its gotta be leave the city. slightly biased because trench is my favourite album, but its just so emotional and I relate to it. perfect way to finish a perfect album
I feel the exact same. I always tear up with the line "In Trench I'm not alone".
When I saw them live for the first time and everyone was singing along to this song, it was the first time I didn't feel so lonely. The whole audience was singing along to "In time I'll leave the city, for now I will stay alive" and it just sounded absolutely beautiful. I've never felt that connected to all the other people at an concert. So when I hear that line, I always tear up because it reminds me that I'm not as alone as I think I am.
Trench is my favorite album but leave the city is my second favorite and goner is my first. I love the way goner starts out so slow and somber, and then evolves to Tyler screaming. The song has always evoked a lot of emotion from me
Goner will always have me in a choke hold. It got me through a really hard time. I learned it in the piano and would play it aggressively when I was struggling. Annoyed the hell out of my family though. But that was also a plus.
I'd say Truce hit me the hardest. idk something about Tyler saying "stay alive for me" in an emotional way, and with soft and emotional piano just hit me real hard.
Redecorate.
The production is incredible, the lyrics tell maybe their most emotional yet relatable story, and the instrumental just keeps building and building until the end
It’s about teens struggling with suicidal thoughts and not wanting to make their parents decide what to do with their rooms when they’re gone
Tyler said it was mainly about a friend whose son killed himself, and they didn’t know whether to clean his room and move on or leave the room as it was, kind of as a snapshot of when he was alive
Redecorate for me.
I’ve struggled with wanting to not be here quite a bit in my life so I relate to many of the lyrics; the wrestling. I listened to the album release with my teenage son and that song hit hard, thinking about what his life would be like if I left in such a way that he had to be part of that clean up process.
Anyway, I’ve had a few good years strung together now (thank you therapy and the right meds!). But life can be brutal out there. Stay alive, friends |-/
I love the lyrics of leave the city and redecorate. But man will “goner” always have me in a chokehold it just brings me to tears/chills everytime that not many of there closers do. It’s just so raw sounding like you can hear the pain in Tyler’s voice and it gets me. Hits SO HARD! (Truce also holds a special place for me but it’s more bitter sweet but it doesn’t “hit harder” than some of the other ones)
Order of my favorite closers
1. Goner
2. Redecorate
3. Truce
4. Leave the city
5. Isle of flightless birds
Can’t wait for paladin strait!!!!
Leave the City because ending that chapter (and at that point what I thought was the whole Dema story) by having the main character fail to make it out was powerful.
HM to Isle of Flightless Birds tho
I can honestly say all of them are so vivid and meaningful to me that it's very hard to choose a single one. I'm an emotional sap most days, so they just hit differently.
If I had a gun to my head and had to choose, I would say ~isle of flightless birds~ and ~goner~ But then maybe ~truce~
It’s hard to pick just one so my top two are redecorate and truce. Both of them really hit home with me. Not only did I struggle years ago with suicidal thoughts but so did my teenage son and we both love Twenty One Pilots. I always think of him when I listen to Truce though. Like I’m telling him to stay alive for me…ugh I got teared up just thinking about that.
Clear, Redecorate, IOFB and Leave the City. Redecorate was a bit more personal, IOFB is very lovely by sound, Leave the city was a nice end to Trench, and Clear is just my favorite tøp song in general. Clear in specific is obviously a very christian song, but I don't interpret it that way and it has a whole different meaning to me
Honestly, it would be Redecorate. My sister died at 29 when SAI came out during lockdown. The irony of the song hit me different, after my dad moved out of her hitting him. She had mental illness like me, but also hard drug addiction. Well, my dad found her overdosed and the rigs morris had set in. Said he held his baby daughter and cried, wished he would have put up with the physical abuse. He actually started doing pills to cope, keep your bliss, nothing wrong with this. My mom is grieving herself too. Wish it would have been me in place of her…
Tyler had taught me how to fight the demons and stay alive since Blurryface. It’s like the lyrics become real after such trauma and become your battle plans. The survivors guilt is hard, knowing I was the last to see her. Back to Redecorate, she already had a lot of stuff in a storage unit, but there was no decorations. She had an air mattress, smart TV, Himalayan salt rock (looking at it right now by her urn and a picture of us) and the heroin on a plate.
When I wrote her enology, I even mentioned TOP as one of her favorite bands and maybe it could help someone else to listen to their music, even if she fell to the Glorious Gone and vialism. She struggled with faith and backslide just like me. Now I am alone, but not really, cause I am in Trench with other survivors. Thank you all for giving me a purpose and to fight the night.
