Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die Analysis

“This is Gospel” is the First recording on Panic at the Disco’s album “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die”, and with good reason. The song was written in the midst of a fight between the vocalist and a friend over their drug and alcohol abuse. Feeling powerless having to watch his friend fall apart, Urie wrote the song as a form of release. The lyrics and performance both reflect a fight between living and dying, in a sense, parallel to the album’s title of being too weird to live and too rare to die. Death and life are constants in everyone’s lives, yet there are so many beliefs and theories surrounding it.

“the struggle of trying to break free, in a metaphorical sense that is what it is about; trying to break free from the burdens that

There’s no strobing lights or wild antics, it instead presents a plot and a story.The video starts out with Brendon laying on a stretcher as a slow heartbeat plays in the background. Surgeons then appear, rigidly checking vitals and inspecting his body as they prep for surgery, placing a red x over his heart. As they go to make an incision he springs up and starts fighting them, trying to get away. They eventually subdue and put him under, only for the scene to change to him standing there confused as people dress him for a special occasion of some sort. He is unable to move on his own and realisation sets in as to what the event he’s dressed for is as they cross his arms over his chest and close his eyes. He’s lowered into a coffin and it’s nailed shut. As the music grows softer it fills with water. He suddenly breaks out of the coffin and runs away, ropes following behind him, trying to pull him back. The video flashes back to the scenes with the surgeons and the coffin as he struggles, the video ending with him breaking free and walking into a light as the heartbeat slows to a stop. the video itself was wonderfully done, and leaves a lot to be analysed and interpreted. Depending on a person’s surroundings and upbringing, they can interpret the video in a few different