Twenty One Pilots - Redecorate Lyrics

Twenty One Pilots Lyrics

"Redecorate"

There was a wonderful structure to the city
And it put my cares to rest
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh

Takin' inventory of his life
Seein' snapshots chronologically inline
Something told him he should look around and tidy up
He collected many things but never quite enough
Tried lookin' at it from a new perspective
Flat on his back but he still heard the directive
Orders from that corner where that shadow always lived
Never asked permission, he just hopes that they forgive

I don't want to go like this (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
At least let me clean my room
I don't want to leave like this (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
'Cause the last thing I want to do is
Make my people make decisions, wonderin' what to do, oh
Should they keep it on display
Or redecorate?

Blankets over mirrors, she tends to like it
She's not afraid of her reflection
But of what she might see behind it
She had plans to change her name, yeah
Just not the traditional way, yeah
Haunted by a couple big mistakes
She covers all the dents with the way she decorates
Then one night she got cold with no blankets on her bed
So she ripped them off the mirror, stepped back and she said

I don't want to go like this (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
At least let me clean my room
I don't want to leave like this (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
'Cause the last thing I want to do is
Make my people make decisions, wonderin' what to do, oh
Should they keep it on display
Or redecorate?

With the bells and the whistles scaled back
Like an isolated track
And he feels trapped when he's not inebriated
Fair to say he's fairly sedated most days of the week
He might have made it if he lived on a different street
I repeat, scaled back and isolated
He says he likes an open schedule, but he mostly hates it
If you're running to his room, take a breath before you break-in
Put your ear up to the door, tell me can you hear him saying?

I don't want to go like this
At least let me clean my room
I don't want to leave like this
'Cause the last thing I want to do is
Make my people make decisions, wondering what to do, oh
Should they keep it on display
Or redecorate?
I don't want to go like this (Go like this)
At least let me clean my room (Clean my room)
I don't want to leave like this (Leave like this)
'Cause the last thing I want to do is (To do is)
Make my people make decisions, wondering what to do, oh
Should they keep it on display (On display)
Or redecorate?

Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Or redecorate?
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Or redecorate?

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Writer(s): Tyler Joseph

Speaking with Apple Music, Tyler Joseph told about the inspiration behind this track, "I had a friend of mine whose son passed away and they would keep his room the same way that he had left it. I remember thinking how crazy powerful a story that is, and how it makes me wonder, like, 'What will people do with my stuff?' It can actually bring you back down to earth, make sure that you don't make any horrible decisions. I'm realizing now how difficult it is to talk about, but this song is really important to me."

The line "I repeat, scaled back and isolated" gave the album its title, "Scaled and Icy". Tyler Joseph explained in an interview with Hype, "The word 'scaled' and 'icy' actually stands for 'scale back' and 'isolated', which is kind of how we all found ourselves this past year—scaled back and isolated. And so I took those two words that were very, I dunno, negative. And I tried to put a spin on it that was the opposite of, and when I thought of 'scaled and icy', which is shortened versions of the word 'scaled back and isolated', I just immediately thought of this dragon."

album: "Scaled And Icy" (2021)

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