I am not sure what the Beatles meant. However to me this portrays a failure to communicate, lost opportunities but future opportunities.

I am not sure what the Beatles meant. However to me this portrays a failure to communicate, lost opportunities but future opportunities.

Parents more often than not have a deep love for their children. They are just people with flaws and strengths that usually do the best that they know how for their children. Often its hard to just listen to their children and try to solve and direct rather than just accept. They may learn to listen before the child leaves, or after when the child is on their own and develop a strong relationship, or never. The child...

Parents more often than not have a deep love for their children. They are just people with flaws and strengths that usually do the best that they know how for their children. Often its hard to just listen to their children and try to solve and direct rather than just accept. They may learn to listen before the child leaves, or after when the child is on their own and develop a strong relationship, or never. The child may learn to express themselves before leaving, or after and develop a strong relationship, or never.

In this song when she leaves home it could provide the start of a new positive relationship between her and her parents. As well she now can blossom as the type of person she wants to become.

So to me this song is both sad but hopeful.

OK, so I heard Tyler say in an interview that this song IS Twenty One Pilots. That it summarizes who they are. I thought… hmm… really? And after looking at they lyrics, I'm going to take a guess at why he said that...

OK, so I heard Tyler say in an interview that this song IS Twenty One Pilots. That it summarizes who they are. I thought… hmm… really? And after looking at they lyrics, I'm going to take a guess at why he said that...

As anyone who knows their lyrics has figured out, Tyler has been tormented by negative thoughts and even thoughts of suicide. In Christian imagery, and several of their songs, these "evil thoughts" are represented by demons (whether you believe them to be true demons or just psychological attacks from a darkness within). And in Christian belief, demons...

As anyone who knows their lyrics has figured out, Tyler has been tormented by negative thoughts and even thoughts of suicide. In Christian imagery, and several of their songs, these "evil thoughts" are represented by demons (whether you believe them to be true demons or just psychological attacks from a darkness within). And in Christian belief, demons attack those that they see as a threat.

This song is basically saying - hey, maybe Tyler is being attacked because he is a threat - because he has the capacity/means to be an instrument of good (through his pen / the band's music). There's a purpose for him on this earth.

And in the song, he's crying out to a higher power (God) saying, "Aaaah!! Why? I don't want this on my shoulders! I don't want this purpose! I don't want this pen! Tell the demons you have no plans for me! I don't want to do this! This isn't the freedom you promised!"

And in the end, he tells God that he's "sorry." He realizes the plans that God has for him, to be a mouthpiece of hope - to encourage young people to think, and to survive, and to live. And that's why this song is so important to Twenty One Pilots.

(And as others have said, the three denials (echoing the story of Peter) and the fourth denial about "not telling" whom he's singing toward (God/higher power) is something with which he struggles. He doesn't want to sing and write songs and perform for money and fame ("whore") - he wants to fulfill his purpose.)

That's my interpretation. Not sure I got it right, but if I'm even close (and I think I am), then it's just another reason to love this band.