Behind the Sea (Album Version) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Silverblaze4575 

Cover art for Behind the Sea (Album Version) lyrics by Panic! at the Disco

A daydream spills from my corked head Breaks free of my wooden neck Left a nod over sleeping waves Like bobbing bait for bathing cod Floating flocks of candle swans Slowly drift across wax ponds

This part of the song is talking about a message is a bottle floating across the water with a dream inside the message escapes and spreads across the pond, this talks about how somthing can spread so quick.

The men all played along to marching drums and boy did they have fun behind the sea They sang, so our matching legs are marching clocks and we’re all too small to talk to god Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god

this is talking about soldiers fighting over in iraq and how there each clocks which means one day they will stop ticking, which means that they could die, and were to small to talk to god, along with to smart to talk to god, is a sarcastic wordplay meaning we dont make time to talk to god.

Toast the fine folks casting silver crumbs to us from the dock Jinxed things ringing as they leak through tiny cracks in the boardwalk Scarecrow now it’s time to hatch sprouting suns and ageless daughters

this represents how the men who send us to fight for the war are eating with silver crumbs or there rich while we fight there war, and now there haching are suns and daughters, and trying to scare us into beliving we need to fight(hence the scarecrow)

Go on, you know Don't you know

That those watermelon smiles just can’t ripen underwater Just can’t ripen underwater

awatermelon smile refers to a slice of a watermelon, ( a (half circle) shaped smile on your mouth

The men all played along to marching drums and boy did they have fun behind the sea They sang, so our matching legs are marching clocks and we’re all too small to talk to god Yeah, we’re all too smart to talk to god oh, we’re all too smart to talk to god

Ooooh

Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs Waves of wooden legs Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs Waves of wooden legs Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs Waves of wooden legs Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs Waves of wooden legs

this is for all the lives of the soldiers lost, all of there legs represent there lives Oooooh

So close, so close