Panic! At The Disco - Emperor's New Clothes Lyrics

Panic! At The Disco Lyrics

"Emperor's New Clothes"

(Double double double down, pushing it all in)
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
(Double double double down, pushing it all in)

Welcome to the end of eras
Ice has melted back to life
Done my time and served my sentence
Dress me up and watch me die
If it feels good, tastes good
It must be mine
Dynasty decapitated
You just might see a ghost tonight

(Double double double down, pushing it all in)
And if you don't know, now you know

I'm taking back the crown
I'm all dressed up and naked
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah
The crown...
So close I can taste it
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah

(Double double double down, pushing it all in)

Sycophants on velvet sofas
Lavish mansions, vintage wine
I am so much more than royal
Snatch your chain and mace your eyes
If it feels good, tastes good
It must be mine
Heroes always get remembered
But you know legends never die

(Double double double down, pushing it all in)
And if you don't know, now you know

I'm taking back the crown
I'm all dressed up and naked
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah
The crown
So close I can taste it
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah

Mortal kings are ruling castles
Welcome to my world of fun
Liars settle into sockets
Flip the switch and watch them run

Oh oh, yeah, oh oh
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
I'm taking back, back, taking back, back
The crown
I'm all dressed up and naked
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah
The crown
So close I can taste it
I see what's mine and take it
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh oh, yeah

(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
(Double double double down, pushing it all in)
(Finders keepers, losers weepers)
(Double double double down, pushing it all in)

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Thanks to Clara, shadyfan, Olivia, P!ATD Lover for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Samuel Hollander, Daniel Dodd Wilson, Lauren Pritchard, Brendon Boyd Urie, Jacob Sinclair

Brendon Urie co-produced this track. He said, "I stacked myself multiple times—38 times, I think. I stacked myself doing different voices, so the bridge has this operatic evil feel." He also noted, "This is a 100% autobiographical track. There's a piece of me that I can put in the past now. I'm jumping forward as a new character, as a new artist, that's what I'm talking about: taking it all back for myself."

The band's frontman explained to Kerrang!, "It's actually is a lot about that Hans Christian Andersen story, 'The Emperor's New Clothes', but instead of being the dumbfounded, gullible emperor, I actually know what's going down, and I just choose to be naked. There is a lot of that arrogance behind it, and that was a song that I felt I hadn't written in the past."

Readers of Rock Sound magazine voted the music video for "Emperor's New Clothes" to be "Video of the Year" in an annual poll in 2015. The clip is a continuation of the music video for the song "This Is Gospel".

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