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Panic! at the Disco – Mad As Rabbits Lyrics 2 years ago
Come save me from walking off a windowsill
[he's about to commit suicide, pleads for help]
or I'll sleep in the rain.
[sleep = death]
Don't you remember when I was a bird
[when he was a kid, he was free as a bird]
and you were a map?
[??? Parent is the map?]
Now he drags down miles in America
[now he's grown up, and he has to travel across America]
briefcase in hand.
[to sell things and be a business man]
The stove is creeping up his spine again,
[asssuming the stove is hot, the stove is his boss getting on his back (spine)]
can't get enough trash.
[because he can't get enough cash. PATD considers cash as unimportant since it's called trash. Innocence is one of the themes of this song]

He took the days for pageant
[pageant as in trying to selling his goods like girls trying to sell their apperance?]
Became as mad as rabbits
[he became crazy/mad because he cant sell his goods]
With bushels of bad habits
[symptoms of mental illness, maybe drinking/smoking, drugs to ease the suffering]
Who could ask for anymore?
[rhetorical question, self explanatory]
Yea who could have more.
[rhetorical question, self explanatory]

His arms were the branches of a Christmas tree
[his arms are holding his goods to be sold]
preached the devil in the belfry.
[his "sales pitch" is compared to as preaching the devil lol. Belfry is a place]
He checked in
to learn his clothes had been thieved at the train station.
[self explanatory]
Rope hung his other branch
[Another one of his arms are attached to...]
and at the end was a dog called bambi
[I'm guessing that Bambi is the deer that we know. The man is trying to sell a deer, but it's actually a dog. So the product is fake/no good.]
Who was chewing on his parliaments
[the product chews up his parliaments... i'm guessing freedom?]
when he tried to save the calendar business.

The poor son of a humble chimney sweep
fell to a cheap crowd
[bad luck, he's trying to sell a cheap crowd stuff.]
So stay asleep and put on that cursive type
[stay asleep = stay dead. he's already dead.]
you know we live in a toy.
[cynical way of saying that life is just a toy]
Paul Cates bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army
But there ain't no sunshine in his song
[boohoo.]
We must reinvent love.
[PATD says we must reinevent love!]

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