#also you're all joking yourselves if you think tyler isn't SO conservative

[chalupacabras]

(1)it's actually not 'in razorblade stores' it's just 'razorblade stores' and it's said completely separate from the 'money we made' part. they are meaning stores of razorblades not actual shops/stores. some parts of the song are referencing to not self-harm/commit suicide (save your razorblades) and they are talking about that they can only do so much to create a distraction from it. (hence, 'we'll win but not everyone will get out.' the fight against suicide...) that's my interpretation of it.

(2) if you’ve listened to them for that long, you know everything in their music has a meaning. as you’re aware, a lot of it has references to depression, suicide, self harm ect. i can’t see them now just being so careless with words and it holding no meaning. it’s fine that you’re not a fan of them anymore but give them a little more credit here. none of this is meant as an attack. just trying to maybe clarify the lyrics some..

Well, I’m not the OP of the post that got the lyric wrong, but for your convenience, I’ll put the lyric here. This is how I interpreted it.

Since this band is always singing about their fans and this community they’ve built, this community of the depressed, the few/proud/emotional, it’s a reasonable inference to say that “we” doesn’t represent Tyler solely. It represents We, that communal We he always mentions, the people who Relate To The Song. 

This just doesn’t sit well with me at all because it reinforces what I’ve come to believe–not only are they capitalizing off of mental illness and depressed youth, they’re fully aware of it. I feel like this lyric is acknowledging that they’re helping popularize cutting and self-harm at worst, and at best it’s just another tactless opportunity to slip a reference to cutting in a song that they know millions of youths will sing the lyrics to. 

In a general sense, I think it’s really irresponsible for a band whose whole brand is Depression and Mental Illness, who is aware of the demographic of their fans (troubled youth, vulnerable youth), to:

-write in self-harm and suicidal themes into poppy songs kids will sing

-use the tower of silence?????? as a theme for this album which is so FUCKING nasty of them like do not start me please i could go off like first of all it’s a religious zoroastrian practice about treating the dead and tyler himself is highly religious and has proven himself now to truly have no respect for anything that isn’t christianity (which we already knew. he’s a nasty man you can ask me about this i’ll give examples) and will happily take historical religious ceremonies to turn into theatrical metaphors for his high school depression 

-do NOTHING to help the demographic of vulnerable troubled youth they claim to care SO MUCH ABOUT, that they made all their money off of. They don’t donate, they aren’t overtly vocal about anything related to mental health–the best i have ever seen them do for mental health is say “stay alive” or make the Trees speech during concerts that thousands of their fans payed to attend, or give some corny “I’m glad you’re alive” message at some point that’s so empty and meaningless with how many times they’ve repeated it. Are you glad? How about not moving to a millionaire mansion in the woods in ohio and disappearing off the face of the earth for a year? Celebrities do the absolute LEAST, like even the lowest tier fundraising was too much to ask of the band that mental illness made rich. They can’t donate $1 per ticket sold to a mental health foundation, they can’t even tweet #lovewins or whatever the fuck because tyler has his own dick shoved so far past his tonsils that he’s peering behind his thighs to release another meaningless .;*8?????:.,…..I-/ instagram caption

You’re right though, they aren’t careless with words. Every word probably has a meaning to Tyler, but that’s just it. It only means shit to Tyler, or it’s part of an intricate and bizarre puzzle for the fans to string together. That’s objectively fine and fun, but the problem is that the fans will bend over backwards to convince themselves that every song is for THEM, that Tyler cares about THEM, gay, trans, depressed, and weird kids that he’s never met and will do the most (disappearing into his remote cabin on his hiatus, dropping off social media) to avoid at all costs. We the fans and ex-fans made them rich as fuck, lined their pockets, all for them to give not a single bit back to the community that did it. I get that everyone has to make a living, even a lavish one, I get that, but even the most selfish asshole will give a carrot to the horse who carried him up the mountain. Tyler and Josh were carried up the mountain, got off, then gave the horse not a single drop of water and disappeared, and then when they returned, they hopped onto the bare bones of the dying animal and gave radio interviews about how they were Worried the horse wouldn’t have waited.