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.
This sickness, it burns inside me,It sticks in my throat, I'm gonna choke, I can not speak,
Besides it runs the fear of the unknown,
Could this be some reckoning,
Wrath for wrongs I've done commin back to haunt me, The God I have denied his power shown
But now I can't protest although defiant heart it pounds deep in my chest, I know that this will Have its way with me.
For now I chose to go,
I know it just the mind tryin' to interrupt my flow
Intentions all fall down,
My, soul, has, died...
Now this will not, die they warned me, inchurch when I was young I could rely,
If there's a God he's one I've never seen,
And now I just lament,
Did not heed the threat, I played the card that I've been dealt, Like putting out the fire, with gasoline,
For when I use I lose, won't face the fear of life without something abused, now that I'm forced to find another way,
My show, your final, show
A homicide I tried to warn, you should have known,
Now I'll take you with me,
Show, You, MY, Pain..
Feed the need it's not greed,
I figure, So what,
Can I fix the hole that resides deep in this, gut?
Well, I'll fix myself, whatever it takes, I cano not wait.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some, I feed the need that twist my mind, time and time again, you think I play to win, I do know what I'm takin you know I'm fixin ta get some.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some...
Besides it runs the fear of the unknown,
Could this be some reckoning,
Wrath for wrongs I've done commin back to haunt me, The God I have denied his power shown
But now I can't protest although defiant heart it pounds deep in my chest, I know that this will Have its way with me.
For now I chose to go,
I know it just the mind tryin' to interrupt my flow
Intentions all fall down,
My, soul, has, died...
Now this will not, die they warned me, inchurch when I was young I could rely,
If there's a God he's one I've never seen,
And now I just lament,
Did not heed the threat, I played the card that I've been dealt, Like putting out the fire, with gasoline,
For when I use I lose, won't face the fear of life without something abused, now that I'm forced to find another way,
My show, your final, show
A homicide I tried to warn, you should have known,
Now I'll take you with me,
Show, You, MY, Pain..
Feed the need it's not greed,
I figure, So what,
Can I fix the hole that resides deep in this, gut?
Well, I'll fix myself, whatever it takes, I cano not wait.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some, I feed the need that twist my mind, time and time again, you think I play to win, I do know what I'm takin you know I'm fixin ta get some.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some...
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