"Morph" lyrics

"Morph"

Move

Can't stop thinking about if and when I'll die
For now I see that "if" and "when" are truly different cries
For "if" is purely panic and "when" is solemn sorrow
And one invades today while the other spies tomorrow

We're surrounded and we're hounded
There's no "above", or "under", or "around" it
For "above" is blind belief and "under" is sword to sleeve
And "around" is scientific miracle, let's pick "above" and see

For if and when we go "above", the question still remains
Are we still in love and is it possible we feel the same?
And that's when going "under" starts to take my wonder
But until that time, I'll try to sing this

If I keep moving, they won't know
I'll morph to someone else
What they throw at me's too slow
I'll morph to someone else
I'm just a ghost
I'll morph to someone else
Defense mechanism mode

He'll always try to stop me, that Nicolas Bourbaki
He's got no friends close but those who know him most know
He goes by Nico, he told me I'm a copy
When I'd hear him mock me that's almost stopped me

Well, we're surrounded and we're hounded
There's no above or a secret door. What are we here for
If not to run straight through all our tormentors?
But until that time I'll try to sing this

If I keep moving, they won't know
I'll morph to someone else
What they throw at me's too slow
I'll morph to someone else
I'm just a ghost
I'll morph to someone else
Defense mechanism mode

I'll morph to someone else

Lights they blink to me, transmitting things to me
Ones and zeroes, ergo this symphony
Anybody listening? Ones and zeroes
Count to infinity, ones and zeroes

I'm surrounded and I'm hounded
There's no "above", or "under", or "around" it
For "above" is blind belief and "under" is sword to sleeve
And "around" is scientific miracle, let's pick "above" and see

For if and when we go "above", the question still remains
Are we still in love and is it possible we feel the same?
And that's when going "under" starts to take my wonder
But until that time

I'll morph to someone else
I'm just a ghost

If I keep moving, they won't know
I'll morph to someone else
What they throw at me's too slow
I'll morph to someone else
I'm just a ghost
I'll morph to someone else
Defense mechanism mode

If I keep moving, they won't know
I'll morph to someone else
Defense mechanism mode
I'll morph to someone else

Not done, not done, not done
Josh Dun
I'll morph to someone else


Thanks to Kaitlin, Manuel Guerrero for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Tyler Joseph, Paul Meany
This song expresses the protagonist's thoughts and feelings toward a human being's mortality. Death is always somewhere in the future, but he just doesn't know when.
The narrator contemplates about some ways of dealing with death, one of them being to go "around" death by using science and medicine, but it would take a "scientific miracle" to achieve immortality.
The title of this song apparently refers to the fictional city of DEMA, where one can try to escape if disguising himself by wearing yellow in order to get past the walls and bishops that guard them.
Nicholas Bourbaki (Nico) is the name of the infamous Bishop of Dema, introduced by their single "Nico and the Niners". It is also a reference to the name of a group of mathematicians, formed in 1935, which were famous for making an attempt to use mathematics to prove the existence of God.
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