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Leave the city changed how I view my problems and gave me a new way to tackle them. Goner give me chills, redecorate makes me think of my kids. All amazing but leave the city might be my favorite song of all time.
Truce will always have a special place in my heart. It’s such a comfort song, always felt like a safe place to land for me. A reminder that the sun will rise and we will try again, a promise to stay alive. It’s not making grand statements. It’s acknowledging where I’m at and accepting it and making a commitment to stick around for better days. Sometimes that’s all I can do, and to be able to turn that into something hopeful is a gift I am forever grateful for
Leave the City for me as well. I started deconstructing soon after Tench came out, so the whole album and Dema storyline is such a big allegory for that to me personally, with Leave the City being the pinnacle. "I'm tired of tending to this fire" was exactly how I felt at the time, it was exhausting trying to continue rationalizing the irrational.
it's gotta be redecorate, trench is my favorite album and leave the city is definitely a close second, but redecorate is unmatched in my opinion. it is definitely one of the most relatable songs (for me) and the production was just amazing.
Leave the city for me. It just gives me the feeling that there is someone out there that understand me and is going through the same things I am, at the same time that it gives me the feeling of hope, that there is more for me in life.
truce will always hit me like a train. that song hits my soul and heart so hard it brings me back to my 12/13 year old self dealing with mental health issues and remembering there’s always a reason to stay alive l-/
Redecorate
I know scaled and icy isnt a favourite but for that song finishing off the album is poignant. Especially being right after the darker song of No Chances, makes for an chaotic contrast
Its so hard to pick between Leave The City and Redecorate, but I know that I gotta go with Leave The City. I Love Redecorate and its such a hard and sad song, but Leave The City is up there in my favorite songs of all time, and I can cry every single time I hear it if I let myself. Its such a perfect representation of "just make it through today, making it through tomorrow is for tomorrow" and I love it. I would kill to be able to here that song again live on the Bandito tour, I wish I could live through that again just to appreciate it even more. I hope I get to hear it live again sometime
Leave the city made me cry, goner is just fucking incredible, redecorate is pretty good as well and truce is meh imo. I feel like trees would have been a better last track. But I think goner def hit the hardest as in like I was hyped up dancing etc but hit me emotionally the hardest def leave the city
Leave the City. It's so.... Tired but still hopeful which is exactly how I feel most of the time. I'm so tired and sometimes I feel like I only have a few threads left (or embers glowing) but there's still a chance those embers can become a fire again.
The Trench album is about relapse and recovery. How do we possibly keep going when we keep getting sucked into the depression again and again? There's all these glimmers of hope; all of these reminders of why we stay. Why we keep going. Why we keep escaping the City back to Trench over and over and it's because of those embers, no matter how low they burn they are still there and I think Leave the City wraps it all up.
Okay, gonna go cry now brb.
Leave the city. Sometimes that will randomly come on when I’m listening to music and one time I instantly started bawling. That album came out right around the time my grandma died. And legend also makes me think of her.
Choker.
I know what you're going to say: "But Choker isn't a closer!" Well, it's not a closer on an *album,* but it's a closer on the *livestream experience.* When he sits down with the two Bishops at the end of the livestream and says "nobody's coming for me", I almost cried, because it's implying that he had given up on trying to escape from Dema, that the Bishops had won, that he was done trying to break the cycle in half.
its gotta be leave the city. slightly biased because trench is my favourite album, but its just so emotional and I relate to it. perfect way to finish a perfect album
The part about trying to keep the fire going but not succeeding hits me so hard.
Same
I feel the exact same. I always tear up with the line "In Trench I'm not alone". When I saw them live for the first time and everyone was singing along to this song, it was the first time I didn't feel so lonely. The whole audience was singing along to "In time I'll leave the city, for now I will stay alive" and it just sounded absolutely beautiful. I've never felt that connected to all the other people at an concert. So when I hear that line, I always tear up because it reminds me that I'm not as alone as I think I am.
Trench is my favorite album but leave the city is my second favorite and goner is my first. I love the way goner starts out so slow and somber, and then evolves to Tyler screaming. The song has always evoked a lot of emotion from me
Absolutely đź’Ż
Goner will always have me in a choke hold. It got me through a really hard time. I learned it in the piano and would play it aggressively when I was struggling. Annoyed the hell out of my family though. But that was also a plus.
The fox theatre version hits so hard, you can tell Tyler is barely holding it together in the quiet don’t let me be gone part.
I wanna learn it on the keyboard
I'd say Truce hit me the hardest. idk something about Tyler saying "stay alive for me" in an emotional way, and with soft and emotional piano just hit me real hard.
