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"Its a theory. A lyric theory!" I died! 😂
Same
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A lyeory!
"i could take the high road but i know that im going low" reminded me of that lyric in lane boy: "they think this thing is a highway but we go where we want to"
Exactly the same thing I related to when I listened to it the first time!
In the Lane Boy video, Tyler says something in the end about "stay low, they say." According to that video, the "staying low" is worshipping fame and success, something Tyler implies is wrong. I think that's probably connected to this "low/high" symbolism in Bandito (and throughout Trench). Maybe the low road is the way of most humans. The high road is the way of those Banditos who can escape without going through trench. Somehow, they can rise above.
Strange how that rarely works for artists in the industry.
It's from "car radio". Faith and sleep. Song is about what banditos want. They want to go to sleep
Pop song wimp: cliffs blurryface.
Bandito is already one of my favorite songs from Trench and I cannot stop singing “I’m a ban-I’m a bandito” and “Salho Folina”
Levi 067 I’m a ben- I’m a bendy toe
Sahlo Folina!!
It’s about depression! “I can take the high road but I know that I’m going low”. Tyler is saying that he could take the easy route but risk getting spotted and taken back to dema, or he could distract his thoughts and stay low to escape. He’s saying no matter how hard it is to escape through this route, he’ll keep on track because he doesn’t want the dark though, or the bishops, to take over his life again! There’s another lyric that says “this is the sound we make when in between two places. Where we used to be and where our blood needs to be” which is a reference to trench and dema yes but dema is a representation of depressing thoughts so when he says that, he’s rejoicing that he’s no longer in that dark place
And singing sahlo folina is a cry for help to other banditos when in trench (low point / depression )
These videos help me understand the songs better. Thanks for explaining the lyrics.
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I totally agree with you about Tyler actually using repetition well. I was afraid that it wouldn’t work, but I’m honestly blown away by how he can repeat something without making it annoying or wrong.
My favorite part of this song is the “Folina Sahlo.” Sonically, it’s just beautiful, I mean oh my gosh. I don’t know what it is honestly....please explain @tylerrjoseph
Thanks for this explanation! This song has definitely grown on me. :)
yeah i loved this song way to much too
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Folina Sahlo is anagram for "All Ohio fans"
I would just like to say that when I was listening to the whole album for the first time (in order of course), I was really digging all of it until I got to Bandito. When I heard this song I began to cry. Like a hysterical cry. I think it's important to not only have a sick beat and really complicated lyrics, but to just feel the music. Acknowledge what the song makes you feel and go with it. Perphaps thats what Tyler wants from us, to feel what he feels. The whole album is great and I can't wait to see them live.
Priscila Guillen Leave the City made me cry
This song and Leave the City were my favorites on the album and and I had the same emotional reaction. It’s really good to see two other people relate to that haha everyone else is loving my two least favorites (my blood and Morph)
Like when the instrumental came i just cried my heart out! :(
This is why Bandito is my all time favorite song
I could be dumb, but when I was listening to this earlier I listened to Car Radio right before and there is a line in there that talks about fear and peace, didn't know if that had any semblance in this song when he is talking about fear being a rival. Also Tyler uses fear in different ways through the albums. Talking about fear losing, then in Blurryface he says fear inspires him, now hes' questioning if fear could be some kind of truth. Maybe saying something like, fear in the right amounts is good. This got a lot longer than I expected, I'm just really excited to be finding all kinds of connections and hearing your input. Thank you Pop Song Professor!
I have been binge watching tench interpretations all day. *WHEW* I feel as overwhelmed as your hair.
THANK YOU!
My friend found that sahlo folina/folina sahlo sounds like “slow falling” said really slow. Sa-low falling-uh. It’s weird but just try saying slow falling/falling slow really slow and spaced out and you can see it.
Before I read the lyrics, I was heard “falling s-low” or Falling so alone”.
Omg I was thinking the same thing and I totally get it now. This is crazy.
I can _see_ you getting more and more insane with every video 😂 but its not a bad thing i'm just as confused lol
Underneath every official audio on TH-cam for the album, lyrics are written in the discription.
Sahlo Folina is capitalized. Both words are capitalized. Even in the last line where the words are put in a sentence
“So I sing Sahlo Folina”
This would imply that it’s a proper noun. Sahlo Folina is probably a name of someone in their universe.
