Prepare yourselves for a very music lyric-heavy blog post (mostly
twenty one pilots…okay, entirely twenty one pilots).
Sometimes it’s hard to get people to truly understand the
way you feel. Emotions are often too complex to be fully comprehended. They
aren’t one-dimensional, and they can’t be boiled down to one simple
explanation. Twenty one pilots said, “A kitchen sink to you is not a kitchen
sink to me.” Sad, angry, frustrated, happy, excited, nervous. All of these
emotions mean something different to each individual person on this planet.
A lot of the time, we look for anchors to tie us down to our
emotions, to make them easier for us to connect to and understand. One thing
that many people attach themselves to is music. I’ve always had a love for
music, but that love has spiked dramatically over the last two years. I’ve
stopped caring about what other people think about my music taste. I no longer
listen to songs or pretend to like certain artists just to impress people.
Instead, I now use music as a way to explain my emotions to
others. Knowing that someone else felt the same way that I feel now and then
felt compelled to write a song about it is an incredible feeling. Every once in
a while, it’s nice to be reminded that we are not alone, and music does just
that. “Shadows will scream that I’m alone, but I know we’ve made it this far,
kid.”
One band in particular that has helped me ward off a few bad
emotions is twenty one pilots. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph have changed my life
in more ways than I can count. Up until I discovered their little two-man band
from Ohio, I had never felt such a strong connection to music before. I don’t
just hear the lyrics, I feel them. “If it wasn’t for this music, I don’t know
how I would’ve fought this.”
Their songs remind me that I am not alone. They have taught
me to take my pain and channel it into something better, something bigger than
myself. From them, I have learned that I am better than my anxiety, I just have
to believe in myself. Tomorrow is a new day, so wake up, jump out of bed, and
get going. “The sun will rise, and we will try again.”
I’m going to end with some lyrics from my favorite twenty
one pilots song, hands down. I feel so powerful when I listen to this song, and
hearing it live this past summer lit a fire deep within me. I can’t say these
boys saved my life, but I can say that they have changed it for the better.
“Fight it. Take the pain, ignite it. 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.”
