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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This is by far the easiest song to interpret by Panic! At The Disco. The story it tells is a caricature of intimacy.
The whole setting is dark, dirty & unappealing, the place where in particular these two people will have sex. It is tragicomedic that it'll take place there because of the circumstances. The "virgin" does it to get the job. The lawyer's wife stays with the lawyer because she financially depends on him. By the way, GET OVER the hooker idea! The girl is not a hooker.
The purse she spills is her drug kit, i'd guess, cause she later on gets to choose between getting arrested on possession or fucking the cop. The drug kit too is symbolic for our inner feelings that don't come to the surface, that's why it is a purse in a bag, in the actual, outwardly observable purse.
To sum it up, everybody in there shares their intimacy with people they least would want to share it. They all need something out of it. The girl depends on the money to finance her addiction. The cop and the lawyer cause they want sex. But it's not like the best sex for them either cause they know the girl and the woman just do it because they have to.
The song states that most of the sex that happens is fucking and not love-making. I think the song suggest to loosen up and accept that as a fact: "There are no raindrops on roses or girls in white dresses, it's sleeping with roaches"
Because the prototype American girl, especially virgins, seem to obsess over the idea (and the media successfully manipulates them to do so) of the "perfect first time" (which...you might have guessed...does not exist).
Wonderful song about human intimacy, dependence, hypocrisy, the patriarchy and the rotten side in everyone of us.
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Ok, so first of some people ruined this song by trying to interpret it because they're idiots.
So this song takes place in one of those beautiful old motels that are really rundown..."appealing only beacuse it's just that unappealing" and It's a place someone with real morals normally wouldn't go because nobody takes there fam vacay there if you know what I mean. So this poor catholic virvgin really needs money (she is not a hooker, whores don't screw once to get a job at a law firm and they're not virgins. The fact that she was a virgin is what made her so appealing to the lawyer in the first place. ) So my fav line of the song "A wonderful caricature of intamacy" is pretty intense. A caricature is a drawing/portrait that is drawn to imitate or mock someone or something. The sex exchange between the lawyer and the virgin just mocks true love that's why it is a caricature because any excchange of sex that is not for true love only mocks intamcy. So to further analyze, the virgin is a moral catholic girl but drastic needs (money) call for drastic measures (losing your virginity) But the catholic still is moral that's why she hides her rosary (morals/religion) inside her lingere (representing the sex with the lawyer).
The decomposing after all is talking about the tenents really and not the building. We learn that the wife of the lawyer and the virgin are both similar creatures as they are both just screwing the lawyer for money (caricature of intamacy.) and the "love" betwenn the lawyer/virgin and the lawyer/wife are both just strictly business.
im unsure of what the purse of a different kind refers to. -
1st of all, mad props to panic! this song is amazing/my favorite.
Ok, so we've all seen those old, rundown, motels that we most of us would't go near bc there not for fam vacays if you know what I'm sayin.There tourn up and fallling to peices but "there appealing only because they are just that unappealing". Strangely enough though, in the firt first, the word decomposing I don't thin is talking about the building but the tenents. Everyone who comes there is coming there because there is another part of there life that is empty whether it is there broken marridge or their wallets. -
It's about a virgin who goes to a motel to sleep with an attorney to get a job at his firm. The rosary refers to her religion. She's catholic. She's not a hooker that's why she goes from virgin to "virgin". A police officer suspects her of being a hooker so tricks her into saying she would sleep with him for money. The terrible crash is the police raiding the room. She drops her purse because she's startled but now has a purse o a different kind. She's prenant.
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ALrighty, Listen here people here is my interpretation:
"It's the substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of fourth and freemont street." Blah blah yeah yeah along with the people inside
It describes a hotel room, and it says that the people inside are just as rotten.
"Tonights tenants range from a lawyer and a virgin" yeah you know the rest. in other words there's a lawyer giving a girl a job if she has sex with him.
"the mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney, moonlighting aside she really needs this money." so on.
his wife stays with him for his money, oh how horrible.
"but not to mention" and on top of that
"the constable and his propostition for that "virgin"" have sex with me
"there was a terrible crash between her and the badge" badge being cop, she's fixing up after she leaves the hotel and she runs into a cop and drop a bag of cocaine hence the "arrested on possesion" even though its not in the song its on the lyrics
so the moral kiddies is: life's a bitch, shit happens, and the world seriously needs to straighten up -
I think this song is about life. Cheating, pain, survival, and getting through life. About how life doesn't always turn out the way you expect it to.
