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Tear Jerker / Panic! at the Disco

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  • Both "Camisado" and "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks" become much more upsetting once you realise they're about Ryan Ross's difficult relationship with his father.
    The bruises and contusions will remind me what you did when you wake
  • Post-Split, a lot of Pretty. Odd. songs have become this for people. Folkin' Around especially.
    • "Northern Downpour", apparently even for Brendon.
    • "Behind The Sea". Ryan Ross is the main singer on this song, and it really makes one miss Ryan Ross. Doesn't help that the instrumental is so beautiful.
  • "Trade Mistakes". It's made even sadder if you listen to it after somebody you know dies, as the song's chorus is too fitting:
    I may never sleep tonight as long as you're still burning bright
    If I can trade mistakes for sheep, count me away before you sleep...
  • "The End Of All Things" being about Brendon's wife, his vows to be exact:
    In these coming years, things will change, the way I feel, will be the same
  • "Impossible Year", the Album Closure of Death of a Bachelor is this, being a sad piano song and dark lyrics, though it is bittersweet since despite the dark lyrics, they are indeed impossible.
  • "Hey Look Ma, I Made It!" The song and the music video details the rise, disastrous fall, and happy comeback of a singer from a small-town (represented as a puppet version of Brendon Urie) ...until his record label decides he's no longer profitable and throws him away, on a pile of other puppets just like him.
  • "Dying in LA" an emotional ballad about not achieving your dreams also definitely counts as this.
    Every face along the boulevard is a dreamer just like you
    You looked at death in a tarot card and you saw what you had to do
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