Panic! at the disco // This is Gospel

Panic! at the disco // This is Gospel

Meaning of the song - Some interpret this song to be about suicide and the people who live after their loved ones have taken their lives

This is gospel for the fallen ones
Locked away in permanent slumber
Assembling their philosophies
From pieces of broken memories
Music video - The camera pans up on the singer lying on a hospital bed, hes starts lip syncing to the words whilst keeping a straight, blank face.
Meaning - The song writers are trying to use their lyrics to explain, to those who are left behind, why people commit suicide and how even though their life seemed like it was happy and they were kind and smiling that it might have actually been hard for them to live it.

Oh, this is the beat of my heart, this is the beat of my heart [x2]
Meaning - This is how the person feels deep down, that even though they don't show this torture, they feel it in their heart.

The gnashing teeth and criminal tongues conspire against the odds

But they haven't seen the best of us yet

Music video  - There is a flash of light (almost as if a light has been turned on) and doctors starts to examine and pull at his face and body before then covering him up with a hospital blanket and putting a cross over his heart.
Meaning -  They are torn apart and pushed towards suicide by the people who bullied them in life and made life hard for them and because of this they weren't able to see all that the person offered and as a result the society is now stuck with the bullies who don't deserve to live and love and have lost the people they actually care about.

If you love me let me go

If you love me let me go

Music video - At this point the singer pushes off the doctors and oxygen mask and sits up, fighting of the doctors.

Meaning - The lyrics are saying exactly what it means, that if the people who love them really do love them then they should let them go, they should be excepting because life isn't happy for them.

Cause these words are knives and often leave scars

The fear of falling apart

And truth be told, I never was yours

The fear, the fear of falling apart

Music video - The doctors restrain the singer and start to strap him down to the table so that he cant 'escape' again.

Meaning - The words that someone says can actually hurt another person, no matter how much

they say it or how much they mean it and that, even though, we teach our children that "sticks and stones may break their bones but words will never hurt them" they can. "I never was yours" also refers to the fact that we don't actually belong to society and its norms and values and that we can be free of them, its just that we are too scared not to be and that the only way that they can see to get away from that is to take their own lives.

Oh, this is the beat of my heart, this is the beat of my heart [x2]

Music video - the doctors put an injection into the singers arm causing him to go to sleep, he then 'wakes up' but is no longer on the operating table.

Meaning - This is how the person feels deep down, that even though they don't show this torture, they feel it in their heart.

This is gospel for the vagabonds,
Ne'er-do-wells and insufferable bastards
Confessing their apostasies
Led away by imperfect impostors

Oh, this is the beat of my heart, this is the beat of my heart [x2]
Music video - The morticians start to dress the singer in a suit and tie and put make up on him and do his hair as if getting him ready for an open coffin viewing, as you would do a dead person, they then lower him down into a wooden coffin and nailing him into it.
Meaning - They are shouting out to the other people who feel this pain and sense of loss and who feel led astray and controlled by things such as religion and society, frowning upon suicide and labeling it as a crime and a cowards way out, saying that they don't need to feel that way and they just need to confess how they feel.

Don't try to sleep through the end of the world

And bury me alive

Cause I wont give up without a fight

Music Video - They start to pour water into the coffin so that it starts to fill up around his body, eventually covering his face.

Meaning - It is telling them that they don't have to commit suicide but that they also don't have to follow society, they just need to fight to survive and show people that they are brave and they are tough and that they wont just give up because society and life is hard, that they will live out the life they were given  and that the only way to survive is to keep on fighting, not by killing themselves and giving their loves ones another thing to mourn. 

If you love me let me go
If you love me let me go
Cause these words are knives and often leave scars
The fear of falling apart
And truth be told, I never was yours
The fear, the fear of falling apart
Music video - The singer breaks through the coffin and starts thrashing around within explosions of water that fill the screen, he then proceeds to start breaking through the hospital walls and the doctors following ripping through the plastering to try and get to him as he 'escapes'. When the doctors catch him then rip open his shirt and pull ropes from where his stomach should be a tie him up with them.

Oh, the fear of falling apart

Oh, the fear, the fear of falling apart

Oh, this is the beat of my heart, this is the beat of my heart [x4]

The fear of falling apart

Music video - The singer tries to escape the ropes and the doctors and eventually breaks free of the bonds that are holding onto him. The video ends with him running off in silhouette