Psalm 51:7-13
Soak me in your wash
and I’ll come out clean,
scrub me
and I’ll have a snow-white life.
Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,
set these once-broken bones to dancing.
Don’t look too close for blemishes,
give me a clean bill of health.
God, make a fresh start in me;
restore within me a sense
of being brand new.
Don’t throw me out with the trash,
or fail to breathe holiness in me.
Bring me back from gray exile,
put a fresh wind in my sails!
Give me a job teaching rebels your ways
so the lost can find their way back to you.
TWENTY ONE PILOTS LYRIC
Kitchen Sink
Track 8 on Regional At Best
At my kitchen sink
You don’t know what that means
Because a kitchen sink to you
is not a kitchen sink to me
Okay, friend?
The Gospel According to Twenty One Pilots
ABOUT THE LYRIC
Tyler Joseph has said that the song,
Kitchen Sink is extremely important to him.
When asked about the famous symbol
that has come to represent the band, |-/,
he told interviewers that the meaning
of that symbol has a lot to do with
Kitchen Sink.
“Something happened to me
at a kitchen sink.
There was something I realized.
That song Kitchen Sink and that
reference means something to me.
But if I were to tell you
exactly what that meant,
those times where I need the motivation
to continue forward,
I wouldn’t have that
as part of my motivation.
In my darkest hour,
when I’m trying to figure out
what to do with myself,
there’s that thing, that song…
If I were to no longer continue forward,
there would be no one there
to explain this thing.
I will not tell you
what a kitchen sink is to me
because it represents something
that only I understand.
A lot of kids and people my age struggle
with “what’s the point,”
and with the logo, what it really means
is it’s an encouragement.
When someone asks me
what the logo means to me,
the logo means something to me
because I made it mean something to me.
That’s the point.
The point is that I created something
that only I understand
and whether or not I decide
to disclose the meaning of it,
that’s the beginning of purpose for me.
The meaning of purpose for me,
is by creating something,
if it be by writing lyrics, painting a picture,
by expressing yourself through art…
if it’s photography or music or theater,
or whatever it is.
It doesn’t have to be artistic,
but if you create something
and only you know the meaning of it,
that’s the beginning of purpose for you.
When you’re in the room by yourself
trying to decide whether to stay alive,
you can tell yourself,
“I should probably stay alive
because I’m the only one
who knows the meaning of that thing,”
so the logo is an encouragement
for people to create.
That’s what it means.”
~Tyler Joseph
IMAGE DETAILS
Kitchen Sink
Twenty One Pilots Gallery
Placeholder Pic
Winter 2020