“In city, I feel my spirit is contained
Like neon inside the glass, they form my brain“ is about how depression/insecurities whatever bishops represent make Tyler feel-cloudy,restrained and overall song is about how it feels to be a bandito,to leave dima and fight these dark feelings; and he also talks about how it really helps when someone hears and gets you even a little bit but its enough for hime not to give up and make it trough; he is moving slow but the fact of him fighting and making a change is already great “I could take the high road But I know that I'm going low I'm a ban-I'm a bandito“
there are so many interpretations to each song, and it almost drives me crazy, but it’s also why i’m so obsessed with tyler’s songwriting. he wants it to be up the the listener’s interpretation. he guides us a little bit with facts about the setting and characters themselves, but we take what we can with what we’ve been through in our own lives and connect to the lyrics. it’s literally meant to be for everyone who struggles with mental illness. no interpretation is a wrong one.
I am being a bandito for halloween this year!! I have the bandana and making the jacket right now!!
same
Y E E T
oooo me too!
I’m doing the same thing but I’m dressing up like one for their concerts that I’m going to :)
Madison Hetrick im doing that as well
I have the bandana from ordering the bundle with the CD. I'm going to wear it to the concert in November! I think these songs will sound great live!
I love the fact that in every tøp songs everyone can have a different interpretation.
This is a beautiful song. Tyler sings like an angel and he is a musical genius
“I’m the pop song professor, not the pop song wimp” - Mr Popsong 2018
i could take the H I G H road
but i know that im going low
im a B A N
im a B A N D I T O
I was listening to it exactly in the moment I saw this uploaded lol
I’m a BAND I’m a BANDito.......maybe he’s a band member? 🤷🏻♀️
I love Tyler's voice on this song, kind of beautiful and haunting especially when he sings the Sahlo Folina part.
A LYRIC THEORY!!! that made my day lol
But hey, it's just a Theory, a Lyrics Theory (Mat Pat?)
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I think the neon structure the bishops are performing the ritual around in the Nico and The Niners video is a Neon Gravestone.. that the bishops are furnishing for Tyler. All of the other people who are watching are entranced and caught up in the lie that "an earlier grave is an optional way"
Thank you for putting out all these explanation videos on TRENCH. I love them and it literally all makes sense.
I think part of the fun of Twenty Øne Piløts songs is when you explain them.
someone also pointed out that it could be an anagram for halo of nails.
Someone else pointed out on reddit that it could be an anagram for "all Ohio fans"!!!
I feel like Banditos are the Clique. The Banditos are always helping Tyler escape Dema, and as we know from Leave the City, Trench can be represented as a concert (“these faces staring back at me”), and the faces staring back at him in Trench are the Banditos. So when Tyler says “I’m a Bandito” he’s playing off of what they say at the end of every concert - “We are twenty one pilots and so are you.”
"I created this world
To feel some control
Destroy if I want"
I relate to this part sooo much, I like to draw and have created characters and their own world's, killed some off and I feel so close to my characters. I enjoy it when I try to escape reality.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I love TOP and loved it before finding your channel, and your probably the only person that I know of that is so into the lyrics as I am! Also sometimes I go into rants to family/friends about TOP and they don't seem to care :P
JamesoNarwal P same
Tyler has recently stated on reddit that Sahlo Folina is "what we cry in Trench when we are in need". You got it right, Cliff!!
I think it's about the idea associated with DEMA and all the themes of Trench that sadness is comfort. This song strikes something so personal inside me it hurts, but it's also incredible, because they're singing about a feeling I feel like no one I know understands, a feeling I can barely put into words.
"I created this world to feel some control" he won't try to recover because the idea of not allowing himself to succumb to depression / other mental health struggles is difficult.
"it's a heatless fire"
and then of course "I could take the high road but I know that I won't" he could try to escape his head and his feelings, but he know that he won't because it is so difficult.
Sadness is comfort
Bandito reminds me of depression in a way. When he sings “I could take the high road but I know that I’m going low” it reminds me of someone who is faking to be happy, and acting like everything is fine but in reality they know that things aren’t going to be okay or something just happened that their trying to block out of their lives. They could take the high road to distract them or to let them maybe feel like all is okay but in reality deep down they’re hurting, kinda like wearing a mask. Idk it’s just an idea
Can't wait to hear your explanation on morph!
