Panic! At The Disco: But It's Better If You Do Meaning
Song Released: 2006
But It's Better If You Do Lyrics
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
As she sheds her skin on stage
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
The strip joint veteran...
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This song cannot be the follow up to lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths off because the girl in the vid id different then the one in this vid. It also cannot be a prologue to I write sins not tragedies because I think it is the same girl but Ryan is getting married to her in the vid either its like really f'ed up wedding with the girl cheating on Brendon then Brendon cheating on her then her marrying Ryan then Brendon busting in it just doesn't add up!
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But its better if you dos music video has an amazing story and is totally hot
however those of you that think you're so smart for saying "hes hooking up with his wife and he doesn't know!" need to shut your mouth
if you were a really a panic fan then you would have seen the MUSIC VIDEO for lying is the most fun a girl can have. my point is that it has absolutly nothing to do with anything; it was for pure fun. as was but its better if you do.
the music videos are all metaphors.
lying is the most fun is about a girl cheating. In but its better, the same guy tries revenge on that girl but fails. after forgiveness on both sides, they decide to get married which obviously does not work out.
panic is also smart and wants their fans to have opinions
which are being voiced now...
send the kudos, questions about panic, their song meanings, myself, and the occasional hate mail, to rachelwiz@comcast.net
xoxo rachel -
This is how I get ot dudes(Purely based on prior factual knowledge)...
Brendon Urie was a Mormon (go google it if you don't get what that is). For his brothers 18 they go get an ice cream (yes,this is true as was clearly stated in an interview and this will will only understand this with previous knowledge of what a mormon is). Across the road there was a strip club and with no idea what this was, they go take a look. and so you have your song; but it's better if you do.
To cover key point...
Now I'm of consenting age- he's old enough
paying in naivety- he has no idea about anything
I wouldn't be caught dead in this place- because of mormen up bringing
Yep so that's my interpretation of this song. Seems pretty true to me.
Brownie it if you think its any good! =]
QueenxOfxApologies -
This song is part of a three part series
this is number to the most fun a girl can have with out taking her clothes off is about a girl who cheats on a guy but its better if you do is about a guy who goes to a strip club to get over the girl who cheated on him I write sins not tragaties is the third part when he gets married to the girl (finally) but the little whore goes and cheats on antother guy -
This song is about a guy who's at a strip club, having just broken up with his girlfriend.
He's trying to forget her, but he isn't having fun, and the 'strip joint veteran' can see that, however, the boy can tell the the 'veteran' is slightly over acting his part as the dignified man, even while drinking what I assume (I'm 14!) is a feminine drink 'Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daquiri'
In the chorus, he's talking to the stripper, saying, or thinking, that he is her ideal customer. He is looking for love, and trying to kid himself that there is any kind of emotional feeling in the lapdance his is being given. The stripper can see his is new and niave, and had bumped up her charges accordingly. 'And isn't this exactly where you'd like me...Praying for love in a lapdance and paying in naivety'
In the next verse, he's managed to put on a facade and is pretending to enjoy himself. Having been 'gratified' he sits there, wondering if he faked it, and, if he had not just broken up, would he be here at all.
Then there's the chorus, presumably he goes up again with the same stripper, and ends up having a miserable night. -
I have two interpretations of this story:
#1 assumes that Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, I Write Sins Not Tragedies and But It's Better if You Do are unrelated:
He's talking to an ex-girlfriend and saying how he knows that she hopes he'll just get up and get over her, find new love. But he says that the hates that whole scene and he can pretend to get over her but he would never be caught dead with another woman. In the end he says he was "praying for love and paying in naivety" meaning he was praying that she loved him but it was just naive of him to hope for.
#2 assumes that I Write Sins Not Tragedies, Lying Is Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off and But It's Better If You Do are related but don't go in any particular order:
He is talking to the girl from the other two songs and saying that he could easily just a "replacement" in some strip joint and hope to find "love in a lap dance" (find a new love) and "pay in naivety" (meaning that he doesn't think he'll ever find love". By saying that "I'm afraid I may have faked it, I wouldn't be caught dead in this place" he's saying that he can pretend to be able to just get over what she did to him and move on but he will always be scarred by her betrayal. He feels like he was naive for ever trusting her and naive for ever thinking she loved him and that it would be naive to think anyone ever would. He basically says that he knows she wants him to get over what she did to him and he can pretend to but he'll always be scarred by what she did to him and that he's done with getting hurt by people he naively thought loved him. Aww. Poor guy. -
In an order it's "Lying is the most fun..." followed by "But it's better if you do" and then "I write sins..."
It pretty much a guy who had a fiance he really loved. They broke up because she cheated on him.
Hence the phrase "Can you think of what you did/ And can you hope to God he was worth it."
So the guy's buddies drag him to a strip club even though he doen't want to be there. The end. -
This is pretty simple, the guy went to the strip club to get away from his ex since she cheated on him in "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Off Her Clothes" Then, he sees her there and he realizes that he still loves her, so he decides to give her another try, which leads up the the almost marriage in "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
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The song is the song after "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and it is also the song before "I Write Sins, Not Tradegies". The three songs tell a story. In this song, he goes to a strip club, but the guy doesn't really want to be there. He finds the girl that cheated on him in the last song and decides to forgive her and trys to marry her.
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I think the song is about how a guy just got out of a really bad relationship with someone he really loved. He either really was in love with her but she broke his heart. Or she just refused to have sex with him anyway. He broke up with her and now he is looking for love in all the wrong places. He is saying like this is exactly where she wants me. but he is too stubborn to go back out with her even though it is obvious he still has feelings for her.
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I agree that they are all intertwined, but I'm just thinking if he saw her at the strip club, then how come he appears to be so sour after finding out in "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"?
I'm not sure if I'm being very clear, but yeah I'd just like to know. -
Ok I think that what happened is in "but it's better if you do" the narrator is going out with this girl and she is paranoid. After the caught in the strip club, they get married, but "what a shame the poor groom's bride is a whore." when he finds out, he leaves her. Then in lying is the most fun a girl could have without taking her cloths off, she find that he dies because of all the pain she put him through.
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Don't take the video to be exactly what the song means! It'[s different, what ryan sed in the interveiw, you should believe that.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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