Don't Let The Light Go Out

Album: Viva Las Vengeance (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Don't Let The Light Go Out" is an emotive ballad where Panic! At The Disco mainman Brendon Urie's lover is lying in a hospital bed. He desperately pleads that she pull through, as the singer can't imagine life without her.
  • The relationship described in this song has its difficulties, with lots of bickering and fighting. Urie acknowledges his imperfections, including a lack of communication and romantic gestures.

    Red roses sitting silently beside the bed
    I'm saying more right now than I ever said


    However, he doesn't want to lose her as she is the only one that can handle his baggage.

    You're the only one that knows how to operate
    My heavy machinery
  • Urie co-wrote and co-produced "Don't Let the Light Go Out" with his regular production contributors, Mike Viola and Jake Sinclair. Because it interpolates Janis Ian's 1975 soft rock hit "At Seventeen" she gets a songwriting credit too.
  • Panic! At The Disco released "Don't Let the Light Go Out" as the fourth single from Viva Las Vengeance. Urie cut the album live and direct into a tape machine with Jake Sinclair and Mike Viola in Los Angeles.
  • The surreal black-and-white video shows Urie driving a classic car while experiencing visions of his lost lover.

    Brendan Walter shot the visual. He also directed the videos for Panic's previous Viva Las Vengeance singles, "Viva Las Vengeance" and "Middle Of A Breakup."

Comments: 1

  • Angie from ChicagoSuch a beautiful song!
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