Compare And Contrast Tyler Joseph And John Dun

Tyler Joseph and John Dun make up the band Twenty One Pilots. Tyler Joseph and John Dun wrote Car Radio. Car Radio is a song about thinking. Twenty One Pilots want to stop people from committing suicide. Twenty One Pilots wants people to realize that in life that there is always going to be hard choices but we have to keep going. The car radio Twenty One Pilots is referring to is a metaphor for filling a void instead of thinking. When people think they often over think and that affects their decisions in life, for example, wanting to commit suicide. Twenty One Pilots says, “I ponder of something terrifying/‘Cause this time there’s no sound to hide behind…Oh my, /Too deep/Please stop thinking/I liked it better when my car had sound” (Twenty One Pilots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10) Twenty One Pilots is trying to say in lines 1 and 2 that he is thinking too much. In lines 7-10, Twenty One Pilots is saying that he doesn’t like it and he needs a distraction from thinking.

Throughout the song, Twenty One Pilots repeats: I have these thoughts
So often I ought
To replace that slot
With what I once bought
Cause somebody stole
My car radio
And now I just sit in silence (Twenty One Pilots 1-7) and Twenty One Pilots wants people to know that people over think too much and that over thinking is why people want to commit suicide. The car radio is supposed to fill the void of silence because when there is silence people think and then people start to over think. The most important line in this song is about trying make people think about what they are doing before they do it. Twenty One Pilots says,
There's faith and there's sleep
We need to pick one please because
Faith is to be awake
And to be awake is for us to think
And for us to think is to be alive
And I will try with every