If you guys notice, most of the rest of the songs are narriations, and he comes right out in this song and says,"Don't you see?
I'm the narrator, and this is just the prologue" and he also says, "I aim to be, your eyes".
And he adresses his audience by calling them "trophy boys" and "trophy wives", and telling them that he will tell his stories, or "shake it up", if we, the audience, is "prepared to listen".
As for the title, he is saying that they way people precieve an event is all based upon the way it is displayed on the evening news. He is saying, don't trust what the media says, find out for ourself. Form your own opinions and observations.
Hence a death may either be a "martyrdom" or a "suicide", but the way it is reported and the evidence presented holds "a grain in the balance" and the scale could tip either way to influence your opinion. And how can you be so sure that suicide wasen't a Martyrdom? Whats stopping the reporters from minipulating and distorting information so make a sotry more interesting.
People often dont look into Panic! at the Disco as they should be looked into. They jusy dismiss them as being sold out and mainstream.
But for God's sake, just glance into the song titles and see their insights instead of hearing Sins and Tragedies on the radio once and forming your opinons.
This song is introducing the album.
If you guys notice, most of the rest of the songs are narriations, and he comes right out in this song and says,"Don't you see? I'm the narrator, and this is just the prologue" and he also says, "I aim to be, your eyes".
And he adresses his audience by calling them "trophy boys" and "trophy wives", and telling them that he will tell his stories, or "shake it up", if we, the audience, is "prepared to listen".
As for the title, he is saying that they way people precieve an event is all based upon the way it is displayed on the evening news. He is saying, don't trust what the media says, find out for ourself. Form your own opinions and observations.
Hence a death may either be a "martyrdom" or a "suicide", but the way it is reported and the evidence presented holds "a grain in the balance" and the scale could tip either way to influence your opinion. And how can you be so sure that suicide wasen't a Martyrdom? Whats stopping the reporters from minipulating and distorting information so make a sotry more interesting.
People often dont look into Panic! at the Disco as they should be looked into. They jusy dismiss them as being sold out and mainstream.
But for God's sake, just glance into the song titles and see their insights instead of hearing Sins and Tragedies on the radio once and forming your opinons.
geeeeeeeeeeez. X