We have carefully selected two lyrics from two songs and we have asked asked students and staff to observe and express their thoughts/formulate a response for the following Song Lyrics:

 

Lyric #1: “Won’t you go to someone else’s dreams. Won’t you go to someone else’s head.” (Twenty One Pilots-Anathema)

Lyric #2: “My demons are begging me to open up my mouth.”(Halsey- Hold Me Down)

 

Andy Chen:

“The line, “My demons are begging me to open up my mouth” sounds like something the artist of the first lyric would say. Assuming that’s the case, then the artist is referring to his or her memories as demons, trapped inside. I think this lyric is really easy to relate to because everyone has unpleasant experiences that should remain buried somewhere deep. Those experiences never go away and the more people try to trap them inside, the more it suffocates them.”

Tyrese Alvarez:

 

In reference to Lyric #2 “[This person is] muted from society, with no way to be excessively prejudiced in order to point out things around them. These demons provide a power that pushes them to speak his/ hers mind at all times, dragging their thoughts right out of them.  The fact that these demons bring the words out of them suggest that this person’s demons drive them to be different from society. This lyric exhibits how this person is being controlled which is quite robot like.”

 

Mr. Rubio

 

“If I have to chose one I would select the second one. I think [the] first [quote] is less original, in the context. I would place it in a love song. Instead the second one, using the symbolism of demons in the context of not being able to control yourself to talk is more provocative and makes you wonder what could have happened.”

 

Ms. Voss

 

“The second quote… I imagine that open mouth releasing a stream of black ‘demons’ in a healing , sort of laying on of hands moment, where the demons leave my head and I am suddenly free of all that confined me. It’s interesting to think that those things want us to let them go. We just need the strength to do it.”

– Sielina Castillo and Rocio Garcia