| Twenty One Pilots – Semi-Automatic Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I have always thought this song was about going though your day without even thinking about it. Your life just becomes routine and when you do think about it, its terrible and depressing. lines 3/4, "Taking my only friend I know, / He lives a lie, his name is Hope." His life is nothing except the idea that it will be in the future, and he feels like that's a lie now too. The chorus "I'm never what I like / I'm double-sided." He has two sides the side he shows everyone is the one he doesn't think about, the conformist who does what fits in, not what is right. then there is the real him, the person he wants to be. It me a while to decide what "I kinda like it/ When I make you cry/ 'Cause I'm twisted up, I'm twisted up, inside." I believe it means He likes it when he disappoints people because he is doing what he wants, not what they want. And the paradox of his emotions vs. his actions twists him. And the the next verse about the horrors of the night, survival of the day, friends shrink as his fears grow. It goes with the verse after it about relief for the day coming but he knows it will go away at night again. So even though he doesn't like the way he is living his life at least trying to get through the day will distract him from all his scary and depressing thoughts he has at night. Thoughts that make him question his life and his friends. Then after the chorus repeats twice, As far as I can tell, he prays and decides he will "live on" and then he is ready to "stand [his] ground/ Waiting for the night's return." He will fight off his fears. I don't know if it is what Twenty One Pilots had in mind when they wrote it. Its what I got out of it though. |
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