Like a little splinter buried in your skin/someone else could carve it out, but when you've got the pin/it hurts a little less and you could even push it further in/when your body's screaming out, trust your mind's listening.
Come to think of it, basically the entire end verse of Choker.
Migraine is probably my fave TØP song in general. I know it's probably taken literally, but I always take it as fighting mental battles, ie depression and BPD
Damn you beat me to it. That song, specifically that part gives me chills every time I hear it. Always been my favorite song along with car radio from vessel
A lot of songs fit this description for me, but Backslide is the most recent. I remember when it came out I was leaving a living situation that was making me backslide to a bad mental health space. It encapsulated how I was feeling so well that I shared it with one of my best friends who doesn’t listen to TOP and he agreed that it mirrored my situation almost perfectly.
I’m doing much better now, but I’m indebted to that song for making me feel seen when I felt alone.
I have so many of their lyrics that I want to put into tattoos:
*We’re broken people* (it’s my dream to meet Tyler again and have him write these out and get them tattooed in his writing)
*Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes*
*A train from the sky locomotive my motives are insane*
*So excuse us while we sing to the sky*
*So beautiful, the space between a painful reminder and a terrible dream*
*I’ve been praying for my elasticity to return to the way that it was*
*Push on through*
*And now I just sit in silence*
*I exaggerate the life we used to know*
*Stay with me*
then I cracked open my box / someone must have picked the lock / a little light revealed the spot / where my fingernails had fought / then I pushed it open more / pushing up against the door / then I sat up off the floor and found the breath I was searching for
I love the lyrics, the music, hell, everything. But why add such thick vocal effect to his voice????? It feels like they decided to put that just to make me hate that song
All of it. Can't you really tell the difference
I feel like in this album vocal layering is so much used that people can't realize its there from the beginning
No I definitely hear the layers but that’s all it is I don’t feel that it makes his voice sound too thick. It’s just doubling to make it sound fuller and then some harmonies. But if you feel that it ruins the song for you then hey man das all you
Based on Paul Meany's instagram video about making Oldies Station, the vocal track and the uke track are recorded on one track/seed together. Maybe that's something. I do hear some of the vocal highlights throughout the album though. It's different from the other albums, but I dig it.
Man I am not sure about appreciating Paul Meany's style of music. Trench is definitely a good album but it's not my cup of tea. Neither the Redecorate from SAI or Clancy
Song wise oldies station. Lyric wise there a few that I have saved that I come back to. “Failing miserably drastically and then I crash dramatically into a wall, I’ve hit 100 times before” from drown I believe. “Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind” from migraine. And “Start a streak you’re bound to break” from oldies station
“the sun will rise and we will try again”
truce does it for me. it’s the reminder that what’s happening right now isn’t forever. the sun will rise tomorrow, bringing a new day with new feelings and struggles.
"I began to understand why God died" wow that one got me. My top favorite
"Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind"
Another good one.
"There's faith and there's sleep we need to pick one please...(and so forth with the rest of the verse)" Car radio will always be my favorite
Definitely Snap back, Mulberry street and doubt.
"I've been praying for my elasticity
To return to the way that it was
(If I'm gonna snap necks, then I gotta snap back)"
"Keep your bliss
There's nothing wrong with this
Ah-ah-ah, yeah, woo-ooh
Keep your bliss
There's nothing wrong with this"
"And I want love and sunny days
I'm a bit too old to run away"
"Scared of my own image
Scared of my own immaturity
Scared of my own ceiling
Scared I'll die of uncertainty
Fear might be the death of me
Fear leads to anxiety
Don't know what's inside of me"
“I don’t wanna live like this, at least let me clean my room. I don’t wanna go like this, cuz the last thing I want to do is make my people make decisions wondering what to do, ohh. Should I keep it on display or redecorate?”
“I have commited/ dirty dirty crimes for which i’m formfitted/ so what i’ve done and what i’m doing/ i’m brewing and losing and spewing/ and believe me that’s what other kids are doing”
just the way the synth and hi hat work together so beautifully. brings a tear to me eye
Formidable.
I was introduced to TØP in summer 2021 when I met my partner, he's a huge fan (2 tattoes, buys the march, knows they lore) and we went to see them in London together the following summer. I'm the kind of neurospicy that associates music with when I first heard it, e.g. Led Zeppelin's 5th album houses of the holy I first listened to on a camping trip to Wassenaar in the Netherlands in autumn, that album *feels* like that memory. Similarly Formidable *feels* like the early days of our relationship, the honeymoon period, and going to that concert together which was both of our first times at any concert.
I can't see past my own nose,
I'm seeing everything in slo-mo.
Look out below crashing down to the ground,
just like a vertical locomotive, that's a train:
am I painting the picture that's in my brain?
A train from the sky, locomotive, my motives are insane.
My flow's not great, okay, I conversate with people
who know if I flow on a song, I'll get no radio play.
While you're doing fine, there's some people and I
who have a really tough time getting through this life
so excuse us while we sing to the sky!
