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{{infobox song
{{infobox song
| Name          = Guns for Hands
| Name          = Trees
| Artist        = [[Twenty One Pilots]]
| Artist        = [[Twenty One Pilots]]
| Album        = [[Regional at Best]]
| Album        = [[Regional at Best]]
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| Released      =July 8, 2011
| Released      =July 8, 2011
| Format      = Digital
| Format      = Digital
| Length        = 4:33
| Length        = 4:21
| Stems      =  
| Stems      =  
| Time signature      =4/4  
| Time signature      =4/4  
| Tempo      = 129
| Tempo      = 140
| Key      = F#
| Key      = F Major
| Samples      =  
| Samples      =  
| References      =  
| References      =  
| Live debut      =July 9 2011
| Live debut      =May 1 2010
| Last played      =April 1 2023  
| Last played      =Sep 10 2023  
| Live count      =  
| Live count      =  
| Writer        = [[Tyler Joseph]]
| Writer        = [[Tyler Joseph]]
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  | type      = song
  | tracks    =  
  | tracks    =  
# [[Guns for Hands]]
# [[Guns For Hands]]
# [[Holding on to You]]
# [[Holding On To You]]
# [[Ode to Sleep]]
# [[Ode To Sleep]]
# [[Slowtown]]
# [[Slowtown]]
# [[Car Radio]]
# [[Car Radio]]
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# [[Trees]]
# [[Trees]]
# [[Be Concerned]]
# [[Be Concerned]]
# [[Clear]]}}  
# [[Clear]]
# [[House Of Gold]] (Newsletter Edition)
# [[Two]] (Newsletter Edition)}}  


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''Guns for Hands'' is the 1st track on the album, ''[[Regional at Best]]'' as well as the 10th track on ''[[Vessel]]''   
''Trees'' is the 12th track on the album, ''[[Regional at Best]]'' as well as the 11th track on ''[[Vessel]]''   


== Background ==
== Background ==
Tyler Joseph has spoken several times about the track, including:
<blockquote>It is one of the last songs we play in our set and by this song usually I’m exhausted during the live set. For some reason this song gives me a second wind, I don’t even know where it comes from. That’s special to me. Something bigger than myself happens during this song. It’s one of my favorites.</blockquote>–Tyler Joseph via ''Rock Sound''  [https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-trees-lyrics <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]
 
"People try to interpret what the song is saying and in a way I feel like I’m supposed to let that live and not answer the question. In short, there was a particular show that I was playing and at this time we were really able talk to everyone after a show. I remember this show in particular more than usual, kids came up to me and felt like they needed to share what it was they were going through and a lot of what they were going through had to do with suicide… thank goodness it had a lot to do with them overcoming it and using music and using songs, in particular my songs, to help them get over that and I was so inspired and so moved by that show and those kids that came up to me and shared with me their struggles with suicide and this song is very inspired by them and those people that struggle with that. I don’t claim to be a professional opinion on the topic because it’s dangerous to talk about suicide and to claim you have a voice on the issue but this song is about taking that negative energy and aiming it at something else, not aiming it at yourself, really giving these kids the power to know that they do have control over their circumstances." [https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-guns-for-hands-lyrics <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]


== Versions ==
== Versions ==
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! style= "background-color:#B0E0E6;" |Length
! |Length
! style= "background-color:#B0E0E6;" |Recorded
! |Recorded
! style= "background-color:#B0E0E6;" |Released
! |Released
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! |Notes
|-
|-
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |Guns for Hands
| |Trees
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |[[Regional at Best]]
| |[[Regional at Best]]
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |4:33
| |4:21
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |2010-2011
| |2010-2011
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |8 July 2011
| |8 July 2011
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |
| |
|-
|-
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |Guns for Hands
| |Trees
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |[[Vessel]]
| |[[Vessel]]
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |4:36
| |4:28
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |2011-2012
| |2011-2012
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |8 Jan 2013
| |8 Jan 2013
| style= "background-color:#E5F6F8;" |Guns for Hands, along with other songs from [[Regional at Best]] were remastered for their next album, [[Vessel]]
| |Trees, along with other songs from [[Regional at Best]] were remastered for their next album, [[Vessel]]
|}
|}


== Live ==
== Live ==
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_iPVOMPt8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygO2lz3XeSU


== Lyrics ==
== Lyrics ==
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|I know what you think in the morning
|[Verse]
When the sun shines on the ground
I know where You stand
And shows what you have done
 
It shows where your mind has gone
Silent in the trees
And you swear to your parents
 
That it will never happen again
And that's where I am
I know, I know-ow-ow
 
What that means, I know-ow-ow-ow-ow
Silent in the trees
 
Why won't You speak
 
Where I happen to be?
 
