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| Twenty One Pilots – A Car, a Torch, a Death Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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21P are not always straight-forward with the meaning in their songs, which I think is purposefully done so the audience can form their own understanding of it based on personal experience. What I took from it is that this is a song about a man that is romantically involved with a woman whom lives very far away, and she feels dangerously unhappy when he is not around (when he's driving away from her house, he want to go back because he knows she will fall apart in the absence of his presence, hence the "I begin to envy the headlights driving South. I want to crack the door so I can just fall out.") When he "understands why God died" and "takes the grave, sending her demons his way," he is saying he will attempt to mend her, but knows that this will cause conflict and pain upon himself, which is a great sacrifice. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten son that all who believed on Him should not perish but have everlasting life." This is along the same lines of. I think the lines "And when my car was far out of sight, he (the demons) crept in her room and stayed there for the night" mean that every time he leaves her she is hit with a depression and severe sadness, and when he says "He layed it out, what he had planned," he is saying that they both know that she will go into a deep sadness when he leaves. The beginning and end, from "The air begins to feel a little thin" to "I began to understand why God died" are saying that she gave him her all, but in doing so, it pains her to be without him. He is reassured by her love but is saddened by her sorrow. |
submissions
| Twenty One Pilots – A Car, a Torch, a Death Lyrics
| 10 years ago
|
|
21P are not always straight-forward with the meaning in their songs, which I think is purposefully done so the audience can form their own understanding of it based on personal experience. What I took from it is that this is a song about a man that is romantically involved with a woman whom lives very far away, and she feels dangerously unhappy when he is not around (when he's driving away from her house, he want to go back because he knows she will fall apart in the absence of his presence, hence the "I begin to envy the headlights driving South. I want to crack the door so I can just fall out.") When he "understands why God died" and "takes the grave, sending her demons his way," he is saying he will attempt to mend her, but knows that this will cause conflict and pain upon himself, which is a great sacrifice. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten son that all who believed on Him should not perish but have everlasting life." This is along the same lines of. I think the lines "And when my car was far out of sight, he (the demons) crept in her room and stayed there for the night" mean that every time he leaves her she is hit with a depression and severe sadness, and when he says "He layed it out, what he had planned," he is saying that they both know that she will go into a deep sadness when he leaves. The beginning and end, from "The air begins to feel a little thin" to "I began to understand why God died" are saying that she gave him her all, but in doing so, it pains her to be without him. He is reassured by her love but is saddened by her sorrow. |
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