Song: Screen from Vessel album
This just really speaks to me. So many people are always happy but some of us struggle and this songs lyrics really hit the spot for me.
If I'm being real, man, don't know how I feel, man
'bout you sleeping so close to a weapon you conceal, man.
Those night terrors are not something to take lightly.
I know that it's a risk saying this, don't fight me:
at the risk of feeling dumb, check in.
It's not worth the risk of losing a friend.
Even if they say
"Just keep your plans, I hope that you never have to drop":
I don't want anyone, know me or not,
see me at my lowest, you don't have to drop
anything for me.
Song: At the risk of feeling dumb from Clancy Album
Another song about mental health that really speaks to me. Depressed, wanting to be alone: ashamed about your feelings, concerned about others taking offence to how you feel and yet this song encourages others to check in on their depressed friends. Excellent message here.
"You were one of those classic ones, I wish she knew you" and "I'll look forward to having a lunch with you again" from Legend. It always sends a shiver down my back when he sings these lines because I lost 2 grandparents to covid, and right after the pandemic I got with my girlfriend of 3 years, who never had a chance to meet them
oldies station.
i have felt such a deep connection to this song ever since tyler said he wrote it for us.
it feels so sentimental in a way because for years we’ve been told to “stay alive”, but now we’ve stayed alive and we need to “push on through”. the lyrics hit so close to home for me
i never imagined myself living to see graduation or my 18th birthday. this entire album feels like a reward for making it this long, growing as a person and with the band for so many years, it makes my achievements worth something in my eyes
i interpret it myself as growing up with the other albums, and now i get to experience this era in a new world as an adult, and i need to push through ti see it to the end
i will be with this band until the end
Right now I just can’t get over “testing what is real, what is good” from Vignette. That song is quickly becoming one of my favorite tøp song ever. I feel like I got punched in the chest the first time I processed that line
In Oldies Station “you have it down that old fight for survival”
Ouch. That one really hits you when you’ve been dealing since you were young and now you’re an adult
the end verse of Snapback "Ive been prayin for my elasticity to return to the way that it was" I genuinely cant stop thinking about that song or that lyric, its stuck in my head.
"Days feel like the perfect length, I don't need them any longer but for goodness sake, do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazón?"
I quoted it like 4 times to different people the day the song came out lol
Also the Migraine part of
"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."
(And all of Migraine)
It’s our hearts that make the beat. Have it on my body already and have not regretted waking up and reading it every morning. These boys saved my life and I’m sure many others. Stay alive friends.
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.
THERE WERE THREE MEN UP FRONT ILL I SAW WERE BACKS OF HEADS AND I ASKED AM I ALIVE AND WELL OR AM I DREAMING DEAD THEN ONE TURNED AROUND TO SAY WE'RE DRIVING TO THE MORNING SUN WHERE ALL YOUR BLOOD IS WASHED AWAY AND WHAT YOU DID WILL BE UNDONE
And before you know, you lose some people close
forcing you to manage your pace
found your capacity, for love and tragedy
embracing how things always change.
I had a keychain made of my absolute favorite lyric and want to get it tattooed eventually.
https://preview.redd.it/nx0wcmr7jr6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7db2c8f3bb5c6270528194cae3730932e6378fc
Okay there are a lots but from Clancy I would say the most is backslide song and music video. I cried once I understood backslide and the video realizing I was Tyler. I knew the I needed to make a change or I would be stuck in the unproductive cycle.
YES!! I do not believe in any god, never have, not even a little bit religious- but his emotion in self titled is palpable and you can feel how real it is to him. The entirety of the album is so raw and genuine. i really don't think you have to be religious yourself to appreciate how meaningful the religious aspects of his music are. self titled was the album that made me realize why music means so much to people.
Migraine comes to mind. The most relatable song and ooh the juicy inner rhymes and metaphors in the second verse are just 👌💯💋🤩
BEHIND MY EYELIDS ARE ISLANDS OF VIOLENCE MY MIND SHIPWRECKED THIS IS THE ONLY LAND MY MIND COULD FIND
I’ve been thinking about getting the whole second verse of Bandito tattooed on me somewhere. Just because I love it that much but I wouldn’t say it’s very practical 😂
“Strength enough for one more time, reach my hand above the tide. I’ll take anything you have, if you could throw me a line. I should’ve loved you better. Do you think that now’s the time you should let go?”
But do I want to say goodbye / to the ceiling fans and idle hands
I don’t want to be heard / I want to be listened to
Id reach for the sky / but I do not look up anymore and I don’t know why
Am I the only one not as fine as I seem?
You waste all this time / I’m out of my mind / you don’t know my mind the way you know my face
Self sabotage is a sweet romance
Waiting, Expectations that I’m gonna make it / here’s my chance time to take it / can’t be sure that I’ll make it
It’s a taste test / of what I hate less / can you die of anxiousness?
And really the entirety of fall away imo 🙂↕️
“You don’t quite mind how long red lights are taking /push on through/your favourite song was on the oldies station/push on through/you have it down that old fight for survival/push on through.”
