Panic! At The Disco - Do You Know What I'm Seeing? Lyrics Meaning
click a star to vote
May 23rd 2015!⃝Hey, I´m surprised that most of the people do not clarly notice, but most of the songs played by Panic during the Ryan Ross (A Fever You Can't Sweet Of, Pretty Odd & Some of Vices & Virtues) writing era tend to have a double meaning.
For me, this song is a totally political song, revolutionary, like the flag of a movement, the revolutionary anthem (Even religiously defiant if you think).
le's start with the first part, "Clouds are marching along singing this song, just like they do, if the clouds where singing a song, I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?" This seems to represent an army preaparing for something big, an army from the sky, or inspired from there (relates with the revolutionary anthem I told about)
"If they just knew, what they could do, or if they just knew what would they do" It seems like the soldiers conversation looking down to the Earth, but as I said it can be judged in two ways, divine creatures watching human specie (angels, etc) or the powerfull people of the Earth looking the struggling society and how there are repressed, making fun in a part about how we do nothing to free ourselves from represion or asking themselves why haven't we as specie developed our real potencial. (I'm more related to the political interpretation but take the one you think fits the most).
"And if words Are just hollow birds, Flyin' along, singin' a song, What would they do?If they just knew, What they could do, Oh, if they just knew" The struggle of society as theme continues, shows that are a calling, we want to be free, but forward that, its needed that the words realy make a change, reason what the powerfull people or divine creatures discuss again what would happen if we did the things to make the change, really make our ideals count, free the power that as society we have.
"I know it's sad, That I never gave a damn about the weather, And it never gave a damn about me
I know it's sad, That I never gave a damn about the weather, And it never gave a damn about me
No, it never gave a damn about me" This part is a very special one, seems like the voice of the revolution itself, he talks about as I said about 2 things, depends how you see it, as how the guy says that he did not care about the media because of the corruption and masonery that exist behind everything that happens and how the power did never 'gave a damn' about him by not helping the ones that needed help, talking about himself as part of the common people, or in the other hand, reproaching to God how he never cared for him and the people in suffer. I know it's mad
"But if I go to hell, Will you come with me or just leave?" Now, he talks abut the risk of the revolution, his capture for torture, his pain, his "hell", he talks to the one that hears, he asks you that if you would join him to the trip to chnge everything, will you follow or not?, or in the other hand (point of view), the fear that causes him that God would abandon him to hell at the end of his life.
"I know it's mad, But if the world were ending, Would you just kiss me or just leave me?, Just leave me?" By last, he talks to another person, a lover or a traitor, a girl he loves or metaphoring about the tration like the kiss Judas made to Christ, asking the person, and even the one that listens again, if they would leave him to fight alone against the struggle or the develping of the human race.
The interpretation you give to the song is very personal, but it's up to you to believe what you want. Hope I guided you a little ;)