| Twenty One Pilots – Ode to Sleep Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[StressedOutLaneBoyWithAMigraine:17908] Great interpretation man, mine is similar as well, Awesome to see so many of us get the "message man" :) | |
| Twenty One Pilots – Ode to Sleep Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Forgot the last line "What have I become? I'm sorry" -then Tyler apologizes to God for what he's become |
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| Twenty One Pilots – Ode to Sleep Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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My breakdown on the song "I wake up fine and dandy but then by the time I find it handy, To rip my heart apart and start planning my crash landing," -he wakes up fine, but through the day, beats himself up so much, he's planning for how bad/guilty he'll feel later over his sin "I'm pleading please, oh please on my knees repeatedly asking, why it's got to be like this. Is this living free?" -he's pleading with God because he feels so guilty over his sin and beats himself up so much over it, he doesn't feel like he's living free as God said he would. Reference Bible verse "whom the son sets free is free indeed" "I don't want to be the one, be the one who has the sun's blood on my hands, I'll tell the moon, take this weapon forged in darkness, Some see a pen, I see a harpoon." -sun's blood on his hands, really "Son's blood". he feels guilty because he (as we all are) is responsible for the death of Jesus as he died for our sins - he bled for us. That's what he means - he doesn't want to have Jesus's blood on his hands, the guilt of that. Take the weapon forged in darkness is how he uses his lyrics to write his dark feelings through his "pen" or harpoon. "I'll stay awake, Cause the dark's not taking prisoners tonight." -possibly a reference to he is staying awake because he's too scared to sleep in a sense. Saying dark's not taking prisoners, Hell is the dark, prisoner is him. "Dark's not taking prisoners tonight - he's staying awake, he's staying awake so the dark can't take him. "Why am I not scared in the morning? I don't hear those voices calling, I must have kicked them out" -he feels he's recovered in the morning, he doesn't hear the voices calling him, telling him he's lost and not saved, he feels secure. "he must've kicked them out". I swear I heard demons yelling, Those crazy words they were spelling, They told me I was gone, they told me I was gone. -the demons were telling him he's lost, he's gone, a goner. "I'm a goner...somebody catch my breath" ;). I guess the demons were lying to him when he wrote Goner too. "But I'll tell them Why won't you let me go? Do I threaten all your plans? I'm insignificant" -he's telling the demons, please leave me be in peace, i'm not going to getting in your way or "threaten all your plans, I'm insignificant". He's not important to God's plan (in his own mind). "Please tell them you have no plans for me I will set my soul on fire What have I become? I'll tell them" -telling God, please tell the demons you don't have any plans for me, you're not going to use me as a key for the kingdom. "I will set my soul on fire" - saying I don't need the demons to set my soul on fire, I mess up so much, I'll do it myself. I'll destroy myself, I don't need the demons help to do it.Then he reflects by saying "what have I become?" "On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake, And the trees they await and clouds anticipate" -eve of day forgotten and fake - not sure, maybe he is dissing God, saying the day of Jesus Christ's return is forgotten - and disses by calling it fake as well. The trees and clouds anticipate because even all of the earth obeys Gods so they wait on him. As a preacher once said "God tells sun to rise, it rises, ocean waves to come this far and they go no further and they obey, God says to man, come to me and man says no!" "The start of a day when we put on our face, A mask that portrays that we don't need grace" -saying that we get up and pretend everything is okay - put on our masks acting as if we don't need God's grace when we're really broken and in need of grace and mercy "On the eve of a day that is bigger than us, But we open our eyes 'cause we're told that we must," -the day of Christ's return, a day that is bigger than us, we open our eyes to the truth "And the trees wave their arms and the clouds try to plead, Desperately yelling there's something we need," -Trees and clouds obey God remember, so they are pleading with us as they probably have more truth than we do. lol. Desperately yelling there's something we need - that something is salvation, as we are lost sinners before we come to Christ. "I'm not free, I asked forgiveness three times, Same amount that I denied, I three-time mvp'ed this crime," -yet Tyler is saying he is not free. Maybe Tyler is not saved, but a lost sinner. Bible says "whoever Son sets free is free indeed", yet Tyler says he is not. He says he's asked forgiveness three times, but apparently doesn't feel saved. "Same amound that I denied" - reference to Peter denying Jesus, he says he does the same thing and as a matter of fact, he is an MVP at doing it (self deprecating). "I'm afraid to tell you who I adore, won't tell you who I'm singing towards, Metaphorically I'm a whore, and that's denial number four." -he doesn't want to straight out tell us He adores God, which is sad since he calls himself a Christian. Sad for me too as I'm guilty of the same. He won't say who he's singing towards lol. Come on Tyler, it's obvious it's God. He just denied Jesus again by not saying who he's singing towards. That's my take, hopefully Tyler is a saved Christian and me as well. I encourage you all to seek God and get in His word. Let's believe what God said is true, "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" and "whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" |
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