"These Words are Knives and Often Leave Scars"

I've been completely obsessed with one song/music video lately and I needed to get out my feelings about this, so I'm back to this blog. Recently, Panic! At The Disco released a new album called Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! The one song that stuck out to me was This Is Gospel. I never knew that a song could mean so much to me until I heard this one. If you haven't seen the video, or at least heard the song, click here before continuing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGE381tbQa8 To me, the song is about all the rejects/outcasts/what have you that are different from what the world wants us to be. The video has a lot of symbolism from what I could see. At the beginning, the surgeons are trying to pin him down and take his heart, his passion. Then, they try to convince him to be like everybody else and dress him like a business man. He's going to die at his job (in the coffin) and be drowned with routine and have no chance for spontaneity or individuality. He bursts out of there, saying, "I won't give up without a fight!" The enemies realize that they're losing him so they get inside of his mind and use his own thoughts and anxieties against him. These would be the ropes that they pull out of his body and use to hold him back. At the end, he loses the ropes and dies, but he dies fighting. He never gives up. This whole song and video means more to me than any other has before. My favorite lyrics are probably "Truth be told, I never was yours", "The gnashing teeth and criminal tongues conspire against the odds, but they haven't seen the best of us yet", and "I won't give up without a fight". It's a song of hope and encouragement that inspires me every day. I wish I could make everyone in the world understand the message of this song, but this blog will have to do for now. :)