Twenty-One Pilots
“I mean no disrespect
I am simply very perplexed by your ways
Why wouldn’t you let us use your name?” – Implicit Demand for Proof
“I’m dying and I’m trying
But believe me I’m fine
But I’m lying,
I’m so very far from fine” – Fall Away
“The end can’t come soon enough
But is it too soon?
Either way he can’t deny
He is a Pantaloon” – The Pantaloon
“I’m just being dramatic
In fact,
I’m only at it again
As an addict with a pen
Who’s addicted to the wind
As it blows me back and forth
Mindless, spineless, and pretend
Of course I’ll be here again
See you tomorrow
But it’s the end of today” – Addict with a Pen
“I know you want to leave but
Friend, please don’t take your life away from me
Would you let me know your plans tonight?
‘Cause I just won’t let go ’til we both see the light
And I have nothing else left to say
But I will listen to you all day, yes I will” – Friend, Please
“And as we near the end of land
And our ocean graves are just beyond the sand
I ask myself the question
Why I fall in line” – March to the Sea
“He has fallen in love
He knows it’s enough
But the world looks down and frowns” – Johnny Boy
“Oh, Ms. Believer, my pretty weeper
Your twisted thoughts are like snow on the rooftops
Please, take my hand, we’re in foreign land
As we travel through snow
Together we go” – Oh Ms. Believer
“I don’t believe
In talking just to breathe
And falling selfishly” – Air Catcher
“Nothing kills a man faster than his own head” – Trapdoor
“And then I saw him, torch in hand
He laid it out, what he had planned
And then I said, ‘I’ll take the grave
Please, just send them all my way!'” – A Car, a Torch, a Death
“We’re driving toward the morning sun
Where all your blood is washed away
And all you did will be undone” – Taxi Cab
“Look in the mirror and ask your soul if you’re alright
Put on the glitter that your soul hides behind” – Before You Start Your Day
“All we are is an isle of flightless birds
We find our worth in giving birth and stuff
We’re lining our homes against winding roads
And we think the going is tough
We pick songs to sing, remind us of things that nobody cares about
And honestly we’re probably more suicidal than ever now” – Isle of Flightless Birds
Regional At Best
“So bold and fearless in the risks we take,
Laugh in the face of gravity as its laws we’d break,
On trampolines so high, we reach for the sky, but I,
Do not look up anymore and I don’t know why” – Slowtown
“I took some food for thought
It might be poisoned
The stomach in my brain
Throws up onto the page” – Forest
“We all know somebody who knows somebody who’s doing great,
I know some people who know people who are flying straight,
But I’ll kindly enter into rooms of depression,
While ceiling fans and idle hands will take my life again.”
– Glowing Eyes
“Are you searching for purpose?
Then write something, yeah it might be worthless
Then paint something then, it might be wordless
Pointless curses, nonsense verses
You’ll see purpose start to surface” – Kitchen Sink
“Haven’t you taken enough from me?
Won’t you torture someone else’s sleep?”
– Anathema
“I’ll pray that one day you see
The only difference between life and dying
Is one is trying, that’s all we’re gonna do
So try to love me and I’ll try to save you.
Won’t you stay alive
I’ll take you on a ride
I will make you believe you are lovely.”
– Lovely
“You’re an angel fallen down. Won’t you tell us of the clouds?
You have fallen from the sky. How high? How high?”
– Ruby
“I’m so sorry but I do believe
That all my bridges I have burned
And I’ve earned a policy of no return”
– Be Conerned
“I take my face off at the door ’cause I don’t know who they will take me for,
I wonder if I tell them what I did last night
Whether or not I got caught, they just might
Wage war on you, therefore it’s true,
That I shot my general on my side of enemy lines.
– Clear
Vessel
“Some see a pen, I see a harpoon” – Ode to Sleep
“Tie a noose around your mind
Loose enough to breathe fine and tie it
To a tree. Tell it, ‘You belong to me.
This ain’t a noose, this is a leash.
And I have news for you: you must obey me.'” – Holding Onto You
“Life has a hopeful undertone” – Migraine
“Since we know that dreams are dead,
And life turns plans up on their head,
I will plan to be a bum,
So I just might become someone” – House of Gold
“Sometimes quiet is violent” – Car Radio
“When the sun is climbing window sills,
And the silver lining rides the hills,
I will be safe for one whole day,
Until the sun makes the hills its grave” – Semi-Automatic
“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” – Screen
“You’ll have to watch me struggle
From several rooms away
But tonight I’ll need you to stay” – The Run and Go
“You say that you are close.
