| Twenty One Pilots – March to the Sea Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I could be a little bit biased, as I naturally would find a meaning in the lyrics I can connect with. Everyone finds their own meaning in art, or in this case music, so I may be interpreting the song wrong. I think this song is a very, very dark song. I think that it is about suicide, and I find it to have a pretty accurate description of what struggling with suicide is like. "The march to the sea" I think refers to everything that happens once someone's made up their mind leading up to their death. "We're dying with every step we take" "we're dying with every breath we make" shows how painful it is to keep going through the motions of life while struggling with suicide. And I think that the line he talks about shows how common it is for someone to be struggling with depression and having thoughts of ending their life, "heaven forbid they see you cry" people in this place tend to bottle up their feelings which almost always makes the problem worse and this silent suffering is often what causes people to get to the point where they feel they have no other option. "And as we near the end of land, and our ocean graves are just beyond the sand, I ask myself the question, why, I fall in line" is that moment just before acting on your thoughts where you stop for a second and reflect and ask yourself if this is really what you want. The spaceship that says "follow me instead" isn't necessarily any one specific thing, it is, rather, anything that might temporarily save us from ending our own lives. The most powerful lyrics, in my opinion, "then the wages of war will start inside my head with my counterpart and the emotionless marchers will chant the phrase 'this lines the only way'" I think the marchers in this case aren't actual people, they're the voices in your head that tell you that you're worthless or that you're better off dead or that you don't deserve life or that you can't handle it anymore, and the war in his head is because now there's another voice that might see one reason to stay alive among millions of reasons to give up. At this point you're fighting a battle in your head because part of you wants nothing more than to give up, but another part sees a reason to keep going. This war inside your head is one that will keep you up at night and distract you from everything going on around you and it's one that will have you laying on your bathroom floor with the door locked trying make a decision or even just somehow make the voices stop. It's a war that you can never win, no matter which side you pick. "Take me up, seal the door, I don't want to march here anymore, I realize that this line is dead, so I'll follow you instead" is when you've decided that maybe today won't be your last day, but then the song takes what may be an unexpected turn; "so then you put me back in my place, so I might start another day, and once again I will be in a March to the sea" means that just because you chose not to end your life today doesn't mean the battle is over, because every single day for what may even be the rest of your life you will find yourself again fighting the urge and thoughts of ending your life. Like I said I may be wrong, but that is what I felt. Like I said this song is very dark, and I found a connection with everything he says. | |
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