You will never know
What's behind my skull
So won't you say goodnight
So I can say goodbye

You will never know
What's under my hair
So won't you say goodnight
So I can say goodbye

You will never know
What's under my skin
So won't you say goodnight
So I can say goodbye

You will never know
What is in my veins
So won't you say goodnight
So I can say goodbye

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?

And you will never know (won't you go to someone else's dreams)
What I'm thinking of
So won't you say goodnight (won't you go to someone else's head)
So I can say goodbye

And you will never understand (haven't you taken enough from me)
What I believe
So won't you say goodnight (won't you torture someone else's sleep?)
So I can say goodbye

I

Haven't you taken enough from me
Won't you torture someone else's sleep? (I)
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?

I start to part two halves of my heart in the dark and I
Don't know where I should go
And the tears and the fears begin to multiply
Taking time in a simple place
In my bed where my head rests on a pillowcase
And it's said that a war's lead but I forget
That I let another day go by
I want to be afraid but it seems that these days
I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther
My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father
Am I screaming to an empty sky?
Empty sky, no way, that's me
'Cause one half of my heart is free
Empty sky, no way, that's me
'Cause the other half of my heart's asleep


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    My Interpretation

    I'm pretty sure I'm wrong because like, Twenty One Pilots isn't a very face-value kind of band in my opinion, but I just thought I'd share. I always took this as a love song? Like, when you're scared. You're scared of good things because you're scared of ruining them, so you're sort of reframing it into this bad thing (the whole chorus, obviously) because you're scared. But at the same time, you're too selfish to let it go, too, and you're too scared to let it go, so you're just kinda waiting for the other person (the "won't you say goodnight so I can say goodbye?" line) to make that move, to end it, because you're selfish. You are. You don't want to be the one to ruin what could be a good thing, even if you're also the one scared to move forward.

    Also, this part specifically:

    I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther, My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father,

    It came across as romantic to me, too, because I was looking at it through a specific viewpoint, you know? And look, it's almost definitely about mental illness, but I think it's just really interesting. Mental illness has been so, so romanticized, and I think the fact that I thought this was a love song really speaks to that.

    Honestly, I'm still probably gonna view it as a love song, just 'cause that really fucks me up and it's fun (and it reminds me of Lena/Julian from Delirium, if anyone cares) and. I don't have another point.

    Just thought I'd share? Sorry if I didn't use the right type, I literally just made an account like two minutes ago to comment on this and That's Okay by the Hush Sound.

    queencaton July 21, 2016   Link

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