Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
“Mad as Rabbits” chronicles a person who has given up his position of complete freedom to live as the ideal working man that provides for his entire family. The problem is that this person has lost all joy in his life, and has become “as mad as [a] rabbit.”
The title also could be making an allusion...
[Verse 1: Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross]
Come save me from walking off a window sill
Or I'll sleep in the rain
Don't you remember when I was a bird
And you were a map?
And now he drags down miles in America
Briefcase in hand
The stove is creeping up his spine again
Can't get enough trash
[Chorus: Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross]
He took the days for pageant, and became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits, who could ask for anymore?
Yeah, who could have more?
(Come on)
[Verse 2: Ryan Ross, Brendon Urie, Both]
His arms were the branches of a Christmas tree
Preached the devil in the belfry
He checked in to learn his clothes had been thieved
At the train station
The rope hung his other branch and at the end
Was a dog called Bambi
Who was chewing on his parliaments
When he tried to save the calendar business
He tried to save the calendar business
[Chorus: Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross]
He took the days for pageant, and became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits, who could ask for anymore?
Yeah, who could have more?
[Verse 3: Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Both]
The poor son of a humble chimney sweep
Fell to a cheap crowd
So stay asleep and put on that cursive type
You know we live in a toy
You know that Paul Cates bought himself a trumpet
From the Salvation Army
But there ain't no sunshine in his song
We must reinvent love, reinvent love, reinvent love
[Chorus: Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross]
He took the days for pageant, and became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits, who could ask for anymore?
Yeah, who could have more?
We must reinvent love, reinvent love, reinvent love
Mad as Rabbits was written by Spencer Smith & Jon Walker & Brendon Urie & Ryan Ross.
Mad as Rabbits was produced by Rob Mathes.
Panic! at the Disco released Mad as Rabbits on Tue Mar 25 2008.
Then-guitarist Ryan Ross told MTV:
I think it feels the most like the band at this point. Me and Brendon sing back and forth, and everyone is doing backup vocals on it – it was definitely the most group sounding. In the last refrain the ‘reinvent love’ thing kind of just summed up the whole process...
In a track-by-track commentary on the album, Ryan Ross, who wrote the lyrics for the song, stated:
For me, I’d had this idea about writing a song about a character that is in the calendar business, and business was bad, and so I came up with the lyrics. They lyrics took me a long time to get the fi...