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so uh i just came up with this and i don't know if it will make a lot of sense, but you know how there's that lyric in mulberry street where tyler goes “get out of our way, we’re moving sideways” IT GOT ME THINKING
so traditionally we view east as to the side, and that may be how the bishops see it too (north=front east=side south=back west=other side) but we know from natn east is up and that the banditos leave dema at true east, not east-east.
what if the bishops made tyler say that to try and tell the banditos “we know about you, and how you take people out of our city” ?
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THINGS it could also be tyler messaging the people of dema to leave dema to the east, where trench is.
so here is something really cool that i noticed while rewatching the NATN music video looking for clues to help with scaled and icy.
if you go to the music video on youtube and skip to about 00:14 in the song, then start it as the same time you start playing redecorate (mute NATN), it lines up perfectly. its really cool and you should try it, it shook a lot of things into perspective for me
so i‘m watching a recording of the livestream now since it was at night where i live and... it’s definitely something. not as capturing as a real concert by far, but still nice and well done. anyway i‘m still confused
they actually did the whole thing live! that’s why they didn’t just release a video for the people who bought tickets, they did it like. like ajr’ one spectacular night.
wait what?? really??? that’s super crazy, like the effort and how everyone worked so well together then!! it still has a different feeling than a usual live show i think but that’s definitely not a bad thing :)
yeah it is. i thought they recorded it the first time around until i realized they were live. i used to do the live morning announcements for my old school and so i have a feel for how they did it probably slightly better than others :)
so i‘m watching a recording of the livestream now since it was at night where i live and... it’s definitely something. not as capturing as a real concert by far, but still nice and well done. anyway i‘m still confused
they actually did the whole thing live! that’s why they didn’t just release a video for the people who bought tickets, they did it like. like ajr’ one spectacular night.
Ok so I see a lot of people shitting on the new Twenty One Pilots album and I have something to say.......
It’s perfectly fine not to like an album from a band because u don’t like the songs on it and the beats and whatever, I get that, but to shit on it because it’s not depressing anymore is complete fucking bullshit.
Tyler literally went from “I want to k*ll myself” to “it’ll be alright”. And maybe it’s because you’ve never wanted to end your life, but that is fucking HUGE. I am so proud and gives me hope that one day I’ll be ok. So stop shitting on the album because u don’t like that Tyler is happy.
okay so i did a full breakdown on this song and i figured that i should share it with you guys. hopefully you guys can help me out with this and we can bounce theories off of each other.
(btw i stole stuff from genius lyrics thats why it’s formatted like that)
these are just my personal theories don't come for my throat if you disagree with me pls it's not that deep i promise you.
okay this is gonna be kinda long so
okay my main theory is that this song is between the bishops and the banditos, possibly fighting over tyler and josh.
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[Intro]
We come for you, no chances
We come for you, no chances
i think the really deep voices are the bishops speaking. these voices appear multiple times throughout the album and this song specifically.
they are telling tyler/josh/the banditos that they will come for them and they have no chance of escaping them
sai is propaganda directly corresponds with this because we only hear what the bishops want us to hear through tyler and josh.
[Verse 1]
In my house shoes in a foot race
In this house we got feng shui
Get the door to blow you away
Flamethrower, you a switchblade
the only connections that i could really make with these lines is in the last one.
Flamethrower, you a switchblade
in the song levitate tyler says “ And ever since the seventh grade I learned to fire-breathe ” we know that the banditos like fire as well and use it as their main source of light at their camps. we also see that nico has a blowtorch looking thing to heat up the glass.
i cant figure out much about the switchblade part, since he might have just added it to rhyme or something but if i do i will reblog this post with what i find.
Feet planted on grip tape
With my shoulders squared, and my back straight
Got a good base and a loose tongue
Notorious in the octagon, now
i used to take tae kwan doe, and these are just basic things that you learn while practicing, so maybe he is getting ready to fight something or someone.
Notorious in the octagon, now
okay i might be reaching with this one but hear me out. how many sides does an octagon have? eight right? okay how many bishops are there (minus nico)? eight, that’s correct. also when you look at the city of dema
if you look the right way those little buildings around the center nine, are divided into four sets of two or whatever. this image is a bad example but i don't care enough to look for the right one LMAO.
anyways, to the point. i think notorious in the octagon is a reference to how well know tyler would be in dema, since they all know about twenty one pilots because of the feature performance event.
[Chorus]
We got people on the way
We want you home in one piece now (Run away, run away)
i think this is actually the banditos trying to reach tyler and josh, not the bishops. why would the bishops tell tyler to run away? they already have him. I also think that home for tyler and josh is with the banditos, not the confines of dema.
the banditos are also telling tyler and josh that they have people on the way to come and save them like they went to save tyler in NATN.
it could be the banditos but i severely doubt it because it is tyler singing and not the deep voice symbolizing the bishops.
We get bodies every day
We want you home in one piece now
okay the bodies everyday part is throwing me off but my best guess is that they may be talking about clancy. we know that scaled and icy is an anagram for clancy is dead, so this could be alluding to that. they could also be talking about the residents of dema that lose their fights in dema and pass away.
“we want you home in one piece” again i think that this is the banditos telling tyler to come home with josh safely and to avoid trouble as best as they can while doing so.
[Verse 2]
How'd you get the location? Put together pieces?
They say they sell the information
In those terms of agreement
this could be about the banditos or the bishops. let me explain.
if it was from the banditos they could be asking the bishops how they got the location of their camp to snatch tyler (levitate music video) in the first place since they cannot see the color yellow.
maybe the banditos sell the information on the bishops and other things to the people trapped in dema (or possibly others???)
if it was the bishops they could be asking the banditos how they get the locations of the residents and how they know to get into dema in the first place.
maybe a dema resident sells information to the banditos (like clancy? we know keons is the nicest bishop from his letters)
We spent some weekends on the grind
Surveillances outside, we see when you arrive
this could connect to the outside. we know that the bishops have some sort of surveillance system because on the control center for the live stream it is set up like an old fashioned surveillance system. (i will do a breakdown on that too)
maybe the bishops are telling the banditos they see when they arrive because of said security system.
Ride or die, my son
reminds me of the song ride, whos bishop is listo. so he could be talking to one of his subjects. this could be any bishop really i think that its the bishops and not the banditos because the second time that they repeat this it’s in that super low voice that definitely signifies the bishops speaking.
- from then it is just the chorus and the outro which is the same as the intro.
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anyways that was just my take on the song, feel free to let me know what you think i love hearing other’s theories.
i will also be doing this for all the songs on scaled and icy and may do it for some on trench and how they correspond to sai.
i will definitely do other theories and breakdowns because i really enjoy going through everything and piecing it all together. as i work ill make a master post and a tag so you can search my account for it and find it easy.
i will also break down the live but that will take longer because its literally over an hour long and not a three minute song lololol.
(p.s. i dont care enough to proof read this because i just watched the live and im tired)