I’m into the newer structure and I’m glad the sauce of the closing moments are still intact, but the intro of the original and the lyrical structure in the original is better. It’s harder to gauge because if this was the only version we knew, it would still be lauded as incredible.
City Walls is the song I’d show someone to get the jist of twenty one pilots, Tally is the song I’d show someone as an “all eras represented” song, and Drag Path is probably the band’s most all encompassing song, telling the entire Trench saga in one song. Pretty much a perfect song.
One of the greatest written songs. A song that’s both timeless and lyrically literally ages better and better. Love that there’s no chorus, but just a familiar vocal melody. It also does something that can either pain me on a song or be the entire point of a song, and that’s the fourth wall break in “… the song is over, thought I’d have more to say,” before going into the reprise for Breathe (“Home, home again…”). It’s simply ... read more