This song is about thinking too much and wanting to stop. When it says "Am I the only one I know, waging my wars behind my face and above my throat", I'm pretty sure it's referring to your brain. Because, if you think about it quite literally, your brain is behind your face and above your throat. And I think the lion in the song is your thoughts. So, you're fighting wars against your thoughts, and they're trying to kill you, and that's where "Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions.They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin And I know that I can fight, or I can let the lion win. I begin to assemble what weapons I can find Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind." comes in because he calls the lions suicidal. So the lions are suicidal thoughts he's having and he has to kill his mind before those thoughts make him destroy himself. And "And I will say that we should take a day to break away From all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone. And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it And keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone." says that you need breaks from the self hating and suicidal thoughts in your head.
This song is about thinking too much and wanting to stop. When it says "Am I the only one I know, waging my wars behind my face and above my throat", I'm pretty sure it's referring to your brain. Because, if you think about it quite literally, your brain is behind your face and above your throat. And I think the lion in the song is your thoughts. So, you're fighting wars against your thoughts, and they're trying to kill you, and that's where "Full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions.They're trying to eat me, blood running down their chin And I know that I can fight, or I can let the lion win. I begin to assemble what weapons I can find Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind." comes in because he calls the lions suicidal. So the lions are suicidal thoughts he's having and he has to kill his mind before those thoughts make him destroy himself. And "And I will say that we should take a day to break away From all the pain our brain has made, the game is not played alone. And I will say that we should take a moment and hold it And keep it frozen and know that life has a hopeful undertone." says that you need breaks from the self hating and suicidal thoughts in your head.