Is close the closest star?” – Fake You Out
“The solution is, I see a whole room of these mutant kids,
Fused at the wrist, I simply tell them they should shoot at this,
Simply suggest my chest and this confused music,
It’s obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist” – Guns for Hands
“Why won’t you speak
Where I happen to be?” – Trees
“Stay alive, stay alive, for me.
You will die, but now your life is free,
Take pride
In what is sure
To die” – Truce
Blurryface
“This is not rap, this is not hip-hop
Just another attempt to make the voices stop
Rapping to prove nothing, just writing to say something
‘Cause I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t rushing to say nothing”
– Heavydirtysoul
“I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink
But now I’m insecure and I care what people think” – Stressed Out
“‘I’d live for you,’ and that’s hard to do
Even harder to say when you know it’s not true” – Ride
“The world around us is burning but we’re so cold” – Fairly Local
“Sometimes you’ve got to bleed to know
That you’re alive and have a soul” – Tear in My Heart
“I know a thing or two about pain and darkness
If it wasn’t for this music, I don’t know how I would’ve fought this”
– Lane Boy
“I’m a pro at imperfections and I’m best friends with my doubt” – The Judge
“Fear might be the death of me
Fear leads to anxiety,
Don’t know what’s inside of me” – Doubt
“I wanted to be a better brother, better son,
Wanted to be a better adversary to the evil I have done,
I have none to show to the one I love,
But deny, deny, denial” – Polarize
“We don’t believe what’s on TV
Because it’s what we want to see
And what we want, we know we can’t believe
We have all learned to kill our dreams” – We Don’t Believe What’s On TV
“Your brain knows to keep going even though hope is far from this moment,
But you and I know it gets better when morning finally rears its head.
Together we’re losers,
Remember the future,
Remember the morning is when night is dead” – Message Man
“We don’t know, we don’t know
How to put back the power in our soul
We don’t know, we don’t know
Where to find what once was in our bones” – Hometown
“I know this one’s a contradiction because of how happy it sounds,
But the lyrics are so down,
It’s OK though, because it represents, wait better yet, it is,
Who I feel I am right now” – Not Today
“I’ve got two faces, Blurry’s the one I’m not” – Goner
Single – Heathens
“Why’d you come? You knew you should have stayed
I tried to warn you just to stay away
And now they’re outside ready to bust
It looks like you might be one of us” – Heathens
Trench
“I’ll stop my plans (I’ll stop my plans)
But you’ll have to tie me down and then break both my hands” – Jumpsuit
“This culture is a poacher of overexposure, not today
Don’t feed me to the vultures
I am a vulture who feeds on pain” – Levitate
“Can’t stop thinking about if and when I’ll die
For now I see that ‘if’ and ‘when’ are truly different cries
For ‘if’ is purely panic and ‘when’ is solemn sorrow
And one invades today while the other spies tomorrow” – Morph
“If you find yourself in a lion’s den
I’ll jump right in and pull my pin
And go with you” – My Blood
“This beat is a chemical” – Chlorine
“For you, I’d go
Step to a dude much bigger than me
For you, I know
I would get messed up, weigh 153
For you
I would get beat to smithereens” – Smithereens
“I’m not disrespecting what was left behind
Just pleading that ‘it’ does not get glorified
Maybe we swap out what it is that we hold so high
Find your grandparents or someone of age
Pay some respects for the path that they paved
To life, they were dedicated
Now, that should be celebrated” – Neon Gravestones
“You don’t get thick skin without getting burnt” – The Hype
“We’ll win but not everyone will get out.” – Nico and the Niners
“Though I am bruised
Face of contusions
Know I’ll keep moving” – Cut My Lip
“I’m still not sure if fear’s a rival or a close relative to truth” – Bandito
“My house is the one where the vultures are perched on the roof
Get behind me, I bet this nepotistic mindset
Will help us get ours as we’re growing
This clique means so much to this dude
It could make him afraid of his music
And be scared to death he could lose it” – Pet Cheetah
“You’re a legend in my own mind” – Legend
“But this year
Though I’m far from home
In TRENCH I’m not alone
These faces facing me
They know
They know
What I mean” – Leave the City
Single – Level of Cocern
You could bring down my level of concern