Idk how to describe it but this part of oldies station just makes me so emotional like it hits like a truck the older I get and the more experience I get in my battle with mental illness. Tyler nailed it with Oldies Station
"Cause I feel the pull, water's over my head
Strength enough for one more time
Reach my hand above the tide
I'll take anything you have if you could throw me a line
I should've loved you better
Do you think that now's the time you should let go?"
Me, praying to God, begging him to let me know he is there.
Self titled, Isle of flightless birds:
And please think about why you can't sleep in the evening
And please don't be afraid of what your soul is really thinking
Your soul knows good and evil, your soul knows both sides
And it's time you pick your battle, and I promise you this is mine
Self titled, Friend, please:
Living like a ghost you walk by everyone you know
You say that you're fine but you have lost your sway and glow
You’ll have to watch me struggle from several rooms away
But tonight, I need you to stay
I’m sorry Mr. Gullible but lyings all I’ve learned, so be concerned
I am not as fine as I seem, pardon
Me for yelling, I'm telling you green gardens
Are not what's growing in my psyche, it's a different me
A difficult beast feasting on burnt down trees
Yapping ahead 👇🏻
Most of the songs from Vessel, Trench, and Clancy with a little SAI and Blurry mixed in. A lot of their music hits me in a way that other music doesn't. I'm big on emotional music and they put so much feeling into their songs that it's almost overwhelming (in a good way). Here are a few songs that really stick out to me in all of them though:
ATROFD. My best friend, my fiancé, and I have all been through some rough shit and this song has brought me closer to both of them. I cry every time I listen and I've lost a bit of my voice screaming this in my car 👍🏻
Migraine. This song had me in a chokehold when I was younger because of how it spoke to me. Listening to it now that I'm older it still holds up as I work through my mental health ups and downs.
Next Semester. The lyrics in this song are heavy and they remind me of the place I was in a few years ago. I can't put into words how this song has helped me heal. I'm glad I stayed alive. It was so worth it.
This can go on forever and I don't wanna write a novel at 4 in the morning so good night (or morning) to everyone and if you've made it this far thanks for reading and indulging in my yap session.
Cheers. |-/
Well for Twenty one pilots its a different song depending on my mood. For several months I would listen to Redecorate over again because of my depression getting extremely bad. Right now, it's a in-between of Risk of feeling dumb, Oldies station and Routines in the night. But by far I think the most song speakes to me is holding on to you.
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
I WOULD LOVE TO MENTION !!!! car radio is the song that i used to introduce TØP to my siblings/ family, and if i had to pick just one, it would be car radio because nothing is more magical than sharing a HUGE love and impact for one artist among the same household. nothing compares to the harmony and love that my family shares for the boys & there message through the music !!! we all went to a concert together in 2022 and oh my god the best night of my life and a core memory for everyone !!!
If you really wanna know what I'm thinking
Kind of feels like everybody leaves
Feeling the reality that everybody leaves
My dad just lost his mom, I think that everybody leaves
And I'm trying to hold onto you
'Cause everybody leaves
Blankets over mirrors, she tends to like it
She's not afraid of her reflection
But of what she might see behind it
She had plans to change her name
Just not the traditional way
Haunted by a couple big mistakes
She covers all the dents with the way she decorates
“And then one turned around to say
We're driving toward the morning sun
Where all your blood is washed away
And all you did will be undone”
and the entirety of Anathema
I (unfortunately) relate to a lot of Next Semester, including some specifics. Of course, they mean different things to me than they do to Tyler, but they still apply. I've definitely used that song and all the lyrics to process my own story, and I wish I could just play it to everyone to express what I'm thinking and feeling.
In addition to that, I've always felt very strong pulls to all of Taxi Cab and Addict with a Pen. No idea what Tyler was experiencing when he wrote them, but I feel like they align so well with what I wrestle with in myself and my faith. Wish I could also make them required listening for everyone.
"Before you know you lose some people close, forcing you to manage your pace. Found your capacity for love and tragedy embracing how things always change"
"In a season of lessons learned in given up you learn what you can and can't take"
"You have it down, that old fight for survival. Push on through"
Oldies Station is just my song from the moment I listen to the lyrics, it simply resonated on me.
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Most relatable TOP? Routines in the Night. "While all the world's asleep, I walk around instead." Idk if I'd get it tattooed because words don't hold up well, but if they did, that.
