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
“Roaring 20s” describes Brendon Urie’s experience playing Charlie Price in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots.
Urie was “raised on musicals” and found himself infatuated with The Sound of Music and listened to a live record of Les Miserables “religiously”. Before taking the stage himself, Urie experi...
[Verse 1]
Broadway is black like a sinkhole
Everyone raced to the suburbs
And I'm on the rooftop with curious strangers
This is the oddest of summers
Maybe I'll medicate, maybe inebriate
Strange situations, I get anxious
Maybe I'll smile a bit, maybe the opposite
But pray that they don't call me thankless
[Pre-Chorus]
My Tell-Tale Heart's a hammer in my chest
Cut me a silk tie tourniquet
[Chorus]
This is my roaring, roaring 20s
I don't even know me
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
My roaring, roaring 20s
I don't even know me
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I want, I wanna go home
[Verse 2]
Oscars and Emmys and Grammys
Everyone here is a trophy
And I'm sipping bourbon
The future's uncertain
The past on the pavement below me
Maybe I'll elevate, maybe I'm second rate
So unaware of my status
Maybe I'm overjoyed, maybe I'm paranoid
Designer me up in straight jackets
[Pre-Chorus]
My Tell-Tale Heart's a hammer in my chest
Cut me a silk tie tourniquet
[Chorus]
This is my roaring, roaring 20s
I don't even know me
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
My roaring, roaring 20s
I don't even know me
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I want, I wanna go home
[Bridge]
Hallucinations only mean that your brain is on fire
If it's Lord of the Flies in my mind tonight
I don't know if I will survive
Lighters up if you're feeling me
Fade to black if you're not mine
'Cause I just need a sign or a signal inside
[Chorus]
This is my roaring, roaring 20s
I don't even know me
Roll me a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
Roll me a, roll me a blunt
This is my roaring, roaring 20s
I don't even know me
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I wanna go home
Roll me like a blunt 'cause I want, I wanna go home
[Outro]
Oh-woah
Oh-woah
I wanna go home
Roaring 20s was written by Jenny Owen Youngs & Benjamin Freedlander & Gary Lindsay & Kenneth Harris & Tobias Wincorn & Steph Jones & Sam Hollander & Maynard Ferguson & Jake Sinclair & Brendon Urie.
Roaring 20s was produced by Jake Sinclair.
Panic! at the Disco released Roaring 20s on Fri Jun 22 2018.
Brendon revealed in his interview at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge that “Roaring 20s” is about his stint on Broadway when performed in the Tony award-winning musical Kinky Boots.
In an interview with NME, Brendon described the sound of “Roaring 20s” saying,
It sound[s] like a speak-easy in the ‘20s or '30s
Yes, Panic! wrote a song for the Tony-nominated musical SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical called “(Just a) Simple Sponge.”
Yes. Brendon won a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favourite Male Replacement.