Just need you to tell me we’re alright, tell me we’re okay
In a world, where you could just lie to me
And I’d be okay, we’ll be okay – Level of Concern
Single – Christmas Saves the Year
Years past seemed so much grander
This one needs to come through
‘Cause everybody wants to make it home this year
Even if the world is crumblin’ down – Christmas Saves the Year
Scaled and Icy
Today’s a good day
Never know, never know
When the next one will show, it’ll show
So I’ma sing my soul, I’ma sing my soul – Good Day
Like a little splinter buried in your skin
Someone else can carve it out, but when you’ve got the pin
It hurts a little less and you can even push it further in
When your body’s screaming out, trust your mind’s listening
Like a silhouette that you can barely see
As a shadow cast upon the ground, where you’ll eventually
Lay forever, but the day goes on, the sun moves behind you
You get taller, bolder, stronger and the rearview only blinds you. – Choker
Don’t circle the track
Just break the cycle in half – Shy Away
I’m on the outside in the summer heat
You can pay the cover charge, I’m in the street
Little do they know that they can’t touch me
I’m vibin’, vibin’ – The Outside
Life moves slow on the ocean floor
I can’t feel the waves anymore
Did the tide forget to move? – Saturday
Now that they know information
Is just a currency and nothing more
Keep the truth in quotations
‘Cause they keep lying through their fake teeth
Oh-oh-oh, they’re trying hard to weaponize
You and I, we’ll never take it – Never Take It
Keep your sunny days
Leave us in the rain
Tie strings to our hands and feet
To rain on your parade
You can have the weekends
We will live between them
Keep your pills, save your breath
And don’t ever forget
Get out of our way – Mulberry Street
Don’t know what it was, but somehow we played it out in reverse
I’m afraid of you now, more than I was at first – Formidable
I told you all along
Running away don’t make you wrong – Bounce Man
We got people on the way
We want you home in one piece now – No Chances
Blankets over mirrors, she tends to like it
She’s not afraid of her reflection
But of what she might see behind it – Redecorate
Clancy
“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, corazon
For my soul, corazon” – Overcompensate
“Can’t change what you’ve done
Start fresh next semester
It’s a taste test of what I hate less
I don’t wanna be here, start fresh with a new year” – Next Semester
“Are you doing good? Did you solve all of your problems?
Thanks for asking, in a way, but
Accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday
What happened to what I brushed under the rug?” – Backslide
“I want love and sunny days
I’m a bit too old to run away
You make me sad and second-guess myself” – Midwest Indigo
“Walk the layout, routines in the night
Some doors have ‘stay out’ spray-painted in white
While all the world’s asleep, I walk around instead
Through the memories, down the halls of my head” – Routines in the Night
“He’s thinking, ‘There’s no way I’m headed there’
Always sure-footed, educated, and was never scared
Now he can’t hold out his hand without it shaking
Hounded by a bunch of dead when the search party found him
Fresh off a binger in the woods
Flesh covered in bites
Testing what is real, what is good
Man, it’s been a long night” – Vignette
“Seems I get in my own way
The more I think, the less I say
I hope I communicate the craving” – The Craving
“I’m comin’ in hot, hot shot hypocrisy
NDAs for the folks that talk to me
So tell your friends at follow bots anonymous
Keep it cool, keep the mood androgynous” – Lavish
“Kind of feels like everybody leaves
My dad just lost his mom, I think that everybody leaves
And now I’m trying to hold onto you ’cause everybody leaves
Pardon my delay
I’m navigating, I’m navigating my head” – Navigating
“Have I burnt all the bridges?
Bite the hand that helps me, give it finger stitches
Blacklisted from forgiveness
Fool you once, it’s been twenty-five times
It’s a backslide
I commandeered a hot ride
Drove it ’til the engine died
All of that progress lost today” – Snap Back
“Make an oath, then make mistakes
Start a streak you’re bound to break
When darkness rolls on your
Push on through” – Oldies Station
“Please, keep it in mind
Check on your friends
Every once in a while” – At the Risk of Feeling Dumb
“I would swim the Paladin Strait
Without any floatation
Just a glimpse of visual aid
Of you on the other shoreline
Waitin’, expectations that I’m gonna make it” – Paladin Strait