Edit: grammar and fixing autocorrects.
i really like the line in overcompensate “days feel like the perfect length i don’t need them any longer but for goodness sake do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazon, way too short for my soul, corazon”
next semester. it's so accurate to my last year of undergrad i couldn't listen to it for WEEKS after i heard it on release day lol. trying to go back to school after running away during the last month of my final semester over a year ago, wish me luck :')
In all honesty next semester would probably have one if I looked into them all. Most likely “I prayed those lights would take me home” as I’ve struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts. (I also got into a car accident on Easter while listening to this song. The guy was drunk and rear ended me but shit happens yk? I’m fine btw)
This one from choker crept up on me:
I see no volunteers
To co-sign on my fears
I'll sign on the line
Alone, I'm gonna change my circumstance
I know I need to move right now 'cause
my (current) top two lyrics are "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯" and "𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩"
for me these just express hope in its purest form and remind me that no matter how bleak things seem at times, there will always be a new day, a different time, a better feeling around the corner, eventually, and hope is the one thing that gets me through the tough spots to be able to see them
edit: I forgot to add "𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳, 𝘬𝘪𝘥", that one is too special to me to not mention <3
I think it's addict with a pen, since it's a faith related song. Every time I listen to it tears come to my eyes bc I feel so identified with it, like Tyler knew what I was thinking and then wrote a song
So many off Clancy alone especially backslide hitting extra hard this year. Thought for the past couple I’d finally kicked my depression but found myself slipping back a few times so between that and snap back Clancy is hitting me on the nail this year.
Though not lyrically I do want a truce tattoo of some sort since that song helped me through tough times when I was younger
No, I move slow/I wanna stop time/I’ll sit here til I find the problem
I only realised a little while ago that that song was about writers block
No, I don't have writers block, my writer just hates the clock!
It will not let me sleep, Ill get some sleep when I'm dead
I have a little metal cheetah pendant that I wear every day to remind me of these lyrics. It's my favorite song on Trench because of them.
Like a little splinter buried in your skin/someone else could carve it out, but when you've got the pin/it hurts a little less and you could even push it further in/when your body's screaming out, trust your mind's listening. Come to think of it, basically the entire end verse of Choker.
“Seems like all I’m worth is what I’m able to withstand” hit me so hard when Choker dropped
Yeah I was gonna say choker
I was about to do that too
Come to think of it, all of Choker.
Vessel album
Migraine is probably my fave TØP song in general. I know it's probably taken literally, but I always take it as fighting mental battles, ie depression and BPD
I think it's both, and even leaning way more into the non-literal meaning you described.
yes
The rapping in Fake you out, the one that ends with "Our brains are sick but thats okay"
Epic lyrics
Damn you beat me to it. That song, specifically that part gives me chills every time I hear it. Always been my favorite song along with car radio from vessel
you are afraid
A lot of songs fit this description for me, but Backslide is the most recent. I remember when it came out I was leaving a living situation that was making me backslide to a bad mental health space. It encapsulated how I was feeling so well that I shared it with one of my best friends who doesn’t listen to TOP and he agreed that it mirrored my situation almost perfectly. I’m doing much better now, but I’m indebted to that song for making me feel seen when I felt alone.
I fully expect Backslide to be my most played song of 2024 when the Spotify stats come out.
but the day goes on, the sun moves behind you. You get taller, bolder, stronger and the rearview only blinds you
"Expectations that I'm gonna make it" but like also a million other TØP lyrics
I have so many of their lyrics that I want to put into tattoos: *We’re broken people* (it’s my dream to meet Tyler again and have him write these out and get them tattooed in his writing) *Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes* *A train from the sky locomotive my motives are insane* *So excuse us while we sing to the sky* *So beautiful, the space between a painful reminder and a terrible dream* *I’ve been praying for my elasticity to return to the way that it was* *Push on through* *And now I just sit in silence* *I exaggerate the life we used to know* *Stay with me*
You seem like a huge vessel fan
I got into them like 3 months after Vessel came out during a very trying time so it’s near and dear to my heart ♥️
you might want to listen to regional at best if you get the chance
Oh I have it. Lovely and Forest are some of my favorite songs ever
awesome!
then I cracked open my box / someone must have picked the lock / a little light revealed the spot / where my fingernails had fought / then I pushed it open more / pushing up against the door / then I sat up off the floor and found the breath I was searching for
YES! I LOVE TAXI CAB
Ahh, there’s a lot but the first that comes to mind currently is oldies station
“You have it down, that old fight for survival”. It’s such a hopeful, triumphant line. I love it.
same!! I wanna wrap my arms around it and put it in a little box to carry with me whenever I go, it gives me the biggest feels whenever I listen to it
Same. Hit a weird point in life that I don't feel is spoken about much but this song seems to capture a slice of it.
I love the lyrics, the music, hell, everything. But why add such thick vocal effect to his voice????? It feels like they decided to put that just to make me hate that song
Huhhh? Which part of oldies do you feel he has a thick filter?
All of it. Can't you really tell the difference I feel like in this album vocal layering is so much used that people can't realize its there from the beginning
No I definitely hear the layers but that’s all it is I don’t feel that it makes his voice sound too thick. It’s just doubling to make it sound fuller and then some harmonies. But if you feel that it ruins the song for you then hey man das all you
Based on Paul Meany's instagram video about making Oldies Station, the vocal track and the uke track are recorded on one track/seed together. Maybe that's something. I do hear some of the vocal highlights throughout the album though. It's different from the other albums, but I dig it.
