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.
I can still remember times
Of prosperity while staring clear eyed
With broad strokes of promise
We coloured highlights of our future and
Something we'll never get
Until we look back with sincere regret
Is our American dream subject to
Collapse beneath their density
And we'll break before we bend
With tomorrow as yet undetermined
You can write your congressmen
And take your grievances to the highest level
To achieve a common end
To serve the bourgeois, the laissez-faire
Citizens duty-bound so we play our part
If you kill the brain
Then you'll stop the heart
And we foster the illusion of a
Democratic archetype
Can we forge hope from this devastation
And bring about participation
To stem the apathetic tide
Now poised to wash us all away
And we break before we bend
With tomorrow as yet undetermined
We achieve such selfish ends
'Til we concern ourselves with the plight of others
You can write your congressmen
And fucking spit in the wind
For all the good it'll do you friend
We haven't got the luxury
Of neutral observation
'Cause when its said and done
We stand or fall as one
And though the situations grave
I think its worth the risk to save
This notion of the free
And the asylum of the brave
Of prosperity while staring clear eyed
With broad strokes of promise
We coloured highlights of our future and
Something we'll never get
Until we look back with sincere regret
Is our American dream subject to
Collapse beneath their density
And we'll break before we bend
With tomorrow as yet undetermined
You can write your congressmen
And take your grievances to the highest level
To achieve a common end
To serve the bourgeois, the laissez-faire
Citizens duty-bound so we play our part
If you kill the brain
Then you'll stop the heart
And we foster the illusion of a
Democratic archetype
Can we forge hope from this devastation
And bring about participation
To stem the apathetic tide
Now poised to wash us all away
And we break before we bend
With tomorrow as yet undetermined
We achieve such selfish ends
'Til we concern ourselves with the plight of others
You can write your congressmen
And fucking spit in the wind
For all the good it'll do you friend
We haven't got the luxury
Of neutral observation
'Cause when its said and done
We stand or fall as one
And though the situations grave
I think its worth the risk to save
This notion of the free
And the asylum of the brave
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