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Panic! At The Disco: Stall Me Meaning

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Stall Me Lyrics

Fall to your knees and kiss the ring
The crowds rejoicing
All of my dreams wake up to despise
A world I once loved

Why did you bring me in
If you knew what you'd become
So curse everyone and everything
Even the sun

Stall me, stall me...

  1. 1TOP RATED

    #1 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    Aug 12th 2011 !⃝

    After Pretty. Odd. was released, there was a theory going around that "When the Day Met the Night" was about Brendon and Ryan. The sun was Ryan; the moon, Brendon.

    In "Stall Me," when it says, "Why did you bring me in, if you knew what you'd become? So curse everyone and everything, even the sun," Brendon is asking Ryan why he asked Brendon to join the band if he was just going to turn out the way he did (e.g. in "The Young Veins") and saying, "Screw you!" to Ryan.

    Also, the car metaphors in the chorus are exactly sexual innuendoes. "Four on the floor" refers to having sex on your hands and knees, while "kickstart" is a type of anal sex. Not the mention that a darkroom can be a darkened room, sometimes located in a nightclub, gay bathhouse or sex club, where sexual activity can take place.

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    #2 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    Jun 25th 2012 !⃝

    "Fall to your knees and kiss the ring
    The crowds rejoicing
    All of my dreams wake up to despise
    A world I once loved." Brendon has always dreamt of making music, him and Ryan have made it, but then Ryan leaves, and Brendon is upset, hence, despising the world with Ryan that he used to love.

    "Why did you bring me in
    If you knew what you'd become
    So curse everyone and everything
    Even the sun." Why did you make an illusion that we would make it together like this, if you were just going to leave? In the song "When the Day Met the Night", Ryan wrote it as if Brendon were the moon who saved him (his father had recently died, being with Brendon made him happy), and Ryan was the sun. Here, Brendon is saying curse you (the sun) and everything we had.

    "Stall me, stall me I'm all in
    Stall me, call me up or break me in
    A dark room in the wallflower
    garden at the party." Stop me from feeling this way, call me, let's get together at an unknown and secluded place.
    "She's got four on the floor
    She's waiting to kickstart me
    So just stall me." I'm in pain, and the pain keeps hurting worse, so stop it.

    "I had a rosy dream
    You gave up on you
    And I gave up on me
    Well love came along and said,
    'Leave them be.'" He dreamt about Ryan giving up on his style of music (Ryan left the band because him and Brendon wanted to do different style of music), and himself giving up on his and just being together.

    "We were left on every rock you tasted
    Light a cork my pretty little angel
    I’m singing to empty bottles everywhere, everywhere." In the dream, they had a few drinks together, it was happy, but then he wakes up and realizes he's the only one, using empty bottles as a metaphor for Ryan's absence.

    "She counts on stars, astrology." I count on this song and our previous song to get the message through to you that I miss you.
    "My moods are mercurial
    But I know Mercury." My mood is sad, but what I'm actually saying, is that it's becoming a part of me.
    "Don’t hold your breath." Don't think, just come back.
    "Baptized in a river of you." I know you well enough to say I was baptized in you.
    "Hold on to, the moon,
    It's just a sliver of you." Come back to me (the moon), because a sliver of me is with you.

    "She said she’s got more
    Where that came from to spark me
    So just stall me." There's more pain coming along, so stop it from happening.

  3. 3TOP RATED

    #3 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    May 28th 2014 !⃝

    This song is about Ryan Ross. Every song not written by Ryan is about Ryan. Ryan is everything. Ryan Ross. rYAN.

  4. anonymous
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    Sep 26th 2020 !⃝

    https://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/panic-at-the-disco/12506

    In an interview with Coup De Main Magazine, Brendon says he wrote it just after he started dating Sarah and he wanted to express how he was feeling.

    Everyone wants to make it about him and Ryan but there are a lot of parallels to be drawn with 'Sarah Smiles'

  5. anonymous
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    Feb 28th 2020 !⃝

    Brendon is actually the sun, while Ryan is the moon....

  6. anonymous
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    Aug 3rd 2015 !⃝

    it's v obviously about ryan ross

  7. anonymous
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    Dec 31st 2012 !⃝

    I think it's about a man in a relationship with a girl he doesn't really love and at the same time he's in love with another girl. He's about to meet up with his "lover" when he realizes how much he loves the other and runs off with her.

  8. anonymous
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    Oct 24th 2011 !⃝

    What I think is that stall me is about a man who's so in love with a girl that he doesn't even care that she isn't in love with him. I think she uses him as like a last resort when she has no one else and needs to feel better and he's just so absolutely adoring that he doesn't care in the slightest. "Stall me stall me I'm all in" is like "I'll wait for you, I'm completely in love." "She's waiting to kickstart me" hints at the fact that she uses him as a replacement when she has nothing left. "why did you bring me in..." is him asking why did you even lead me on if you knew that you could never love me.

  9. anonymous
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    Sep 20th 2011 !⃝

    I don't think 'kick-start me' means anal sex, necessarily. I question the validity of that Urban Dictionary, I really do. Kick-start could mean 'turn him on.' God knows there's a shitload of sexual innuendos in that song, but there's no way a girl could perform anal on a guy--unless she was wearing a strap-on--which I don't believe is mentioned in the song, in any context. Maybe it's the music industry trying to screw them over? I don't know. I like this song; I don't care for the anal sex references, though.

  10. anonymous
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    Aug 19th 2011 !⃝

    I think the song could really be taken in a more literal sense. There's the classic story of boy loves girl, but then girl breaks the boys heart. However, the girl then wants him back, and I think the "four on the floor" is more like her on her knees begging for his forgiveness. And basically,the boy still loves the girl, but he knows nothing good can come of them being together.

  11. anonymous
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    Jun 16th 2011 !⃝

    This song literally is about a guy waiting for a girl he loves, but some whore that likes him is dtf so he's like well fuckyes! let's do it, but he's still waiting for that girl he loves. But it's about the music industry, as said before :)

  12. anonymous
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    May 12th 2011 !⃝

    he;s clearly talking about how he doesnt like what the music industry is doing to him and the music industry doesnt like it so they added it as a "bonus track". but i know how the music industry is usually talked about as a female in music.


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