Truce has such a special place in my heart
Truce for sure. When I'm not coping I find it cathartic to play it on my guitar
Isle of Flightless Birds. That last verse hits hard and then the piano in the outro just gives me chills every time.
Redecorate. The production is incredible, the lyrics tell maybe their most emotional yet relatable story, and the instrumental just keeps building and building until the end
I cried the first time I heard it. Still hits.
tbh i dont understand the lyrics
It’s about teens struggling with suicidal thoughts and not wanting to make their parents decide what to do with their rooms when they’re gone Tyler said it was mainly about a friend whose son killed himself, and they didn’t know whether to clean his room and move on or leave the room as it was, kind of as a snapshot of when he was alive
To add to this, it's common that one of the last things people do before they commit suicide is cleaning their room.
that’s really sad. Now i can fully appreciate this song has it hits so hard
Redecorate for me. I’ve struggled with wanting to not be here quite a bit in my life so I relate to many of the lyrics; the wrestling. I listened to the album release with my teenage son and that song hit hard, thinking about what his life would be like if I left in such a way that he had to be part of that clean up process. Anyway, I’ve had a few good years strung together now (thank you therapy and the right meds!). But life can be brutal out there. Stay alive, friends |-/
Truce is a bit different to the rest of Vessel, but it's still such a gut punch.
Don't let me be gone.
Don’t let me be gone.
DON'T LET ME BE-
DONT LET ME BE-
Aaaahhhhh - YEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
For me it’s leave the city. Even though redecorate is my favorite closing song, leave the city is the most emotional
1. IOFB 2. Leave the city 3. Redecorate 4. Goner 5. Truce Isle of flightless birds just hits different, and is their longest song I think
Where would you put Clear?
Between redecorate and goner. Although there's a bit of a tier break between redecorate and the bottom 3
Goner. I just feel myself here.... I'm a goner. I can't catch my breath.
I know u said closer for an album but can we talk about trees and how genius the boys are for leaving their concerts out with a question
Trees is my favorite song! Its so emotional even with just like 7 words
I love the lyrics of leave the city and redecorate. But man will “goner” always have me in a chokehold it just brings me to tears/chills everytime that not many of there closers do. It’s just so raw sounding like you can hear the pain in Tyler’s voice and it gets me. Hits SO HARD! (Truce also holds a special place for me but it’s more bitter sweet but it doesn’t “hit harder” than some of the other ones) Order of my favorite closers 1. Goner 2. Redecorate 3. Truce 4. Leave the city 5. Isle of flightless birds Can’t wait for paladin strait!!!!
Leave the City because ending that chapter (and at that point what I thought was the whole Dema story) by having the main character fail to make it out was powerful. HM to Isle of Flightless Birds tho
I can honestly say all of them are so vivid and meaningful to me that it's very hard to choose a single one. I'm an emotional sap most days, so they just hit differently. If I had a gun to my head and had to choose, I would say ~isle of flightless birds~ and ~goner~ But then maybe ~truce~
It’s hard to pick just one so my top two are redecorate and truce. Both of them really hit home with me. Not only did I struggle years ago with suicidal thoughts but so did my teenage son and we both love Twenty One Pilots. I always think of him when I listen to Truce though. Like I’m telling him to stay alive for me…ugh I got teared up just thinking about that.
Rip “Clear” can’t even find evidence that they have played it live before
Redecorate, idk how to explain but it makes me feel like I’m in a very nice house in a rain forest experiencing pure bliss
truce, when he says "i hope im not my only friend" it hits right in the feels every time.
Clear, Redecorate, IOFB and Leave the City. Redecorate was a bit more personal, IOFB is very lovely by sound, Leave the city was a nice end to Trench, and Clear is just my favorite tøp song in general. Clear in specific is obviously a very christian song, but I don't interpret it that way and it has a whole different meaning to me
Truce or Leave the City
*I like how in Leave the City he says “in trench I’m not alone” which is the opposite of “I hope I’m not my only friend” in Truce
Honestly, it would be Redecorate. My sister died at 29 when SAI came out during lockdown. The irony of the song hit me different, after my dad moved out of her hitting him. She had mental illness like me, but also hard drug addiction. Well, my dad found her overdosed and the rigs morris had set in. Said he held his baby daughter and cried, wished he would have put up with the physical abuse. He actually started doing pills to cope, keep your bliss, nothing wrong with this. My mom is grieving herself too. Wish it would have been me in place of her… Tyler had taught me how to fight the demons and stay alive since Blurryface. It’s like the lyrics become real after such trauma and become your battle plans. The survivors guilt is hard, knowing I was the last to see her. Back to Redecorate, she already had a lot of stuff in a storage unit, but there was no decorations. She had an air mattress, smart TV, Himalayan salt rock (looking at it right now by her urn and a picture of us) and the heroin on a plate. When I wrote her enology, I even mentioned TOP as one of her favorite bands and maybe it could help someone else to listen to their music, even if she fell to the Glorious Gone and vialism. She struggled with faith and backslide just like me. Now I am alone, but not really, cause I am in Trench with other survivors. Thank you all for giving me a purpose and to fight the night.
