What does "Bandito" by Twenty One Pilots mean? | Trench Explained
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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.
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? 🤷🏻♀️
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!!
These videos help me understand the songs better. Thanks for explaining the lyrics.
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 )
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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
WE STAN
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 can _see_ you getting more and more insane with every video 😂 but its not a bad thing i'm just as confused lol
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 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 have been binge watching tench interpretations all day. *WHEW* I feel as overwhelmed as your hair.
THANK YOU!
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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!
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.
A LYRIC THEORY!!! that made my day lol
But hey, it's just a Theory, a Lyrics Theory (Mat Pat?)
@@franzforkel7753 yeeeees
I love the fact that in every tøp songs everyone can have a different interpretation.
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.
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.”
This is a beautiful song. Tyler sings like an angel and he is a musical genius
“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“
I think part of the fun of Twenty Øne Piløts songs is when you explain them.
That's just a theory...a lyric theory
"Goodbye everyone." Oh wait this isn't Game Theory oops
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.
You are on fire!! Love these videos so much
Good video, I was waiting for this one. Also, that face on the thumbnail is amazing.
I love Tyler's voice on this song, kind of beautiful and haunting especially when he sings the Sahlo Folina part.
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'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
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2:06 is that a game theory refrence?
I think so
The Pop Song Professor but thats a question
@@sunny3970 A REFERENCE QUESTION
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!!
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
Can't wait to hear your explanation on morph!
This is one of my favorites on Trench
killing it with these uploads man, keep up the good work! :)
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"!!!
OMG love this explanation
Gosh dang you sure have just been powering through trench!
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"
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
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
"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.
Bro, you’re an absolute LEGEND
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
"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.
Just something weird I found...
Sahlo Folina means watch folks in Zulu and Xhosa...
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
this song has actually helped me with my Depression and Anxiety.
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
The Pop Song Prefessor petting his own hair it's a hole mood.
This made me think back to morph where he talks about going over and going under.
Clifford James, are you alright?
Doing fine. :)
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.
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).
I think you did a great interpretation!!! Was just about to guess an anagram😂
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
Honestly your hair is my spirit animal
360p... We meet again
Stefan Donevski I use a tiny iPhone se so it’s not that bad unless I watch on my iPad or pc
*BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY A LYRIC THEORY*
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
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!
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
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
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.
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.
Love the Game/Film Theory reference 😂
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
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
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.
What the bishops were praying at was a neon gravestone , simbolizing suicide or something like this .
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 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.
Are any trench songs on your top and bottom 7 TOP Songs? Tried asking during stream, didn't work lol.
fire represents passion
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
WOW! I totally thought he was singing "sorrow falling out" instead of "Salho Folina."
Nice video
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.
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.
Love the GameTheory reference 💛
"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...)
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
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..
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I was JUST thinking about this song and wondering when you'll explain it I'm scared.
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
What do you think the album is out of 10? It would be cool to see a video of you reviewing it.
Are there gonna be any song explainations revisited when we maybe get more?
On Apple Music has it listed as falling on sorrow
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.
I always get so emotional when I hear this song
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)]
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 :)
We all know how cryptic Tyler is. But like really a new language, a new creation of a creation of his own.
Broken SweetHeart Yeah, this would make sense, if you can create a world you can create a language for it, or new words, or a code. It’s also something kids do when they’re building forts (treehouse, Forest, Stressed Out, Slowtown)