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.
Unstoppable Killings
Driven by greed and power
A troop of desensitized soldiers
Built to abolish all
That challenge this obdurate machine
Emotionless murder
Audacious and indiscriminate
It's exorbitant capacity is immeasurable
Hundreds executed
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
DESIRE...FOR...CONTROL!!
Soldiers who terminate life
Jut as god promiscuously kills
Just as promiscuously as life itself kills
Just as I promise your time will come
That you will be killed! [2x]
Humanity left frightened
And surreptitous, covert, cloaked
In this underworld benighted
By plagues, and calamities
Quarrels, fatal confrontations
Devastating needs for imperium
Emotionless murder
Audacious and indiscriminate
It's exorbitant capacity is immeasurable
Hundreds executed
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control!
DESIRE...FOR...CONTROL!!
Soldiers who terminate life
Jut as god promiscuously kills
Jut as promiscuously as life itself kills
Just as I promise your time will come
That you will be killed! [2x]
Driven by greed and power
A troop of desensitized soldiers
Built to abolish all
That challenge this obdurate machine
Emotionless murder
Audacious and indiscriminate
It's exorbitant capacity is immeasurable
Hundreds executed
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
DESIRE...FOR...CONTROL!!
Soldiers who terminate life
Jut as god promiscuously kills
Just as promiscuously as life itself kills
Just as I promise your time will come
That you will be killed! [2x]
Humanity left frightened
And surreptitous, covert, cloaked
In this underworld benighted
By plagues, and calamities
Quarrels, fatal confrontations
Devastating needs for imperium
Emotionless murder
Audacious and indiscriminate
It's exorbitant capacity is immeasurable
Hundreds executed
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control!
DESIRE...FOR...CONTROL!!
Soldiers who terminate life
Jut as god promiscuously kills
Jut as promiscuously as life itself kills
Just as I promise your time will come
That you will be killed! [2x]
Lyrics submitted by Brandon1987
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