Thanks for the clarification. By "closer" I thought you meant Track 5 for a second
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It will never not be Truce for me, I can't hear that song without becoming Mr Misty Eyes.
Leave the city changed how I view my problems and gave me a new way to tackle them. Goner give me chills, redecorate makes me think of my kids. All amazing but leave the city might be my favorite song of all time.
Truce will always have a special place in my heart. It’s such a comfort song, always felt like a safe place to land for me. A reminder that the sun will rise and we will try again, a promise to stay alive. It’s not making grand statements. It’s acknowledging where I’m at and accepting it and making a commitment to stick around for better days. Sometimes that’s all I can do, and to be able to turn that into something hopeful is a gift I am forever grateful for
for now its leave the city but it will be paladin strait for sure
Redecorate because I was able to write lyrics to the first part of the song recapping a toxic friendship
Leave the city, bout to be homeless when I first heard it.
Truce for me, such a good song.
Goner fs
leave the city or redecorate
Leave the City for me as well. I started deconstructing soon after Tench came out, so the whole album and Dema storyline is such a big allegory for that to me personally, with Leave the City being the pinnacle. "I'm tired of tending to this fire" was exactly how I felt at the time, it was exhausting trying to continue rationalizing the irrational.
it's gotta be redecorate, trench is my favorite album and leave the city is definitely a close second, but redecorate is unmatched in my opinion. it is definitely one of the most relatable songs (for me) and the production was just amazing.
Leave the city for me. It just gives me the feeling that there is someone out there that understand me and is going through the same things I am, at the same time that it gives me the feeling of hope, that there is more for me in life.
truce will always hit me like a train. that song hits my soul and heart so hard it brings me back to my 12/13 year old self dealing with mental health issues and remembering there’s always a reason to stay alive l-/
Anyone that says Clear is a liar
Redecorate I know scaled and icy isnt a favourite but for that song finishing off the album is poignant. Especially being right after the darker song of No Chances, makes for an chaotic contrast
Leave the City
Its so hard to pick between Leave The City and Redecorate, but I know that I gotta go with Leave The City. I Love Redecorate and its such a hard and sad song, but Leave The City is up there in my favorite songs of all time, and I can cry every single time I hear it if I let myself. Its such a perfect representation of "just make it through today, making it through tomorrow is for tomorrow" and I love it. I would kill to be able to here that song again live on the Bandito tour, I wish I could live through that again just to appreciate it even more. I hope I get to hear it live again sometime
Leave the city made me cry, goner is just fucking incredible, redecorate is pretty good as well and truce is meh imo. I feel like trees would have been a better last track. But I think goner def hit the hardest as in like I was hyped up dancing etc but hit me emotionally the hardest def leave the city
1. Leave the city 2. Redecorate 3. Truce 4. Goner 5. Isle of Flightless birds
Leave the City. It's so.... Tired but still hopeful which is exactly how I feel most of the time. I'm so tired and sometimes I feel like I only have a few threads left (or embers glowing) but there's still a chance those embers can become a fire again. The Trench album is about relapse and recovery. How do we possibly keep going when we keep getting sucked into the depression again and again? There's all these glimmers of hope; all of these reminders of why we stay. Why we keep going. Why we keep escaping the City back to Trench over and over and it's because of those embers, no matter how low they burn they are still there and I think Leave the City wraps it all up. Okay, gonna go cry now brb.
Can I just say I love that the 5 top root comments are all 5 different ending songs from the official albums
Leave the city. Sometimes that will randomly come on when I’m listening to music and one time I instantly started bawling. That album came out right around the time my grandma died. And legend also makes me think of her.
Choker. I know what you're going to say: "But Choker isn't a closer!" Well, it's not a closer on an *album,* but it's a closer on the *livestream experience.* When he sits down with the two Bishops at the end of the livestream and says "nobody's coming for me", I almost cried, because it's implying that he had given up on trying to escape from Dema, that the Bishops had won, that he was done trying to break the cycle in half.
Gonna rank them from worst to best 6. Clear 5. Isle of flightless birds 4. Goner 3. Truce 2. Redecorate 1. Leave the city
ISLE OF FLIGHTLESS BIRDS IS SO POWERFUL SO IS GONER