Panic! at the Disco‘s Brendon Urie confidently walks up the side of a tall building in the band’s new video for “High Hopes.” The video is also modeled off the cover of their chart-topping new album Pray for the Wicked.
“No matter how hard your dreams seem, keep going. You might even have to climb up the side of a building in downtown LA, but it’ll all be worth it at the top. Stay up on that rise,” Panic! at the Disco wrote of the inspiring visual, directed by Brendan Walter and Mel Soria.
Urie’s skyscraping adventure follows the band’s similarly gravity-shy performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, where the frontman delivered the “High Hopes” opening verse while hovering over the Radio City Music Hall crowd. Like that performance, after Urie ascends the Los Angeles building, he reengages with his Panic! band mates for the remainder of the song.
Urie also recently launched his Highest Hopes Foundation, which supports “the efforts of non-profit organizations that lead, develop, and advocate support for human rights for all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing
Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision
Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Didn’t know how but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Fulfill the prophecy
Be something greater
Go make a legacy
Manifest destiny
Back in the days
We wanted everything, wanted everything
Burn your biographies
Rewrite your history
Light up your wildest dreams
Museum victories, everyday
We wanted everything, wanted everything
All tied up, no more love and I’d hate to see you waiting
Shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing
Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision
Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Didn’t know how but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Always had high, high hopes
It’s uphill for oddities
The stranger crusaders
Ain’t ever wannabes
The weird and the novelties
Don’t ever change
We wanted everything, wanted everything
Stay up on that rise and never come down
Stay up on that rise
Stay up on that rise and never come down
All tied up, no more love and I’d hate to see you waiting
They say it’s all been done but they haven’t seen the best of me
So I got one more run and it’s gonna be a sight to see
Shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing
Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision
Didn’t know how but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Shooting for the stars when I couldn’t make a killing
Didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision
Had to have high, high hopes for a living
Didn’t know how but I always had a feeling
I was gonna be that one in a million
Always had high, high hopes
