Ride Twenty One Pilotss Analysis

The song, "Ride," by Twenty One Pilots, has a deeper, internal conflict- based meaning. The lyrics describe how we would rather "remain in the sun," or be constantly happy and confident, rather than facing hardships and road blocks in life. The title of the song is a metaphor for describing life, and life is like a ride, or a journey. Since the lyrics explain how life is like a ride, "remaining in the sun" would represent the positive moments in life, and not wanting to leave means that we all want to stay in the fun and happy parts of life. A majority of the lyrics are made up by the chorus, which are, "Oh, oh, I'm falling, so I'm taking my time on my ride," and "falling" means that we are experiencing different situations and breaking apart from previous ones. When the artist says that he is taking his time on his ride, he is saying that we should try to experience every second, and "take time" to realize that there is importance in every moment of our lives, which is why I can connect to this song. However, a portion of the lyrics say, "I've been thinking too much,
The first example of figurative language is, "I wanna stay in the sun where I find, I know it's hard sometimes," and this is an example of a metaphor; the sun represents comfort, and it means that it's hard to avoid happiness and comfort in life. Another example of figurative language is, We have a list of people we would take, a bullet for them, a bullet for you, a bullet for everybody in this room," and the type of figurative language is a hyperbole; we wouldn't actually take a bullet for someone, but we would sacrifice ourselves to help others. Finally, the last example of figurative language that was used in this song was the chorus, "Oh, oh, I'm falling, so I'm taking my time on my ride," and this is a metaphor. The literal meaning of this is, as mentioned before, our ride is a metaphor for our life, and "taking my time on my ride" means living every moment of life to the