I'm not sure if you've covered Rush content, but I find the parallels between 2112 and Trench worth mentioning. The Temples of Syrinx and the priests are similar to the bishops in Trench and in the world of Dema. Rush were going through pressures to conform to perceived standards of the music industry and 2112 was their response. I know Tyler Joseph has expressed similar sentiments in this lyrics about conforming to pressure. I'm sure you already know this. Thanks for the interesting commentaries!
The bit “the softest echo is enough for me to make it through” followed by “Sahlo Felina” which Tyler explained is what you cry in Trench when you need help (or the sound you make in between 2 places) reminds of Tyler shouting “is anyone out there” in a forest only to shout it out again years later in a concert and actually hear people calling back. It’s like he calls out in Trench and he’s waiting for us the banditos to call back to him
you’re really cranking out these videos 😂😌
Bro, you’re an absolute LEGEND
Salho Folina could be a connection between Twenty one pilots and the clique/Banditos as Domingo en fuego is as the crowd sings it at concerts.
You are on fire!! Love these videos so much
this song ties the entire album together. It has references to other songs "the city" "NEON inside glass" "nicknames" and he says that he could take the high road but he's going low and fighting through his problems. Its no wonder why the tour is called the bandito tour.
a guy in reddit said this about this song: in Banditos the line "Sahlo Folina" appears several times. I've seen several people think this is something backwards, but it actually has it's own meaning. "Sahlo" means to enable in Somali. Folina is a name and according to a name website I found, it means this:
"Your name of Folina has made you happiest when you are expressing in some creative, artistic way, and not conforming to strict routine"
So "Sahlo Folina" means to enable expressive creations. This makes a lot of sense considering the next verse is all about his ability to create the world of Trench.
"I could take the high road, but I know that I'm going low" could also be interpreted as Tyler saying he can take the moral high road and go back to Dema, possibly even ratting out the Banditos. Instead he chooses to "go low," suggesting he knows that leaving with the Banditos is against Dema law, but that's ultimately better for him- even though he's doing what isn't considered "right" according to the Bishops.
no, the higher and lower talks about emptiness and being filled with purpose. one who has a vision, desire, dreams and huge ideas always goes higher as in is successful, happier, more motivated and stuff. but someone who's empty, lacking in purpose and unsure where to go or whom to trust is someone that goes lower as in shrinks into darkness and sadness. at least that's the first thought i got when i heard it.
and i guess taking the higher road is about chasing his dream? and fulfilling his purpose, but he is feeling low because he is still lost as to where he should go or where to settle, but he's got his people "in trench he's not alone" but the destination is still blurry
also as in the FM interview, he said he still has a lot to figure out. he's not so bad now, blurryface is gone, but he still has struggles to face. that's his inbetween, he isn't happy but he isn't so low he might commit suicide. he's in the "i wanna get better i can get better but how"
this song has actually helped me with my Depression and Anxiety.
in this song he refers to "high road" to the actual high road and "going low" to going underground because in the nico and the niners video he went underground way because he didn't want the bishops to capture him and also he says "im a bandito" meaning that he is one of those that came to rescue him the city Dema
They just recently did an AMA on reddit, and when asked what Sahlo Folina meant, Tyler said it was like a battle cry from the Banditos
This is one of my favorites on Trench
Hey Clive I completely agree with you and you are my guy when I am confused about their songs and I really love your twenty one pilots videos
I love your Chanel so much!!!! Such a great TH-camr, I have recommended you to sooo many people. Your videos make me love TØP even more!
I also think that the bullet/fire proof is saying that he was already bulletproof, as in words couldn't really hurt him anymore. And that the fire proof is saying that he's been through Hell and came out alive. So not only has he survived others attacks, but he's also survived his own personal Hell (Dema).
On idea that I had about the “I created this world I can destroy it if I want to” is that the entire place, Dema, represents depression, and all that stuff about the bishops seeming really tough and like they could destroy you but really, their religion, their ideas are empty, it’s because he let them become tough in his mind, his depression made Nico and the Niners threatening, when really he created them, his mind, his depression was the thing that made these characters and made this world so why can’t he just take control and destroy them? I can’t really find the right words to explain what I mean but this was the best I could do,I hope someone gets it.
I searched Sahlo Folina and this is what it said it was: "Sahlo" means to enable in Somali. Folina is a name and according to a name website I found, it means this: "Your name of Folina has made you happiest when you are expressing in some creative, artistic way, and not conforming to strict routine" So "Sahlo Folina" means to enable expressive creations." maybe this means that he sings Sahlo Folina to create control of his creations and creativity.
