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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I might be crazy but I took the section about the purse completely differently than all of you.
Yes, the one the lawyer met with on "strictly business."
as he said to the mrs. Well only hours before.
Well after he had left,
the subject of the sentence never refers back to the "virgin" so he's still talking about the lawyer's wife when it says she's fixing her makeup.
As she was fixing her face in a compact.
There was a terrible crash,
between her and the badge.
She spilled her purse and her bag,
and held her purse of a different color.
Maybe the mrs. Found a purse she owned but in a different color that belonged to the virgin he was sleeping with.
I'm pretty sure that I have a grasp on the english language. I'm an english major. -
Personally, I am most interested in the parody of "my favorite things".
"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 before all the stains*
and a few more of your least favorite things"
i think in general the song can be viewed literally (as a story) but also as a social commentary. "girls in whte dresses" can refer to brides and innocence, and how today even those who might be religious do not walk down the aisle as a virgin. Wearing a white dress at your wedding is more than just a tradition, it stands for the woman's innoncence/virginity. Personally, I think the majorty of people today have per-marital sex (not that I oppose) so that line is commenting or reflecting that same notion.
The line about sheets I couple with "taking best guesses". This line is also more symbolic than literal to me. When you see something or someone for the first time, you really can't tell what they're done or been through or who they were originally. If you saw a black sheet, you have to think: was it originally black, or was it stained or dyed to cover something up? People can fake and cover up their past indiscretions (the 'virgin' putting on makeup to hide what's happened).
Can't say I found much else worth mentioning though. -
Maybe you should read the actual lyrics in the lyrics booklet instead of the lyrics on websites that are said in the song itself...The booklet has the real meaning of the song and the song itself is just what flows together...And you people really need a life if you are trying to interpret something that may not have one set interpretation
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A note to the interpretation mentioning the constable:
"a purse of a different kind"
implies that he gave her payment as a prostitute, or that he gave her some kind of drug in a baggie. -
Well, something I didn't see on here is something I noticed when I first played the song.
"and forgot to mention
the constable and his proposition for that virgin
yes, the one the lawyer met 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."
the constable has a "proposition" for her, which I take to mean that he wants to "get a piece of the action." police don't usually negotiate with people they think are hookers, and since he doesn't have an interest in the lawyer, there's no motive. However, there is a terrible "crash" between her and the constable, which leads to her spilling the things she has...I take that to mean that he attacked her. Then, it goes back to the "along with the people inside", which was previously involving people decaying with the motel. Maybe bodies; in which case it means that she is now a body as well. Since the rest of the song speaks of corruption, why not a corrupted cop? And if so, why wouldn't he kill her to cover himself? Anyhow, that's my five cents. -
This song is suppose to be a representation to what the world has come to, in a way. How money is becoming so important. The motel represents a motel obviously, but its the setting of the song and saying how its temptation and even the best of citizens aren't perfect and come across it. Then it goes on about how the wife is a gold digger and is only with the "lawyer" for his money, and she herself isn't all that innocent. And the lawyer sleeping with the virgin is a representation of taking innocence to hire the "virgin" for a job. And then the "there are no raindrops on roses..." means that no one is completely pure as rain or a rose anymore because the girls in white dresses (the pure innocent) don't think things through and end up sleeping with "roaches" to get money and pay their way to meet the standards of living and how people learn this from the other "charicatures of intimacy"
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Ok so, I always just assumed that the purse was birth control. I'm almost positive it's not a baby. How could she spill a baby that was just conceived?
Between her and the badge she spilled her purse and her bag, different purse....It seems fair to say it's birth control, or even that drugs.
There are a lot of different views on this song, the only way anyone will know is if they actually asked panic.
But yeah, I still really do think it's birth control.
Because she's not a virgin really -
I think the constable payed the "virgin" to sleep with the lawyer, in order to capture him in a trap of some sort-- that was the constable's "proposition." but after the whole virgin-sleeps-with-the-lawyer-thing, while the "virgin" was driving home, she was also fixing her face in her compact when she got into a car crash-- with the same constable! She managed to survive, but the constable died; the "purse" that she's now holding could be filled with the weight of her guilt over killing the constable, or could actually be used to describe the body itself. This is truly the loss of innocence: losing one's virginity and commiting murder all in the same night. Kinda sucks.
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Ok...So this song is about a woman...And she's staying at those nasty, wrong-side-o-town, cock-roach infested motels....And she is down on her luck...And is being a hooker to get money...She finds a client who is a married attorney...And the,"getting a job at the firm come monday..."part is she sleeps w/ the lawyer in return for a job at his law firm...But after he leaves....The cops bust her..."between her and the badge, she spilled her purse...." so that's pretty much it...
The "virgin" referance is b/c she's a hooker so she has slept w/ lots of people...But she's never slept w/ the lawyer before that...
Also the "...Moonlighting aside she really needs his money/a wonderful caricature of intimacy..." this goes w/ the "getting a job @ the firm" part...And is referring to the fact that the money she gets from him, for sex, isn't enough to live off of...So she's being employed by him....Hence "needs his money" -
The previous interpretation I suppose is possible, but I don't think anything occurs between the wife and the police because the first line of that verse mentions the constable (the police officer) and his proposition for the "virgin". I think the only role the wife plays is that she stays with the attorney even though she knows he's cheating because she needs his money. However, as suggested in earlier entries, I do not believe the "virgin" willingly gave herself to the officer. I see the "crash" and the reason she "spilled her purse and bag" as a rape. I think it means that the pollice officer forced her to have sex with him. Though I have no suugestions for the "purse of a different kind" thing. Unless its just now she lives with the scars of being raped or something. For me, this interpretation explains the feelings of sadness I get when I listen to the last verse about "no more raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses". I think she was a virgin and just gave it away for a job and then got raped and now is just gonna be messed up in the head and probably slutty.
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This song is about how sex becomes less something shared by people who care for each other and more something cheap and dispensible-- hence the "what a wonderful caricature of intimacy."
there are two stories here:
1. The virgin and the lawyer. The lawyer agrees to hire the virgin if she sleeps with him, which occurs in the motel after the lawyer tells his wife (the mrs.) that he's meeting with her on "strictly business."
2. The mrs. And the policeman. The mrs. Knows her husband, the lawyer, is cheating on her, but she's involved in illegal activities that require the money he makes as an attourney. The policeman physically runs into her, making her drop her purse, and evidence of said illegal activity falls out of it. However, the policeman agrees not to arrest her if she sleeps with him. -
It's about a girl who really needs some money, and so a lawyer says he'll give her a job if he sleeps with her, and the wife is going to stay with him anyway.
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The part where it says" there are no raindrops on roses or girls in white dresses and sleeping with the roaches and taking best guesses at the shade of the sheets before all the stains and a few more of your least favorite things" is taken from the sound of music in the scene where the kids are afraid of the thunder and she begins singing about her favorite things to make them feel better.
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This is the ending to the girl cheating on her husband now (after I write sins not trageties) it's all a story line about a cheating wife with the singer, who is a "better fuck...Lalala"
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This song is about a motel that's on the corner of 4th and fremont street(I think its called motels 4 kings) and it being so gross that people are decomposing before your eyes, and a virgin girl went to get a job there to sleep with him because she really needed the money. When the song says "there was a terrible crash" is when the police came in her room. Because there are drugs in her purse to releave her pain.
You may not think so but that's my interpretation of the song. -romy.
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