Overcompensate

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Overcompensate
Song by Twenty One Pilots from the album Clancy
ReleasedFebruary 29, 2024
FormatDigital
Length3:56
SingleFebruary 29, 2024
Live count0
WriterTyler Joseph
ProducerTyler Joseph
LabelFueled by Ramen
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Clancy track listing
  1. Overcompensate
  2. Next Semester
  3. Backslide
  4. Midwest Indigo
  5. Routines in the Night
  6. Vignette
  7. The Craving (Jenna's Version)
  8. Lavish
  9. Navigatting
  10. Snap back
  11. Oldies Station
  12. At the Risk of Feeling Dumb
  13. Paladin Strait

Overcompensate is the first song on the album Clancy by Twenty One Pilots.

Background

After growing anticipation and teases for their fifth studio album, twenty one pilots released a video entitled “I Am Clancy” on February 22, 2024 to both recap the Dema story up until this point and tease its final chapter. Underneath the narration from frontman Tyler Joseph was a song with a German phrase that roughly translates to: “The secret island has weaponized me,” which is a reference to one of the Clancy letters.

“Overcompensate” released at noon CST on February 29, alongside a radio debut on BBC Radio 1. “Shy Away” also received a mid-day release, and a Radio 1 interview, when it kicked off the Scaled and Icy era.

Lyrics

Album version
[Intro]

(Diese kleine unheimliche Insel hat mich zu einer Waffe gemacht)

(Wir glauben beide—)

(Cette petite île étrange a fait de moi une arme)

(Nous croyons tous les deux que nous pouvons l'utiliser pour changer l'élan de cette guerre)

(Esta pequeña isla misteriosa me ha convertido en un arma)

(Todos creemos que podemos usarla para cambiar el impulso de esta guerra)


[Bridge]

Welcome back to Trench

Welcome back to Trench

I created this world to feel some control

Destroy it if I want

So I sing, "sahlo folina"

"Sahlo folina"

(Wait, what? Wait, what?)

(Wait, what? Wait, what?)


[Verse 1]

Earned my stripes, three hundred tracks in my Adidas track jacket

Bless your ear holes while you react, acting

Gobsmacked, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate

I feel like I was just here, same twitchin' in my eyes

Don't sleep on a boy who can fall asleep twice in the same night

And won't hesitate to maybe overcompensate


[Chorus]

I said I fly by the dangerous bend symbol (Wait, what? Wait, what?)

Mm, don't hesitate To maybe overcompensate

And then by the time I catch in my peripheral (Wait, what? Wait, what?)

Mm, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate


[Verse 2]

Where am I from? I was born right here, just now

Originated right in front of your eyes

If you can't see, I am Clancy, prodigal son

Done running, come up with Josh Dun

Wanted dead or alive

So now you pick who you serve, you bow to the masses

Get kicked to the curb for passin' the classes

Half empty, half full, save half of your taxes

Then overtake your former self


[Chorus]

I fly by the dangerous bend symbol (Wait, what? Wait, what?)

Mm, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate

And then by the time I catch in my peripheral (Wait, what? Wait, what?)

Mm, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate


[Bridge]

Days feel like a perfect length

I don't need them any longer, but for goodness sake

Do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazón

Way too short for my soul, corazón

The days feel like a perfect length

I don't need them any longer, but for goodness sake

Do the years seem way too short for my soul, corazón

Way too short for my soul, corazón


[Refrain]

Earned my stripes, three hundred tracks in my Adidas track jacket

Bless your ear holes while you react, acting

Gobsmacked, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate

[Chorus]

I said I fly by the dangerous bend symbol (Wait, what? Wait, what?)

Mm, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate

And then by the time I catch in my peripheral (Wait, what? Wait, what?)

Mm, don't hesitate to maybe overcompensate

Lyrics meaning

Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDy6FgsdEKg
all meanings of the lyrics are taken from the Genius website