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.
Here's the bright end of nowhere
Here's the results of all our days
Used to lay on the roof and drink beer
And try and count up all the ways
That you could waste away
Looking back it seemed so simple
But having done it I couldn't say
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
The lights are out
Baby so hear me out
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
So here's the bright end of nowhere
Here's the commercial of all our days
Go on vacations and drink beer
And try and forget all the ways
We let ourselves get away
Looking back it seemed so simple
But having done it
It's not the same
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
The lights are out
Baby so hear me out
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
Here's the results of all our days
Used to lay on the roof and drink beer
And try and count up all the ways
That you could waste away
Looking back it seemed so simple
But having done it I couldn't say
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
The lights are out
Baby so hear me out
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
So here's the bright end of nowhere
Here's the commercial of all our days
Go on vacations and drink beer
And try and forget all the ways
We let ourselves get away
Looking back it seemed so simple
But having done it
It's not the same
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
The lights are out
Baby so hear me out
The lights are out baby
And I'm a mouse
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
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Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I think this song's about being burnt out after getting famous. It sounds like a before and after, maybe, where he's talking about the old days in the first verse and what it's like now in the second.
The song sounds like a confession, reminiscing with an old friend. That's probably what the chorus is about, also.
Hm... I honestly don't see what Jamfish means, though I can understand as much as the confession on a rooftop to a friend. But I dunno... Seems different than that.
To me this sounds like Matt good has given up. Not because he has lost or has been beaten;
He's admitted defeat because he has become false to himself. He's seen the hardships now, to the degree that he no longer understands his origional standpoint; that surviving throught this world isn't that tough. It's you against me(teenagers); it's you against us(mature); it's you against my family(adult). He's accepted the fact that you can't fight this world. It can be beautiful at so many points, but in the end all the deaths, pain, holding things in about whatever big or small, etc, etc... Has made its impact.
That is just the first 1:40 seconds of this song in my perspective. Long story short, he isn't sad. He's accepted this and can just look at the world in a passive way, accepping the beautifully amazing things and the horribly painful experiences. Both amplify the other feeling. You couldn't feel this happy at memories of good times if you can't appreciate how much the bad times take lashes at your being. Life becomes.
I've just read through this, and it isn't long story short, but Incubus' "Are you in?" Is on next and I really want to listen to it as It's been like 5 of this Matt Goods' song in a row and I've gotta sleep soon so fuck this shit.
Taker' easy.