In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Traced in a wet sand her name in perfect cursive.
A love letter to the crescent moon.
By tomorrow it will be gone I told her.
There is no tomorrow she said.
I can feel her in a bikini of coiled snakes dancing into the hiss of the wind.
Postcards from a paradise in flames.
She used to be so right.
So right about everything.
A love letter to the crescent moon.
By tomorrow it will be gone I told her.
There is no tomorrow she said.
I can feel her in a bikini of coiled snakes dancing into the hiss of the wind.
Postcards from a paradise in flames.
She used to be so right.
So right about everything.
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she used to be so right so right about everything
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what i seem to be getting from this song is
1:"Traced in a wet sand her name in perfect cursive. A love letter to the crescent moon." what i get from that is its written in sand which shows the realtionship in its frailness yet its perfect so metaphorically it saying how it may be perfect but it won't last forever
2:"By tommorrow it will be gone I told her. There is no tommorrow she said" i believe this is connected the last line which says"She used to be so right. So right about everything. saying basically a chick can say she loves and u and this is gonna be like this great froever but it doesn't mean it will. In this case it didn't
3:"I can feel her in a bikini of coiled snakes dancing into the hiss of the wind. Postcards from a paradise in flames." This i get alot of thing but for the first sentence i see this as a metaphor for her bikini and beauty being linked to something more evil and sinster like a snake. The 2nd line makes me think of maybe a honeymoon gone wrong perhaps? It has some what of a beach feel to the whole song.
4:"She used to be so right. So right about everything." From this as i stated early belive this is connected to the first few lines when he says this could all change and she tells him no this is going to to last forever. These last few lines state how she was wrong and it all went to hell from here
what i seem to be getting from this song is
1:"Traced in a wet sand her name in perfect cursive. A love letter to the crescent moon." what i get from that is its written in sand which shows the realtionship in its frailness yet its perfect so metaphorically it saying how it may be perfect but it won't last forever
2:"By tommorrow it will be gone I told her. There is no tommorrow she said" i believe this is connected the last line which says"She used to be so right. So right about everything. saying basically a chick can say she loves and u and this is gonna be like this great froever but it doesn't mean it will. In this case it didn't
3:"I can feel her in a bikini of coiled snakes dancing into the hiss of the wind. Postcards from a paradise in flames." This i get alot of thing but for the first sentence i see this as a metaphor for her bikini and beauty being linked to something more evil and sinster like a snake. The 2nd line makes me think of maybe a honeymoon gone wrong perhaps? It has some what of a beach feel to the whole song.
4:"She used to be so right. So right about everything." From this as i stated early belive this is connected to the first few lines when he says this could all change and she tells him no this is going to to last forever. These last few lines state how she was wrong and it all went to hell from here
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