Panic! at the Disco

Released: January 15, 2016

Songwriter: Jake Sinclair Brendon Urie Lauren Pritchard

Producer: Jake Sinclair

[Intro]
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty
Oh, whoa, whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty

[Verse 1]
Truth is that it was always going to end
The symphony buzzing in my head
Took a market of filth and sold like summer
True, all of the good girls act so good
'Til one of them doesn't wait their turn
Turn the memory to stone and carve your shoulder
Hey, holy roller

[Chorus]
If you wanna start a fight
You better throw the first punch
Make it a good one
And if ya wanna make it through the night
You better say my name like
The good, the bad, and the dirty

[Refrain]
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty

[Verse 2]
I know what it's like to have to trade
The ones that you love for the ones you hate
Don't think I've ever used a day of my education
There's only two ways that these things can go
Good or bad and how was I to know
That all your friends won't hold any grudges
I got the final judgement

[Chorus]
If you wanna start a fight
You better throw the first punch
Make it a good one
And if ya wanna make it through the night
You better say my name like
The good, the bad, and the dirty

[Refrain]
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty

[Bridge]
And you been gone so long
I forgot what you feel like
But I'm not gonna think about that right now
I'm gonna keep getting underneath you
I'm gonna keep getting underneath you
And all our friends want us to fall in love

[Chorus]
If you wanna start a fight
You better throw the first punch
Make it a good one
And if ya wanna make it through the night
You better say my name like
The good, the bad, and the dirty

[Refrain]
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty
Oh, whoa whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh
The good, the bad, and the dirty

Named after a line from Name Taken’s “Panic,” Panic! at the Disco was formed by drummer Spencer Smith, bassist Brent Wilson, guitarist Ryan Ross, and vocalist Brendon Urie, and founded in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. While crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical themes, quirky techno beats, and perceptive lyrics, they received some much-deserved attention.

They became the first group signed on Pete Wentz’s (bassist in Fall Out Boy) record label, Decaydance Records (now DCD2 Records). Their hit song that started it all, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” remains one of their top two top forty songs along with “Hallelujah.”

They have released six studio A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Pretty. Odd., Vices & Virtues, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, Death of a Bachelor, and now their most recent album Pray for the Wicked. These last two albums were actually solo projects from Brendon Urie, since all the other members of the band had already left the group before their release dates; in 2006, bassist Brent Wilson was fired due to his “lack of responsibility and the fact that he wasn’t progressing musically with the band.” And in 2009, guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker left the band to “embark on a musical excursion of their own,” forming The Young Veins. Dallon Weekes, who joined the band as a bassist and songwriter in 2009, had become a touring member only by the time Death of a Bachelor was released and later left the band completely in order to focus on his own music. Weekes was replaced by Nicole Row, the first female member of the band.

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