| Twenty One Pilots – Time to Say Goodbye Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song (to me, at least) seems to be about suicide and depression. Just a warning, in the following interpretation, I'll be mentioning self-harm, so read at your own risk. "You split, and take in every time you see a faking counterfeit." - Every time someone's lied to him or let him down, told him things would get better, and they didn't. Those are the "faking counterfeits". He's gotten to such a low point that he believe any kind of positivity is a lie, and it consumes him. "In the mirror you appear to see fear and whisper 'This is it.'" - TW - He's standing in a mirror, studying his reflection. He's ready to die, he's accepted his fate, and he's about to end his own life. "In the mirror you appear to see nothing else but yourself as a hollowed out space." - As I stated earlier, these dark thoughts are consuming him, perhaps turning him into "a hollowed out space". "Leave me with a razor and just in case I fall down on the ground." - This adds to the theory about this song having a theme of suicide. Razors, obviously, are one tool that can be used in the act of committing suicide. He's saying to leave him with that option just in case he falls into this hole of depression again, don't torture him by forcing him to stay alive. *I'm skipping a few verses here* "It's time to say goodbye, to the Earth and now my worthless life, 'cause everything I've ever made is dead now inside the grave." - This also enforces the idea of this song being based off suicide. Tyler clearly believes that nothing he's done at this point in his life matters, and it will matter even less once he's dead. "I just don't want to be so many things." - This could mean plenty of things. Maybe he doesn't want to be alive. Maybe he doesn't want to be depressed. Maybe he doesn't want to be so held down by the people around him. "I just wanna sing, I just wanna breathe, I just wanna fly, I just wanna close my eyes" - He wants peace, he wants the war inside of his mind to come to an end. "I just wanna run, and murder my care, I wanna believe that I will be free elsewhere." - Maybe he could find peace somewhere else- the next life, a new place, a different situation..? "And I'm standing on a tower, trying my hardest to make it to you, hut I built this tower out of mortal bricks, it's breaking." - He's isolated himself. This tower of his is actually his mind. He's become fragile, and he's falling apart. He's trying to get help, to reach out to someone, but he's in too weak a state. "I truly will surrender my pretender, my disguise." - No more fake smiles. No more saying he's okay when he's not. He's broke and shattered and his mind is at an all time low, and he's done hiding it. He knows he needs help. "Render to your splendor" - This simply means he's retreating. He's not going to fight this war alone anymore. He's getting help now, maybe from a friend or a counselor or a doctor. *the rest of the verses are just repeating* None of this is confirmed, it's simply my general idea on what this song is about. |
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| Twenty One Pilots – Forest Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"I scream, you scream, we all scream 'cause we're terrified of what's around the corner" - This explains a fear of the future, of the unknown. Scared of all the things that could go wrong. "Singin' songs that nobody wrote" - This is sort of a long shot here, but Tyler has said a few times that the masks they wear in music videos and on stage represent taking their faces and names off of their music. Think about it. When you take away somebody's most identifiable physical feature and their own name, they don't become anyone. No one would recognize them. They become nobody. So when they talk about songs that nobody wrote, they speak about their own lyrics. "Quickly moving towards a storm, moving forward, torn into pieces over reasons of what these storms are for" - All the rhyming might make that a bit jumbled. But upon studying the lyrics a bit closer, I realized that this "storm" represents depression, bad thoughts, maybe even suicidal ones. "Torn into pieces over reasons of what these storms are for" Your life is falling apart because of all these things that are going on, this storm of depression. "I don't understand why everything I adore takes a different form when I squint my eyes" - All it takes to form a whole new opinion on something/someone is to look at it a different way. For example, when Tyler writes about squinting his eyes and seeing the things he adores differently, it infers that maybe the things he loves aren't so great after all, maybe they're toxic, maybe they're hurting him. "Have you ever done that? When you squint your eyes, and your eyelashes make it look a little not right, and then when just enough light comes from just the right sides, and you find you're not what you're supposed to be?" - Your vision, in this metaphor, is blurry. But from what? My guess would be tears. You're at a low point and you look at yourself and you finally understand that this is not what you were meant for. Anyways, that was just my interpretation of a few specific lyrics, the entire song is an incredibly wonderful, complex thing, and I doubt I'd ever be able to analyze the it all, but this is just what I've gathered (: |
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