Lyric discussion by Miriam98 

Cover art for Forest lyrics by Twenty One Pilots

“ I don't know why I feed on emotion There's a stomach inside my brain I don't wanna be heard I want to be listened to Does it bother anyone else That someone else has your name? Does it bother anyone else That someone else has your name, your name”

Taking a religious view on this song I think he’s saying he doesn’t understand why he is so hungry for more knowledge and he doesn’t just want to be heard by people he wants people to listen to the words he’s trying to tell you. When you’re in heaven God gives us all new names and no one else knows that name but you and no one else has that name and he knows that. Here he’s saying he wants his new name not a name other people have.

“I scream, you scream, we all scream 'Cause we're terrified of what's around the corner We stay in place 'Cause we don't want to lose our lives So let's think of something better”

We’re yelling to or at the Lord because of our problems we don’t grow with God cause we’re scared people might think we’re “religious freaks” so he’s trying to find a way to tell you these things subliminally.

“Down in the forest We'll sing a chorus One that everybody knows Hands held higher, We'll be on fire Singing songs that nobody wrote”

The Churches of God will flee to the forest to find the olive tree which represents God. (In the song Trees by Twenty One Pilots he is also speaking about God and how he’s an olive tree) during the end times praising and singing to the Lord and they’ll be filled up or lit up with the Holy Spirit who will teach them the songs they sing to praise God.

“My brain has given up White flags are hoisted I took some food for thought It might be poisoned The stomach in my brain Throws up onto the page”

He’s taken in information thats corrupted by satan and it disgusts him

“Quickly moving towards a storm Moving forward, torn Into pieces over reasons of what these storms are for I don't understand why everything I adore Takes a different form when I squint my eyes Have you ever done that? When you squint your eyes And your eyelashes make it look a little not right And then when just enough light Comes from just the right side And you find you're not who you're supposed to be?”

When bad things are happening to him he often over thinks things. He doesn’t get why everything he has been told about this life can make no sense at all when you bring God into the picture and you realize that you aren’t supposed to be living on such a corrupted Earth and you’re not living the life God has planned for you, you are you on the inside. Your soul inside a random body.

“This is not what you're supposed to see Please, remember me I am supposed to be King of a kingdom or swinging on a swing Something happened to my imagination This situation's becoming dire My tree house is on fire And for some reason I smell gas on my hands This is not what I had planned This is not what I had planned”

He’s telling you he knows he’s supposed to be living an amazing life in Gods kingdom and so are you. But someone brainwashed us (satan&gov) and corrupted our minds and it’s only getting worse. Dire means extremely serious or urgent. His world around him is on fire now from our sins and he has gas on his hands because he has also sinned even though he didn’t want to and regrets it.

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