| Panic! at the Disco – Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| also kind of funny that he says hold a lover "close", I didn't know this came from the movie 'Closer', lol. I haven't seen it, I want to now. Awesome call whoever picked that out! | |
| Panic! at the Disco – Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the word Harlequin actually makes perfect sense, and doesn't victimize the female, the girl is the one at fault. A harlequin is more or less a jester/clown of sorts: literally defined: a fool. The girls are "harlequin" because the run around acting like fools, thinking they can have any guy at any time, but what they dont know is what every guy does know: is that she isn't all that, she's just an easy lay. But i think as for the song, she definitly cheated on him, and that was foolish. cheating on people is stupid, if you want to get around, just stay single. But in their defense, he also ropes the in with "testosterone boys", who are boys wh are looking for nothing but a good lay and one night stand themselves. I believe the writer, actually likes commitment, and is denouncing these people who fake their relationships, "holding [their] lover close" And on a happy note, yes. this is by far I think the best song on the album, it is the reason I listen to Panic! |
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| Panic! at the Disco – There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| today was also the first time I ever listened to it, btw. sorry, i forgot to put that...but I still think "Lying..." is my favorite | |
| Panic! at the Disco – There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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hahahaha, I can't beleive someone picked out Alladin out of this..because it really does sound like it. And yes, about the title: in really big important fancy restraunts, tabels are numbered and a lot of times guests are seated at these tables in accordance to their social status and importance. Obviously she "hasn't thought of it yet" because she thinks she is more important than she really is. I like the cigarette theory of the "cancer" because cigarettes are considered a social drug, important people get together and smoke and gossip. Also because its just an elaborate way of explaining how cancer infects a persons body and takes over it, much like he is doing to the party. Very nice indded, good thought And the sheep thing...haha, thats interesting too, although i really think the curse is implied, but he won't say it because they are obviously attending a party of important status, and proper people don't swear, so of course with his new-found confidence he could NEVER drop himself to such a level of indecency just to pick a fight with self-absorbed desperate "diva"...I'm thinking an Ex...LOL |
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| The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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well, firstly, i can say that the song is not about LOTR, the priesthood, masonry, or the occult. i must say i initially agreed with dengeist. when i first listened to the song, i thought it was about a young man in desire for an older woman, who knew he was but had given herself away in marriage. the reference to the Scylla and Charybdis being from the oddysey is correct. its a very Sting way of saying "caught between a rock and a hard place". the young man faces to very difficult options: trying to be with a married woman, or walk away ("hypnotized by you if i should linger") coming "seeking only knowledge" simply means, i believe, that he has heard what has happened and has come to ask her if it's true. "seeing the destiny [she] sold" simply means that he has watched this woman who had such wonderful possibilities for a future, throw it away for a frivilous and empty relationship with this other person. the "shining band of gold" obviously being the wedding band. the wedding band he is completely captivated by forces him to deal with his emotions for her, he is, as we say, "wrapped around [her] finger" Mephistopheles is a much more difficult allusion to define here i think, and has been perplexing me for a while now (which actually led me here). Mephistopheles is another name for the devil in many christian mythologies from the derk ages, and is also refferd to in the play 'Faust', as being satan's lead devil. i think he compares the woman to him because she is wanting to play the game of keeping both men for herself, for some reason, and will not be a part of it, though he still listens to the things she is trying to tell him: her "tuition". the "fruition" is a foreshadowing of the final chorus. the "devil (where we can remember him comparing her to mephistopheles) being behind him", and "vanishing in thin air" means he has decided to leave her to her decision and walk away, forever. lyricists sometimes invision oceans as imagery for isolation, because they are such vast, unyielding things. thats my opinion. and finally, she realizes the mistake she made by leaving him to marry this other person and wants the young man back: she realizes shes "wrapped around his finger" as i said this is what i first thought, but now after researching it some, and even reading some interviews with Sting himself, he says this song was actually written in reference to a marriage breakdown with his wife, ending in a divorce. if anyone reads this and thinks i have put some thought into this, well thankyou, and please feel free to email me if you want. peace |
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