Help me out with this Song

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I have a concern with a certain song on Top’s album ‘Trench’. In the song ‘Morph’ (verse 1 specifically), it states "let’s pick “above” and see
For if and when we go above, " (please read description on site), I’m afraid that’s expressing doubt about Heaven, Or it could be doubt that one is getting to Heaven. Someone tell me it’s fine to listen to.
 
It could just be a discussion about how we deal with the reality of death. Granted, there is some obvious hints of doubt that there’s any meaning to this life or an afterlife, but I’m not sure that that’s a reason to avoid the song. Sure, it can lead to a crisis of faith, and if that were the case, it might be wise to avoid it. It can also lead to motivation to understand why we believe there’s meaning and life after death, even if we never reach a point where absolutely no doubt remains.
 
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Could the “I’ll morph into someone else” also describe trying to escape these doubts?
 
It’s hard to tell. Given the line “Defense mechanism mode”, it could be how considerations of death and the afterlife shape who someone is.

Really, though, the lyrics start getting hard to parse by the chorus and especially second verse. I’m still not sure what Nicolas Bourbaki has to do with this. Maybe it is a reference to the fact that the name was a pseudonym for many people, but that’s a very obscure reference that otherwise doesn’t seem to connect to the song unless there was a lot more to their writings than just set theory. There might also be a joke in there.

(Note: Not saying hard-to-understand and abstract lyrics are bad. As a fan of Dream Theater, I’m used to them. It’s just that there might be meaning in the obscurity that could affect how one understands the whole song, and honestly, I don’t know why they’re referencing what they do in the second verse.)
 
Haha everyone is talking bout this album.

I fail to see how there is denial of the reality of Heaven in this verse.

I would tend to think there isn’t, becuase apparently (I think) both of them are Protestant.
 
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Twenty one pilots is a bit mopey.
But they’re pretty harmless
 
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