Stall Me Lyrics
Fall to your knees and kiss the ring
The crowds rejoice in
All of my dreams
Wake up to despise a world I once loved
Why would you bring me in
If you knew what you'd become?
So curse everyone and everything
Even the sun
[Chorus]
Stall me, stall me, I'm all in
Stall me, call me up or break me in
A dark room in the wallflower garden of the party
She's got four on the floor, she's waiting to kickstart me
So just stall me
[Verse 2]
I had a rosy dream
You gave up on you and I gave up on me
Well, love came along and said
"Leave them be" (Ah-oh-oh-oh...)
We were wrecked on every rock, you tasted
Like cork, my pretty little angel
I'm singing to empty bottles everywhere
Everywhere
Stall me, stall me, I'm all in
Stall me, call me up or break me in
A dark room in the wallflower garden of the party
She's got four on the floor, she's waiting to kickstart me
So just stall me!
[Bridge]
She counts on stars, astrology
My moods are mercurial, but I'm no mercury
Don't hold your breath
Baptized in the river of you
Hold on death
The moon's just a sliver of you
[Chorus]
Stall me, stall me, I'm all in
Stall me, call me up or break me in
A dark room in the wallflower garden of the party
Stall me, stall me, I'm all in
Stall me, call me up or break me in
A dark room in the wallflower garden of the party
She's got four on the floor, she's waiting to kickstart me
She says she's got more
Where that came from to spark me
So just stall me! Whoo!
About
“Stall Me” is a self-contradictory song about Brendon’s love for now-wife Sarah Orzechowski. It was co-written by Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, who actually discovered Panic! At The Disco in 2005.
Q&A
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During an interview with Coup de Main magazine, Brendon Urie explains the lyric “baptized in a river of you”:
Brendon: “I had written that song with Pete [Wentz] and he helped me with that line actually. I just felt surrendered, I felt arrested in love at that point. Sarah [Urie] and I had just gotten together, we’d only been dating a short amount of time. I wanted that feeling like I’m drowning in your love but I’m so enamored with everything that’s happening, so it’s nice to throw in a description of that.”
- 3.Hurricane
- 4.Memories
- 7.Always
- 8.The Calendar
- 9.Sarah Smiles
- 12.Stall Me
- 13.Oh Glory (Demo)
- 14.I Wanna Be Free
- 16.Bittersweet