Silent in the trees
 
Standing cowardly


[Chorus]
[Chorus]
That you all have guns
And you never put the safety on
And you all have plans
To take it, to take it, don't take it, take it, take it
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
But I can't, but I can't when you all have
Guns for hands, yeah
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
But I can't, but I can't when you all have
Guns for hands, yeah


[Verse 2]
I can feel Your breath
Let's take this a second at a time
 
Let's take this one song, this one rhyme
I can feel my death
Together, let's breathe
 
Together, to the beat
I want to know You
But there's hope out the window
 
So that's where we'll go
I want to see
Let's go outside and all join hands
 
But until then you'll never understand
I want to say
 
Hello, hello
 
Hello, oh, hello
 
[Refrain]
 
Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da
 
[Verse]
 
I know where You stand
 
Silent in the trees
 
And that's where I am
 
Silent in the trees
 
Why won't You speak
 
Where I happen to be?
 
Silent in the trees
 
Standing cowardly


[Chorus]
[Chorus]
That you all have guns
And you never put the safety on
And you all have plans
To take it, to take it, don't take it, take it, take it (Don't take it)
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
But I can't, but I can't when you all have
Guns for hands, yeah


[Interlude]
I can feel Your breath
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Whoo!
(Da-da da-da-da)
(Da-da da-da-da)
(Da-da da-da-da, ah uh)
(Da-da da-da-da)


[Bridge]
I can feel my death
We've turned our hands to guns
 
Traded our thumbs for ammunition
I want to know You
I must forewarn you of my disorder, or my condition
 
'Cause when the sun sets
I want to see
It upsets what's left of my invested interest
 
Interested in putting my fingers to my head
I want to say
The solution is, I see a whole room of these mutant kids
 
Fused at the wrist, I simply tell them they should shoot at this
[Refrain]
Simply suggest my chest and this confused music
 
It's obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist
Hello (Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da)
 
Hello (Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da)
 
Hello, hello, hello, hello
 
(Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da)
 
Hello, hello, hello, hello
 
Yeah (Da da, da da da, da-da
 
Da da, da da da, da-da)
 
[Outro]
 
Oh, oh
 
Oh, oh
 
Oh, oh
 
Hello, hello! (Oh, oh)
 
Hello, hello! (Oh, oh)


[Chorus]
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
But I can't, but I can't when you all have
Guns for hands, yeah
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep (I'm trying to sleep)
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep (I'm trying to sleep)
But I can't, but I can't when you all have
Guns for hands, yeah
|}
|}
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</div>
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!Lyrics
!Lyrics
|-
|-
|Frontman Tyler Joseph has stated the following regarding this track:<blockquote>"I know you have the ability to hurt yourself, I recognize that, but let’s take that energy and let’s point it at something else, let’s divert that, let’s kind of shift momentum and look at something like art, or something like this music specifically or even point it at me, just point it anywhere. But don’t point it at yourself … that song will always be important to me." [https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-guns-for-hands-lyrics <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]</blockquote>
|“Trees” is the oldest song written for ''Vessel''. twenty one pilots recorded it for their independently released 2011 album ''Regional at Best'' and then rerecorded it for ''Vessel'' after they signed under label Fueled by Ramen. As Tyler Joseph explains in an interview, the original lyrics were inspired by an event in his life in which he was searching for something in the woods. The ultimate message he explains, is a search for truth.
What form this truth takes on is up for debate. There are two general interpretations of these lyrics:
 