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ok, here I go with the (I swear) least dirty interpretation of all:
theres a motel, a lawyer, a "virgin", a mrs., a constable, and "girl in white
dress"
the lawyer doesn't love his wife anymore. finds virgin: a religious girl; lawyer: not religious. They get together. They stay at motel. mrs. knows but does nothing to keep getting money. The night at the motel, a girl in white dress is murdered by the virgin. She frames the lawyer. "stains" are the blood from murder. So the constable gets with the virgin. finds a note to self about the murder (her plans) the crash is when he busts her.
there are no girls in white dresses. There are no raindrops on roses because it symbolizes the motel: its cheap, when she dies, the employees bring dried up flowers.
yea its totally not the meaning, but we need a clean one too! -
I agree with the first anonymous person, The "virgin" is sleeping with the lawyer because she needs a job/money, the Mrs. knows but doesn't care, when it says "the constable and his proposition to that virgin" constable is old english for cop, the cop wants to have sex with her and later on he rapes her, I think and then she gets pregnant. Yeah that's what I think.
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OK,seriously, this is how I interpert it, and it's not really that deep, but that's ok! READ THIS!
Ok, well, basically, I agree with most of you on the main parts. But on the There was a terrible crash (cops busting in) she spilled her purse and her bag (her purse: money bag: um... just stuff) and held a purse of a different kind, I think that when she's getting arrested, she pursing her lips, I don't know if that's right, but it makes sense to me and yeah. :) -
It's these substandard motels on the corner of 4th and freemont street.
(a place in las vegas, famous for prostitution in their motels)
Appealing only `cause there just that un-appealing any practised catholic would cross themselves upon entering
(a catholic is at the motel for a reason that they don't want to be)
The rooms contain a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde, and the habit of decomposing right before your very eyes along with the people inside
(Someone is in the rooms doing something they don't want to be doing but have to)
What a wonderful caricature of intamacy.
(Obviously prostitution inside the motel)
Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
(has sex with the lawyer for money, but she is a "good" catholic and has a rosary proving she's catholic)
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday the Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney moonlighting aside she really needs this money what a wonderful caricature of intamacy
(the catholic "virgin" needs money so she has sex with the lawyer, who is married to the Mrs. Maybe the Mrs. knows about it because it mentions "the mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney" hinting that she knows about it but chooses to stay with him)
And not to mention the constable and his propisition for that virgin, yes the one the lawyer met with on strictly buisness 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 between her and the badge she spilt her purse and her bag and held a purse of a different kind.
(the lawyer lied to his wife and said he was seeing the virgin on strictly buisness, but the wife knew knew the truth so she called the constable to find the catholic virgin but the constable didn't belive the mrs. So the constable picked up the virgin and rode with her in the car and they crashed and she spilt her purse and it held a purse of a different kind. Maybe the purse of a different kind was a black book or something with all of her men's numbers in it.)
There are no raindrops on roses or 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.
(The moral of the story is that life isn't all you want it to be, so really in the end, things turn out for the worst and life is full of your least favorite things)
I don't know. This was my interpretation. -
This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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ok! the whole idea of the virgin being a catholic isn't necessarily true. The song says catholics cross themselves upon entering the motel (because it's so sleezy). "Along with the people inside" is the end of the sentence. It goes with ...and the habit of decomposing right before your very eyes (still talking about the motel). It means the hotel is in such disrepair that it's falling apart with everyone inside. The sound of music part says "there are no rain drops on roses or girls in white dresses" raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses (with blue satin sashes) are to parts of the song from the sound of music. It's saying that there are none of the favorite things. Thanks for reading my interpretation. I've said what I had to say.
xoxo
lola -
I think it's about a catholic woman who is married and has an affair with the lawyer =]]]]
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Ok most of you are right and I salute you.
Then again most of you don't know fucking lyrics to save yourself.
Freemont and fourth, popular corner for hookers to gather in vegas (p!Atd are from vegas)
when they refer to the girl being a virgin, she's really a hooker hence the way he sings "virgin" yes the one the lawyer met with... So she is a hooker.
Shes obviously giving sex for a place in this guys law firm, his wife is to afraid to leave him because of the money he makes.
The constabul, also a cop, makes an offer to her not to arrest her for either prosistution or drug abuse (fixing her face in a compact) bcause she held a purse of a different kind (it contained drugs) the cop knew she was a porstitute so he gets sex from her so she dosent get arrested.
When there was a terrible crash it refers to when she bumped into the cop all the hours before she was doing drugs. "along with the people inside" can mean all the sperm inside of her if you look at it that way.
Raindrops on roses
girls in white dresses- are happy thoughts
sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses- not so happy thoughts
baically, this is a very talented piece of poetry that the band has put together, it keeps the listeners thinking about what the story is truly about. It can mean almost anything, it depends on how you see it.
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