Panic! At The Disco: I Constantly Thank God for Esteban Meaning
I Constantly Thank God for Esteban Lyrics
Forgive our sins
Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons.
Because I am a new wave gospel sharp, and you'll be thy witness
So gentlemen, if you are going to preach, for...
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You all are reading to much into the song
The only songs that have anything to do with the narrator being cheated on are 7, 9 and 10
the story ends after "I write sins not tragedies"
This song is obviously about the Emo scene becoming popular and the posers that inhabit it
And I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
And I for one wont stand for this if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.
This is the biggest giveaway
Panic is using a church as an allegory to a Emo show
I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
Posers claiming to be cutters, since cutting is the "It" thing in the Emo community
I for one wont stand for this if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.
Self explanatory
If they were in church the posers would be condemned for "sinning" lying and being posers in general -
Emo kids. It's a jab at their little stupid act. No doubt.
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Esteban is another name for Jesus. It means crown in Portuguese, Spanish, and Greek. I think this song is about the band's opinion that religion does nothing but fool people.
"Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction, Forgive our sins" is what the members of the congregation act like.
"Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons" is describing the "sins" or ideology of the church, that is all made up by the church or those that passed the religion down through the generations.
That's just my opinion. -
new wave gospel = atheism. imo, the song is about christians not acting christianly and the rejection of going to church to absolve sin through god by instead taking responsibility for one's own actions. hence the metaphor of the gunslinger (sin, definite hyperbole unless this suggests church goers committing literal mass murder, though mass murder could also suggest the mass number of people buying into the fallacies of religion and thus are the walking dead) and not seeing any blood (confession and absolution of sin) at the scene. this is perhaps an allusion to the crusades where innocents were murdered in the name of god.
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Well if you've ever read the crucible the lyrics seem to fall quite nicely into place regarding the Salem Witch Hunts along time back, most seemingly regarding the character of the accuser(s). I do however doubt that there is any connection to the song by intention but hey, I couldn't tell you myself
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"In this little number we're graced by two displays of character,
We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire walking contradictions
And I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
And I for one won't stand for this if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned."
- I think this line particularly is about his fiance.
She is for one a "gunslinger extraordinaire" (a person who can shoot very accurately and has been involved in many fights using guns, in other words she was good at hurting people around her and was used to it). She is also a walking contradiction ( constantly contradicts herself). This is her true character.
The other side of her is the one he saw in her before she done him wrong, a good side where she is the exact opposite of the formal, despite everything others supposedly have said to him about her, he never took any notice because he was blinded by love. -> "And I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit"
Now that he finally sees her true colours, he won't stand for anymore of it. He says if this was anyone else they would have dumped her straight away.
Thats what I think about it anyways I won't describe the whole song cause that would take forever! =] & I'm not too sure about this song actually being about religion. Come on it is Panic at the disco we're talking about here. -
seeing as Ryan [ the lyricist] is an atheist i think this is sortave mocking religion.
and yes, i believe its all woven in with sins, beter if u do, and lying.
becuase the first verse of the song is a prayer of some sort. -
I think it's about the Hunter: The Reckoning series of video games. Referring more specifically to the 'Judge' character, Father Esteban Cortez.
"Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Forgive our sins" There are several churches around, one even has a demonic teddy bear inside.
"We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire walking contradictions" Father Esteban carries around a blessed cross-shaped sword and a crossbow.
"Just stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!"
We sure are in for a show tonight" there are a few areas that are either low lit, or that the lights go out altogether. You'd want a zombie or a werewolf staying right where they are if you can't see them anymore, too.
"Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move."
more of the monsters not moving. "Strike up the band" is a metaphor for calling down the boss mobs.
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this song is very nice and perhaps the best song on fever you cant sweat out.it simple tell abouts some people's wrong practice of asking for forgiveness about there sins. Most of us thinks that if they go to church, all the sins will be erased which is wrong.Some preachers like pastors and priest give so many advices that even too there selfs cannot practice what they preach.
In this world today so many Christian churches are getting into trouble claiming that they are the true God's church and they also accused other christian church as faux ,But it is not because God's preach sakes with conviction..
In the chorus part, they now talk about themself..STRICT AT THE BAND..which is the relation between them self performing on stage and the audience watching them..they are convincing the audiences to believe there point of view..( THE CONDUCTOR IS BECKONING)..
On the second part, the band attempts that the audiences will be divided into two (GRACED BY TWO DISPLAYS OF CHAraCTER)..there will be who agrees (gunslinger) and those who will dis-agree (Walking contradiction)....
Just stay where i can see you
douse the lights
this means that the light should always be on so that there is a transparency of everything that is happening..
This is a face to face and straightforward song dedicated to those faux person..or a wolf in sheep's clothing
pretending to be a child of God
This song PATD rocks -
In this little number we're graced by two displays of character,
We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire, the walking contradictions.
He's talking about the two kinds of religious leaders, the 'gunslinger extraordinaire' or the fundamentalist, violent leader, and the 'walking contradictions', the hypocritical leader. -
I'm sure Ryan Ross had something very specific in mind when he wrote this song. This song is just...it is absolutely perfect for me. I'm kind of a Catholic I suppose, because I'm baptised. But I haven't been confirmed yet, and I honestly don't know if I will decide to be. This song pretty much covers half my thoughts on being a Catholic.
lol I'm actually trying to complete my confirmation questions (mandatory for an A) while I listen to this song...wow...I'm a great Catholic. lol -
Well, when I think of this song, I either think of a guest preacher or a preacher whose tired of the church's practices. So he kinda invades it and tries to explain to the people the way he thinks the church should go, that's what I think like kinda if he had a plan. a dude who is trying to change a church
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This song is obviously about "scene" kids Ryan Ross likes metaphors and uses them in all his songs. After reading these comments it's apparently obvious to me Panic has two kinds of fans, smart ones and dumb ones. This has nothing to do with church.
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I completely agree with the interpretation submitted anonymously on 2006-08-14 14:08:29, but I'm also thinking the girl may have gotten pregnant and they did a quicky marriage just so the baby would have married parents. Some other songs talk about "shotgun weddings" which are weddings where the couple is married only because they're pregnant. That would be a possible cause for the lack of trust, because they're not really in love they're just having a baby.
It also may be a good reason for the religious contradiction, because how can a preacher be talking about the love of people who not only don't love each other, but have had pre-marital sex?
I do think the religion thing is being waaay over-analyzed! It's witty and sarcastic and extremely unfortunate!! -
I just want to make sure everyone realizes something before I go on: this song was written by Ryan Ross, who went to catholic school. It may be sung by Brendon, who was raised Mormon, but it was written from Ryan's point of view. Personally, I think it's about something along the lines of doubting the religion he was raised with, but of course I can't be sure, since I'm not the one that wrote it!
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