Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...)

The french part is :

Dès le premier jour Ton parfum enivra mon amour Et dans ces instants J’aimerais être comme toi par moment Mais depuis ce jour Je n’ai qu’un seul et unique regret

Which, in English, roughly gives :

Since the first day Your perfume intoxicated my love And during these instants I would love to be like you at moments But since this day I have one and only regret

So it’s basically the translation of the chorus (Ever since we met... one regret to live through). =)

I love the French part a lot. It’s very poetic. And I plain love the accent.

Well, they released it under the name of "The Paul Reveere Juimpsuit Apparatus" so I don't really think it's going to be on their next album, but was on the album they discarded, the cabin album...

And as far as the meaning goes, I'll say is part of the story they were creating for the second album, it was a love story of sorts, or as they said "A fairy-tale for adults"

The first verse sounds like an introduction from the narrators "Composing a burlesque, out of where they rest they necks" A burlesque is a theatrical story, commonly a parody. So he is making this story out of other peoples hearts (out of where they rest their necks, necks "rest" in the chest, related to feelings and hearts)

Still working on the rest...

Bittersweet_girl got teh first part, right. But I think it's about them, comparing their fame to 'witches'

"Here I am, composing of burlesque, Out of where they rest their necks, Sunken in the splintered cradles"

They could be paparazzi, and the cradles they rest their necks in patd's "dramatic burlesque show"

"And ramshackle ants, They ask for it, as a boy, I eat my wishes on golden toothpicks and digested them with wolf intestines"

Ramshackle means unrepairably beaten, so they're saying they've gone like so far in the last two lines they're saying they get their "wishes on golden toothpicks" like the seemingly good life, but the wolf intestines kind of reveals the sarcasm

"I fell from the heavens, As a fetish blessed with an operatic skeleton And as the stars watch me descend, I crack the family tree and, Chopped off all of the branches"

So I looked up to see if there were any other meanings of fetish, and it's also an 'inanimate object worshipped for its supposed magical powers.' Their witch-like powers being the talent, but also a fetish as in the sexual desire kind, because a majority of fangirls. So they fell from the heavens - out of nowhere - "blessed" with a theatrical figure. The stars from the sky which they fell [their family and friends pre-fame] watch them fall, but they cut the branches from their family tree.

Ahh I don't know how accurate this is XD But gotta love the accordion in the song !

The lyrics remind me very much so of the novel Perfume: Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind, which I feel is something Urie has probably read. It's about a French man whose heightened sense of smell leads him to search for the perfect scent, which he decides is the smell of this young virgin girl. Anyone who has read the novel would probably agree.

The mentioning of Mona Lisa explains the entire song. In the ballad of mona lisa, he's angry with her because she's a prostitute and he wants to sting her, but in this song it's not enough, he murders her in her bed. Then is filled with this nostalgic, euphoric love. It's confusing but if you think about it "Here I am composing a burlesque,Out of where they rest their necks, Sunken in their splintered cradles And ramshackle heads, They asked for it, as a girl, You have set your heart on, Haunting me forever from the start, It's never silent." Is very Lizzie Borden. "Where they rest their necks is either their pillow or the guillotine (if you still want to continue with the fairy tale theory". Basically he went psychotic and killed her, but blames her for it.

"you have such a hard on"

Okay, I laughed. it's "you set your heart on"

Fantastic song.

I'm pretty sure he says "I regret never letting you know" instead of "I regret ever letting you go." I'm not 100% on the line but I'm positive he says never

it means..soo much. i love the sound of this song, it's so amazing sounding. as well as the lyrics being just, clever. love.

this is amazing. it's old panic, but new. i'm currently obsessed with this mixtape. haven't a clue as to what it's saying, though.

i love that this is a mix of the old and new

if their next album is anything like this... a winner.

and to what it means... i have no idea :[