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've come here, from so far away
I can save you
If you leave it all behind
This suffering's, been far too long
Would you take a trip with me
On the back of a star
I feel like earth's gravity is just here to pull us down
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
This dark womb
Wraps and covets me
Redefining understanding, if you open
Up the heart
Nurturing, this phenomenon
We can carry you on our wings, our wings
Through the dark
Lightning flashes of insight
Into the mirth of a dark sky
Pain of division is nothing
Joy of dissolution is everything
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Blackness consumes body comforts core of nothing
Mother I can remember, a vault of security
Can you take me away
Would you take me away
Won't you take me away
Away
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
I can save you
If you leave it all behind
This suffering's, been far too long
Would you take a trip with me
On the back of a star
I feel like earth's gravity is just here to pull us down
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
This dark womb
Wraps and covets me
Redefining understanding, if you open
Up the heart
Nurturing, this phenomenon
We can carry you on our wings, our wings
Through the dark
Lightning flashes of insight
Into the mirth of a dark sky
Pain of division is nothing
Joy of dissolution is everything
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Portal sits deep within the eye
The eye of yin's severity
Rewards understanding
Blackness consumes body comforts core of nothing
Mother I can remember, a vault of security
Can you take me away
Would you take me away
Won't you take me away
Away
Mother of creation wait, embrace the souls of a lost world
Carry them away
Darkness negative receptive
Pour firmament between our waters
Separate the space
Mother of destruction wait with a belt of
Skulls strap me down
And send the ship away
Progress with the process, mine the souls
From their casts
Pour form and reshape
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Portal sits deep within the eye, The eye of Yin's severity, Rewards understanding
Yin being the hidden, from discovering and understanding the hidden, the knowledge is the reward.
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"The eye of Yin's severity"
This could mean the concept of Yang within Yin. Which means, within Yang there is a seed of Yin and within every Yin there is a seed of Yang. That nothing can be truly yin and truly yang. So understanding that within Yin (Mercy) there is a seed of Yang (Severity) the understanding the concept and consciousness of that is a reward.
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