Twenty One Pilots Tuesday: Holding on to You EXPLAINED 

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I always thought of this song less about God and more about depression. These are the lines I thought differently on: -"I'm open a moment and close when you show it before you know it I'm lost at sea" one day you're feeling good and open but the next day you're closed and you're lost -"You are surrounding all my surroundings sounding down the mountain range of my left side brain" Depressing thoughts can be all-consuming, making it hard to listen to any type of logic. -"Twisting the kaleidoscope behind both of my eyes." Instead of God making you see things differently, I always thought it was depression making you see everything differently. But this whole theory falls with the lines "And I'll be holding onto you" and "Entertain my faith."

I've been suggesting Forest for three weeks. Please do Forest.

How about Ode to Sleep for next TØP Tuesday?

Be concerned Fake you out Screen

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Air Catcher!!

I'd also like to get your take on "Hometown".

Well I'll suggest Addict with a pen since it's one of my favorite songs.

So sorry this is a day late! We're still busy moving, so I was only able to start editing this video last night. After this week of painting, cleaning, and moving, things should get back to a regular schedule. :)

This song means so much to me. As soon as I turn 18 I'm planning on getting a tattoo of its lyrics. I know that it may be about god and I'm actually agnostic but this is what I love about twenty one pilots, their songs become special for you adjusting to your life and the context that surrounds you. Back to the tattoo I want to get "Entertain my faith" tattooed on my leg really small and really girly but I just want it to be there in my skin to remind me about its meaning forever. Faith for me is not about god, it's about hope, about believing in someone or something so much that it helps you just go through all the shit that's going on through your life

Tyler once answered a tweet asking him how his faith is entertain, he answered "Proof"

I'd like to hear the Pantaloon!

Friend: "What days do you listen to Twenty One Pilots?" Me: "Every single day, I love them." Friend:" What songs would you suggest to me?" Me: "Every single one, they are all amazing."

Also, THANKS FOR THE SHOUTOUT!!!!!

Tangential thought: I like to hear the “entertain my faith” lyric as an invitation to listeners - Tyler asking the people who turn to his music for help to realize *why* his music has such a redemptive message and consider turning to the Source of that redemption.

omg Holding On To You is also my favorite song!!💕

My theory on how the second bridge is that it is connected to the rest of the song. First, there is a purposeful change in the person Tyler is speaking in. Throughout the whole song, it is a “conversation” between God and Tyler. He uses the words “I” and “you”. To me it gives an impression of privacy and ignorance. However, in the second bridge, Tyler switches to “we.” I think this means that Tyler is now talking to his audience. I think that he is revealing the revelation that he has found in his pursuit of God. I’ve always seen that bridge as the central thesis of Twenty-One Pilots, mainly due to their upbeat lyrics mixed with dark lyrics. Second, the second bridge is the culmination of a theme that is present throughout the song: body parts. The very first line he says is “Taking over my body back,” I think this sets the tone for the rest of the song, as he mentions very symbolic body parts. He also uses the present participle, meaning he is doing the action, not that he has done it. He then mentions his brain, which is very important and the center of his dark thoughts, almost a ground zero in a way. The idea of God is what takes it back for him. He then mentions his eyes. He can now see the world that God wants him to see, not what, for lack of a better word, the demons, want him to see. Skipping to the second bridge. He mentions two body parts, feet and a heart. Feet are symbolic of motion, and Tyler emphasizes this so I think he’s saying we should move forward. And I think it is highly significant that he mentions a heart last. A heart is always been symbolic of one’s soul. By saying “it’s our hearts that make the beat” he’s saying that we should follow our hearts. So basically, I think that the final bridge is a resolution to the things he has learned in the song, and now he's telling it to his audience, whether it be the clique or the whole world. Sorry for the long comment lol. Love the explanation vids!

please do KITCHEN SINK next just do it plz

Please do Clear!!!!

I love how you genuinely love twenty one pilots and make videos about their songs because you love them and not just because it's what is wanted by your viewers. Thank you very much for all you do.

Hey man. I really appreciate your professional and Christian take on lyrics. You've never covered music by Thrice, but I wish you would. Their 2011 Major/Minor album challenged me as a Christian and really affected my walk. I only mention it because I think the profundity and depth of that album are on par with anything Twenty One Pilots puts out.

I love this song because I relate to it soooo much. With the night thing, its not really a twenty one pilots thing, I think it's a depression thing in general. I have depression and it's the weirdest thing, cuz during the day I'm literally the happiest person in the world but when night hits I just fall apart full on panic attacks all night.

