| Twenty One Pilots – Fall Away Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think that this song is about more than one thing. I mean, we know that Tyler is a talented writter and this is such and deep song. I think that there is three cote theme on this song : - religion - relationships - suicide And it's quite logical that they are linked cause there is never just one problem in life. I am not gonna do a proper breakdown of the lyrics but there is defenitly some different questioning in here. Religion : ---obviously religion is quite important background to Tyler and the religion reference here is pretty obvious, talking about such things as "the lights on" -He is waiting for his judgement and seems scared of admitting Suicide: ---He defenitly talks about waiting for death to come. He stuggling to understand the difference between "living" and "dying" because after all, no matter what life we are living we are all gonna die in the end and we all re closer to death with every breath we take. Which leads us to number 3: Relationship: ---I use that as a very lousy term. I know that this song came up way before Bluryface but I believe that....Well you live with depression all of your life and that might have been when Tyler started putting words on Bluryface. This is the relation ship that he has with his other side, with his demons ("feel the pull begin" " and I'll try to delay what you make of my life" this sounds defenitly like Depression and anxiety taking over. He is talking to a "you" which is deffo a personalisation of Blury. "I can't walk and I ain't the same" sounds defenitly like he is falling away from HIMSELF towards Blury? ---I said relation ship in a large term cause in see some reference to what he is expected to be and what he is. -There is defenitly the basketball reference in the title so maybe he refers to what he should have been/shouldn't have been in there. He was obviously destined to play music and maybe that songs echo the feeling he had in high school maybe when he was doing music and lost interest in basketball? (Haha sorry I don't know enough of the back story to assume too much about what happen then) -There is the expectation from his religion, to be a "good" Christian, and he can't do that because he is obviously he has those suicidal thought and it is offence, but at the same time, being suicidal is not a choice and he might struggle with the clash between the concept that God made him the way he is (including suicidal) but the bible doesn't seem to accept suicide. - There is probably relationships and expectations that are subtext here and happen to everyone like parents and friends expectation too. (" i dont want your way i want mine") People dont necesarily understand the stuggling of mental health and other problem that might be going on in general, and that might push him not to reach for help neither (" I dsguise and I will lie"/" believe me I'm fine, but I'm lying, I'm so very far from fine"). Anyway, that went a bit deeper than I thought but I think it was kinda important to see the bigger picture and see all of the theme at once. Please correct me if any mistake on religion has been done. And on the interpretation as well as english is not my first language. Once again this is just my personal interpretation I can't even pretend to know what those lyrics are about and just assume. |
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