Twenty One Pilots - Kitchen Sink Lyrics

Twenty One Pilots Lyrics

"Kitchen Sink"

Nobody thinks what I think
Nobody dreams when they blink
Think things on the brink of blasphemy
I'm my own shrink
Think things are after me, my catastrophe
At my kitchen sink
You don't know what that means
Because a kitchen sink to you
Is not a kitchen sink to me, OK friend?
Are you searching for purpose?
Then write something, yeah it might be worthless
Then paint something then, it might be wordless
Pointless curses, nonsense verses
You'll see purpose start to surface
No one else is dealing with your demons
Meaning maybe defeating them
Could be the beginning of your meaning, friend

Go away
Go away
Go away
Go away
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone

Nobody thinks what you think, no one
Empathy might be on the brink of extinction
They will play a game and say
They know what you're going through
And I tried to come up with an artistic way to say
They don't know you, and neither do I
So here's a prime example of a stand-up guy
Who hates what he believes and loves it at the same time
Here's my brother and his head's screwed up
But that's alright

[Zack:]
Time gains momentum the moment when I'm living in 'em
I'm winning a momentary sinning a moment passing after
A re-beginning moments mending memories
Pretending enemies are frenemies, sending me straight to bending me
My bad behaviour but I bet I could have been a better man
Copy and paste caught me, and copy, better rhymes bother me
The better the rhythm the badder I am but I bet I'll battle with 'em battle
Better I am, gambling man, better bet I am a gambling man, I am?

Go away
Go away
Go away
Go away
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone

Leave me alone
Don't leave me alone
Oh oh oh oh oh

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Thanks to Elsa, marissa, Skyler Lucas, Stef, Taylør for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Tyler Joseph

Tyler Joseph stated in an interview, "The whole concept of that song is that I feel that humans are always struggling all the time when it comes to purpose, trying to figure out what their purpose is, what purpose even is, what's the point, justifying your own existence." He added, "It doesn't have to be artistic, but if you create something and only you know the meaning of it, that's the beginning of purpose for you."

This song features Tyler Joseph's brother Zack. He raps the second verse.

There is an explanation of this track made by Tyler Joseph which goes, "In my darkest hour, when I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself, there's that thing, that song… If I were to no longer continue forward, there would be no one there to explain this thing. I will not tell you what a kitchen sink is to me because it represents something that only I understand."