Panic! At The Disco: Do You Know What I'm Seeing? Meaning

Do You Know What I'm Seeing? Lyrics

Clouds are marchin' along
Singin' a song, just like they do
If the clouds were singin' a song
I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?
If you just knew
What they could do
Oh, if you just knew
What would they do?

And if the birds
Are just...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 25th 2021 !⃝

   I don't know if I can put this interpretation into words but I'll try. So there are countless people who can sing somewhat good right? Well if you read one of the interviews with Ryan Ross he said the people of his community were not supportive of his band. Most people if they were told they can't sing for crap and they would never be able to would stop trying. I think Ryan was trying to say at least give the thing a try. But the people that you hear on the radio, their songs have to meaning(If the birds are just hollow words.)Now I think he compared his community to the weather. You know they never gave a damn about his band and he never gave a damn about them. That's why he was able to make the band everyone thought would go no where, Because he didn't care what they said. Then in the song he starts to wonder what they think now that his band did make it somewhere. Do they like his music now or do they think the same thing about it (would you kiss me or just leave me.) So I think he's telling you if you think your good at this then give it your best shot and prove them wrong. Umm... yeah. Sorry for the long interpretation.
   
2. Rob7

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   May 23rd 2015 !⃝

   Hey, I´m surprised that most of the people do not clarly notice, but most of the songs played by Panic during the Ryan Ross (A Fever You Can't Sweet Of, Pretty Odd & Some of Vices & Virtues) writing era tend to have a double meaning.
   For me, this song is a totally political song, revolutionary, like the flag of a movement, the revolutionary anthem (Even religiously defiant if you think).
   le's start with the first part, "Clouds are marching along singing this song, just like they do, if the clouds where singing a song, I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?" This seems to represent an army preaparing for something big, an army from the sky, or inspired from there (relates with the revolutionary anthem I told about)
   "If they just knew, what they could do, or if they just knew what would they do" It seems like the soldiers conversation looking down to the Earth, but as I said it can be judged in two ways, divine creatures watching human specie (angels, etc) or the powerfull people of the Earth looking the struggling society and how there are repressed, making fun in a part about how we do nothing to free ourselves from represion or asking themselves why haven't we as specie developed our real potencial. (I'm more related to the political interpretation but take the one you think fits the most).
   "And if words Are just hollow birds, Flyin' along, singin' a song, What would they do?If they just knew, What they could do, Oh, if they just knew" The struggle of society as theme continues, shows that are a calling, we want to be free, but forward that, its needed that the words realy make a change, reason what the powerfull people or divine creatures discuss again what would happen if we did the things to make the change, really make our ideals count, free the power that as society we have.
   "I know it's sad, That I never gave a damn about the weather, And it never gave a damn about me
   I know it's sad, That I never gave a damn about the weather, And it never gave a damn about me
   No, it never gave a damn about me" This part is a very special one, seems like the voice of the revolution itself, he talks about as I said about 2 things, depends how you see it, as how the guy says that he did not care about the media because of the corruption and masonery that exist behind everything that happens and how the power did never 'gave a damn' about him by not helping the ones that needed help, talking about himself as part of the common people, or in the other hand, reproaching to God how he never cared for him and the people in suffer. I know it's mad
   "But if I go to hell, Will you come with me or just leave?" Now, he talks abut the risk of the revolution, his capture for torture, his pain, his "hell", he talks to the one that hears, he asks you that if you would join him to the trip to chnge everything, will you follow or not?, or in the other hand (point of view), the fear that causes him that God would abandon him to hell at the end of his life.
   "I know it's mad, But if the world were ending, Would you just kiss me or just leave me?, Just leave me?" By last, he talks to another person, a lover or a traitor, a girl he loves or metaphoring about the tration like the kiss Judas made to Christ, asking the person, and even the one that listens again, if they would leave him to fight alone against the struggle or the develping of the human race.
   The interpretation you give to the song is very personal, but it's up to you to believe what you want. Hope I guided you a little ;)
3. LadySpite

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   Mar 31st 2015 !⃝

   Surprised that I'm to be the first with this.
   
   I don't know about the verses which basically just repeat themselves, but the chorus is quite moving and disappointing.
   
   "I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather and it never gave a damn about me"
   This man used to talk to a woman often, but their conversations never got much further than the weather. However, he was very optimistic until she let him down.
   He never actually cared about the weather...
   and it, of course, never cared about him, which could mean that the sun never shone down on what could've been a good relationship.
   
   The rest of the chorus then shows how desperate he was to talk to her, and how he asked her if she was really going to just leave him be.

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