Holding On To You: Difference between revisions

{{infobox song|Name=Holding on to You|Artist=[[Twenty One Pilots]]|Album=[[Regional at Best]]|Cover=|Recorded=|Released=July 8, 2011|Format=Digital|Length=4:26|Stems=|Time signature=4/4|Tempo=90|Key=E minor|Samples=|References=|Live debut=|Last played=April 1 2023|Live count=|Writer=[[Tyler Joseph]]|Producer=[[Tyler Joseph]], [[Josh Dun]]|Label=Self-released|Misc={{Extra track listing

# [[Guns for Hands]]

# [[Holding on to You]]

# [[Ode to Sleep]]

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''Holding on to You'' is the 2nd track on the album, ''[[Regional at Best]]''

"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>]

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|Holding on to You

|[[Regional at Best]]

|4:26

|2010-2011

|8 July 2011

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! style="background-color:#87CEEB;" |Album version

|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>

[https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-guns-for-hands-lyrics <nowiki>[1] https://genius.com/Twenty-one-pilots-guns-for-hands-lyrics</nowiki>]