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.
Too big to fly,
Dodo ugly so dodo must die.
Dog go, with fear on its side;
Can't change, can't change the tide.
Dog baiter, agitator,
Asking questions, says he wants to know why.
Ain't no reason that money can't buy.
Mink, he pretty, so mink he must die,
Must die, must die.
Sun, he giving life in his light,
Part of the system.
Friend to man and friend to the trees,
No friend to the snowman.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Does he meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud,
And end up at the bottom of the sea?
Fish, he got a hook in his throat,
Fish, he got problems.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Does he hope he's too small, to poor a haul,
Who'll end up bein' thrown back in the sea?
I'm back in the sea.
Caretaker, horror movie,
Only one eye, only needs one boot.
Sweet lady, she know she looks good.
Vacuum coming for the bright and the brute.
Big noise, black smoke,
So pig-headed, couldn't see the joke.
But it ain't funny, ask the fly on the wall.
It's only living, it don't matter at all,
At all, at all.
Pimp, he make you drool and grunt,
He got an answer.
One, he got a dream of love
Deep as the ocean.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Will the siren team with Davy Jones
And trap him at the bottom of the sea?
I'm back in the sea.
I'm back in the sea.
I'm back in the sea.
Dodo ugly so dodo must die.
Dog go, with fear on its side;
Can't change, can't change the tide.
Dog baiter, agitator,
Asking questions, says he wants to know why.
Ain't no reason that money can't buy.
Mink, he pretty, so mink he must die,
Must die, must die.
Sun, he giving life in his light,
Part of the system.
Friend to man and friend to the trees,
No friend to the snowman.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Does he meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud,
And end up at the bottom of the sea?
Fish, he got a hook in his throat,
Fish, he got problems.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Does he hope he's too small, to poor a haul,
Who'll end up bein' thrown back in the sea?
I'm back in the sea.
Caretaker, horror movie,
Only one eye, only needs one boot.
Sweet lady, she know she looks good.
Vacuum coming for the bright and the brute.
Big noise, black smoke,
So pig-headed, couldn't see the joke.
But it ain't funny, ask the fly on the wall.
It's only living, it don't matter at all,
At all, at all.
Pimp, he make you drool and grunt,
He got an answer.
One, he got a dream of love
Deep as the ocean.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Will the siren team with Davy Jones
And trap him at the bottom of the sea?
I'm back in the sea.
I'm back in the sea.
I'm back in the sea.
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Dodo/Lurker Lyrics as written by Mike Rutherford Anthony George Banks
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Hey! someone give me insight if ya have it. I've been listening to this song for a while and still am not fully clear. All I can perceive is that life is short and runs in a cycle: ...snowman. Where does he go, what does he do? Does he meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud And end up at the bottom of the sea.
Then he says: Vacuum coming for the bright and the brute.
But that riddle at the bottom totally baffles me. Any info? Any insight? Any CLUE???
@LeArtist "Sun he giving life in his light, part of the system<br /> Friend to man, friend to the trees, no friend to the snowman<br /> Where does he go, what does he do?<br /> Does he meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud<br /> And end up at the bottom of the sea?"<br /> <br /> That whole paragraph is about the Sun, like the sun that shines down on earth. The Sun is no friend of the snowman. Kinda makes sense. Where does the sun go? At night? Does it sink into the ground? Meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud, or end up at the bottom of the sea (if you have an ocean view of the sunset)?<br /> <br /> I don't think there is a common theme, or a very loose them throughout the song. Consider it short stories. The last paragraph I differ with the submarine analogy. I tie it in to the paragraph preceding it, so the two make no sense if it's a submarine. I tie it to aliens since there is already another song about an alien word, or an imagined world (Keep it Dark). So when the voice that speaks sounds like a synth, I think it's an alien or even synthetic life. It also makes sense through the last paragraph (seldom need to breathe don't need no wings to fly, fear of fire and water, Clothes of brass, heart of stone).<br /> <br /> The vacuum thing could mean too many different things because it's in a paragraph that references a horror movie.
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