Mad as Rabbits

Album: Pretty. Odd (2008)
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  • Come save me from walking off a windowsill
    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

    He took the days for pageant
    Became as mad as rabbits
    With bushels of bad habits
    And who could ask for anymore?
    Yeah, who could have more? (Hello)

    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 the calendar business

    He took the days for pageant
    And became as mad as rabbits
    With bushels of bad habits
    Who could ask for anymore?
    Who could have more?

    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

    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 Writer/s: Brendon Boyd Urie, Dale Frashuer, Gary De Carlo, George Ryan Ross, Jonathan Jacob Walker, Paul Leka, Spencer James Smith
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

  • Ryden from Oconomowoc, WiThis is by far my favorite song off of Pretty. Odd. and one of the only ones that don't make me cry lol (looking at you, Northern Downpour)
  • Phillip from Batesville, Ari thought this song was about a man who has it all and wants to get richer as an entrepreneur (And now he walks down miles in America, briefcase in hand)
    he thought it would be easy (He took the days for pageant) which could mean he thought everything would be easy and have a beautiful turn out
    he gets mad when it doesn't work out (became as mad as rabbits, with bushells of bad habbits) but he already has everything else a man could want except for money( who could ask for any more, who could have more)
    Then he tries other jobs, which don't work out and he stays angry. The line "we must reinvent love" is saying he needs to stop being obsessed with money and find what true love is.
  • Jessica from Fairfax, VaOllie, I don't understand how it's degrading... I mean it's about a girl cheating on a dude, it makes sense the lyrics wouldn't be great, but I'm assuming Ryan didn't mean it to apply to the gender :D

    Love this song! I heard it on FOE earlier, and when I heard Ryan's voice, it made me fall in love with Pretty. Odd. again!
  • Ollie from Point Place, WiEllen... oh, it's you again!
    Ellen, what do you mean? many of the songs on Pretty Odd are upbeat... I love this album. I was not a fan of their other albums. Especially "Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have without Taking Her Clothes Off"... I'm not a feminist but this is SO degrading to women.
  • Ollie from Point Place, Wi"Reinvent Love" is such a glorious line
  • Brittany from Townsville, AustraliaIt didn't make sences when i first heard it buy now it does, its an awesome song that i finally get [lolz], but i love panic at the disco's music, its mad, rockin, rad and everything awesome [lolz] but it waz here in the ville [lolz... ...again]
  • Elicia from Zanesville, Oh"Parliaments" are a brand of cigarettes.
  • Alex from Pompton Plains, Njthe harmonies in this song are rediculous, this is probably my favorite song on pretty. odd.
  • Ellen from Sydney, AustraliaI'm not really a big fan of Pretty.Odd, but i think this is the best song on the album, i was glad to hear something at least a little up-beat...
  • Z from Somewhere Over The Rainbow, WaI've always felt that this song was about an insane, eccentric person who tried to make a lot of money in businesses that weren't very successful. His father was a chimeny sweep, and he eventually became part of an awful crowd.

    ~~Ta~~
  • Robin from Oakville, Onryan ross said he wanted to write a song about a man who was in teh calender buisness and business was not very good
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