* A chance encounter occurs in a the secluded forest between two people who suffer from social anxiety. They nervously wait it out, not saying a thing.
* A spiritual journey is depicted in which the narrator feels as though he has found God but struggles with doubt, as God doesn't show Himself directly. [https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-trees-lyrics <nowiki>[2]</nowiki>]
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |all meanings of the lyrics are taken from the [https://genius.com/artists/Twenty-one-pilots Genius] website
| style="text-align:center;" |all meanings of the lyrics are taken from the [https://genius.com/artists/Twenty-one-pilots Genius] website
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== Sources ==
== Sources ==
[https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-guns-for-hands-lyrics <nowiki>[1] https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-guns-for-hands-lyrics</nowiki>]{{TwentyOnePilots}}
[https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-trees-lyrics <nowiki>[1] [2] https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-trees-lyrics</nowiki>]{{TwentyOnePilots}}
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[[Category:Regional at Best]]
[[Category:Regional at Best]]

Latest revision as of 10:42, 10 May 2024

Trees
Song by Twenty One Pilots from the album Regional at Best
ReleasedJuly 8, 2011
FormatDigital
Length4:21
Time signature4/4
Tempo140
KeyF Major
Live debutMay 1 2010
Last playedSep 10 2023
ComposerTwenty One Pilots
LyricistTyler Joseph
WriterTyler Joseph
ProducerTyler Joseph, Josh Dun
LabelSelf-released
Stream / Buy
Twenty One Pilots track listing
  1. Guns For Hands
  2. Holding On To You
  3. Ode To Sleep
  4. Slowtown
  5. Car Radio
  6. Forest
  7. Glowing Eyes
  8. Kitchen Sink
  9. Anathema
  10. Lovely
  11. Ruby
  12. Trees
  13. Be Concerned
  14. Clear
  15. House Of Gold (Newsletter Edition)
  16. Two (Newsletter Edition)

Trees is the 12th track on the album, Regional at Best as well as the 11th track on Vessel

Background

It is one of the last songs we play in our set and by this song usually I’m exhausted during the live set. For some reason this song gives me a second wind, I don’t even know where it comes from. That’s special to me. Something bigger than myself happens during this song. It’s one of my favorites.

–Tyler Joseph via Rock Sound [1]

Versions

Studio

Title Releas Length Recorded Released Notes
Trees Regional at Best 4:21 2010-2011 8 July 2011
Trees Vessel 4:28 2011-2012 8 Jan 2013 Trees, along with other songs from Regional at Best were remastered for their next album, Vessel

Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygO2lz3XeSU

Lyrics

Lyrics

Album version
[Verse]

I know where You stand

Silent in the trees

And that's where I am

Silent in the trees

Why won't You speak

Where I happen to be?

Silent in the trees

Standing cowardly

[Chorus]

I can feel Your breath

I can feel my death

I want to know You

I want to see

I want to say

Hello, hello

Hello, oh, hello

[Refrain]

Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da

[Verse]

I know where You stand

Silent in the trees

And that's where I am

Silent in the trees

Why won't You speak

Where I happen to be?

Silent in the trees

Standing cowardly

[Chorus]

I can feel Your breath

I can feel my death

I want to know You

I want to see

I want to say

[Refrain]

Hello (Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da)

Hello (Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da)

Hello, hello, hello, hello

(Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da)

Hello, hello, hello, hello

Yeah (Da da, da da da, da-da

Da da, da da da, da-da)

[Outro]

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

Hello, hello! (Oh, oh)

Hello, hello! (Oh, oh)

Lyrics meaning

Lyrics
“Trees” is the oldest song written for Vessel. twenty one pilots recorded it for their independently released 2011 album Regional at Best and then rerecorded it for Vessel after they signed under label Fueled by Ramen. As Tyler Joseph explains in an interview, the original lyrics were inspired by an event in his life in which he was searching for something in the woods. The ultimate message he explains, is a search for truth.

What form this truth takes on is up for debate. There are two general interpretations of these lyrics:

  • A chance encounter occurs in a the secluded forest between two people who suffer from social anxiety. They nervously wait it out, not saying a thing.
  • A spiritual journey is depicted in which the narrator feels as though he has found God but struggles with doubt, as God doesn't show Himself directly. [2]
all meanings of the lyrics are taken from the Genius website

Sources

[1] [2] https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-trees-lyrics

Twenty One Pilots
Members Tyler JosephJosh Dun
Former Members Chris SalihNick Thomas
Albums Twenty One PilotsRegional at BestVesselBlurryfaceTrenchScaled and IcyClancy
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Tours Local ShowsTwenty One Pilots TourRegional at Best TourMostly November TourBlurryface World Tour

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