Man I am not sure about appreciating Paul Meany's style of music. Trench is definitely a good album but it's not my cup of tea. Neither the Redecorate from SAI or Clancy
Song wise oldies station. Lyric wise there a few that I have saved that I come back to. “Failing miserably drastically and then I crash dramatically into a wall, I’ve hit 100 times before” from drown I believe. “Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind” from migraine. And “Start a streak you’re bound to break” from oldies station
Drown is SO good, especially lyrically
I just discovered Drown just this past week. Where has this been?!
No Phun intended was a year long obsession when I first found out about it
“the sun will rise and we will try again” truce does it for me. it’s the reminder that what’s happening right now isn’t forever. the sun will rise tomorrow, bringing a new day with new feelings and struggles.
Recently did a succulent workshop and this is what I chose to have engraved on the wooden planter. We all need this reminder sometimes.
Yea I think about the end just way to much, but its fun to fantasize
"I began to understand why God died" wow that one got me. My top favorite "Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind" Another good one. "There's faith and there's sleep we need to pick one please...(and so forth with the rest of the verse)" Car radio will always be my favorite
But You specialize in dying, You hear me screaming Father, and I'm lying here just crying, so wash me with Your water
WATERRRRRRR
Definitely Snap back, Mulberry street and doubt. "I've been praying for my elasticity To return to the way that it was (If I'm gonna snap necks, then I gotta snap back)" "Keep your bliss There's nothing wrong with this Ah-ah-ah, yeah, woo-ooh Keep your bliss There's nothing wrong with this" "And I want love and sunny days I'm a bit too old to run away" "Scared of my own image Scared of my own immaturity Scared of my own ceiling Scared I'll die of uncertainty Fear might be the death of me Fear leads to anxiety Don't know what's inside of me"
“I don’t wanna live like this, at least let me clean my room. I don’t wanna go like this, cuz the last thing I want to do is make my people make decisions wondering what to do, ohh. Should I keep it on display or redecorate?”
It's not accurate for me but I feel everything about the Car Radio. Such that it makes my face instantly sadder, thus uglier
Basically all of the lyrics to Neon Gravestones, but especially the very end
“I have commited/ dirty dirty crimes for which i’m formfitted/ so what i’ve done and what i’m doing/ i’m brewing and losing and spewing/ and believe me that’s what other kids are doing” just the way the synth and hi hat work together so beautifully. brings a tear to me eye
Formidable. I was introduced to TØP in summer 2021 when I met my partner, he's a huge fan (2 tattoes, buys the march, knows they lore) and we went to see them in London together the following summer. I'm the kind of neurospicy that associates music with when I first heard it, e.g. Led Zeppelin's 5th album houses of the holy I first listened to on a camping trip to Wassenaar in the Netherlands in autumn, that album *feels* like that memory. Similarly Formidable *feels* like the early days of our relationship, the honeymoon period, and going to that concert together which was both of our first times at any concert.
"Make an oath, and make mistakes/Start a streak you're bound to break/When darkness rolls on you, push on through"
I can't see past my own nose, I'm seeing everything in slo-mo. Look out below crashing down to the ground, just like a vertical locomotive, that's a train: am I painting the picture that's in my brain? A train from the sky, locomotive, my motives are insane. My flow's not great, okay, I conversate with people who know if I flow on a song, I'll get no radio play. While you're doing fine, there's some people and I who have a really tough time getting through this life so excuse us while we sing to the sky! Song: Screen from Vessel album This just really speaks to me. So many people are always happy but some of us struggle and this songs lyrics really hit the spot for me.
If I'm being real, man, don't know how I feel, man 'bout you sleeping so close to a weapon you conceal, man. Those night terrors are not something to take lightly. I know that it's a risk saying this, don't fight me: at the risk of feeling dumb, check in. It's not worth the risk of losing a friend. Even if they say "Just keep your plans, I hope that you never have to drop": I don't want anyone, know me or not, see me at my lowest, you don't have to drop anything for me. Song: At the risk of feeling dumb from Clancy Album Another song about mental health that really speaks to me. Depressed, wanting to be alone: ashamed about your feelings, concerned about others taking offence to how you feel and yet this song encourages others to check in on their depressed friends. Excellent message here.
"You were one of those classic ones, I wish she knew you" and "I'll look forward to having a lunch with you again" from Legend. It always sends a shiver down my back when he sings these lines because I lost 2 grandparents to covid, and right after the pandemic I got with my girlfriend of 3 years, who never had a chance to meet them
oldies station. i have felt such a deep connection to this song ever since tyler said he wrote it for us. it feels so sentimental in a way because for years we’ve been told to “stay alive”, but now we’ve stayed alive and we need to “push on through”. the lyrics hit so close to home for me i never imagined myself living to see graduation or my 18th birthday. this entire album feels like a reward for making it this long, growing as a person and with the band for so many years, it makes my achievements worth something in my eyes i interpret it myself as growing up with the other albums, and now i get to experience this era in a new world as an adult, and i need to push through ti see it to the end i will be with this band until the end
Car Radio. "Sometimes quiet is violent."
