| Twenty One Pilots – Air Catcher Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think this one is about the fear of "falling", or falling in love. The air catcher basically is just a parachute and that's metaphorically how he always caught himself before he could fall too hard for someone. However, this person has now completely knocked him out and although he's afraid of falling in love, he doesn't want it to stop ("you've stolen my air catcher, and I don't know if I want it back"). He knows that if he loves this person he opens himself up to vunerability and is allowing the possibility of getting hurt ("tools to destroy my heart"). | |
| Twenty One Pilots – A Car, a Torch, a Death Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song used to confuse me so much but I finally have found my own interpretation so I'm gonn share it. To me this song isn't about learning how to love during times of hardship, that love being platonic or romantic it doesn't really matter. The song starts with the narrator feeling depressed, unhappy his life. As he's driving he starts to envy those dying ("headlights driving south") and begins to contemplate suicide ("I wanna crack the door so I can just fall out"). However, somebody comes into his life that he begins to care about and that's person becomes his anchor to the world. This person allows the narrator to love and understand the love God had for us when Jesus died for our sins, coinciding with Christian belief that TØP constantly subtly references ("I began to understand why God died"). Now as the story moves along I'm still slightly unsure about what certain things represent but here are my ideas. So the narrator is with the person he loves now and when he I see dropping her off at her house and leaving he notices "the demon" on her porch. I don't quite understand what the demon is but possibly it could be us love's depression. Anyways, when the narrator leaves the demon lays out his plans to take the life of the person he loves. When this happens the narrator takes a stand and doesn't allow the demon to take the only person who kept him alive during his tough times. Instead, he offers himself up instead and in doing so, sacrifices himself as Jesus did, which is once again mentioned in the song. So even though he is allowing himself to die, essentially killing himself, it isn't for himself anymore. It's for the person he loves, giving him peace. This is my interpretation I hope it makes sense for everyone! |
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