I think this song is about a depressed girl and Tyler is her best friend trying to help her.
"You say things with your mouth, cobwebs and flies come out, I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow, luckily I can read your mind, flies and cobwebs unwind" Everything she says is clichéd and hides what she really means. Luckily, he knows her well enough to know what she really means. She's afraid of people not liking her for who she really is.
"Dear friend here we are again pretending to understand how you think your world is ending" He doesn't really get it, which is typical for a boy in love with a girl, like not seeing her faults. Same goes for best friends I guess.
"Sending signals with red flags and waves, it's hard to tell the difference between blood and water these days" She's been trying to tell people how she feels, but they don't understand what she's trying to say. Both her family (blood) and her friends (water) are acting the same.
"I pray that one day you'll see, the only difference between life and dying is one is trying, that's all we're called to do, so try to love me and I'll try to save you. " This part is confusing. He loves her, and maybe he hopes that her loving him will pull her out of her depression. I think it also just helps the stage for the chorus:
"Won't you stay alive? I'll take you on a ride. I will make you believe you are lovely" This part is so sweet. He's trying to convince her not to commit suicide, so he says, "Come on, let's go for a drive, (like Sally and Lightning in the movie Cars) I will tell you why I love you, why you need to stay alive, I will show you how you are lovely."
"Your redemption won't grow stale, we are now just setting sail, on the seas of what we fear" I took this to be that she's a new Christian and struggling in her faith along with her insecurity. He's saying that God won't give up on her, and that He will be there with her in her fears.
"Sweet, I'm coming clean, God hit me straight on, don't be gone" He's confessing something, maybe that he saw what she was saying earlier and feels guilty for not doing anything earlier? Then he says that God was the one Who reveiled her depression to him. He hopes he's not too late to save her.
That's just my opinion; you'd have to ask Mr. Tyler Joseph for the real meaning behind it.
I think this song is about a depressed girl and Tyler is her best friend trying to help her.
"You say things with your mouth, cobwebs and flies come out, I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow, luckily I can read your mind, flies and cobwebs unwind" Everything she says is clichéd and hides what she really means. Luckily, he knows her well enough to know what she really means. She's afraid of people not liking her for who she really is.
"Dear friend here we are again pretending to understand how you think your world is ending" He doesn't really get it, which is typical for a boy in love with a girl, like not seeing her faults. Same goes for best friends I guess.
"Sending signals with red flags and waves, it's hard to tell the difference between blood and water these days" She's been trying to tell people how she feels, but they don't understand what she's trying to say. Both her family (blood) and her friends (water) are acting the same.
"I pray that one day you'll see, the only difference between life and dying is one is trying, that's all we're called to do, so try to love me and I'll try to save you. " This part is confusing. He loves her, and maybe he hopes that her loving him will pull her out of her depression. I think it also just helps the stage for the chorus:
"Won't you stay alive? I'll take you on a ride. I will make you believe you are lovely" This part is so sweet. He's trying to convince her not to commit suicide, so he says, "Come on, let's go for a drive, (like Sally and Lightning in the movie Cars) I will tell you why I love you, why you need to stay alive, I will show you how you are lovely."
"Your redemption won't grow stale, we are now just setting sail, on the seas of what we fear" I took this to be that she's a new Christian and struggling in her faith along with her insecurity. He's saying that God won't give up on her, and that He will be there with her in her fears.
"Sweet, I'm coming clean, God hit me straight on, don't be gone" He's confessing something, maybe that he saw what she was saying earlier and feels guilty for not doing anything earlier? Then he says that God was the one Who reveiled her depression to him. He hopes he's not too late to save her.
That's just my opinion; you'd have to ask Mr. Tyler Joseph for the real meaning behind it.