The heatless fire thing kind of reminds me of how the Bible says to not be lukewarm. Like, you can go through actions without them having any meaning, and if you aren't making decisions your life is well protected (bullet/fire proof) but ultimately it ends up being meaningless.
About “folina sahlo” I think Tyler first wants to make us think!. as he always wanted (car radio... etc.) and so he challenges us with lyrics we actually go and look for their meaning like he did in polarize with “Domingo en fuego” (I truly wonder if he knows or even deliberately aims that we will do this) and if the real meaning behind those words is as you said in the video then i truly rest my case ;)
Keep up the amazing work pop song professor.
I'll leave my own theory down here too. This is an idea I got after watching the music video for My Blood.
For me, the song is about trying to get away from your insecurities. By "going low" and running away from your problems you reach Trench, a place inbetween where you were controlled by your fears and where you are at peace, a place of continous trials and struggling where you become a "bandito", an outcast in completely new environment. Tyler saying "I created this world/ To feel some control/ Destroy it if I want" is him acknowledging that Trench is a place inside his mind, built as an escape and the metaphorical place where he fights his battles and creates his music. It's important to note how it doesn't "contain" his soul like DEMA does, as after the realisation that this world is his, the song picks up, indicating his newfound determination. This place burns with real fire.
I came from the future just to say that you totally nailed it! At least everything still makes sense, including Sahlo Folina being a kind of code/call for the banditos
This made me think back to morph where he talks about going over and going under.
I thought lighter when I’m lower, higher when I’m heavy kinda meant like heavy limbs or being dead, and if you’re dead, you’re put up high to get your bones cleaned, then when you’re lowered, you’re lighter than when you went up the tower. It may also mean like someone is in a better spirit when they’re escaping Dema lol
We could also liken that to being exalted vs being humble or even humbled... At times we seem to feel heavier because we are taking on more responsibilities vs being a balanced humble person also vs being humbled to the point we need to have some responsibilities taken from off of our shoulders. Idk if that's what the song is saying but that's just what popped in my head when reading your post.
i think Folina Sahlo is about what you hear when he is singing, maybe means “falling as a low”, “falling as slow”, something like that
Sahlo Folina, I think is about like you said, the ability to enable a way for oneself to express one's creativity (yes, I know that I'm sounding like the queen and yes, I am british) anyway, just a thought! :)
To be fair, it also sounds like something you would shout during a paintball match to keep people going foward! XD
OMG love this explanation
omg!! your the only one except for me that reconized the repition and the chill vibe.
thats whats trending now. maybe they are pressured to do that.im sure they hate it. i think its their last album on FBR.they are on electra now.can you bring that up in your videos
Sahlo Falina translates to watch folk in Somali. The banditos are watching out for Tyler.
*MIND BLOWN*
That's just a theory...a lyric theory
"Goodbye everyone." Oh wait this isn't Game Theory oops
theory: on the nico and the niners video when they’re making the light bulbs . what if it’s the Neon gravestone tyler talks about . since in the video they seem to be worshiping/praising them . also referencing the neon gravestone song
My theory RE:Sahlo Folina (sp?!): i think this is Tyler's 'safe word'..the true 'pin' he could choose to 'pull' in order to blow the whole dema-trench world to smithereens(srry)..
i mean, look, he's basically alone in his very dark 'bunker'-like basement for approximately 14mo.s, night after day after night, building a world that possibly defines all the innermost architecture of his mental & spiritual landscapes; he said, in that first interview, that he knew what the weather was like there, was aware of every detail..maybe, he made up a phrase, as a talisman, to destroy the entire place instantaneously, if he wandered too far into the darkness.
i know, he full on sings the phrase, however, maybe he altered it slightly or something, the point is that it would explain the verse, & the phrase, & it'd be almost like he's reminding that world & its denizens he could end them in one heartbeat.
Muchlove, suki
My theory for folina sahlo is well if you unscramble the two words you get "O Final Halos" and tyler has mentioned halos in different songs too, which could be a connection.
Zomnom IDK another anagram: halo of nails
@@MonicaMDix that works tooo
Just something weird I found...
Sahlo Folina means watch folks in Zulu and Xhosa...
