, sleep with hookers, ect. That is soo called intamcy.
At the end with the there are no raindrops on roses ect, I believe that symbolizes everything we don't like or want to think about happens.
anything you disagree wiith or want to add plz do because this song is quite confusing. -
This song is about the corruption of innocence and the breakdown of the soul. This is indicated in the first verse when he talks about the building decomposing "along with the people inside." The scene is set in a shady/corrupt part of town where things happen in motels that are only appealing to people, because they are bad/unappealing.
The chorus tells the heart of the story. That, at least in this world that is created in the song, there is no real intimacy (such as one usually associates with sex) between two people, it is simply the illusion (the act of having sex without any love behind it).
The next verse talks about three characters: a man who is cheating on his wife (the lawyer), a virgin (who is either actually pure or innocent, or is a young lady willing to give sex to this lawyer in order to gain a promotion), and the lawyer's wife (a woman who remains with her husband, despite knowing about his infidelities/moonlighting, because she "really needs his money"). Three people who pretend at intimacy marriage/sex without feeling any real emotion.
The third verse introduces the constable (again showing corruption, because the police are supposed to be working for the good of a community) who has sex with the "virgin" as well. The images of a "crash" and the "spilled...purse and bag" indicate that she is unwilling, or at least unknowing beforehand of the policeman's intentions.
The last part of the song goes onto repeat the words to a song from "The Sound of Music." A song singing about the good things in life, the pure things. It is saying that these do not exist and instead of them there is only "roaches" and "taking best guesses at the shade of the sheets before all the stains." Life is filled with our "least favorite things." -
"Formaldehyde" as well as being used in embalming, it is found in car exhaust and cigarette smoke. So the use of the word "formaldehyde" could be just to set the scene i.e saying that the motel is in a busy city, and there are a lot of smokers in the motel. Smokers are often associated with being a bit dodgy and seedy (not judging, just saying). So it is simply illustrating the nature of the people who stay there. At least that's what I think :D
XoX Suze XoX -
"It's these substandard motels on the lalalalala,
Corner of 4th and Freemont street,
Appealing only cause they're just that unnappealing,
Any practiced Catholic would cross themselves upon entering,
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very lalalala eyes,
Along with the people inside..."
Ok, what I've figured from this... They're talking about a morgue.
It's these substandard motels on the lalalalala,
Corner of 4th and Freemont street...- In a morgue the bodies remain for just a short period of time... Hence the motels.
Appealing only 'cause they're just that unnappealing...- Ok, a morgue is unappealing... durr.
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering...- In most morgues, they hang a crucifix up. Anytime a catholic is in the prescence of a crucifix, they more often than not cross themselves.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos- Asbestos gets hooked in your lungs and causes cancer... a.k.a. death.
Formaldehyde- You use this to embalm people... like in a morgue.
And the habit of decomposing right before your very lalalala eyes along with the people inside- When you're dead you decompose. That's all that needs to be said. -
Alright. I think everyone's interpretations are really interesting and it does make sense...BUT.
What does this have to do with P!ATD?
What if this has absolutely nothing to do with the attorney, the virgin, etc. and is all a huge metaphor?
P!ATD's songs are absolutely brilliant in their language and symbolism..but I still do wonder..how does this song personify P!ATD themselves or their experiences/beliefs? -
Well it's my time...
Ok I think this is about a virgin.. She needs a job... really needs money, so she goes to ask for work with the lawyer, he's the boss, so he tell her somethin like "if you give me "what I want" I'll give you what you want" so... The virgin it's desperate and agrees, then goes home waiting for her "little work" at night so, she's ashamed because she's catholic and all of that.. and she wouldn't do what she's going to do if she doesn't really need the money. While she's in that, The Lawter goes to his wife, at nigh, she thinks that maybe he's going to "play with other girls" but he tell her that it's just for Bussines, so, His wife believes him. Then The lawyer and the virgin go to the motel, and there the virgin gets the job... but she's not a virgin anymore, now she's a "Virgin" then... The lawyer go home, the "virgin" it's fixing her and has the purse on his hand, then the cop comes and saw her and she's scared because the situation, then the cop tells her "If you don't want to be in jail, you have to give me "something" so she agree just because she's scared, the purse of a differend kind may be the... well the...you know that thing in the cop's pants... His... "package" and then the cop leaves and she's thinking about what she did and she finds out that things are not what she though when she was young..She'll never be in the fantasy of all the girls.. "raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses..." because these girls in white dresses now are "sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses" and this best guesses are made "At the shade of the sheets and before all the stains".
The last part of "And a few more of your least favorite things" it's just to say that these things are not the favorites but even when that stuff it's so worng... It's the easy way to get the things... but it's not the right way. -
Ok well first off anyone from vegas knows that the song is about hookers just from the line about the corner of 4th and fremont street. Fremont is a street here that is known for its hookers and drug dealing (but mostly hookers). Its also one of the oldest that's why the motels are run down. And I think the whole lawyer thing refers to a customer coming there to buy sex or to take someone besides his wife there for it.
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