Right now I just can’t get over “testing what is real, what is good” from Vignette. That song is quickly becoming one of my favorite tøp song ever. I feel like I got punched in the chest the first time I processed that line
Sip a Capri Sun like is Dom Perignon
You'll have to watch me struggle From several rooms away But tonight I'll need you to stay
In Oldies Station “you have it down that old fight for survival” Ouch. That one really hits you when you’ve been dealing since you were young and now you’re an adult
nah this is for real !! that lyric is so delicate and raw ❤️🩹
right in the feels every time!! 🥹
the end verse of Snapback "Ive been prayin for my elasticity to return to the way that it was" I genuinely cant stop thinking about that song or that lyric, its stuck in my head.
Yes as someone who experiences mania with psychosis this lyric really spoke to me.
fellow mania bro! yeah, Snapback is one of the standouts on the album (to me) bc it really speaks to *that* side of me!
“Can’t change what you’ve done, start fresh next semester” Getting it tatted this winter
So so so many songs from all across their albums. A cuple of them tho are *Truce* *Gonner* *Backslide* *Midwest Indigo* all of Trench album
SOMETIMES TO STAY ALIVE YOU’VE GOTTA KILL YOUR MIND
"Can't change what You've done" "At least let me clean My room" "No, not me, It's for a friend. Denial" Y varias más que ahorita no me acuerdo jaja
"Days feel like the perfect length, I don't need them any longer but for goodness sake, do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazón?" I quoted it like 4 times to different people the day the song came out lol Also the Migraine part of "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." (And all of Migraine)
It’s our hearts that make the beat. Have it on my body already and have not regretted waking up and reading it every morning. These boys saved my life and I’m sure many others. Stay alive friends.
There’s some people and I who have a really tough time getting through this life, so excuse us while we sing to the sky!
“It’s not worth losing your friends.” -At the Risk of Feeling Dumb
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. THERE WERE THREE MEN UP FRONT ILL I SAW WERE BACKS OF HEADS AND I ASKED AM I ALIVE AND WELL OR AM I DREAMING DEAD THEN ONE TURNED AROUND TO SAY WE'RE DRIVING TO THE MORNING SUN WHERE ALL YOUR BLOOD IS WASHED AWAY AND WHAT YOU DID WILL BE UNDONE
And before you know, you lose some people close forcing you to manage your pace found your capacity, for love and tragedy embracing how things always change.
I'm never what I like I'm double-sided And I just can't hide I kinda like it When I make you cry 'Cause I'm twisted up I'm twisted up Inside
Final verse of neon gravestone
I had a keychain made of my absolute favorite lyric and want to get it tattooed eventually. https://preview.redd.it/nx0wcmr7jr6d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7db2c8f3bb5c6270528194cae3730932e6378fc
Okay there are a lots but from Clancy I would say the most is backslide song and music video. I cried once I understood backslide and the video realizing I was Tyler. I knew the I needed to make a change or I would be stuck in the unproductive cycle.
My blood... Or the self titler album
for someone who's not religious, i have a deep seeded attachment and love for self titled.
YES!! I do not believe in any god, never have, not even a little bit religious- but his emotion in self titled is palpable and you can feel how real it is to him. The entirety of the album is so raw and genuine. i really don't think you have to be religious yourself to appreciate how meaningful the religious aspects of his music are. self titled was the album that made me realize why music means so much to people.
Same and at the same time there’s many religious lyrics that I interpret in my own non religious way and I love that about them too
literally all of Clancy, this album came out at the perfect time for me it’s kinda crazy
me too, the songs were seriously what i needed to hear right now
Migraine comes to mind. The most relatable song and ooh the juicy inner rhymes and metaphors in the second verse are just 👌💯💋🤩 BEHIND MY EYELIDS ARE ISLANDS OF VIOLENCE MY MIND SHIPWRECKED THIS IS THE ONLY LAND MY MIND COULD FIND
Oldies station
two fighter jets matching energy, trying to forget that we’re in ejection seats
I’ve been thinking about getting the whole second verse of Bandito tattooed on me somewhere. Just because I love it that much but I wouldn’t say it’s very practical 😂
Rn backslide. Ive been screaming the chorus everytime
you are tired, you are hurt, a moth ate through your favorite shirt
and all your friends? they fertilize, the ground you wallllkkkk so lose your MIND
"Got both hands on your shoulders while you're bottomless" cuts deep.
"I have seem to run out of excuses of why I am this way..."
“Strength enough for one more time, reach my hand above the tide. I’ll take anything you have, if you could throw me a line. I should’ve loved you better. Do you think that now’s the time you should let go?”
I'll keep on trying, might as well / If you decide, all is well / though I am bruised, face of contusions / know I'll keep moving
Migraine! Always and forever! I even tattooed lyrics from that song, so this is literally true!
OLDIES STATION
But do I want to say goodbye / to the ceiling fans and idle hands I don’t want to be heard / I want to be listened to Id reach for the sky / but I do not look up anymore and I don’t know why Am I the only one not as fine as I seem? You waste all this time / I’m out of my mind / you don’t know my mind the way you know my face Self sabotage is a sweet romance Waiting, Expectations that I’m gonna make it / here’s my chance time to take it / can’t be sure that I’ll make it It’s a taste test / of what I hate less / can you die of anxiousness? And really the entirety of fall away imo 🙂↕️
Do the lyrics consent to this?
