Panic! at the Disco

Released: March 21, 2008

Songwriter: Ryan Ross

Producer: Rob Mathes

[Verse 1]
Lying there with a halo in her hair, she cried
"There are feathers everywhere, but it's fine
You do this all the time"
Crying now through a rusted smile, she knows
This isn't how he paid the bills, before
Drug farm entrepreneur

[Pre-Chorus]
Go spin circles for me
Wound relentlessly around the words we used to sling
Oh, such torturous things
Always chewing up the only ones I ever mean

[Chorus]
If you're going, then go
Go, go, go
If you're going, then go
Go, go, go

[Verse 2]
Watch love get strangled by a kite's cold strings
Fall comes early and summer leaves
As a storm with the car keys
Spark your heels up against the picket fence I built
All your wishes, they will sink like stones
Slowly down a lonely well

[Pre-Chorus]
Go spin circles for me
Wound relentlessly around the words we used to sling
Oh, such torturous things
Always chewing up the only ones I ever mean

[Chorus]
If you're going, then go
Go, go, go
If you're going, then go
Go, go, go

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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