I think it's crazy that no one seems to talk about the heavy influence of Paul Meany/Mute Math on Trench, since he co-wrote half of the songs and produced the album, sang on Bandito and so on. I didn't know this when I listened to the album for the first time and I don't even know Mute Math very well, but... even when the video for Levitate was released I was like "Wait, is this a TOP feat. Mute Math song?!" because I knew they toured together and did this cool reinterpretation of some of their songs. When I heard Levitate again (second song, so pretty in the beginning) I looked it up in the booklet and surprise - Paul Meany everywhere^^ But yeah, for me Trench basically sounds like a TOP feat. Paul Meany album rather than a pure TOP album. I mean, all this little details and sounds that weren't there on the previous albums, they sound soo much like they were taken from a Mute Math album, not to mention the "guest singing" on Bandito by Meany, which is really prominent. I think this is really awesome and should be more appreciated. For me it feels unfair, like all the credits go to TOP but no one is talking about Paul, you know what I mean?!
Folina sahlo means: Enable expressive creation
Tyler and Josh did an AMA on reddit (you can find a link to it in a post on their official facebook page) where someone asked "what is the meaning behind Sahlo Folina?" and they responded with "it's what we cry out in TRENCH when we are in need." Still doesn't clarify exactly what it means, but thought y'all might like to know :)
I think that Sahlo Folina is from things that only Tyler understands(like kitchen sink)and that makes him go through and add more sense to this song
For me, when he singing:
"I created this world,
To feel some control,"
maybe about Dema, or even Blurryface...
well, Dema created by Tyler, and in this lyric, i think he wanted to make us understand, that the world around him, is to control, or track those emotions, or negative thoughts, he's fightning against..
killing it with these uploads man, keep up the good work! :)
I think going low is paralleling with the live performance of lane boy .so he knows there's the option of staying positive but he knows it easier to be feeling down and low .
"You take the high road and I'll take the low
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye
But me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie, banks of Loch Lomond..."
Sorry, all this talk about high/low roads made me think of it. (And no one is 100% certain what "the high road" and "the low" road represent in *that* song, either...)
Tyler answered someone on reddit who asked about Sahlo Folina, and he said that it's something they say to eachother in trench like a code or smth [this is the sound we make(Sahlo folina) when in between two places(TRENCH)]
When I first listened to bandito and heard “I could take the high road but I know that I’m going low” I instantly thought of lane Boy mentions roads and live tyler says stay low idk it’s just what I thought
I love that Nico (Nicholas Bourbaki) is a collective name for the group and that there were 9 founding members
I read somewhere that the high road low road is a reference to so Scottish legend. Like the warriors when dying on a battle field were taken the low road like underworld way and come home to Scotland faster then living ones that took the high road the usual on the ground way. Tho I don’t know what to do with it. Mb if we talk about dema he feels like even though he wants to go high road and to escape alive he knows that for now he’s loosing to bishops and they make him go low road , like he’s not sure if his going to make it.
And like Folina thing, idk like but I thought it was falling on sorrow
I think folina sahlo probably just means something to Tyler. Like you said, maybe it’s something the banditos say to each other or just something in the language of trench that he created with a specific meaning and we may never get to know it.
I’m not sure how it would fit into the rest of the song, but when I heard the lyrics “I could take the high road, but I know that I’m going low” it reminded me of the folk song Loch Lomond which has a similar lyric saying: “you’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Scotland afore ye”
In this song the writer is a highway man or a thief who’s been caught and is singing to his lover. The low road refers to how he will be put to death for his crimes and his soul will reach Scotland where his lover is traveling to.
I’m curious if anyone has any thoughts about how this could relate to Bandito
Something I thought of after posting this. Bandito = thief further connecting the two songs. So this could mean Tyler is choosing to take the more difficult path(the low road), the path of a Bandito, even though he knows he could just follow along with the bishops or dema and be safer.
Gosh dang you sure have just been powering through trench!
I always get so emotional when I hear this song
Honestly your hair is my spirit animal
So much with this song and references to past songs or even songs on this album, too.
As for the Sahlo Folina: To enable creativity. “I’ve created this world to feel some control. Destroy it if I want so I sing (Enable creativity).
Kitchen sink: Are you searching for purpose? Then write something, yeah it might be worthless. Then paint something then, it might be wordless. Pointless curses, nonsense verses. You'll see purpose start to surface. No one else is dealing with your demons. Meaning maybe defeating them. Could be the beginning of your meaning, friend.
