Top Ten Songs from Twenty One Pilots' Twenty One Pilots

One of their most underrated albums (usually just called Self Titled), besides Regional at Best, that once you listen to the whole thing you will be ready to cry your heart out and question your existence. It's sad and, well... depressing if you listen to the lyrics. (I'm mostly going off from the meaning of the song rather than anything else for the order of this list)
The Top Ten
1 Isle of Flightless Birds

This song is about people, Christians or not, who waste their potential in life. This is referenced as an isle of flightless birds because they have these beautiful wings but they choose not to use them for what they are meant. The song is meant to inspire the listener to action, and to make them stop being apathetic about things that have eternal weight.

I love this song so much. I decided to check out some of tøp's older songs because to be honest, I didn't see what all the hype was about based off of just the more recent albums, and now I'm so glad I did! This song in particular just gets to me, and the piano at the end is spine-tingling. Brilliantly underrated in my opinion

Isle of Flightless Birds is my favorite song from twenty one pilots and I believe that it is about Tyler talking to God about his struggles with his faith. The beginning of the song with the humming brings chills down my spine. The pause in between the humming and the drums “and stuff” makes me so excited for some reason I can’t explain. The instrumental then is phenomenal and the singing sounds like Tyler was crying because they are so raw and beautiful. The chorus is full of so much emotion. The rap is very meaningful and the bridge means a lot to me personally because of my connection with this song. This song (and Kitchen Sink) gave me nostalgia the first time I heard it although like I said, it was the first time I heard it. Now it gives me even more nostalgia after all my time with twenty one pilots and everything they’ve helped me with. This is the first song I heard before Vessel and I didn’t understand the meaning at first but enjoyed the vocals and instrumentals, ...more

The songwriting on this song really stands out from the rest of the album(in a good way). It is just pure genius and I totally agree that this is the best song from selftitled!

2 Trapdoor

I feel like the man is me because I'm do hide how I feel so much and this song sort of helps me cope with it. Although I may look happy, most likely, I'm really not. This song represents me so well and describes how I feel so accurately that it's like I'm actually saying it. Whenever I listen to "Trapdoor", I like to play it with my headphones on and the volume up as loud as possible so that every part of my body can hear me, this cry for help and saving but nobody knows I'm alive (no phun intended.)

I love this song so much! It really screams "me! " and it represents me so much! I always cry when I listen to it because it reminds me how much I feel like, and am that man in the song.

This is honestly the most beautiful twenty one pilots song I've ever heard. The lyrics are so powerful and I love it so much.

The fact he uses a name off a grave makes you think so much

3 Taxi Cab

Amazing piano, beautiful lyrics, and a wonderful story of Tyler going to heaven after death. I may not be very religious, but I love the use of metaphors for Jesus and the love he writes for God here.

Me: oh look a best twenty one pilots self titled thingamajog hm hmm hmmm isle of flightless birds is voted da best. Then Trapdoor ok... Hm Taxi cab be 3...

Wu-wu-wut how? Taxi cab be careful best song by the boys man I mean COmE On

Is it just me, or are Tyler's vocals in this song amazing? While not as good as Friend Please in my opinion, still awesome.

Taxi Cab is just stunning. It's so calming and beautiful, it gives me chills.

4 Addict With a Pen

Another religious song. But this time it talks about how Tyler has been parting from God and how he tries to get back to him and hold onto what he has left (a.k.a the little water he holds in his hands as he roams the desert of his mind). Very beautiful, especially the progression of the song how it starts off nice and slow with just the piano and then the drums being added and its picks up the pace a bit.

"I've been walking the deserts of my mind, and I haven't found a drop of life"

Beautiful lyrics starting off slowly and then moving into an amazingly lyrical rap. Many songs have followed this pattern, though few have ever done it correctly. Twenty One Pilots is among them, and they created a masterpiece that is this song.

By far one of the most beautifully sad songs this is my favorite song off this album

This song is life

5 Fall Away

Along with Taxi Cab, this song is a pure masterpiece. It has all the elements I wish for in a song, including rap, and Tyler's vocals are so nice and powerful.