I have "peace will win / fear will løse" tattooed on me. Soon I'll get "I don't wanna backslide."
Sometimes quiet is violent
There’s an Infestation in my minds imagination
“You don’t quite mind how long red lights are taking /push on through/your favourite song was on the oldies station/push on through/you have it down that old fight for survival/push on through.” Idk how to describe it but this part of oldies station just makes me so emotional like it hits like a truck the older I get and the more experience I get in my battle with mental illness. Tyler nailed it with Oldies Station
"Cause I feel the pull, water's over my head Strength enough for one more time Reach my hand above the tide I'll take anything you have if you could throw me a line I should've loved you better Do you think that now's the time you should let go?" Me, praying to God, begging him to let me know he is there.
“take me out finish this waste of a life” lmfao, i only like their first and some of the 2nd album idk half the stuff i see in these comments 😭😭
The rap in Migraine about the island has been hitting me hard recently
Self titled, Isle of flightless birds: And please think about why you can't sleep in the evening And please don't be afraid of what your soul is really thinking Your soul knows good and evil, your soul knows both sides And it's time you pick your battle, and I promise you this is mine Self titled, Friend, please: Living like a ghost you walk by everyone you know You say that you're fine but you have lost your sway and glow
“This room is far too dark, for us to stay around… redemption’s not that far, and darkness is going down.”
You’ll have to watch me struggle from several rooms away But tonight, I need you to stay I’m sorry Mr. Gullible but lyings all I’ve learned, so be concerned
behin my eyelids are islands of violence
I am not as fine as I seem, pardon Me for yelling, I'm telling you green gardens Are not what's growing in my psyche, it's a different me A difficult beast feasting on burnt down trees
"Nothing kills a man faster than his own head." Trapdoor, Self-titled Just hits hard man
Yapping ahead 👇🏻 Most of the songs from Vessel, Trench, and Clancy with a little SAI and Blurry mixed in. A lot of their music hits me in a way that other music doesn't. I'm big on emotional music and they put so much feeling into their songs that it's almost overwhelming (in a good way). Here are a few songs that really stick out to me in all of them though: ATROFD. My best friend, my fiancé, and I have all been through some rough shit and this song has brought me closer to both of them. I cry every time I listen and I've lost a bit of my voice screaming this in my car 👍🏻 Migraine. This song had me in a chokehold when I was younger because of how it spoke to me. Listening to it now that I'm older it still holds up as I work through my mental health ups and downs. Next Semester. The lyrics in this song are heavy and they remind me of the place I was in a few years ago. I can't put into words how this song has helped me heal. I'm glad I stayed alive. It was so worth it. This can go on forever and I don't wanna write a novel at 4 in the morning so good night (or morning) to everyone and if you've made it this far thanks for reading and indulging in my yap session. Cheers. |-/
Clancy/Vessel
No Chances
We come for you? just joking
Blurryface
Stressed out
TRUCE
be concerned aka my FAVORITE SONG EVER
Well for Twenty one pilots its a different song depending on my mood. For several months I would listen to Redecorate over again because of my depression getting extremely bad. Right now, it's a in-between of Risk of feeling dumb, Oldies station and Routines in the night. But by far I think the most song speakes to me is holding on to you.
Next Semester- I remember, I remember certain things! What I was wearing! The yellow dashes in the street, I hoped those lights would take me homeeeee
Polarize. Message Man. Pretty much All of Blurryface. And vessel, too. Especially Migraine
and i want love and sunny days :-)
You say that you are close / is close the closest star? / you just feel twice as far/ you jdut feel twice as far
I have a pet cheetah named Jason Statham
FAKE YOU OUT. also next semester and backslide. the whole songs
Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah Pet cheetah, pet cheetah
AT THE RISK OF FEELING DUMB CHECK IN
I WOULD LOVE TO MENTION !!!! car radio is the song that i used to introduce TØP to my siblings/ family, and if i had to pick just one, it would be car radio because nothing is more magical than sharing a HUGE love and impact for one artist among the same household. nothing compares to the harmony and love that my family shares for the boys & there message through the music !!! we all went to a concert together in 2022 and oh my god the best night of my life and a core memory for everyone !!!
I feel like the bridge in Navigating just.... Hits harder than almost anything else they've written, could be recency bias tho :p
While you’re doing fine, theres some people and I, who have a really tough time getting through this life, so excuse us while we sing to the sky.