To me, he’s struggling throughout this album, still (as a sort of continuation from struggles in Blurryface). He’s more sure of himself, but still struggling with ‘why?’ So he’s creating this world to discover or find out the truths, and to hopefully defeat his demons. “Nonsense verses” Sahlo Folina sounds like a nonsensical verse, but has so much meaning in just two words. He won’t stop creating. He won’t stop trying to defeat his demons (Blurryface before, now the Bishops as a whole, or Nicholas “Blurryface” Bourbaki specifically)
It really goes on and on. Each song connects to another on the album as well as references/themes to last albums/songs.
Tbh, I’ve been trying for 30 minutes now to write my personal review of this song. And it’s extremely impossible to write a solid review about this song, without jumping back and forth between many of their other songs/themes/lines to songs in which correlates to the lines/themes in this song.. ::facepalm::
On Apple Music has it listed as falling on sorrow
Are any trench songs on your top and bottom 7 TOP Songs? Tried asking during stream, didn't work lol.
Ok so this could be farfetched and totally wrong since I haven't read any other explanations of the TOP symbol but: there's like the original symbol where there's one vertical line, the dash, and then the diagonal line. And then for Trench they now have it where there are double slashes for the two outside lines. And it looks like a trench now. I feel like with the symbol now for Trench, it's like a completed picture of the narrative Tyler is telling. Also, I noticed the line in Bandito, "...When in between two places, where we used to bleed, and where our blood needs to be." Kind of represents the Trench symbol? like we're in the little dash line stuck between two ways to go? I don't know if I'm right, just my thoughts lol.
+ThePopSongProfessor Sahlo Folina sounds to me like something the banditos say as a motto more than a code word. While it could also be used as a code word, it seems like this is “the sound they make” between two places, vowing to have their Sahlo Folina, as this translates into beautiful creation. They want to be inspired and create. They don’t want to be uninspired and forget, as the City tries continuously to force them into being. Stay inspired. Stay creative. Love the color yellow. Be a bandito. Sahlo Folina.
fire represents passion
The Pop Song Prefessor petting his own hair it's a hole mood.
I was JUST thinking about this song and wondering when you'll explain it I'm scared.
One of the most symbolic songs in Trenchx
That's a theory, a lyric theory! Haha, love that reference!! Maybe we should change your fandom's name to lyric theorists?
Nah, it wouldn't go along with his originality, it would be like copying MatPat
i mean its tyler joseph who wrote this lol he literally put Jason Statham in pet cheetah so im not surprised he used SAHLO as a word, cuz it sounds really cool
I know this conversation was from awhile ago, but “Overcompensate” just came out so I’ve been listening again to their music like crazy. I have another theory. If banditos represent the people in our lives that help us through dark mental health times, maybe Tyler is saying that he needs his fans from Ohio. He’s originally from Ohio so if Sahlo Follina is an anagram, he really could be expressing how there’s importance in the friends and fans that started him on his musical journey. His lyric about destroying the world he created could reference his musical career as well as literally the Trench album. When fame comes, TOP has gained tons of fans and so it would be easy to dismiss the original fans and do whatever he wants, but he needs their support not only for his mental health but also for the success of his musical career.
Truly, I think the song could have both a dema lore meaning and a personal meaning
4:30 OK idk about this, but i just have a theorie. Comment me, if there is anything proving me wrong:
So you said, that this line could be about the bishops and what feeling they are giving us. Maybe they are making us "bulletproof" they are making us or Tyler feeling so bad or numb, that nothing "can hit us" anymore
A long shot trying to explain the "Folina Sahlo" = "All Ohio Fans" theory, this might be a shoutout to the people that essentially encouraged him to make music and to start Twenty Øne Piløts, from the humble beginnings the band had in Ohio playing in very small venues to about a hundred people -- to now with millions of listeners actively deciphering Tyler's words. He realizes that music could be a coping mechanism for his mental issues and his depression, and that people were interested to hear that; there's an audience for music like his. Basically, it's a "don't forget your roots" situation.
The thing about Tyler using this mantra with his Bandito friends like a kind of call, it's very interesting as it implies that it's a commonality within Banditos looking to escape the Trench and escape Dema. A chant to help you keep yourself grounded and calm, and to forget your troubles and stress, to let every negative thought wither away, even for just a moment -- so that when you're trying to escape Dema, you still have the mental high ground going low.