I honestly think that the song holding onto you is an alternative ending to blurryface. I know that this song was released in the previous album to blurryface, but just listen to this 'I'm taking over my body, back in control no more shotty.' Maybe that's blurry talking in Tyler's voice. Then the next line is Tyler actually speaking. 'I bet a lot of me was lost' IDK what do you think?

this chorus is probably one of my favorite lyrics by TØP just because of how beautifully he words this concept of unconditional love and blind faith and idk it just makes me feel happy. (side note: I subscribed to your page at like 2am my time, it's now 6:34am and I've been watching the whole TØP Tuesday playlist and tbh it's worth the sleeplessness lol)

Polarize please!

Air Catcher would be lovely to see you explain.

Thank you so much for your channel and how you explain what the 21pilots are trying to say with their lyrics,

Man tyler must of had amazing grades in writting eseys

This song never really got much love and appreciation but I've been dying for you to explain lovely that song has meant a lot to me...I feel that this is one of those fight songs that try to tell the listener that they are worth it and that really means a lot to me

My all time favorite aspect of Twenty One Pilots is how they express their faith and their struggles through their music. Great explanation of the song :)

I really like your explanation videos keep up the good work , and i think you should put the lyrics of the song you are explaining in to the description for us to check it out while or after watching the video !

I love this song and I've always thought it was about suicide and getting through depression :-:

Hi there, great explanation. But to someone who didn't consider the 21 pilots being a Christian band when I heard this song for the first time (me), I think I relate to it differently. I think when he says "you are surrounding all my surroundings", he means that his THOUGHTS surround him(the song video seems to suggest his "metaphorical thought humans" surrounding him). "sounding down the mountain range on my left side brain" - left side of the brain,we think using that part. "twisting the kaleidoscope behind both my eyes" - his thoughts make him see everything around him differently(?) And when he says "I'll be holding onto you", I think he talks about his thoughts. He's holding onto the possibility of some rational thoughts crossing his mind. Since he's talking about life and our how our minds are directly affected or altered by life, I think he talks about LIFE in bridge 2. "lean with our, rock with it" - go with life's flow (metaphorically talking about life,saying it's a song?) "when we going to stop" -when are we going to understand life and stop living life as life makes us live. "is it time to move our feet to an introspective beat" - shall we move on to the part of our thinking and the part of life that is understandable? (I think it fits when we think of the metaphorical relating he does with life and a song) "lyrics that mean nothing we are gifted with thought" - life being the song and thoughts being the lyrics, "meaningless lyrics" could mean meaningless thoughts(and this seems relevant to me, since he talks about thoughts all of the song) And when he says they it's our hearts that make the beat, I think he wants to believe that life and thoughts are what we make of them(on a positive note). I'm a big fan, professor! And your explanations are really great. I hope you see this sometime.

Cool ! I think Holding on to you is one of the favorite songs of T.O.P fans. Please, can you make a video about Ruby! (I want to have explanations ^^)

You nailed it bro. You nailed it!!! Love this song dearly. I'd love to take it a step deeper too, when Tyler says, "Tie it to a tree, tell it you belong to me." That tree I believe is a very specific tree. If ya catch my vibe :)

Pls do ode to sleep

That was the best explanation of 'Holding onto you ' that I've ever heard / read , Thank you :) its by far my favorite song

You should do some of the songs from Tyler Joseph's No Phun Intended!

This is absolutely one of my favorite songs from them too! SO GOOD.

Yayyyy! I've been waiting for this!

YESSS I've been waiting for this!

Ruby please!!!!

Really enjoyed this one- especially how you linked it back to car radio and your thoughts on bridge b. Thanks for the video bro!

Great ti hear your thoughts, love this song also

I think the lyrics. "It ain't the speakers that bump hearts,but are hearts that make the beat" means that it's not just the music that brings hope. But the hope is coming from inside us just awakened by the music

Yeaaaaaaaah!!! I was waiting for this so much!!! Tanks man!!!

THANK YOU for this video!!

tear in my heart

Yes! This is exactly how I interpreted this song! ❤

8:00 Amen! People are given thoughts and they should start using them and not just obey whatever is being given to them.

kitchen sink is a goood one. can u do that one next?

great video Cliff!!!

I just watched this video and it’s awesome, Thank you for explaining the lyrics

I love your videos! Keep up the great work!

You need to see what Tyler says before his performance of holding on to you with SiriusXM which found place just some daya ago, and uploaded on youtube yesterday! I love your interpretation of the song, and I think youre absolutely right as well. It also makes sense with the lyrics "when I write and think about it" because he were going through his journals at that time. But I now really start to concider that maybe Holding on to you also could mean holding on to the music.

i've been watching your videos for hours. you're my new favorite channel for suuure.

My favorite song from the Blurry Face album is Hometown, and it's confusing to me, so I would love if you explained that one.