This is my favorite song in the universe. Besides addict with a pen, of course. I feel like it should at least be number two.

I love this song and feel it should be higher

6 Friend, Please

Honestly, this song is beautiful. It brought tears to me because I suffer form depression and the constant want to kill myself, and I feel like he was telling me that I need to stay.

I really like trapdoor it is one of the greatest song but when I heard this song, I cried after the first chorus. It struck something deep inside me something I understand. People get depression from this song helping with suicide but I have severe panic attacks that are getting worse. My parents think I need to stop listening to Twenty One Pilots because they think this is the problem but no. I can't control them I try to tell them but, they think I am trying to get attention because I am usually "happy" which really I am not. At night no one sees my panic attacks now coming in day time. Stay alive |-/

And if you listen closely you will hear my heart breaking... again... Very serious and depressing song that talks about Tyler trying to convince his friend not to take their life away. He tells them he is there for them and that dying is not worth it.

Not gonna lie, this song saved my life. There's something so special about these lyrics that resonate so much with so many of us.

7 Air Catcher

I feel like this should at least be in the top 3. This song is AMAZING! I know it's not very well known since it is on this earlier album, but it really is one of my favorites. First of all, the lyrics are amazing, and so easy to understand, (I mean you can understand the meaning) and the beat is great. Please give it a listen. It's amazing and totally unique. Sorry I'm not really good at writing persuasive comments but I wanted to recommend this great song.

It's very rare to find a song about love with these guys, but this isn't your typical love song either. It talks about how Tyler doesn't want to fall in love with the actual feeling of falling in love, hence the lyric "I won't fall in love with falling". He is also hesitant about letting the other person have information about himself, feeling as if he would be betrayed if he let the other person in.

I love this song so much. Every song on this album deserves a #1 spot for me, but this may have to be my favorite. It has the coolest sounds and instrumentals of every Twenty One Pilots song (in my opinion) and the lyrics are super relatable for anyone who has fallen in love before. Still one of my favorite songs (and albums) of all time.

This list is impossible, because every song on this album is #1. But this is my favourite.

8 March to the Sea

Humanity and blindly just walking towards death. Basically the whole concept of this song is just that and how we have grown tired to just go and look for a purpose or anything better.

I love this song, it speaks to listeners so well

Definitely my favorite of Ty's deliberately religious songs.

9 The Pantaloon

This is my second favorite song by the band

Lol pantaloon

I don't agree with this- EXCUSE ME, COULD YOU PLEASE LEAVE

Same

10 Before You Start Your Day

Well, let me just say that this song gave me the chills the first time I listened to it. It gave a rather eerie yet sad-ish feel to it at first, with all the lyrics that kept attacking me right in the heart! But I love it so much and it's one of my personal favorites from the band. It talks about using the comfort of music to conquer insecurities and demons and I feel like many of us can really relate to this.

The heck? Why is this so low?

Mah heart
Mah soul

THE HELL

The Contenders
11 Implicit Demand for Proof

Absolutely gorgeous intro

Too beautiful for words

Why is this the last song oml

Omf what why is ths song last

12 Oh Ms. Believer

How was this song not on the list already? I mean not even in the list!

Why is this one so low? It's one of their most beautiful songs.

My favorite song

13 Johnny Boy

It's a song about helping this kid-no scratch that, you the listener-whose dying. Whose losing hope in the world. Whose on the brink if killing himself because everything is so bland and only feels pain. But the song tells you to get your butt off the ground because people love you and that there is hope. Love this song

The story of an everyday boy who is troubled with the fact that he feels unimportant. The song also echoes off Tyler's experience with depression and can be found throughout the whole song... *starts tearing up* I'm fine... Completely fine... *breaks down*

This song makes me cri everytim

This is my favorite tøp song of all time.

14 A Car, a Torch, a Death

I have one word to describe this song, and that is "beautiful." The few of us who appreciate this song in its entirety know that.

The demon sat there waiting on her porch, it was a little dark so he held a makeshift torch.
It's great, I'm only a fan of self titled

I think TOP is their best album to be honest.

REALLY? 11? THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS THEY HAVE EVER WRITTEN!

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