| Twenty One Pilots – Anathema Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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So, I think when you listen to most of twenty one pilots' songs what you take away from it and how you interpret it has almost fully to do with your own experiences and what's happening in your life. For this reason what I hear in this song is depression and suicide. Don't you ever just have that feeling that NO ONE knows you- at all. The whole day you're wearing another face but when you're alone you're YOU and no one really knows what you're like. Maybe no one knows you're depressed and that in itself can created a void of loneliness. That's what I think the first part of the song is about- that feeling that no one knows you or your thoughts. So won't they just "say goodnight" (leave you alone; stop caring/pretending to care) so you can "say goodbye" (kill yourself? It's quite morbid but I think plausible. Or maybe just leave- recede into your mind and not have to put on your every day face). Okay, then the part: "Won't you go to someone else's dreams, Won't you go to someone else's head, Haven't you taken enough from me, Won't you torture someone else's sleep?" To me this could be those horrible voices you get in your head that hate you and call you ugly and worthless and not good enough (your blurryface); the demons in your mind. It could also maybe be the people in your life that care about you. The worst thing about depression, to me, is all the people you hurt along the way. So you think about them the whole time and to an extent you feel like you can't really do anything to yourself because of them and in that way they've taken something from you ("Haven't you taken enough from me") I don't really know if any of my interpretations properly fit into each other but they're just the feeling I get so... Then the last part. I think it has deep religious... references? Firstly I think it's saying how when all your horrid thoughts start to get too much and you know you should get help from someone round about now, you don't know who to go to for help ("Don't know where I should go, When the tears and the fears begin to multiply,") So you're in bed and you start thinking and you realize you let another day go by without living or noticing or caring ("That I let another day go by,") and you can't make yourself seem to care about this ("I want to be afraid"). Then the song says "I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther, My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father," which I think is referring to what depression feels like- like your underwater and you can't really hear anyone and you are slowly drowning- and it's also expressing how the amount of caring you are doing is decreasing with each day ("what is the point?") and then you start asking for help from God but that isn't helping- it's not exactly like someone comes down to comfort you- and so you start questioning God and religion and all that which just leads you back to feeling hopeless, etc, etc. Then I honestly have no idea what the last lines mean to me. Haha |
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