CAR RADIO - TWENTY ONE PILOTS

The song starts describing the situation of the man, sitting in his car realising someone stole his car radio. He uses this as a metaphor, as he says the following words: "and now I just sit in silence".

At first, this just seems to be a simple quote said to express what he is actually doing, but analysing the sentence (what, later on, is explained on the song), he says it’s not about sitting in silence, but feeling quiet inside of you, starting to think and just being aware of what’s going on. 

He relates being in silence with facing his own problems, the ones he was trying to hide with the music filling his ears and thoughts, but; what about now, without music? Why do we hide ourselves behind of songs? Do we feel he lyrics inside of us as a way to feel better?

Facing problems is not an easy thing to do. That’s why I’ve chosen this song. Once, just going through YouTube I found it and I felt so identified with the lyrics, because when we are sad, nowadays, we just put our earphones on and press play to our favourite song or; depending on our mood, to a sad or happy song and start escaping our feelings.

In the middle of the song, there are some verses I would like to highlight: 

"(...) Please stop thinking

I liked it better when my car had sound

There are things we can do

But from the things that work there are only two

And from the two that we choose to do

Peace will win

And fear will lose

There’s faith and there’s sleep

We need to pick one please because

Faith is to be awake

And to be awake is for us to think

And for us to think is to be alive

And I will try with every rhyme

To come across like I am dying

To let you know you need to try to think"

In this few sentences what he tries to explain is that the last we have to loose is faith, as it is all we have to be alive and show we are able to think and express our emotions and thoughts. 

To sum up, I would like to say most of the songs of "twenty one pilots" have some beautiful and thoughtful letter that can be analysed and compared to our nowadays society. We need more artists like them, not just people wanting to earn money singing songs just with rhythm and without any meaning, and getting famous for it.