I love the rap in this one. Tyler often just puts out a small rant on a given subject that seems to bother him or be on his mind like this one. He kinda just talks about walking the walk and how so many people are just all about the talk.
"'I'd die for you', that's easy to say...but I don't seem to see many bullets coming through"
It's easy to say that we'll be there through thick and thin when things are good. How many times do people say things of such intensity that are clearly not something they'd likely ever have to prove?
He then makes it more personal by saying "'I'd live for you', and that's harder to do". How is that more personal? Because he suffers from depression. For someone who wants to die it's a more powerful and legitimate promise to stay alive for someone instead of selfishly "dying for someone" and taking the easy way out.
At the end he then of course drops those intense rhetorical questions of "who would you live for?
Who would you die for?
And would you ever kill?"
Of course he doesn't meant literally kill, but instead more along the lines of making one of these extreme promises to someone just to eventually fail them, or "kill" them.
Some of the most impactful lyrics by Tyler and something that has really made me stop and think.
I love the rap in this one. Tyler often just puts out a small rant on a given subject that seems to bother him or be on his mind like this one. He kinda just talks about walking the walk and how so many people are just all about the talk. "'I'd die for you', that's easy to say...but I don't seem to see many bullets coming through" It's easy to say that we'll be there through thick and thin when things are good. How many times do people say things of such intensity that are clearly not something they'd likely ever have to prove? He then makes it more personal by saying "'I'd live for you', and that's harder to do". How is that more personal? Because he suffers from depression. For someone who wants to die it's a more powerful and legitimate promise to stay alive for someone instead of selfishly "dying for someone" and taking the easy way out. At the end he then of course drops those intense rhetorical questions of "who would you live for? Who would you die for? And would you ever kill?" Of course he doesn't meant literally kill, but instead more along the lines of making one of these extreme promises to someone just to eventually fail them, or "kill" them. Some of the most impactful lyrics by Tyler and something that has really made me stop and think.