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.
We live in apathy
We have grown numb
Ignoring the problems we helped to create
Hollow inside Desensitized force-fed their shit until we suffocate
Don't go believe the shit they're selling
Don't go accepting what they say
You know it's already too late
You have been robbed of original thought
Your Dead, Your Dead, Desensitized
We cannot even see how far we've gone
Victims of our corrupt society
Told what to think the powers that be
Controlling what we hear and all that we see
Your Dead, Your Dead, Desensitized
We have grown numb to all that goes around us
Exposed too long to the shit that they have fed us
Our minds have been dulled from their relentless attempts to
Erase deprogram us dictating what we should think
Displace our thoughts with ideas of their now that corrupt
Now we are all dead inside
We the walking dead Desensitized
We have grown numb
Ignoring the problems we helped to create
Hollow inside Desensitized force-fed their shit until we suffocate
Don't go believe the shit they're selling
Don't go accepting what they say
You know it's already too late
You have been robbed of original thought
Your Dead, Your Dead, Desensitized
We cannot even see how far we've gone
Victims of our corrupt society
Told what to think the powers that be
Controlling what we hear and all that we see
Your Dead, Your Dead, Desensitized
We have grown numb to all that goes around us
Exposed too long to the shit that they have fed us
Our minds have been dulled from their relentless attempts to
Erase deprogram us dictating what we should think
Displace our thoughts with ideas of their now that corrupt
Now we are all dead inside
We the walking dead Desensitized
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