Great insight, i decided to look this up from singing this favourite song of mine to see in more depth and you were spot on! Thanks Man :D

The pantaloon please :), btw Love ur videos

i love your videos!! I've kinda been binging your song explanation videos and i really enjoy listening to your thoughts. keep making videos!! always great :-)

i love this

Thank you, good sir, for explaining this amazing song!

Your videos are so interesting, I'm really impressed, you deserve more views

Do Lovely please!

lovely

I like your explanation of one of my favorite songs.

glowing eyesss!!!

I think this is my new favorite. It's also kinda become my catchphrase 'Ill be holding on to you

it's really cool to see someone say what I've been thinking about the meanings of his songs

can I just say I have so much respect and appreciation for you man thank you

THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG!!!!!

BE CONCERNED PLEASE

Forest or Ode to Sleep

I was thinking you could explain taken by sleep Does sleep actually mean death?

holding on to u is my favorite song

Does anybody else think of John Crist every time Tyler starts the song and say Shawty?

What about any of these; clear, drown, or two?

ode to sleep or forest please !! also this video was great :)

Love this SONG, and now i love it even more because I know what it means!!! Thank you Senpai!!! LOL

The second stanza of Holding on to You is my favorite stanza of all time. It has saved me from suicide before. Stay alive frens |-/

Glowing eyes

holding on to you is twenty-one pilots masterpiece

i agree. verse 2 is easily one of the bestin tøp history

*_-amazeen-_*

I always thought 'entertain my faith' was tyler saying 'test my faith'. your interpretation seems to fit better though

Cliff Have you watched the behind the scenes for this music video? When recording footage for verse 2 where he has the noose around his neck Tyler has to take a break. He is visibly shaken by acting out the meaning of this song. It's heartbreaking but also powerful to really see what these lyrics mean to him.

Very nice video :) I agree with most of what you said. However, I think when he said "I'll be holding on to you" He means that when he gets these bad thoughts and when times get rough he'll be holding on to God to give him strength and keep him alive.

can you please do a video about the song Goner???

In an interview where Tyler was talking about writing songs around the NPI era, he said that there are a lot of lyrics that he wrote, then simply threw away, because it wouldn't necessarily be good enough to make into a song, but he still needed to get his thoughts down on paper. But he said that there are times those lyrics make it into newer works, either as a brand new song, or worked into an existing song he's working on (notably Blasphemy/Anathema). I wouldn't be surprised if the "lean with it, rock with it" stanza was originally part of its own separate song that he'd thrown away previously

What a song O god Entertain my faith.......,.........

I love Twenty One Pilots and their music. I think it's cool that there are songs like theirs that mean something and makes you think. On the flip side of that I have to disagree with Tyler about every song having to mean something. Music is subjective and lots of people can use music as a form of escape because life can be a hot steaming pile of shit. Sometimes it's just nice to listen to a song and it just be mindless fun. Not every song has to have meaningful lyrics because some songs don't exist for that reason. It just exists to dance or sing along to. I'm grateful that there are meaningful songs with lyrics that have a message and songs with lyrics that don't

FINALLY.

Also this may be silly but hear me out... In the second verse I always mishear "it probably happens at night" as "it probably happened tonight," and woah, that two word difference suddenly makes that phrase a lot more real and scary... instead of those thoughts being something that happens sometimes at night, those thoughts were something that happened with THIS night in particular.

I Know this is late, but if you uncross a "t" it creates a | And if you undot a letter "i" it also creates a | | is part of |-/ What could it mean?

Like it is for you, TwentyOne Pilots Tuesday is definitely one of my favorite reasons to watch RU-vid!!! Thanks.

Okay it's Monday and I saw this last Wednesday like right after you posted it but I didn't get to it and idk I have no excuse :/ The good thing is that seeing it tonight means that maybe I'll get one tomorrow :P loved your explanation, and kinda wanted to add that maybe "bridge B" isn't so far out in left field? I think I've always sort of connected it with the whole "taking control of your own mind" theme of the song, that you can take real meaning from this song rather than just bop around to it cause it's pretty catchy. While it does callout other songs, I think it also calls out people's tendency to not try to think deeper into songs either, and they should look deeper in TOP's music to find exactly what- or who - Tyler is holding on to. Thanks for the videos, they give me a bright spot in my week :)

can u do glowing eyes????

Clear

Ok, Thank you. ( And Ode to sleep too)

I read someone's article (to them) "Entertain my Faith" could be interpreted as entertainment (books, movies, tv, music, etc.) that was productive or good for their relationship with the Lord. If you look at it this way it connects with the "lean with it, rock with it" part because Tyler is saying he wants to fill his life with music that's pleasing to God. He doesn't want things that aren't honoring God.