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{{infobox song
| Name          = A Car, A Torch, A Death
| Artist        = [[Twenty One Pilots]]
| Album         = [[Twenty One Pilots (album)|Twenty One Pilots]]
| Cover      = TOPcover.png
| Recorded      = June — November 2009
| Released      =December 29, 2009
| Format      = Digital
| Length        = 4:45
| Stems      = 
| Time signature      = 4/4
| Tempo      = 140
| Key      = F major
| Samples      = 
| References      = 
| Live debut      = [[10.12.2012|12 October 2012]] first known time
| Last played      = [[10.12.2012|12 October 2012]]
| Live count      = 1
| Writer        = [[Tyler Joseph]]
| Producer      = [[Tyler Joseph]], [[Chris Salih]]
| Label         = Self-released
| Misc      ={{Extra track listing
 | album      = [[Twenty One Pilots (album)|Twenty One Pilots]]
 | type       = song
 | tracks     = # [[Implicit Demand For Proof]]
# [[Fall Away]]
# [[The Pantaloon]]
# [[Addict With A Pen]]
# [[Friend, Please]]
# [[March To The Sea]]
# [[Johnny Boy]]
# [[Oh, Ms. Believer]]
# [[Air Catcher]]
# [[Trapdoor]]
# [[A Car, A Torch, A Death]]
# [[Taxi Cab]]
# [[Before You Start Your Day]]
# [[Isle Of Flightless Birds]]}}|stream_buy=[[Image:spotify.png|25px|link=https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YQKmKGau1PzlVlkL1iodx]] [[Image:Youtube_Music_icon.png|25px|link=https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCnX0L9QiftAcWdzeBx31xCw]] [[Image:Apple Music.png|25px|link=https://music.apple.com/lt/artist/twenty-one-pilots/349736311]] [[Image:Deezer-logo.png|25px|link=https://www.deezer.com/ru/album/231178002?app_id=140685&utm_source=partner_linkfire&utm_campaign=ae3e2c6e3cce1767a92a911b38ae1a2f&utm_medium=Original&utm_term=twenty-one-pilots&utm_content=album-231178002]]}}

''A Car, A Torch, A Death'' is the 11th song on the album ''[[Twenty One Pilots (album)|Twenty One Pilots]]'' by [[Twenty One Pilots]]. 

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| style= "background-color:#;" |A Car, A Torch, A Death
| style= "background-color:#;" |[[Twenty One Pilots (album)|Twenty One Pilots]]
| style= "background-color:#;" |4:33
| style= "background-color:#;" |June - November 2009
| style= "background-color:#;" |29 Dec 2009
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== Background ==

== Lyrics ==
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|[Verse 1]
The air begins to feel a little thin

As I start the car and then I begin

To add the miles piled up behind me

I barely feel a smile deep inside me


[Verse 2]

And I begin to envy the headlights driving south

I wanna crack the door so I can just fall out

But then I remember when you packed my car

You reached in the back and buckled up your heart

For me to drive away with

I began to understand why God died


[Verse 3]

The demon sat there waiting on her porch

It was a little dark, so he held a makeshift torch

And when my car was far out of sight

He crept in her room and stayed there for the night


[Bridge]

And then I felt chills in my bones

The breath I saw was not my own

I knew my skin that wrapped my frame

Wasn't made to play this game

And then I saw him, torch in hand

He laid it out, what he had planned

And then I said, "I'll take the grave

Please, just send them all my way"

Then I felt chills in my bones

The breath I saw was not my own

I knew my skin that wrapped my frame

Wasn't made to play this game

And then I saw him, torch in hand

He laid it out, what he had planned

And then I said, "I'll take the grave

Please, just send them all my way"


[Refrain]

I began to understand why God died


[Verse 4]

The air begins to feel a little thin

As we're waiting for the morning to begin

But for now, you told me to hold this jar

And when I looked inside, I saw it held your heart


[Refrain]

For me to walk away with

I began to understand why God died
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== Media ==


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== Sources ==

[[Category:Twenty One Pilots song]]
[[Category:Twenty One Pilots album]]
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