Panic! At The Disco: But It's Better If You Do Meaning

Song Released: 2006

But It's Better If You Do Lyrics

Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
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...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 16th 2006 !⃝

   The name of the song is but it's better ifyou do!!
   And it's awsome.
   
   
   
   Macayla
2. anonymous

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   Sep 26th 2006 !⃝

   Maybe patd just decided to confuse us by having double meanings. Ive heard the whole "all the songs relate and are parts of a story" theory, and its pretty beleiveable. But I also beleive each song has its own individual meaning.
3. anonymous

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   Sep 15th 2006 !⃝

   Theres this guy and he has just gotten out of a relationship and he's going to strip clubs to get rid of his pain and he's saying that this is where his ex wants him to be and he wants to move on so people don't see him like this
4. anonymous

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   Sep 2nd 2006 !⃝

   In this song the guy has just split up with his ex and goes to a strip club to try and get over her even though he doesn't really want to be there "I wouldn't be caught dead in this place"
5. steve0

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   Aug 18th 2006 !⃝

   Watch the video people!
   
   He goes to a gentleman's club of sorts and begins to get intimate with one of the women he believes to be a stripper but in reality is his wife/girlfriend.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
6. AreOhEmWhy

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   Aug 16th 2006 !⃝

   If you listen closely at the end of but it's better if we do it matches up with the start of I write sins not trageties.
   
   But it's better if we do.
   This song is about a girl who has a one night stand with some other guy oviously other then her boyfriend.
   So when he finds out she says she's sorry and she still loves him and all this shit!
   But he doesn't take her back and tells her she will regret it.
7. anonymous

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   Jul 24th 2006 !⃝

   Well if you get the album you'll see its all a story. On the album its b4 I write sins not tradgedies and after lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off.
8. Carly

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   Jul 23rd 2006 !⃝

   This is the sequal to "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off."
   
   but it sounds like there's a guy going to an illegal strip club and he realizes that he doesn't belong there. Idk I'm just saying that's what it sounds like.
9. bf25...

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   Jul 16th 2006 !⃝

   The thre songs definately have something to do with eachother and theyre all from the movie closer
   natalie portman is a stripper and in the movie she says ''lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off...But its better if you do''
10. imXjustXme

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    Jul 8th 2006 !⃝

    I have two ways I see it. Yeah this would be the second chapter and he found another girl but is not totally over the one before in "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off" he may be over her but just feels since somone special lied and hurt him that he needs to get all the pressure off of him. but later on "Oh, but I'm afraid that I Well, I may have faked it and I wouldn't be caught dead in this place" he's not sure that he should be doing this and he's making a wrong choice
    or
    He hooked back up with the girl in the 1st chapter and since she lied and hurt him he wanted to get back at her but then he realizes that he shouldn't be doing this because then it'll probably make things worse.
    
    Hopefully that's it!
11. anonymous

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    Jun 21st 2006 !⃝

    I agree with what the person said about ryan and his ex. apparently, the narrarator is in a strip club, but doesn't want to be there(I wouldnt be caught dead in this place). he also says "im consenting of age to be forgetting you in a caberet": he's there cause he's trying to get his mind off of someone else, but he realizes he doesn't belong there. He talks about "the strip joint veterans", and he sees his not like them.
12. anonymous

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    Jun 12th 2006 !⃝

    What proof is there that Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, But It's Better If You Do, and I Write Sins Not Tragedies are a trilogy? Sorry, just wondering. (Besides the fact that the end of But It's Better If You Do flows smoothly into the beginning of I Write Sins Not Tragedies...)
13. SeikenIX

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    May 1st 2006 !⃝

    This is the second chapter of the trilogy I talked about earlier. It's talking about him trying to forget and make the girl jealous by going to a burlesque house and trying to forget it but obviously cant, a point proven in the part of the song that goes like this: "Oh, but I'm afraid that I/Well, I may of faked it/And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place"
14. anonymous

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    Apr 23rd 2006 !⃝

    In an interview, Ryan said this song was about after he broke up with his now ex-girlfriend. He went to a strip club, but he didn't really want to be there, but he was there to get over her, eventhough he didn't really want to be there.
15. anonymous

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    Apr 21st 2006 !⃝

    This song is about the narrator going to a strip club, then hooking up with a girl that is his fiance, but he doens't know that. It is the prolouge to I Write Sins, Not Tragedies.

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