At The Risk Of Feeling Dumb – English Lyrics

• By: Twenty One Pilots
• Album: Clancy

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Twenty One Pilots' 'At The Risk Of Feeling Dumb' to explore meaningful English vocabulary related to friendship and mental well-being. This track offers straightforward yet profound lyrics, making it an accessible and emotionally resonant song for language learners.

[English]

(bright upbeat music)

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest ♪

♪ You don't have to drop, drop, drop ♪

♪ Don't have to drop by ♪

♪ Nothing you can do this time ♪

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest ♪

♪ You don't have to drop ♪

♪ Drop, drop, drop anything for me ♪

♪ Just keep your plans ♪

♪ I hope that you never have to drop ♪

♪ Used to be you and me, matching Kawasaki Zs ♪

♪ Ride around 270 in Kawasaki tees ♪

♪ Two fighter jets matching energy ♪

♪ Trying to forget that we're in ejection seats ♪

♪ So please keep it in mind ♪

♪ Check on your friends ♪

♪ Every once in a while ♪

♪ Even if they say ♪

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest ♪

♪ You don't have to drop, drop, drop ♪

♪ Don't have to drop by ♪

♪ Nothing you can do this time ♪

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest ♪

♪ You don't have to drop ♪

♪ Drop, drop, drop anything for me ♪

♪ Just keep your plans ♪

♪ I hope that you never have to drop ♪

♪ Drop, drop, drop ♪

♪ At the risk of feeling dumb, check in ♪

♪ It's not worth the risk of losing a friend ♪

♪ Even if they say ♪

♪ Just keep your plans ♪

♪ I hope that you never have to drop ♪

♪ If I'm being real, man ♪

♪ Don't know how I feel, man ♪

♪ 'Bout you sleeping so close to a weapon you conceal, man ♪

♪ Those night terrors are not something to take lightly ♪

♪ I know that it's a risk saying this, don't fight me ♪

♪ Stopping me, fight me ♪

♪ Stopping me, fight me ♪

♪ Stopping me, fight me ♪

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest ♪

♪ You don't have to drop, drop, drop me ♪

♪ Don't have to drop by ♪

♪ Nothing you can do this time ♪

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest ♪

♪ You don't have to drop ♪

♪ Drop me, drop, drop me ♪

♪ Anything for me ♪

♪ Just keep your plans ♪

♪ I hope that you never have to drop ♪

♪ Drop, drop, drop ♪

♪ At the risk of feeling dumb, check in ♪

♪ It's not worth the risk of losing a friend ♪

♪ Even if they say ♪

♪ Just keep your plans ♪

♪ I hope that you never have to drop ♪

♪ I don't want anyone, know me or not ♪

♪ See me at my lowest, you don't have to drop ♪

♪ Drop, drop, drop, anything ♪

♪ For me ♪

(upbeat music continues)

Key Grammar Structures

• I don't want anyone, know me or not

  ➔ Subjunctive Mood

  ➔ The phrase uses the subjunctive mood to express a hypothetical or wished-for situation, emphasizing uncertainty or contrary-to-fact conditions.

• Used to be you and me, matching Kawasaki Zs

  ➔ Used to + Infinitive

  ➔ The phrase 'used to be' is a past habit or state, indicating something that was true in the past but not necessarily now.

• Trying to forget that we're in ejection seats

  ➔ Present Continuous for Future Arrangements

  ➔ The present continuous tense ('trying to forget') is used here to describe an action that is planned or expected to happen in the future.

• At the risk of feeling dumb, check in

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase

  ➔ The prepositional phrase 'at the risk of' introduces a potential consequence or condition related to the main action ('check in').

• Even if they say

  ➔ Concessive Clause

  ➔ The concessive clause 'even if they say' introduces a contrasting idea, indicating that the action should still be taken despite the condition.

• If I'm being real, man

  ➔ Conditional Clause

  ➔ The conditional clause 'if I'm being real' expresses a condition that must be true for the following statement to hold.