Panic! at the Disco

Released: March 18, 2011

Songwriter: Pete Wentz John Feldmann Spencer Smith Brendon Urie

Producer: John Feldmann Butch Walker

[Verse 1]
Placing a smile at the perfect event
Gracing your skin with the side of my hand
If I ever leave, I could learn to miss you
But "Sentimental Boy" is my nom de plume

[Pre-Chorus]
Let me save you, hold this rope

[Chorus]
I may never sleep tonight (Sleep tonight...)
As long as you're still burning bright
If I could trade mistakes for sheep
Count me away before you sleep
So, I'll stay awake till I trade my mistakes
Or they fade away

[Verse 2]
I feel marooned in this body
Deserted, my organs can go on without me
You can't fly these wings (Fly these wings)
You can't sleep in this box with me

[Pre-Chorus]
Let me save you, hold this rope

[Chorus]
I may never sleep tonight (Never sleep tonight...)
As long as you're still burning bright
If I could trade mistakes for sheep
Count me away before you sleep
So, I'll stay awake till I trade my mistakes
Or they fade away

[Bridge]
So, let me save you, hold this rope
And I'll pull you in, 'cause I am an anchor
Save her or feel it sinking in
Let me save you, hold this rope
(This is only the greatest story every told)
I am an anchor, sinking her
(With lightning in my head to be brought to the world)

[Chorus]
I may never sleep tonight (Never sleep tonight...)
As long as you're still burning bright
If I could trade mistakes for sheep
Count me away before you sleep
So, I'll stay awake till I trade my mistakes
Or they fade away

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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