Panic! at the Disco

Released: March 18, 2011

Songwriter: Spencer Smith Brendon Urie

Producer: Butch Walker

[Verse 1]
I'm a disappearing act done poorly
But if I ever get it right, you’ll miss me sorely
Look like the cat that just ate the canary
Coughing up feathers
There's a "get out of jail" card
If I can think of something clever

[Pre-Chorus]
"I plead the Fifth
On all of this"

[Chorus]
When your chips are down
And your drinks are all gone
I'll still be here
Wishing and waiting for you to come on
Kaleidoscope eyes sparkle at the world
My emerald city downtown girl
In the sickness of you
I’m just a white blood cell, fighting like hell for you

[Verse 2]
Oh, I’m just a crook, with no intent or stash
Pour gasoline on the vault, just to burn the cash
I swear to God
I’ve never heard a better sound (coming out)
Than when you’re whimpering my name
From your mouth

[Pre-Chorus]
"I plead the Fifth
On all of this"

[Chorus]
When your chips are down
And your drinks are all gone
I'll still be here
Wishing and waiting for you to come on
Kaleidoscope eyes sparkle at the world
My emerald city downtown girl
In the sickness of you
I’m just a white blood cell, fighting like hell for you

I've got an insatiable desire for your insides
It's undeniable
I'll conspire in full
Against your body tonight

[Chorus]
When your chips are down
And your drinks are all gone
I'll still be here
Wishing and waiting for you to come on
Kaleidoscope eyes sparkle at the world
My emerald city downtown girl
In the sickness of you
I’m just a white blood cell, fighting like hell for you

[Spoken Outro]
Come on, you can do this, you're so st...
Come on, don't get, don't get yourself down
You got this, pace yourself, pace yourself...
[Maniacal Laughter]

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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