"I'm careless when I wear my rebel clothes"
Self titled, Trapdoor to be specific
If you really wanna know what I'm thinking Kind of feels like everybody leaves Feeling the reality that everybody leaves My dad just lost his mom, I think that everybody leaves And I'm trying to hold onto you 'Cause everybody leaves
Cut my lip and routines in the night
Blankets over mirrors, she tends to like it She's not afraid of her reflection But of what she might see behind it She had plans to change her name Just not the traditional way Haunted by a couple big mistakes She covers all the dents with the way she decorates
Off of Clancy, I’d say Next Semester, Midwest Indigo, and ESPECIALLY Oldies Station
“And then one turned around to say We're driving toward the morning sun Where all your blood is washed away And all you did will be undone” and the entirety of Anathema
“Some doors have ‘stay out’ spray painted in white.”
"sometimes we will die and sometimes we will fly away"
No, I don’t know which way I’m going but I can hear my way around
I (unfortunately) relate to a lot of Next Semester, including some specifics. Of course, they mean different things to me than they do to Tyler, but they still apply. I've definitely used that song and all the lyrics to process my own story, and I wish I could just play it to everyone to express what I'm thinking and feeling. In addition to that, I've always felt very strong pulls to all of Taxi Cab and Addict with a Pen. No idea what Tyler was experiencing when he wrote them, but I feel like they align so well with what I wrestle with in myself and my faith. Wish I could also make them required listening for everyone.
"Hey kid, get out of the road!"
“Here’s my chance time to take it, can’t be sure that I’ll make it, even though, I’m past the point of no return”
“When we gonna stop with it, lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought”
"Before you know you lose some people close, forcing you to manage your pace. Found your capacity for love and tragedy embracing how things always change" "In a season of lessons learned in given up you learn what you can and can't take" "You have it down, that old fight for survival. Push on through" Oldies Station is just my song from the moment I listen to the lyrics, it simply resonated on me.
Clancy/Regional at Best
vessel, trees and truce in particular.
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Veetle by far
def navigating
Basically the whole of navigating 😂
the craving..
I see the problem is, your proctologist Got both hand on your shoulders while you're bottomless. Deep and relatable
"Days feel like a perfect length I don't need them any longer But for goodness sake Do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazón"
the entirety of Trench no joke lmao. but…. mainly Leave The City, Bandito, and Morph.
Next Semester, Backslide, Doubt.
Most relatable TOP? Routines in the Night. "While all the world's asleep, I walk around instead." Idk if I'd get it tattooed because words don't hold up well, but if they did, that. Edit: grammar and fixing autocorrects.
Trench
"Only consistency in your periphery is fear and the bridge of your nose" is my new favourite
"Cause sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind"
“I see your problem is, your proctologist got both hands on you shoulder while you’re bottomless”
All of Vessel.
i really like the line in overcompensate “days feel like the perfect length i don’t need them any longer but for goodness sake do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazon, way too short for my soul, corazon”
Redecorate
START FRESH NEXT SEMESTAAAAAAAAARRRRRR
next semester. it's so accurate to my last year of undergrad i couldn't listen to it for WEEKS after i heard it on release day lol. trying to go back to school after running away during the last month of my final semester over a year ago, wish me luck :')
Oldies station… just all of it
the entirety of clancy
Navigating
Specifically the “Pardon my delay, I’m navigating my head”
In all honesty next semester would probably have one if I looked into them all. Most likely “I prayed those lights would take me home” as I’ve struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts. (I also got into a car accident on Easter while listening to this song. The guy was drunk and rear ended me but shit happens yk? I’m fine btw)
definitely Backslide, Midwest Indigo, and The Craving. I feel like I relate to them the most.
"we're broken people"
The whole choker song
This one from choker crept up on me: I see no volunteers To co-sign on my fears I'll sign on the line Alone, I'm gonna change my circumstance I know I need to move right now 'cause
my (current) top two lyrics are "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯" and "𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩" for me these just express hope in its purest form and remind me that no matter how bleak things seem at times, there will always be a new day, a different time, a better feeling around the corner, eventually, and hope is the one thing that gets me through the tough spots to be able to see them edit: I forgot to add "𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳, 𝘬𝘪𝘥", that one is too special to me to not mention <3
Clancy has a unhealthy amount of lyrics i releated to, like every song. But mostly snap back or backslide
The Pantaloon is my dirty little secret, it's just so... Your friends/ they feralize/ the ground you walk/ so LOSE YOUR MINDDDDD!
i'm a pro at imperfections and i'm bestfriends with my doubt
Next semester. Going to get some of the lyrics tattooed on my arm once the summer is over
I think it's addict with a pen, since it's a faith related song. Every time I listen to it tears come to my eyes bc I feel so identified with it, like Tyler knew what I was thinking and then wrote a song
For me It’s definitely it’s a tribute to zombies of which I have become
Addict with a pen/next semester
As a writer, the lyrics in Bandito “I created this world to feel some control, destroy it if I want” hit HARD
Truce 🥴
“In time, I will Leave the City. For Now, I will stay alive”
So many off Clancy alone especially backslide hitting extra hard this year. Thought for the past couple I’d finally kicked my depression but found myself slipping back a few times so between that and snap back Clancy is hitting me on the nail this year. Though not lyrically I do want a truce tattoo of some sort since that song helped me through tough times when I was younger