I chime in with my own interpretation of the song's meaning. I think the answer to what happens in the second verse lies in the meaning of the title.
The title comes from a book by Douglas Coupland. This is the quote:
“I am thinking of the people in my universe and distilling for each of these people the one flaw in their character that will be their downfall—the flaw that will be their undoing. What I write are not sins; I write tragedies.”
What he's saying is that the flaws he gives his characters aren't inherently bad or even evil. He isn't judging them for having those flaws. The sad thing is that they do still end up causing the characters a bad ending. Perhaps he means that the flaws are mainly bad for the characters themselves, not to anyone else.
In Panic's title they turned the phrase around: I write sins, not tragedies. So the meaning of the original quote gets inverted.
I would take that to mean the writer does judge the character's flaw and thinks it's a bad thing. But it doesn't cause the character's downfall.
I think that means the wedding went on as planned. The groom may judge the bride, but he goes on with everything anyway, thereby saving the wedding (the marriage). He prevents a tragedy.
The writer in the title could also be someone other than the groom. Someone who judges the bride for her flaw of promiscuity and sees that it doesn't cause her a downfall. Perhaps it means that the bride doesn't care about the tragedies she causes, because she "writes" only sins. Maybe this writer is the bride's lover who doesn't get to marry her.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure the wedding went on as planned based on the quote and the title.
I chime in with my own interpretation of the song's meaning. I think the answer to what happens in the second verse lies in the meaning of the title.
The title comes from a book by Douglas Coupland. This is the quote:
“I am thinking of the people in my universe and distilling for each of these people the one flaw in their character that will be their downfall—the flaw that will be their undoing. What I write are not sins; I write tragedies.”
What he's saying is that the flaws he gives his characters aren't inherently bad or even evil. He isn't judging them for having those flaws. The sad thing is that they do still end up causing the characters a bad ending. Perhaps he means that the flaws are mainly bad for the characters themselves, not to anyone else.
In Panic's title they turned the phrase around: I write sins, not tragedies. So the meaning of the original quote gets inverted.
I would take that to mean the writer does judge the character's flaw and thinks it's a bad thing. But it doesn't cause the character's downfall.
I think that means the wedding went on as planned. The groom may judge the bride, but he goes on with everything anyway, thereby saving the wedding (the marriage). He prevents a tragedy.
The writer in the title could also be someone other than the groom. Someone who judges the bride for her flaw of promiscuity and sees that it doesn't cause her a downfall. Perhaps it means that the bride doesn't care about the tragedies she causes, because she "writes" only sins. Maybe this writer is the bride's lover who doesn't get to marry her.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure the wedding went on as planned based on the quote and the title.