| Twenty One Pilots – Migraine Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Also, I doubt this is what they actually meant with the line: "'Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind" but since songs are meant to be interpreted in various ways, I'm going to go for it. A lot of people with depression use drugs and alcohol as a method of self-medicating. Whether it's shooting up a bag of heroin or downing an entire 1/5th of vodka, the purpose is to 'kill your mind' temporarily. You will, most likely, when the drugs/alcohol wear off, feel like complete shit and probably withdrawing to the point where you feel worse than you did before, but you are alive. By blacking out for the time being, you prevented yourself from actually committing suicide because your mind was 'killed' for the time being. Again, unlikely what they meant, but hey, it sort of fits. |
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| Twenty One Pilots – Migraine Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[Lane2910:9024] I don't get that impression. I have chronic migraines, and the 'pain' is more superficial.... throbbing, a genuine feeling of intense pressure on your skull, etc. This song is a tad deeper than that. It's about negative thoughts that are more constant and negative. A migraine will eventually subside, but it is rarely associated with suicide. I think somewhere on the B-sides where he gives bonus commentary on this and confirms it's more of a metaphor for larger mental suffering. |
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| Twenty One Pilots – Migraine Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song truly resonates with me personally. As someone who has suffered from major depression since I was 14 (28 now) It is so ironic... "Am i the only one...?" is quite literally a thought I would have years before this song came out and I instantly fell in love with the tune from the very first verse. It is so ironic because clearly others out there are having mental struggles, as well. SO much of this song is a perfect reflection of what true depression is like... it is paired with its lover: anxiety. When he discusses how his mind is fighting this constant battle against the 'lion' and it won't let him sleep, so he has sought a permanent fix: permanent 'sleep' in the form of suicide: "It will not let me sleep I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead." With depression and the accompanying anxiety one finds him/herself trying to use the depression sleep for abnormally long periods of time, seeking reprieve from through the form of unconsciousness in between times when the anxiety causes abnormally grueling insomnia. One can easily have those thoughts of defeating the 'lion' aka depressed and violent thoughts through suicide. For the sufferer, it doesn't seem like a cowardly act and can, in fact, seem like a very logical solution: "you- depression/anxiety- are killing me anyway, as I do not feel truly alive but rather like a walking zombie pretending to be normal: ("I am not as fine as I seem. Pardon, me for yelling and telling you green gardens Are not what's growing in my psyche, it's a different me A difficult beast feasting on burnt down trees.") So the suicidal thoughts are warped into a form of bravery: "If you're taking me down, I'm taking you down with me." I've been there, and when I first came across this song it totally hit home. It seems several of their tunes deal with the issue of suicide/suicidal ideations. They seem to always end the songs with a hopeful stanza, so I'm curious as to whether they are speaking from personal experience in overcoming depression and transforming that negative energy into hope and optimism- anyone know? |
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