Behind the Sea (Alternate Version)

Behind the Sea (Alternate Version)

Panic! at the Disco

The eleventh track of Pretty. Odd. has a nautical theme with an abundance of vivid imagery. It discusses creativity and the freedom to express it.

This alternate version has fewer instruments than the album version, and it doesn’t have any harmonies or backing vocals. It’s also missing the bridge.

The title seems to be a reference to the prologue of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in which Nietzsche writes:

Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when thou goest behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star!