| Twenty One Pilots – Lovely Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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my more cynical take: the singer likes to sleep with suicidal girls.... though kinda wishes they'd stop talking sometimes. how i choose to take it instead: the singer is offering to help you have some fun in exchange for sticking around a little longer..... which is nice.... if you're gonna insist i stick around and not kill myself the least you can do is provide something to make the time i'm trapped here in this life be at least a little enjoyable for a little bit.... way better than the lie that it'll get better.... because i'm still mad at everybody who convinced me that it would get better.... it's only gotten worse. 30 years of suicidal ideation isn't worth sticking around for....... it just isn't.... and nothing in the next 30+ years could ever make up for the last..... but drugs do help pass the time.... they make me feel lovely. so i guess for me the singer is weed.... weed is singing that if i stick around it'll keep me high and then i'll feel lovely. so yeah... this song is about how recreational drugs have kept me alive for better or worse.... at least when i'm high i can feel lovely..... not sure if that's a life worth living but i guess i'm still here. spouting cobwebs out my mouth. |
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| Twenty One Pilots – The Judge Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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this is a song about how the judge (god, christian morality) freezes our souls with the emphasis on moral purity. and how the hell of empathy and compassion (because feeling other's pain can be extremely painful) will thaw out our frozen souls. "When the leader of the bad guys sang Something soft and soaked in pain I heard the echo from his secret hideaway He must've forgot to close his door As he cranked out those dismal chords And his four walls declared him insane" the devil is the one who understands our pain and suffering. and those who care are usually dismissed with whatever convenient excuse is available. "You're the judge, oh no Set me free You're the judge, oh no Set me free I know my soul's freezing Hell's hot for good reason So please, take me" the judge doesn't care about us beyond our adherence to moral purity. and we need to be released from this judgment because it isn't helping. it's freezing our souls.... and Hell is hot for good reason because we need to be thawed out in a warm place. "I don't know if this song Is a surrender or a revel I don't know if this one Is about me or the devil" they're still lost and confused... they're experiencing empathy and compassion for the same time.... and suddenly all those people you condemned for not living up to your definition of moral purity are starting to look a lot more like you.... the us (the saved) vs. them (the damned) mentality is breaking down.... we're all damned.... we can only be saved through each other and not through fretting over the judgement of an inhuman god. |
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