Thoughts on 'Car Radio' by Twenty One Pilots.
In this day and age, I find it very hard to find songs with well-written lyrics. People seem to have abandoned emotion and creativity in favour of auto-tune and hundred dollar bills. This song, however, has well crafted and emotive nature that not even some poetry can achieve. I was very pleasantly surprised by the deep and philosophical nature of the lyrics and all of the complicated thoughts they managed to inspire within me. It is not often that a 21st century song can get me to think about the meaning of life, while also relating to me on a personal level. And yet, Car Radio managed to do just that.
The song is about somebody whos´ radio has been stolen. It then follows the persons' train of thought as their mind, without the usual distraction of music, goes to places that he would normally ignore. I can relate to this because I also often use music as a distraction because when I´m alone and everything is silent, my mind always ends up going to places that I don want it to go. At one point, near the beginning of the song, it says ¨Sometimes the quiet is violent.¨ This lyric probably speaks to me the most out of all the lyrics in the song because I also sometimes feel like the silence is just weighing down on me and attacking me from all sides, suffocating me. It was nice for me to have someone acknowledge that sometimes the noise isn´t the thing that hurts, sometimes it´s the silence. In my mind silence is synonymous with loneliness and I think a lot of other people feel that way too.
This song is just one part of the genius musical anthology that the band created. Their album tells a very relatable and yet often unexplored story about the thoughts and feelings so many of us experience but never talk about. This song is only one chapter of that story but it made me feel like it could be a story all on its own. It is so rich in substance and makes me feel like I'm listening to a poem set to music. The way the first verse is repeated at the end, followed by the chorus makes it feel even more like poetry because the repetition of the first verse is something many poets put at the end of their poems to represent how their thoughts have come full circle.
I ponder of something great
My lungs will fill and then deflate
They fill with fire, exhale desire
I know it's dire my time today
I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence
I think many people can relate to this, using something like music or reading to distract you from the world and your problems. But when that something is gone, the silence can feel even more oppressive because you've experienced the alternative you realise how much you depend on it. This song has drawn my attention to how my generation has come to depend on things like music and art to distract us from our inner demons and as a result, we are left unable to face our own thoughts and when our distractions are taken away we can't cope.
The song is about somebody whos´ radio has been stolen. It then follows the persons' train of thought as their mind, without the usual distraction of music, goes to places that he would normally ignore. I can relate to this because I also often use music as a distraction because when I´m alone and everything is silent, my mind always ends up going to places that I don want it to go. At one point, near the beginning of the song, it says ¨Sometimes the quiet is violent.¨ This lyric probably speaks to me the most out of all the lyrics in the song because I also sometimes feel like the silence is just weighing down on me and attacking me from all sides, suffocating me. It was nice for me to have someone acknowledge that sometimes the noise isn´t the thing that hurts, sometimes it´s the silence. In my mind silence is synonymous with loneliness and I think a lot of other people feel that way too.
This song is just one part of the genius musical anthology that the band created. Their album tells a very relatable and yet often unexplored story about the thoughts and feelings so many of us experience but never talk about. This song is only one chapter of that story but it made me feel like it could be a story all on its own. It is so rich in substance and makes me feel like I'm listening to a poem set to music. The way the first verse is repeated at the end, followed by the chorus makes it feel even more like poetry because the repetition of the first verse is something many poets put at the end of their poems to represent how their thoughts have come full circle.
I ponder of something great
My lungs will fill and then deflate
They fill with fire, exhale desire
I know it's dire my time today
I have these thoughts, so often I ought
To replace that slot with what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole my car radio
And now I just sit in silence
I think many people can relate to this, using something like music or reading to distract you from the world and your problems. But when that something is gone, the silence can feel even more oppressive because you've experienced the alternative you realise how much you depend on it. This song has drawn my attention to how my generation has come to depend on things like music and art to distract us from our inner demons and as a result, we are left unable to face our own thoughts and when our distractions are taken away we can't cope.
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